Aditi Shivaramakrishnan is a Singapore-based editor, writer, arts worker and speech-to-text interpreter with an interest in narratives of gender, feminism, and immigrant experiences.
Her published writing spanning both criticism, primarily on film and performance, and creative nonfiction that includes personal essays and collaborative works involving intergenerational dialogue, has been published in ArtsEquator, the Asian Film Archive’s Despatches, Jom, Portside Review and elsewhere.
2025
✿ Participant, Non-Conforming Criticisms Lab, Live Art Writers Network
✿ Writer, Festival Guide, 36th Singapore International Film Festival
✿ Selection Committee (Student Category), Singapore Youth Film Festival 2026, *SCAPE & Objectifs Centre for Photography and Film
✿ Writer, The Unbearable Itchiness of Being, Asian Film Archive Despatches
✿ Participant, Teka-teki Sinema Film Programming Workshop, Forum Film Dokumenter
✿ Writer, Movement as survival: the migratory paths of ‘Eclipse’ and ‘The Troupe, Jom
✿ Guest Speaker, Film Criticism Lab, NTU Film Society
2024
✿ Writing Fellow, Cinemovement Lab VII Tokyo, Cinemovement
✿ Writer, Festival Guide, 35th Singapore International Film Festival
✿ Writer, To see, and be seen: a close watch of “Small Hours of the Night”, Jom
✿ Selection Panel, Singapore Shorts ’24, Asian Film Archive
2023
✿ Writer, Festival Guide, 34th Singapore International Film Festival
✿ Writer, Psychobitch: Anya’s Lonely Journey, Jom
✿ Writer, Love, Loss, and Liminality: (Im)migrant Journeys, Asian Film Archive Despatches
✿ Writer, Staging Unseen Singapore Stories, Esplanade Offstage
✿ Writer, Beyond Bindis and Binaries: Dress-Up Diaries of a Diaspora Daughter, MANIFESTO
✿ Project Editor, Dance in the Destruction Dance, Singapore Art Museum
2022
✿ Writer, Festival Guide, 33rd Singapore International Film Festival
✿ Project Editor, Living Pictures: Photography in Southeast Asia, National Gallery Singapore
✿ Writer, Unavu, Unarvu (Food, Feeling), SEASONINGS #04_The National Day Edition
✿ Writer, Chapter 1/X: நல்வரவு (Welcome), Portside Review
✿ Writer, Spectrum of Nature in SIFA 2022, ArtsEquator
2021
✿ Moderator, Rehana Maryam Noor Q&A with director Abdullah Mohammad Saad, 32nd Singapore International Film Festival
✿ Writer, Festival Guide, 32nd Singapore International Film Festival
✿ Editor, Kampung Jurong Issue 4: Lost & Found produced by Ong Yuqi & Pok Yue Weng
✿ Editor, Kampung Jurong Issue 3: Coming of Age produced by Ong Yuqi & Pok Yue Weng
2020
✿ Participant, Think Tank: New Curriculum for Old Questions, NUS Centre for the Arts
✿ Reader, NEW ENCOUNTERS / NEW WORKS ft. Larry Ypil, Sing Lit Station, Singapore
✿ Participant, Reading Group: How My Brother Leon Brought Home a Wife and other beautiful stories with potentially problematic titles from Philippine Lit by Lawrence Lacambra Ypil, Sing Lit Station
2019
✿ Editor, Kampung Jurong Issue 1 produced by Ong Yuqi & Pok Yue Weng
2018
✿ Moderator, Post-Screening Q&A for Three Adventures of Brooke, dir. Yuan Qing, 29th Singapore International Film Festival
2017
✿ Moderator, Post-Screening Q&A for hUSh, dir. Kan Lume & Djenar Maesa Ayu, 28th Singapore International Film Festival