society for working class south asian diasporas

screening schedule

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89 mins / 2021 / Documentary / India, Pakistan / English, Hindi, Punjabi, Urdu (English subtitles)

INSIDES AND OUTSIDES

Dir: Arbab Ahmad 

54 mins / 2023 / Documentary / India / English, Hindi, Urdu (English Subtitles) 

=========Discussion/Lunch Break====== (01.30 PM-2. 15 PM)

SESSION 2: TELLING OUR STORIES (2.15 PM-4.00 PM)

IN THE WAKE OF REMEMBERING

Dir: Sara Saini

19 mins / 2024 / Documentary / India, UK / English, Panjabi (English subtitles)

SIEGE IN THE AIR

Dir: Muntaha Amin

30 mins / 2022 / Documentary / India / English, Urdu, Hindi, Kashmiri (English subtitles)

WHEN POMEGRANATE TURNS GREY

Dir: Khurram Muraad Siddiquie, Thoufeeq K

37 mins / 2024 / Documentary / India / Dakkani Urdu (English subtitles)

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DAY TWO: Sunday, Sep 7^th, 2025 Time: 10.30 am to 4 pm
Meeting room, Surrey Library, Strawberry Hill Branch
7399 122 Street, Surrey BC V3W 5J2.

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AN OVERVIEW OF DAY 1 & INTRODUCTION TO DAY 2 OF THE FESTIVAL (10.45AM)

SESSION 1: LIVES, INTERTWINED (11.00AM – 12.40PM)

THE BRITTLE THREAD (JHINI BINI CHADARIYA)

Dir: Ritesh Sharma

97 mins / 2021 / Fiction / India / Hindi, English, Bhojpuri, Hebrew (English Subtitles)

=========Discussion/Lunch Break====== (12.40 PM-01.15 PM)

SESSION 2: DIFFICULT LOVES (1.15 PM-04.00 PM)

IF (JODI)

Dir: Tathagata Ghosh

26 mins / 2023 / Fiction / India / Bengali (English subtitles)

JUST LIKE THAT (AISE HEE)

Dir: Kislay

120 mins / 2019 / Fiction / India / Hindi (English subtitles)

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DAY THREE: Saturday, Sept 13^th, 2025 Time: 10.30 am to 4 pm
Meeting room, Surrey Library, Strawberry Hill Branch
7399 122 Street, Surrey BC V3W 5J2.

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AN OVERVIEW OF DAY 1 and 2 & INTRODUCTION TO DAY 3 OF THE FESTIVAL (10.45AM)

SESSION 1:  PEOPLE VS. CORPORATES (11.00 AM-12.54 PM)

DÉJÀ VU

Dir: Bedabrata Pain 

72 mins / 2024 / Documentary / English, Hindi, Punjabi (English Subtitles)

SEED STORIES

Dir: Chitrangada Choudhury

42 mins / 2023 / Documentary / India / English, Odia, (English subtitles)

=========Discussion/Lunch Break====== (12.54 PM -1. 25 PM)

SESSION 2: FARMS IN DISTRESS (01.25 PM-04:00 PM)

BAYBERRIES RIPEN IN THE MONSOON (KAPHAL PAKO ASHADHA)

Dir: Pulkit Tomar 

20 mins / 2024 / Fiction / India / Garhwali (English subtitles)

THE CLUSTER FIG FLOWERS (GOOLAR KE PHOOL)

Dir: Aronn Miitr 

18 minutes / 2024 / Fiction / India / Hindi (English subtitles)

THE FISHERMAN AND THE BANKER

Dir: Sheena Sumaria

85 mins / 2024 / Documentary / India, UK, USA / Gujarati, Hindi, English (English subtitles)

=========Discussion====== (20 minutes)

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DAY FOUR: Sunday, Sept 14^th, 2025 Time: 10.30 am to 4 pm
Room number 120, Surrey Library, Surrey Centre Branch,
10350 University Drive, Surrey BC V3T 4B8

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AN OVERVIEW OF DAY 3 & INTRODUCTION TO DAY 4 OF THE FESTIVAL (10.45 AM)

SESSION 1: TIMES OF STRIFE (11.00 AM- 12.13 PM)

NO SPACE TO PRAY

Dir: Raunaq Singh Chopra, Devanshi Yadav

40 mins / 2024 / Documentary / India / Hindi, Urdu, English (English subtitles)               

