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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Behind ‘Writing with Fire’: three women and their thirst for truth in Oscar 2022 entry -Aseem Chhabra

Behind ‘Writing with Fire’: three women and their thirst for truth in Oscar 2022 entry -Aseem Chhabra

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published Published on Mar 10, 2022   modified Modified on Mar 13, 2022

-The Hindu

As ‘Writing with Fire’ competes at the Oscars, filmmakers Rintu Thomas and Sushmit Ghosh look back on why they decided to follow three Dalit journalists for five years

Six years ago, when New Delhi-based filmmakers Rintu Thomas and Sushmit Ghosh attended a meeting at the Khabar Lahariya office in Chitrakoot, Uttar Pradesh, they had no idea how deeply engaged they would soon get with the lives and work of the women journalists there.

And they definitely wouldn’t have guessed that the narrative they were about to weave into a documentary would one day premiere at the Sundance Film Festival, where it would win two awards — followed by similar accolades at several other festivals — and eventually receive an Oscar nomination in the Best Documentary category. It is a first for a feature length documentary produced and directed by Indian filmmakers.

Thomas and Ghosh’s film, Writing with Fire, is the remarkable story of Khabar Lahariya (Waves of News), the only Indian media organisation run by Dalit women — operating in small towns and rural areas of the Hindi belt, where patriarchy rules — as they attempt to move from print to digital journalism. Shot over five years, it is a story of determined journalists, some mothers and others single, and their commitment to press freedom.

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The Hindu, 10 March, 2022, https://www.thehindu.com/entertainment/movies/three-women-smartphones-a-thirst-for-truth/article65210409.ece?homepage=true&fbclid=IwAR0HR6FEOdOSzeO9jOEBe5GKuBgc6K7Jz_JrOnTUcF6A9Jdu1_JXGp7kFTg


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