Indian Documentary ‘Writing With Fire’, About A Dalit Women-Run Newspaper, Nominated In Oscars Best Documentary Feature Category
The 94th Academy Awards, the biggest night in film, is all set for March 24, 2022. A little late, but with an incredibly difficult task at hand to choose winners from amongst a brilliant set of nominations. As always, once the Oscars 2022 nominations were announced, the surprises (all the nods for Drive My Car!) and snubs (Lady Gaga didn’t get Best Actor list for House Of Gucci, and Denis Villeneuve isn’t on the Best Director list for Dune!) got everyone talking. Audiences in India were waiting eagerly for the Suriya starrer Jai Bhim to get in. But it is the documentary Writing With Fire, directed by filmmakers Rintu Thomas and Sushmit Ghosh, that has bagged a Best Documentary Feature category nomination.
The film is about a group of Dalit women running a local newspaper called Khabar Lahariya, since 2002. The newspaper has better journalistic standards than most of our major mainstream publications, as it writes hard-hitting articles on patriarchy, the caste system rampant in villages, and more such topics. It is currently the only newspaper run by Dalit women, where the journalists, armed with smartphones, are covering stories about India that need to be talked about.
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You can watch the Writing With Fire trailer here:
The film has, as of now, bagged over 20 international awards, including the Special Jury (Impact for Change) and Audience awards at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2021. Writing With Fire is nominated alongside Flee, Ascension, Attica, and Summer Of Soul.
As in Indian, and a woman, this makes me hella proud! It is indeed an incredible story that needs to be highlighted and I really hope Writing With Fire wins, even though it has some worthy competitors to go up against!
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