BALLAD OF THE MOUNTAIN

Dir: Tarun Jain

17 mins / 2024 / Fiction / India / Hindi (English subtitles)

FREE AS A BIRD

Dir: Aditya Khude

16 mins / 2024 / Fiction / India / Hindi (English subtitles)

=========Discussion/Lunch Break====== (12.13 PM-12.45 PM)

SESSION 2:  INTO THE FUTURE (12.45 PM-04.00 PM)

TOWARDS SELF-GOVERNANCE

Dir: Virendra Valsangkar

53 mins / 2023 / Documentary / India / Marathi (English subtitles)

WRITING WITH FIRE

Dir: Rintu Thomas, Sushmit Ghosh 

93 minutes / 2021 / Documentary / India / Hindi (English subtitles)

=========Closing note and discussion======

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about films and directors

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DAY ONE: Saturday, Sep 6^th, 2025

LONGING (Taangh)

Dir: Bani Singh

89 mins / 2021 / Documentary / India, Pakistan / English, Hindi, Punjabi, Urdu (English subtitles)

About the Film:

Against the backdrop of Partition, independent India’s first hockey team defeats England, their erstwhile coloniser, to win the Gold at the 1948 London Olympics. Six decades later, when Nandy Singh, a member of this iconic team suffers a stroke, his tenacious struggle to recover inspires his daughter to retrace his journey. Using archival footage and interviews with teammates, she reveals lives shaped by the Gold, and by Partition that made them refugees. Revealed also is a friend in Pakistan never spoken of before. Her journey in search of him morphs into a quest for the lost ‘watan’ (homeland).

About the Director:

Bani Singh studied Space Design at the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad and worked in the area of Museum studies later. She worked at the ‘Virasat-e-Khalsa Museum’ in Anandpur Sahib, Punjab as a gallery visualiser and content interpreter and was a senior faculty at Srishti School of Art, Design and Technology. Taangh is her first film.

INSIDES AND OUTSIDES

Dir: Arbab Ahmad 

54 mins / 2023 / Documentary / India / English, Hindi, Urdu (English Subtitles) 

About the Film:

‘Insides and Outsides’ unfolds in late 2019, navigating the government’s endorsement of discriminatory citizenship laws, imperilling India’s Muslim community. Amid a brutal state crackdown on protesting students, Muslim women organize massive gatherings, symbolizing resilience. Filmmaker Arbab grapples with his Muslim identity, probing his parents’ contrasting responses to increasing religious discrimination in Ahmedabad and Delhi. Using diverse mediums—home videos, photos, archival footage, and animation—Arbab intertwines personal anxieties with collective religious experiences amid an unceasing pandemic. This documentary illuminates the intricate links between individual struggles and the broader narrative of religious discrimination in India.

About the Director:

Arbab Ahmad is a Visual Designer and Filmmaker based in Delhi-NCR. His collaborative work spans fiction, documentary, ad films, and reality television. He was part of the editing team behind ‘Moving Upstream – Ganga’, which was screened in various national and international film festivals, earning the prestigious “Cinema of Resistance” award at Signs Film Festival. Additionally, his short fiction film ‘Teaser’ received a Special Mention at the Dadasaheb Phalke Film Festival and has been showcased at various film festivals.

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFrSAORLDhg

IN THE WAKE OF REMEMBERING

Dir: Sara Saini

19 mins / 2024 / Documentary / India, UK / English, Panjabi (English subtitles)

About the Film:

Three women unearth and reflect on their memories of witnessing and supporting the Burnsall Strike, a 1992 workers’ resistance movement that Punjabi women led in Smethwick, Birmingham. From within their memories, another voice emerges — reflecting on and bringing the women’s experiences from the street to the domestic and personal. Together, the voices attempt to reconstruct the forgotten wholeness of the lives of South Asian women against the political and social backdrop of the UK.

About the Filmmaker:

Sara Saini is a documentary filmmaker, producer, and researcher from Delhi, currently based in London. Her work explores the intersections of migration, memory, and resistance, weaving together oral histories and archival material to reflect on lived experiences across gender, race, caste, and class. Sara has worked across various roles in filmmaking, from directing and producing to editing and research, collaborating with grassroots organisations, artists, and curators.

