Journey to the Oscars

Catch the directors of the documentary feature film, 'Writing with Fire' talk about their filmmaking journey. The film won an Oscar nomination in 2022.
The online chat with them was conducted in February 2022, under PSBT’s mentoring initiative, Doc_Commune: Better films, together!
PANELISTS
Rintu Thomas is an award-winning director-producer from India whose work is supported by the Sundance Institute, Chicken & Egg Pictures, IDFA, SFF Film Fund, Doc Society and Bertha Foundation, among others. A 2021 IDA Courage Under Fire Award honoree, Rintu is also an IDA Logan Elevate grantee and a Sundance Fellow.
Sushmit Ghosh is an award-winning director and cinematographer from India whose work has been supported by the Sundance Institute, Tribeca Institute, Doc Society, SFF Film Fund, IDFA, The Bertha Foundation, Sorfond and the Finnish Film Foundation, among others. Sushmit is a 2021 IDA Courage Under Fire Award Honoree and a Sundance Fellow.
MODERATOR
Aparna Sanyal, the Executive Director of Doc_Commune, PSBT's new mentorship program, is a multiple award-winning nonfiction director and producer, and the founder of Mixed Media Productions.