By ANI
LOS ANGELES: At the 2022 Oscars, Delhi-based filmmaker duo Rintu Thomas and Sushmit Ghosh-directed ‘Writing with Fire’ misplaced out the Best Documentary Feature honour to ‘Summer of Soul’ (…Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)’.
‘Writing with Fire’ is Thomas and Ghosh’s debut function documentary a few newspaper ‘Khabar Lahariya’ began as a social experiment by an NGO. It’s India’s solely rural newspaper run by Dalit girls since 2002, began by Delhi-based NGO Nirantar from Chitrakoot within the Bundelkhand area.
The documentary captures ‘Khabar Lahariya’s’ change from print to digital lately. It follows how the newspaper’s Chief reporter Meera and her journalists break traditions, redefining what it means to be highly effective by reporting India’s largest points and inside the confines of their very own properties, questioning notions of patriarchy and redefining energy, investigating native police-force incompetence, listening in and standing by victims of caste and gender violence.
It was the primary Indian documentary made by an all-India impartial manufacturing to bag an Oscar nomination on this class. ‘Ascension’, ‘Attica’, and ‘Flee’ had been the opposite nominees.
‘Summer of Soul’ (…Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised), which gained the Best Documentary Feature Oscar this 12 months is a documentary concerning the legendary 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival which celebrated African-American music and tradition and promoted Black pleasure and unity.
Previously, in 2009, India’s AR Rahman had gained the Academy Award for Best Original Score and Best Song (‘Jai Ho’) in ‘Slumdog Millionaire’. The legendary Gulzar additionally bagged the Best Lyrics honour that very same 12 months.
The 94th Academy Awards are being held on the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood and the ceremony is being hosted by Regina Hall, Amy Schumer and Wanda Sykes. The nominees had been introduced on February 8 this 12 months.