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SIEGE IN THE AIR

Dir: Muntaha Amin

30 mins / 2022 / Documentary / India / English, Urdu, Hindi, Kashmiri (English subtitles)

About the Film:

Women in Indian-administered Kashmir weave memory threads to piece together a narrative of what it feels like to live under perpetual uncertainty and unending cycles of lockdowns in Kashmir, with a focus on the recent communication blockade of 2019, post the abrogation of Article 370.

About the Filmmaker:

Muntaha Amin graduated with a Masters in Mass Communication from Jamia Milia Islamia University. She has long waited to tell everyday stories of existing, loving, and resilience that come from living in the world’s highest militarized zone and from inhabiting the Kashmiri Muslim Women identity that she identifies with.

WHEN POMEGRANATE TURNS GREY

Dir: Khurram Muraad Siddiquie, Thoufeeq K

37’ / 2024 / Documentary / India / Dakkani Urdu (English subtitles)

About the Film:

The documentary follows Muraad, who embarks on a personal journey to trace the harrowing memories of Hyderabad annexation (Police Action) in 1948. Gulnar, his 94-year-old grandmother, shares the residues of the event as her household experienced it, and becomes the string connecting Muraad to a distant blood-stained past. The baggage of pain, suffering, and healing transcends territorial boundaries when Muraad reconnects Gulnar to her younger sister after decades-long separation.

About the Filmmakers:

Khurram Muraad is a poet, researcher and documentary filmmaker based in South India. He completed his Master’s in Linguistics at the University of Hyderabad. His interests include language, literature and literary cultures. 

Thoufeeq K is a lens-based artist, researcher, and documentary filmmaker based in Kerala, currently pursuing a Master’s in Visual Anthropology. He specialises in multimedia projects that blend text, sound, and image, focusing on the intersections of visual arts, anthropology and religion.

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DAY TWO: Sunday, Sept 7^th 2025

THE BRITTLE THREAD (Jhini Bini Chadariya)

Dir: Ritesh Sharma

97 mins / 2021 / Fiction / India / Hindi, English, Bhojpuri, Hebrew (English Subtitles)

About the Film:

Headstrong, feisty street dancer Rani works hard to take care of her daughter while reclusive weaver Shahdab discovers a new world in his friendship with an Israeli tourist. Exploring the love and hate dimensions in the ancient city of Varanasi, their cultural and political identities come to the fore. Will the luminous fabric of our diversity soon turn into an iron curtain, dividing those who seem to belong & those who don’t?

About the Director: Ritesh Sharma is a filmmaker who spent 13 years in theatre education and social activism. He was awarded the ‘Changeloom Award’ in 2008, an honour for his active participation in various social issues such as human trafficking, women’s and children’s rights. His first documentary film “The Holy Wives” about caste-based sexual exploitation and human trafficking in India has been screened in Australia, the UK, the USA, Europe and India. The film also won the prestigious Dadasaheb Phalke Film Festival Award in 2011. He has released 2 short films on tribal rights and domestic violence

Trailer: https://youtu.be/zSVNOuALpdY?feature=shared

IF (Jodi)

Dir: Tathagata Ghosh

26 mins / 2023 / Fiction / India / Bengali (English subtitles)

About the Film:

An arranged marriage tears a lesbian couple apart, but with a mother’s love, perhaps another future is possible.

About the Filmmaker:

Tathagata Ghosh, a Berlinale Talents alumnus, believes in telling stories of people from different social backgrounds. His short films ‘Miss Man’, ‘Footprints’, ‘The Scapegoat’, ‘The Meat’, and ‘The Demon’ have travelled to numerous international film festivals and have won several awards.

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdd4eC6-6XY

JUST LIKE THAT (Aise Hee)

Dir: Kislay

120 mins / 2019 / Fiction / India / Hindi (English subtitles)About the Film:

Mrs. Sharma is the ideal wife of a locally respected small-time government employee living with extended family in Allahabad. But when her husband dies, she begins to take liberties with her life that, although innocent in themselves, begin a rapid rippling of gossip and familial tensions that together spell tragedy.

About the Director:

Kislay is a filmmaker and a graduate of the Film and Television Institute of India. ‘Aise Hee’ is Kislay’s debut feature film. Previously, he worked as a co-writer on ‘Soni’ for which he won the SWA Award for the Best Writer in 2019. He has also directed several award-winning short films.

