Biography

Rintu Thomas is an Academy Award nominated, Peabody Award-winning Indian filmmaker, whose body of work sits at the intersection of storytelling as both an art and a conversation. Her recent double Sundance winning, IDA, PGA, Grierson-nominated feature documentary 'Writing With Fire' (2021), described by the Washington Post as 'The most inspiring journalism movie - maybe ever', was India's first feature documentary to be nominated for an Academy Award.

Rintu is a recipient of India's National Award, along with being an IDA 'Courage Under Fire' Honoree, IDA Logan Elevate Awardee, Sundance Fellow, Skoll Stories of Change Fellow and South Asia Fellow with the Japan Foundation.

In 2009, Rintu co-founded, along with Academy award-nominated director and cinematographer Sushmit Ghosh, the New Delhi based production company Black Ticket Films. With the company, she has directed and produced over 150 short documentaries that have been exhibited at film festivals globally, included in the curriculum of universities and used as tools for advocacy by diverse communities. From this emotionally resonating and critically acclaimed slate of films, the most widely travelled are 'Dilli' (2010) and 'Timbaktu' (2012).
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