Born in the year 1991 and raised in Kerala, Lakshmi Marikar graduated from the prestigious Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi in the year 2017. Her enthusiasm in film and visual culture brought her to pursue her Masters in Philosophy in Women's Studies and Film Studies. Since 2018, Lakshmi has been working as Assistant Director in a prominent production house in Kerala, and worked as an Assistant Director for a feature length film 'Virus' in Malayalam. Her field of interest entails history of cinema, South East Asian cinema, slow cinema, and feminist cinema. Extremely sensitive to the idea of cinematic form, Lakshmi believes that her short film "Blackhead" is an amalgamation of these cinematic traditions. Her other interests include Sociology, Music, and Theatre.