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DAY THREE: Saturday, Sept 13, 2025

DÉJÀ VU

Dir: Bedabrata Pain 

72 mins / 2024 / Documentary / English, Hindi, Punjabi (English Subtitles)

About the Film:

2024 began with farmers all over Europe raising their voices in protest. At the same time, farmers in India re-initiated their protest march to Delhi with MSP in the forefront of their demands. Against the backdrop of the global rise in farmers’ movements, in the middle of Covid and a frigid American winter, four Indians went on a ten-thousand-kilometre drive through the farming heartland of America. Because, as it turns out that four decades ago, similar market reforms were ushered in in America. A more classic case of “back to the future” perhaps could not be found. How did the reforms turn out? Who benefitted? Who lost out? Is it the farmers, the consumers, or the corporates? What impact did loss of MSP (or parity as it is called in America) or ushering in of contract farming have on farmers? Through personal experiences and human stories of small farmers in America, Deja Vu is a chronicle of a four-decade long history of a much-trumpeted elixir – and a cautionary tale for India.

About the Filmmaker:

Born in Dhaka and raised in Calcutta, Bedabrata Pain graduated from IIT Kharagpur, did MS from Columbia University, and Ph.D in Applied Physics. He worked with NASA as a scientist, contributing to 87 patents, best known for CMOS sensors, which are used in DSLR and mobile cameras. He won the National Film Award for Best Debut Film of a Director for ‘Chittagong’. 

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SEED STORIES 

Dir: Chitrangada Choudhury

42 mins / 2023 / Documentary / India / English, Odia, (English subtitles)

About the Film:

In a village in the Niyamgiri mountains of Odisha’s Eastern Ghats, a heroic effort is underway: barefoot ecologist Dr. Debal Deb and his 3 member team are conserving over a thousand endangered heirloom varieties of rice. Odisha’s Eastern Ghats region is one of the world’s surviving biodiversity hotspots, with Adivasi (Indigenous) communities like the Kondhs possessing the knowledge of growing multiple crops with their seeds, evolved over centuries. At the same time, the village and the wider region is irreversibly changing with the coming of genetically modified cotton seeds and associated agrochemicals. ‘Seed Stories’ takes a worm’s eye view of how this is reshaping a geography and a people steeped in agro-ecological knowledge, and altering their attitudes towards farming, food, and ecology. It invites audiences to reflect on the question, ‘What is sustainability?’

About the Filmmaker:

Chitrangada Choudhury’s reportage on issues of the environment and human rights has been named for multiple national and international journalism awards. She is on the Editorial Board of Article 14, an award-winning digital outlet dedicated to issues of law, justice, and the constitution.

BAYBERRIES RIPEN IN THE MONSOON (KAFAL PAKO ASHADHA) 

Dir: Pulkit Tomar 

20 mins / 2024 / Fiction / India / Garhwali (English subtitles)

About the Film:

In a small village nestled in the hills of Uttarakhand, India, a young boy’s attempt to call a bird from a local folktale by offering kafals (bayberries) is interwoven with the story of an elderly woman sending a letter to her distant daughter. As the letter arrives, it reveals the deep struggles faced by mountain communities, uncovering challenges that shape their everyday lives.

About the Filmmaker:

Pulkit Tomar is a self-taught photographer and filmmaker with a degree in Petroleum Engineering from the University of Petroleum and Energy Studies. His short film ‘Bastaa’ has garnered international acclaim, winning the Special COVID Prize at the International Rare Disease Film Festival in Berlin in 2021.

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THE CLUSTER FIG FLOWERS (GOOLAR KE PHOOL)

Dir: Aronn Miitr 

18 minutes / 2024 / Fiction / India / Hindi (English subtitles)

About the Film:

‘Goolar ke Phool’ tells the story of Murari, an experienced farmer, and Puttu, his spirited nephew. Amidst erratic weather and bureaucratic hurdles, they navigate life with humour and resilience. Murari and Puttu’s story is an ode to the enduring spirit of our farmers. The film highlights the gap between agricultural policies and reality, while also addressing environmental issues like climate change. Through their bond and wit, Murari and Puttu’s story celebrates the spirit and struggles of Indian farmers.

