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Writing With Fire

In a news landscape dominated by men, emerges India's only newspaper by Dalit women. With smartphones, they break traditions on frontlines of India's biggest issues and within confines of their homes, redefining what it is to be powerful.


Project Details

Status Released

Type Documentary Feature

Director(s) Rintu Thomas, Sushmit Ghosh

World Premiere Sundance Film Festival

Year Released 2021

SFFILM Support

Documentary Film Fund 2020

Co-Director Rintu Thomas

Rintu Thomas is an award-winning director/producer whose films have been recognized as catalysts for new conversations. She is a Sundance Institute Stories of Change fellow. Thomas’ work is supported by Chicken & Egg Pictures, Bertha Foundation, IDFA, the Finnish Film Foundation, SFFILM Documentary Film Fund, Sørfond. Rintu’s debut feature documentary, Writing With Fire, premiered in the World Cinema Documentary competition at the Sundance Film Festival, 2021 and won the Audience Award and Special Jury Award: Impact for Change.

 

Co-Director Sushmit Ghosh

Sushmit Ghosh is an award-winning director and cinematographer whose shorts are used globally as social impact tools. He co-founded Black Ticket Films, a production company invested in the power of non-fiction storytelling. He is a Sundance-Bertha Fellow and a recipient of President’s Medal of India. Ghosh’s work is supported by Chicken & Egg Pictures, Tribeca & Doc Society. His debut feature documentary, Writing With Fire, premiered in the World Cinema Documentary competition at the Sundance Film Festival, 2021 and won the Audience Award and Special Jury Award: Impact for Change.

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