Writing with Fire
TFI Suppport
Logline
In one of the most socially oppressive and patriarchal states of India emerges a newspaper run entirely by rural women belonging to the Dalit or ‘untouchable’ community. Meera, its popular political reporter, decides to magnify the local paper’s impact with an audacious move - to transform from print to a digital news agency. Working in media dark villages, mocked and discouraged, this is the story of a visionary woman's feisty spirit in building what will probably be the world’s first digital news agency run entirely by rural Dalit women.
Rintu Thomas
Director/ Producer
Rintu is an award-winning filmmaker from India whose short films have been screened at festivals across the world and broadcast on TV networks. Rintu loves bookshops, sea-shores and dogs. WRITING WITH FIRE is her first feature documentary.
Sushmit Ghosh
Director/Producer
Sushmit is an award-winning filmmaker-cinematographer who finds inspiration in producing films for social impact. In his spare time, he enjoys running away to the mountains and exploring the Himalayas on his motorcycle. This is Sushmit's first feature documentary.