About the Director:

Aronn Miitr, a filmmaker and storyteller from Uttar Pradesh, began his artistic journey with theatre training at Bhartendu Natya Academy. After a short-term Film Orientation course at FTII Pune, he relocated to Mumbai. As a writer-director, Aronn has crafted several short films. ‘Acche Din’ (2015) was the runner-up at MAMI. His other works include ‘3D Night’ (2018), ‘Old Kid’ (2019; nominated for a Filmfare Award), and ‘Dakshina’ (2021). ‘Goolar Ke Phool’ (2024) won the Royal Bengal Tiger Award for Best Short Film at the 30th Kolkata International Film Festival.

THE FISHERMAN AND THE BANKER

Dir: Sheena Sumaria

85 mins / 2024 / Documentary / India, UK, USA / Gujarati, Hindi, English (English subtitles)

About the Film:

A modern-day David and Goliath tale, chronicling a fishing community in India’s Gulf of Kutch as they take on the World Bank’s private lending arm, the International Finance Corporation (IFC), for funding a coal-fired power plant that threatens their way of life. Filmed over a decade, the documentary captures the fishermen’s fight against industrial encroachment and their alliance with US lawyers to file a groundbreaking lawsuit, which reaches the US Supreme Court in 2018. Can the resilience of a community rewrite the rules of global power—or will the might of corporations and institutions crush their fight for justice?

About the Filmmaker:

Sheena Sumaria is a British-Gujarati filmmaker with a background in economics and political economy, whose work explores social justice through storytelling. Her debut feature ‘Even the Crows: A Divided Gujarat’, co-directed with her sister Sonum, examined the rise of Hindu nationalism in India. Rooted in her British-Asian heritage, Sheena’s films connect local struggles to global power structures, blending poetic and observational styles to amplify marginalised voices and highlight resistance, identity and community.

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DAY FOUR Sunday, Sept 14, 2025

NO SPACE TO PRAY

Dir: Raunaq Singh Chopra, Devanshi Yadav

40 mins / 2024 / Documentary / India / Hindi, Urdu, English (English subtitles)

About the Film:

In Gurugram, as the Muslim community faces growing opposition to praying in open spaces, this vérité-style documentary captures the escalating conflict between Hindu right-wing groups and Muslims, exploring the struggle for religious rights in a divided, changing India.

About the Filmmakers:

Raunaq Chopra is a cinematographer and director with over eight years of experience in the non-fiction space. An alumnus of AJK MCRC, Jamia Millia Islamia, he has produced and shot documentaries on a range of subjects including climate change, crime, and culture. 

Devanshi Yadav is an NID Ahmedabad alumna. She began her career producing documentaries for Discovery Channel India, before joining Unscripted by ScoopWhoop as a Senior Producer, where she wrote, shot, and produced various non-fiction formats.

BALLAD OF THE MOUNTAIN

Dir: Tarun Jain

17 mins / 2024 / Fiction / India / Hindi (English subtitles)

About the Film:

An outcaste must fight the class bullies to overcome her fears and pursue her ambition to fly to the other side of the mountain. ‘Ballad of the Mountain’ is an invitation to confront the uncomfortable truths that persist in our society and an opportunity to rewrite the narrative for countless girls who deserve a chance to learn, grow, and flourish.

About the Filmmaker:

Tarun Jain‘s filmography includes four impactful short films. ‘Amma Meri’, which delves into Haryana’s agrarian crisis, premiered at the Tampere Film Festival in 2018, winning six awards across various categories. ‘Kaala’ exposes racial tensions faced by Africans in Delhi during 2016 and 2017. Tarun served as the second unit director and associate director for the Netflix web series ‘Kohrra’.

FREE AS A BIRD 

Dir: Aditya Khude

16 mins / 2024 / Fiction / India / Hindi (English subtitles)

About the Film:

In the heart of Mumbai, a lower-middle-class family of five lives in a cramped one-room kitchen. Raj and Priya, dreaming of a better life, suffer a humiliating experience on their anniversary at the beach, caught up in a police raid. Returning home, Raj, unable to sleep that night, finds solace on the terrace with his father.

About the Filmmaker:

Aditya Khude is a Mumbai-based filmmaker. He studied Film Direction at Whistling Woods and completed his Photography diploma from the J. J. School of Art. His short film ‘Sawantancha Ghar Hech Ka?’ (Mr. Sawant’s Residence?) premiered at Best of India Short Film Festival, London. His first feature film ‘Ti Vel’ will hit the theatres soon.

