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847 Park City, February 3 “Writing with Fire”, an Indian film chronicling the rise of Khabar Lahariya, India’s only newspaper run by Dalit women, has won the audience award in the World Cinema Documentary category at the Sundance Film Festival 2021. The festival, which started from January 28 and will close on February 3, is presented by Sundance Organisation, a nonprofit that discovers and supports independent artists, and introduces audiences to their work. According to the film gala’...

"CODA" big winner at 2021 Sundance Film Festival By David Morgan February 2, 2021 / 10:56 PM / CBS News "CODA," a touching coming-of-age dramedy about a young girl in conflict with her deaf parents and brother as she attempts to pursue singing — a talent they cannot fully appreciate — received top honors at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival. The film received the Grand Jury Prize for U.S. Drama, as well as the Audience Award, a directors award for Siân Heder and a ...

Posted on Wednesday, February 3rd, 2021 by Chris Evangelista Today, the Golden Globe nominations were announced, and the results were pretty bad! So perhaps we should try to cleanse our palates with the 2021 Sundance Film Festival awards. This year’s Sundance was virtual, and while that experience can’t hold a candle to being on the ground in Park City, the festival organizers deserver lots of credit for putting the fest together in any capacity and running it smoothly. While I found a lot ...

Synopsis Fire in the Mountains, directed by debutant Ajitpal Singh, was another Indian title be screened at the festival. Writing with Fire, which also marks the feature debut of directors Rintu Thomas and Sushmit Ghosh, follows this ambitious group of Dalit women - led by their chief reporter, Meera - as the team switches from print to digital in order to stay relevant. Related PARK CITY: Writing with Fire, an Indian film chronicling the rise of Khabar Lahariya, Indias only newspaper run by Da...

Sundance 2021 Winners: CODA Sweeps With Four Prizes, Questloves Documentary Summer Of Soul Earns Two Adam B. Vary, provided by Feb. 2, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail The 2021 Sundance Film Festival concluded Tuesday night with a virtual awards ceremony, honoring “CODA” — a family drama centered on a high school student who is the child of deaf adults (hence the title) — with four prizes in the U.S. Dramatic Competition category: the grand jury prize, the directing prize, the audience award ...

“CODA” Wins Big at Sundance 2021 “CODA” Wins Big at Sundance 2021 The family dramedy makes history and comes away with four awards The family dramedy makes history and comes away with four awards February 3, 2021 The 2021 Sundance Film Festival comes to an end today, on February 3. After a full week of spectacular feature film projects, documentaries, and deep dives into world cinema, suicide pacts, African American music, and top-notch acting, we have our winners. Siân Heder’s CODA...

This is a story about an intrepid group of reporters who grew their readership to more than150 million in a few short years. That is a huge achievement. If

Insightful and inspirational. TWITTER The struggles and triumphs of low-caste journalists in Indias only all-female newspaper are chronicled in Rintu Thomas and Sushmit Ghoshs documentary. A group of 20 or so women — young, barefoot and in saris — sit in a circle on the floor in the new documentary Writing With Fire. Comprising the staff of Khabar Lahariya, India’s only all-female newspaper (whose title translates to “waves of news”), the women are told that the publication will exp...

By Jana Monji, AsAmNews Arts & Culture Writer Those looking for a glimpse of the Asian and Asian American films at Sundance got a good taste during a conversation with Asian filmmakers and actors hosted by the Asian Society of Northern California. Janet Yang, Academy Governor-at-Large and executive producer of The Joy Luck Club film, spoke with writer Amy Tan, actress Miya Cech, director Sushmit Ghosh, director Debbie Lum, actor Leonardo Nam, director Baz Poonpiriya, director Rintu Thomas and...

Sundance Documentary Writing With Fire Smashes Indian Patriarchy, Exposes Caste System Naman Ramachandran, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail Rintu Thomas and Sushmit Ghosh’s debut feature “Writing With Fire,” the only Indian film in the Sundance world cinema documentary competition, shines a light on a unique, women-only news collective in small-town northern India. The documentary follows the women behind news organization Khabar Lahariya as they make the transition from print to digital...