She has worked in India, Denmark and Guyana, and is currently shooting Ice Queens in Finland and Walaa & Latifa in the West Bank. She has directed numerous films including Dual Citizen (2001) and Doormat (2008), which won the Grand Jury Prize for Best Feature Documentary at HBO's South Asian Film Festival in New York City. The Bastard Sings the Sweetest Song (2012) won Best Caribbean Feature by an International Filmmaker at the 2012 Trinidad & Tobago Film Festival and the 2013 Royal Anthropological Institute Film Prize.