Rintu Thomas, co-director of the Indian movie 바카라Writing With Fire바카라 said that the nomination itself is the win. The film made up to the top five in the 바카라Best Feature Documentary바카라 category at the 94th Academy Awards.
The documentary, sees the rise of rural media collective 바카라Khabar Lahariya바카라 run by Dalit women. It lost to the American movie 바카라Summer Of Soul바카라 at the event. The award show that took place I Los Angeles was live broadcasted in India on Monday morning via Disney+Hotstar.
The documentary directed by Thomas and Sushmit Ghosh was India바카라s sole entry in the 94th Academy Awards. Thomas said that representing India on the Oscars stage was and 바카라extremely special바카라 experience.
바카라Writing With Fire found a space as one of the five films from the world up for the Best Feature Documentary 바카라 we believe that the nomination itself is the win. Representing India at the Academy awards was extremely special,바카라 commented Thomas.
In her brief statement she also added, 바카라As the first Indian feature documentary to be nominated, we are quite sure this has opened many doors for the Indian filmmaking community,바카라 according to the Indian Express. Ascension, Attica and Flee were the other films in the category.
Just last week, there was a controversy with 바카라Writing With Fire바카라 when the Khabar Lahariya organisation, around which the film is based, claimed that the documentary was not accurate.
Kavita Bundelkhandi, editor of Khabar Lahariya said told PTI that they were proud that a documentary was made on their achievements but wished it was a more rounded portrayal.
She added, 바카라The documentary portrays our work inaccurately because it shows only a part of what we do, and shows that ours is only about one political party,바카라
