Ep 8: Sundance Film Festival 2021 World Cinema Documentary Awardees

<p>At the Sundance Film Festival 2021, Rintu Thomas and Sushmit Ghosh won&nbsp;the Special Jury Award: Impact for Change and the Audience Award in the World Cinema Documentary category for&nbsp;their debut feature 'Writing With Fire'. On&nbsp;today’s &nbsp;episode, we discuss the political economy of documentary filmmaking, &nbsp;its practitioners’ love-hate relationship with the state (every &nbsp;government media organisation in India is name-checked in this &nbsp;episode!), the influence and legacy of humanism in nonfiction film and &nbsp;whether its future in South Asia lies in TikTok-type formats.</p> <p>Click here to access the Image+ Guide &amp; view the material being discussed in the podcast:&nbsp;<a href="https://sites.google.com/view/artalaap-podcast-resources/episode-8" target="_blank">https://sites.google.com/view/artalaap-podcast-resources/episode-8</a>.</p> <p><strong>Credits:</strong></p> <p>Producer: Tunak Teas</p> <p>Design &amp; artwork: Mohini Mukherjee</p> <p>Marketing: Dipalie Mehta</p> <p>Musical arrangement: Jayant Parashar</p> <p>Images: Rintu Thomas &amp; Sushmit Ghosh</p> <p>Additional support: Kanishka Sharma, Amy Goldstone-Sharma, Raghav Sagar, Shalmoli Halder, Arunima Nair</p> <p>Audio courtesy: Vernouillet by Blue Dot Sessions [CC BY-NC 4.0]</p> <p><strong>References:</strong></p> <p>Kerstin &nbsp;Stutterheim, 'Documentary Film Production Under Neoliberal &nbsp;Circumstances - A Genre in Change', International Science and Humanities Conference 2016, Sharjah.</p> <p>Kamayani Sharma, 'Reason Being', Artforum, 20 Jun 2019.</p> <p>Kartik Nair. "Ramsay Brothers: The Men, The Movies, The Memory”. M.Phil Cinema Studies Diss. SAA, JNU. 2010.</p> <p>Rishi Majumder, 'Ramsay International', Motherland, 2012.</p>