Name: Writing with Fire
Start: 2025-04-26T14:00:00+05:30
End: 2025-04-26T19:30:00+05:30
Location: Harkat Studios: Mumbai

Rintu Thomas and Sushmit Ghosh’s Academy Award nominated film `Writing With Fire` is an exploration of truth, justice and the meaning of power, through the lens of an all-women’s newsroom. With over 40 record setting award wins, including double wins at Sundance and a Peabody for Best documentary, Writing With Fire has played in over 200 film festivals globally. Described by the Washington Post as `The most inspiring journalism movie, maybe ever,` Writing With Fire went on to become India`s first feature documentary to be nominated for an Oscar. About the makers Rintu Thomas and Sushmit Ghosh are Academy Award nominated, Peabody Award-winning Indian filmmakers. Their recent feature documentary `Writing With Fire` was a double Sundance winner and India`s first feature documentary to be nominated for an Oscar. They are co-founders of Black Ticket Films, an award-winning production company whose globally exhibited slate of films are being used as advocacy, impact and education tools by institutions across the world. Their earlier films include National-Award winning `Timbaktu` (2012) and critically acclaimed `Dilli` (2010). Rintu and Sushmit are members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. They live between New Delhi and a quaint village in the Himalayas.