Sanjay Barnela is a Delhi-based documentary film maker and cameraperson and one of the founder members of the production group Moving Images. While specializing in making films on the environment along with Vasant Saberwal,

he has worked on a range of related issues including women in panchayati raj, wildlife conservation, the politics of water, livelihoods vs conservation and has also filmed a few high altitude mountain climbs in the Himalayas. His films have been screened and awarded at several national and international film festivals, some notable ones being, Hunting Down Water, River Taming Mantras, Pastoral Politics, Devta Activists & Turf Wars. Hunting Down Water won the Best Documentary award at the Festival du film de Strasbourg, 2004 and Best Editing award at the Miami International Documentary film festival, 2004. River Taming Mantras won the award for Best Documentary in the environment category at VATAVARAN 2005 and Turf Wars won the Third Prize in Jeevika 2003 organized by Centre for Civil Society.