Documentary films are pitching India to the world

By: Dinesh Narayanan/ Forbes India

Foreign financiers and broadcasters are interested in Indian documentary filmmakers. Ally Derks remembers the day she was having a drink with Michael Moore in a small bar in Washington D.C. in 1989. Moore had just made Roger and Me, a searing documentary on the economic devastation of Flint, Michigan, after General Motors shut its plant there leaving thousands of workers jobless overnight.