Parmar’s films and videotexts address queer, South Asian, and feminist representations that use different artistic disciplines, and storytelling tropes. Her works are conscious attempts to foreground the “subject,” thus disrupting marginalizing and hegemonic narratives. In her 20 year filmmaking career, Parmar has been awarded The Visionary Award for her body of work from the One in Ten Film Festival (Washington, DC) in 2007, as well as the Frameline Film Festival Lifetime Achievement Award. Her most recent documentary feature film, Alice Walker: Beauty In Truth, an intimate biography of the Pulitzer Prize winning American author, explores feminist creativity as a form of survival. Parmar received a National Endowment of Arts grant for this film.