


Leela rani is one of the first women auto drivers to start driving in the city of Chennai.
Mohana is the President of the Veera Pengal Munnetra Sangam
“Of 80,000 autos in Chennai, only 0.5% are driven by women.” Auto Queens is a film and impact campaign built with women auto drivers of Chennai, working to reshape how India sees mobility, labor, and women’s leadership on its streets. Our campaign is working to bring the film to more and more audiences, support the women drivers' union grow and recruit more women and enable women to transition more economical sustainable livelihoods.
Sraiyanti is a cinematographer by training whose constant wish to capture happy accidents in reality often goes beyond the visual medium and heads right into storytelling territory, blurring the lines between cinematographer and director. So she decided why choose. Born in Chennai in 1993, her aim is to build and bring attention to documentary and non fiction work in the South of India, specifically Tamil Nadu, which has a rich history of film and politics intersecting. After studying a range of different art forms in a
Help expand the Brave Womens Association - from film to action, and one city to many. Create space for more women drivers, technicians, and workers in India’s most male-dominated professions.
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