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Writing with Fire

2021

Sushmit Ghosh, Rintu Thomas

Documentary, Self: Suneeta Prajapati, Meera Devi, Shyamkali Devi

7.3

339

Documentary In a cluttered news landscape dominated by men, emerges India's only newspaper run by Dalit women. Chief Reporter Meera and her journalists break traditions, redefining what it means to be powerful.

	Media	Author	Review
		Kate Erbland IndieWire	"Follows the brave journalists of India's only women-run newspaper, blending the personal and professional with a deft touch"
		Inkoo Kang The Hollywood Reporter	"Insightful e inspiring (...) [The] contrasts between the journalists’ work and home lives are some of the most insightful scenes in Writing With Fire"
		Robert Daniels rogerebert.com	"All of these women, in their wit and determination to represent the powerless, are an ebullient tonic in the face of a cynical chauvinistic male power structure."
		Amber Wilkinson Screendaily	"Whether the pen is mightier than the sword may be up for debate, but as this engaging and hopeful documentary by Rintu Thomas and Sushmit Ghosh shows, words have the power to change things when wielded carefully"
		Jessica Kiang Variety	"Rousing, inspirational tribute to the pride of grassroots indian journalism"
		Robert Abele Los Angeles Times	"A vital, stimulating dispatch from the frontlines of consequential citizen journalism, [this film] makes powerfully clear how underserved communities everywhere need reporters like the women of KL: resourceful and unafraid"
		Jenny Nulf Austin Chronicle	"'Writing With Fire' is at its best when emphasizing the barriers these women have to overcome daily to fulfill their desires to be journalists (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"
		Natalia Keogan Paste Magazine	"'Writing with Fire' exudes journalistic drive and smoldering sisterhood (...) Concise and crucial, [it] adeptly and urgently conveys the necessity of journalism —especially in places that actively try to suppress its reach"

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