Writing With Fire’s Oscar nomination for Best Documentary Feature wasn’t just a huge achievement for directors Sushmit Ghosh and Rintu Thomas. It was a triumph for all of India. The married couple …
The married couple became the first Indian filmmakers to earn a nomination in that category.
The film has been an underdog in the Oscar race, without the backing of a big streamer or other major platform . And it tells a story of underdogs – the all-female staff of the newspaper, based in Uttar Pradesh, who despite predictions they would fail have instead turned their operation into a major success in print and online. What’s even more remarkable is the founders are Dalit women, members of India’s lowest caste.
The documentary work of Ghosh and Thomas has focused largely on social justice issues; their 2011 short, for example, centers on inhabitants of a Delhi slum who were driven from their homes in the midst of a beautification program. A summary written by an anonymous IMDb contributor says, “holds up a mirror not only to India, but to every nation around the world, whose poor live forgotten under bridges, children go hungry, and fathers work thousands of miles from their families to provide.
Audiences have connected with the film in part because it’s a hopeful story of women succeeding despite powerful odds against them.
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