Ishq Pradhan is a New York-based documentary producer, narrative filmmaker, and founder of Amour Media, a production company working at the intersection of film and journalism.

Her work explores conflict, journalism, and international affairs through both fiction and nonfiction. Across documentaries, narrative films, and short-form editorial storytelling, she is interested in how conflict is reported, understood, and remembered.

Her film, Portrait, starring Thomas Sadoski (The Newsroom) and Jasmine Cephas Jones (Hamilton, Blindspotting), examines the moral and psychological complexities of war journalism. Executive produced by Sadoski, Suroosh Alvi, founder of VICE, and Omar Mullick (Flight/Risk, Amazon), the film has screened at festivals including the Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival and is currently being developed into a feature.

Through Amour Media, Pradhan is producing a slate of documentary and editorial projects examining conflict reporting, censorship, visual evidence, and information access. Her recent work includes documentaries on the decline of foreign bureaus, reporting under Russian occupation in Ukraine, and coverage of the Israel-Gaza war under restricted access, as well as After the Portrait, an interview series in which conflict photographers revisit images from their careers and reflect on how their meaning changed after entering public discourse. Her projects feature interviews with journalists, conflict photographers, and investigators from organizations including The Times, Bellingcat, Frontliner, and the Russian Independent Media Archive.

Previously, Pradhan wrote, directed, and starred in Tadap, a film about child marriage in India. The film premiered at the Chicago South Asian Film Festival and the International South Asian Film Festival and was a Semi-Finalist at the Academy Award– and BAFTA–qualifying Flickers Rhode Island International Film Festival.

A graduate of NYU Tisch School of the Arts, Pradhan has worked with and been mentored by filmmakers Vikramaditya Motwane and Dina Amer. Her screenwriting has been recognized by The Black List, Screencraft, and the LA Femme International Film Festival.