Nilima made her first documentary to promote the upstart animal welfare league that needed foster parents. Nilima went on to integrate academic work with filmmaking, making an ecotourist video on
Taulabe, Honduras; one on Vermont maple sugar production, and a Hurricane Katrina relief effort. Finally, the most personally significant movie Nilima made is on one NGO's efforts to stop child labor through education in Bangalore, India. Nilima wrote a senior thesis on media and education in India and plans to continue making films that deal with children's issues and to teach filmmaking to kids.

Pigs in a Blanket
16mm color film
8:05 min.

Vietnamese Pot Bellied pigs were introduced to the US in the 80s and quickly became fad pets, selling for thousands of dollars. Many owners became disillusioned due to the pigs'
size or care requirements. This film is
a sampling of a few current owners and their pet pigs.

Pie from Scratch
Co-directed by Nilima Abrams
and Matt Harnack
Digital Video - Widescreen
12:08 min.

Andy lives in the Mission District of San Francisco. He likes skateboarding and goes to community college. His favorite kind of pie is pumpkin, but not the kind from a can.

Lotus
16mm black and white film
7:20 min.

This film is Nilima's exploration of the reverberations of her father's 1970 stay at the San Francisco Zen Center. She discovers his trip taught him significant life lessons, which impacted her family in unforseeable ways.