By M. Sellers Johnson. Payal Kapadia’s All We Imagine As Light imparts a warm, humanist embrace that is as humorous as it is earnest, while Rungano Nyoni’s On Becoming a Guinea Fowl offers an odd blend of irreverent comedy and sharp drama….” Late summer in Ontario signals the annual return […]
Life in Pieces: Suman Ghosh on The Scavenger of Dreams
By Devapriya Sanyal. Wherever [you get] to see your product being received by such disparate audiences is a very interesting process.” -Ghosh on festival programming Suman Ghosh is a National Award-winning Indian filmmaker who has made six feature films and one documentary film. His first feature film was Footsteps, starring Soumitra […]
Digital Radicalization: An Interview with Harshad Nalwade on Follower
By Devapriya Sanyal. I wanted to understand what makes some people latch on to a leader or a cause like this to passionately.” Follower, Harshad Nalwade’s debut film which premiered at the IFFR, encapsulates the fight between Belgaum’s two main stakeholders in the state of Karnataka which has long been […]
Saving Man’s (and Woman’s) Best Friends: Jesse Alk’s Pariah Dog
By Elias Savada. Pariah Dog highlights Alk’s ability as an extremely gifted, poetic, and even counter-culture filmmaker who has fashioned a labor of love for his debut feature.” A hazy dusk is arriving in Kolkata in West Bengal, India (the most far eastern part of the country, on the border […]