TOWARDS SELF GOVERNANCE (Disha Swarajyachi) 

Dir: Virendra Valsangkar

53 mins / 2023 / Documentary / India / Marathi (English subtitles)

About the Film:

Mendha-Lekha, a small and remote Gond tribal village in Maharashtra put forth a novel example of how people can govern themselves with consensus and make productive use of their forest. This is a story of the struggle of the villagers who collectively took efforts to protect their surrounding forest, becoming the first village in India to acquire forest rights. It helped the villagers to attain financial prosperity and freedom. The story of Mendha-Lekha signals that democracy prevails where people are awakened and make their own decisions. Decentralised governance leads to realising the dream of a republic.

About the Filmmaker:

Virendra Valsangkar is a civil engineer who turned to filmmaking out of passion for the medium. He received a National Award for ‘Vishnupant Damle: The Unsung Hero of Talkies’ (2012). Virendra has edited National Award-winning Marathi feature films ‘Devrai’ (The Sacred Grove) and ‘Ha Bharat Maza’ (India is My Country). He received the International Jury Award for ‘The Unfolding White’ at the Ekotopfilm Festival in Slovakia.

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WRITING WITH FIRE

Dir: Rintu Thomas, Sushmit Ghosh 

93 minutes / 2021 / Documentary / India / Hindi (English subtitles)

About the Film:

In a cluttered news landscape dominated by men, emerges India’s only newspaper led by marginalised women. Armed with smartphones, wit, and tenacity, Chief Reporter Meera and her journalists break traditions, be it on the frontlines of India’s biggest issues or within the confines of their homes, redefining what it means to be powerful. Writing with Fire is a documentary film about Khabar Lahariya, a rural women-run newspaper in Uttar Pradesh, India. The film follows the newspaper’s journalists as they use their phones to report on issues that matter to their communities, such as caste discrimination, child marriage, and the environment. ‘Writing With Fire’ is a story of courage, resilience, and the power of the media to bring about change. It is a must-see for anyone who cares about press freedom and the right to free expression. A double Sundance and a Peabody award-winner, ‘Writing With Fire’ is also the first Indian feature documentary to be nominated for an Oscar.

About the Filmmakers:

Rintu Thomas is an Academy Award-nominated, Peabody Award-winning filmmaker whose decade-long body of work sits at the intersection of storytelling as both an art and a conversation. A 2021 IDA Courage Under Fire Award honoree, Rintu is an IDA Logan Elevate grantee and a Sundance Fellow. Her feature documentary, ‘Writing With Fire’ (2021), described by The Washington Post as “The most inspiring journalism movie – maybe ever” is a double Sundance winner, a Peabody winner, a New York Times Critics’ Pick, and a Grierson, IDA, and PGA Awards nominee. Along with winning 40 awards, the film is India’s first documentary to be nominated for an Academy Award. In 2009, Rintu co-founded Black Ticket Films, a production company invested in the power of storytelling. With a strong eye on social justice stories, Black Ticket Films’ critically acclaimed slate of films are being used as advocacy, impact, and education tools by institutions across the world. Rintu’s award-winning shorts include ‘Dilli'(2010) and ‘Timbaktu‘ (2012). She is a recipient of the President’s Medal of India, a Skoll Stories of Change Fellow, and also a South Asia Fellow with the Japan Foundation.

Sushmit Ghosh is an Academy Award-nominated, Peabody Award-winning filmmaker and co-founder of Black Ticket Films, a production company invested in the power of storytelling. An IDA Courage Under Fire honoree, Sushmit’s films are recognised for their rigour of immersive, emotionally powerful storytelling. His feature documentary, ‘Writing With Fire’ (2021) is India’s first feature documentary to be nominated for an Oscar. ‘Writing With Fire’ has played at over 200 festivals, won 40 awards, and earned Grierson, IDA, PGA, Cinema Eye Honors nominations. Sushmit’s work has been supported by the Sundance Institute, Tribeca, Chicken & Egg Pictures, and Doc Society. Sushmit is also a mentor for labs and fellowships that focus on storytellers from underrepresented communities who are providing new narratives about the most pressing issues of our time. Sushmit’s award-winning shorts include ‘Bullets and Butterflies’ (2007), ‘Dilli’ (2010), and ‘Timbaktu’ (2012).

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