Filmfest DC 2021

Writing With Fire

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Writing With Fire
India is a dangerous place for journalists. For female journalists, the threat is greater, and for marginalized Dalit women journalists, greater still.
INTERVIEW with Directors Rintu Thomas & Sushmit Ghosh
WRITING WITH FIRE interview with directors Rintu Thomas and Sushmit Ghosh.
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WRITING WITH FIRE interview with directors Rintu Thomas and Sushmit Ghosh.


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India is a dangerous place for journalists. For marginalized women journalists, the threat is greater still. Nevertheless, Khabar Lahariya (Waves of News) persists. Operating out of Uttar Pradesh and run by Dalit women, with only mobile phones for recording, the newspaper–turned–YouTube–channel has garnered more than 150 million followers. To watch bureau chief Meera and her reporters at work is to see what democracy might look like when women hold a mirror to it. The film won the Audience Award and the Impact and Change Award at the Sundance Film Festival.


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