Earlier this year, Indian news network Ndtv — one of the only remaining mainstream media channels in the country that raised questions against its government — was acquired by the country's top oligarch, the Adani Group. An open supporter and old friend of the country's prime minister, Gautam Adani's acquisition further raised doubts about the state's crackdown on freedom of speech and expression, manifested by disqualification of opposition MPs and wide crackdown on dissenters as well as dissidents. Following the acquisition, one of the country's most talked about senior journalists resigned from the news channel. Vinay Shukla's poignant new documentary tells the story of that one journalist.
“While We Watched” is screening at San Diego Asian Film Festival Spring Showcase
The 92-minute documentary starts with Ravish Kumar walking into an abandoned floor with its walls and ceilings being taken apart. Holding a flashlight in his hand, he walks across the room,...
“While We Watched” is screening at San Diego Asian Film Festival Spring Showcase
The 92-minute documentary starts with Ravish Kumar walking into an abandoned floor with its walls and ceilings being taken apart. Holding a flashlight in his hand, he walks across the room,...
- 4/18/2023
- by Aryan Vyas
- AsianMoviePulse
MetFilm Distribution has acquired the U.K. and Ireland rights to Vinay Shukla’s multi-award-winning documentary ‘While We Watched’, reports ‘Variety’.
Produced by the UK’s Lono Studio and BritDoc Films, the documentary is a newsroom drama chronicling the working days of former popular Ndtv journalist Ravish Kumar as he navigates a spiralling world of truth and disinformation, ‘Variety’ adds.
A Ramon Magsaysay Award winner, Kumar resigned after controversial billionaire Gautam Adani took over the company.
‘While We Watched’ debuted at Toronto in 2022 where it won the Amplify Voices award, followed by Busan, where it picked up the Cinephile award, according to ‘Variety’. Most recently, the film won the international competition at Helsinki’s DocPoint Festival.
Shukla had previously co-directed the 2016 political documentary ‘An Insignificant Man’ on the rise of Arvind Kejriwal and the Aam Aadmi Party. ‘While We Watched’, Shukla told ‘Variety’, is “my love letter to journalism”.
He...
Produced by the UK’s Lono Studio and BritDoc Films, the documentary is a newsroom drama chronicling the working days of former popular Ndtv journalist Ravish Kumar as he navigates a spiralling world of truth and disinformation, ‘Variety’ adds.
A Ramon Magsaysay Award winner, Kumar resigned after controversial billionaire Gautam Adani took over the company.
‘While We Watched’ debuted at Toronto in 2022 where it won the Amplify Voices award, followed by Busan, where it picked up the Cinephile award, according to ‘Variety’. Most recently, the film won the international competition at Helsinki’s DocPoint Festival.
Shukla had previously co-directed the 2016 political documentary ‘An Insignificant Man’ on the rise of Arvind Kejriwal and the Aam Aadmi Party. ‘While We Watched’, Shukla told ‘Variety’, is “my love letter to journalism”.
He...
- 2/14/2023
- by News Bureau
- GlamSham
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