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Rintu Thomas & Sushmit Ghosh
IN 2021 57' 93'
⚬ Society ⚬ Human Rights
In a cluttered news landscape dominated by men, emerges India's only newspaper run by Dalit women. Armed with smartphones, 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.
Academy Award® Nominee for Best Documentary Feature
Directors | Rintu Thomas & Sushmit Ghosh |
Producers | Rintu Thomas & Sushmit Ghosh |
Co-Producers | Tone Grøttjord, John Webster |
Executive Producers | Patty Quillin, Hallee Adelman |
Co-Executive Producer | Anurima Bhargava |
Production Company | Black Ticket Films |
Co-Production Company | Sant & Usant, JW Documentaries |
In collaboration with | NRK, Knowledge Network, DR, EO, YLE, SVT, BBC Storyville |
Cinematography | Sushmit Ghosh, Karan Thapliyal |
Editors | Rintu Thomas & Sushmit Ghosh |
Music | Tajdar Junaid |
Sound | Susmit Bob Nath, Janne Laine |
World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award: Impact for Change | Sundance 2021 |
Audience Award: World Cinema Documentary | Sundance 2021 |
McBaine Documentary Feature Award | SFFILM 2021 |
Special Jury Prize in Documentary Competition | SIFF 2021 |
Audience Award Best Documentary | Wisconsin Film Festival 2021 |
Silver Horn for Film on Social Issues | Krakow Film Festival 2021 |
Best Documentary | Molodist IFF 2021 |
Special Jury Mention for Best Doc Feature | Mountain Film Festival 2021 |
Justice Matters Award | Filmfest DC 2021 |
Best Feature Documentary | BlackStar Film Festival 2021 |
Audience Award for Best Feature Documentary | BlackStar Film Festival 2021 |
Truth Dox Award | DokuFest 2021 |
Maysles Brothers Documentary Award | Docs Ireland 2021 |
Al Jazeera Balkans Programme Department Jury Award | AJB DOC Film Festival 2021 |
Best International Feature Award | Visioni dal Mondo 2021 |
Best Documentary | Indo-German Film Week 2021 |
Audience Award | Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival 2021 |
Horizons Award | Le Grand Bivouac 2021 |
Another World Is Possible Award | DocsMX 2021 |
Documentary Award | Monde en Vues 2021 |
Checkpoints Award | Bergen IFF 2021 |
Courage Under Fire Award | IDA Documentary Awards 2021 |
Best Feature Length Documentary | Nordic / Docs 2021 |
Best Documentary Award | Films From The South 2021 |
NPO Audience Award | IDFA 2021 |
Grand Jury Documentary Award | Movies That Matter 2022 |
Special Jury Prize | GZDOC Golden Kapok Awards 2022 |
Audience Award International Competition | Millenium International Documentary Film Festival 2022 |
Voices of Invisible Women Award | Terra di Tutti FF 2022 |
Documentary Award | Peabody Awards 2023 |
Audience Award | Bajo Nuestra Piel International Human Rights Film Festival 2023 |
Sundance 2021 |
CPH:DOX 2021 |
Krakow IFF 2021 |
Cleveland IFF 2021 |
Hot Docs 2021 |
Seattle IFF 2021 |
San Fransisco FF 2021 |
DOK.fest München 2021 |
Encounters South African IDF 2021 |
Sundance London FF 2021 |
Sydney FF 2021 |
Visioni dal Mondo 2021 |
Al Jazeera Balkans DFF 2021 |
Zürich FF 2021 |
Bergen IFF 2021 |
IDFA 2021 |
Yamagata IDF 2021 |
Valladolid IFF 2021 |
Guadalajara IFF 2021 |
DOC NYC 2021 |
RIDM 2021 |
Festival dei Popoli 2021 |
FIPADOC 2022 |
Göteborg FF 2022 |
| Runtimes | 57' 93' |
| Spoken Languages | Hindi |
| Production Countries | India |
Rintu Thomas and Sushmit Ghosh are award-winning director-producers from India whose work has been supported by the Sundance Institute, Chicken & Egg Pictures, Tribeca Institute, Doc Society, SFF Film Fund, IDFA, The Bertha Foundation, Sorfond and the Finnish Film Foundation, among others.
Rintu and Sushmit are also Sundance Fellows, who enjoy producing films that have the power to create transformative social impact. In 2009, they founded Black Ticket Films, a production company invested in the power of non-fiction storytelling. With a strong eye on social justice stories, Black Ticket Films’ award-winning slate of films continue to be used as advocacy, impact and education tools by institutions across the world. Rintu and Sushmit were recognised for their filmmaking work with a President’s Medal in 2012, the highest honour given to filmmakers in India.
Five years in the making, WRITING WITH FIRE is their first feature documentary.
