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South Asian Media

  • The filmmaking team of ‘Writing With Fire’ —Karan Thapliyal, Rintu Thomas and Sushmit Ghosh with protagonists, Shyamkali, Meera, and Suneeta. A BTS still from ‘Writing With Fire.’ Courtesy of Rintu Thomas and Sushmit Ghosh.
    January 24, 2022

    Courage Under Fire Award: 'Writing With Fire' Team on Finding Hope in the Unlikeliest Place

    Rintu Thomas and Sushmit Ghosh are this year’s recipients of IDA’s Courage Under Fire Award . Their film Writing With Fire is the story of Khabar
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  • JP Jayasankar is an Indian male filmmaker photographed on the sets of his documentary, ‘So Heddan So Hoddan.’ Photo by Mangesh Gudekar
    November 22, 2021

    Duty of Care: The Filmmaker-Protagonist Relationship

    “Really… I feel reluctant… coming to receive you… as my interviewers or crew… Because ever since my exposure to the camera…. As an internationally
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  • A red filtered image of a Hindu South Asian bride. She is wearing a veil. From Payal Kapadia’s ‘A Night of Knowing Nothing.’ Courtesy of TIFF
    November 17, 2021

    The Fractured World of Lovers in Payal Kapadia's Documentary 'A Night of Knowing Nothing'

    Watching Payal Kapadia’s A Night of Knowing Nothing has been nothing less than transformative. Not because it compels one to think beyond the realms
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  • A man with brown skin in a white checkered shirt and white hat standing in front of a crowd. Still from 'An Insignificant Man' by Khushboo Ranka & Vinay Shukla. Courtesy of IFFLA.
    August 15, 2021

    Ten Documentaries To Watch for Indian Independence Day

    This Sunday, August 15th, 2021 India celebrates 74 years of its independence from British imperial rule. It has been an incredibly challenging year
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  • Side angle black and white portrait of filmmaker Satyajit Ray. Courtesy Criterion Channel.
    June 28, 2021

    Uncovering Satyajit Ray's Documentaries

    "On the 7th of August 1941, in the city of Calcutta, a man died," begins Satyajit Ray’s 1961 documentary Rabindranath Tagore (1961). The eponymous
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  • October 2, 2020

    Decolonizing Documentaries in South Asia

    Continuing the theme of #DecolonizeDocs that was first initiated at Getting Real ‘18, the 2020 edition’s first focused session on the South Asian
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  • From Anand Patwardhan's 'War and Peace.' Courtesy of First Run/Icarus Films
    November 28, 2004

    Before Bollywood! The Long, Rich History of Documentary in India

    On the historic midnight of August 14 and 15, 1947, India became independent from British rule. First Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru's speech
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  • March 1, 1999

    Documentary in India Today

    In a country producing more than 600 feature films a year, in an incredible array of 23 languages, the Indian documentary film has always been a poor
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