A visual artist and graduate of St. Xavier’s College (Mumbai, India), Mendonca holds a master’s degree in the fine arts with emphasis on cinema and video from the California Institute of the Arts (USA). She deals mostly with family‑related, social, sexual, and gender themes. She has received awards from the Ann Arbor Film Festival (USA, 2011) and the International Film Festival Rotterdam (Holland, 2011), and has shown work at festivals and exhibitions in Switzerland, the USA, Holland, India, Germany, Thailand, Austria, Canada, Italy, Scotland, and France.