Rintu Thomas

National Award winner Miriam Chandy Menacherry: ‘I belong to a generation that began the new wave of Indian documentary cinema’

70th National Film Awards: Miriam Chandy Menacherry has won the Best Non-Feature Film Direction for her documentary film 'From the Shadows', on missing girls and girl child sex trafficking. She talks about making her ‘toughest film’ and the documentary movement in India.

MIFF 2024 | Nishtha Jain: ‘We are living in a post-industrial world and the factory worker has little space in our discourse’

At Mumbai International Film Festival (MIFF), June 15-21, watch National Award-winning documentary filmmaker Nishtha Jain's film 'The Golden Thread', on the dying jute industry and the absence of human welfare in our environmental concerns.

Shaunak Sen’s 'All That Breathes', Vinay Shukla’s Ravish Kumar-starrer 'While We Watched' win Peabody Awards in Documentary category

'All That Breathes' and 'While We Watched' are the second and third Indian films to win a Peabody, after Rintu Thomas and Sushmit Ghosh’s 'Writing With Fire' bagged the award in 2023. 'All That Breathes' and 'Writing With Fire' were nominated for the Oscars in 2023 and 2022, respectively.

Oscar Predictions 2024: Who will win the Best Documentary Feature Film?

Last year at the Oscars, the documentary 'Navalny' bagged the top prize. The Russian Opposition leader died in prison last month. This year, Ukraine's '20 Days in Mariupol' might take home the said award at the 96th Academy Awards on Sunday.