Rintu Thomas, Sushmit Ghosh’s Writing With Fire bags Oscars nomination this year

This year’s Oscar nominations are out and India has bagged a place in the Best Documentary Feature category with Rintu Thomas and Sushmit Ghosh’s

Writing With Fire

securing a place on the coveted list. Earlier in 2021, the film that chronicles the rise of Khabar Lahariya, India's only newspaper run by

Dalit

women, won the audience and jury awards in the World Cinema Documentary category at the Sundance Film Festival 2021.

Rintu

took to Twitter to share a video of the televised nominations. The elated filmmaker wrote, “Oh My God!!!! Writing With Fire just got nominated for @TheAcademy Award. Oh My God!!!!!!!! #OscarNoms #WritingWithFire (sic)”

Earlier, CT interacted with Rintu, who had recalled, “We saw a beautiful photo story of a woman distributing newspapers in the rural heartlands of Uttar Pradesh. That led us to discover the work of Khabar Lahariya, the only Dalit women-led newspaper in India. We met them at a time when after 14 years of print, they were at the cusp of transitioning from print to digital, which we felt was a critical moment to begin our story from.”