Rintu Thomas

Co-founder

Rintu Thomas (she/her) is an Academy Award® nominated filmmaker whose decade-long body of work sits at the intersection of storytelling as both an art and a conversation. A 2021 IDA Courage Under Fire Award honoree, Rintu is an IDA Logan Elevate grantee and a Sundance Fellow.

Her feature documentary, WRITING WITH FIRE (2021), described by The Washington Post as “The most inspiring journalism movie – maybe ever” is a double Sundance winner, a New York Times Critics’ Pick and a Grierson, IDA and a PGA Awards nominee. Along with winning 35 awards, the film is India’s first documentary to be nominated for an Academy Award.

In 2009, Rintu co-founded Black Ticket Films, a production company invested in the power of storytelling. With a strong eye on social justice stories, Black Ticket Films’ award-winning slate of films are being used as advocacy, impact and education tools by institutions across the world. Rintu lives between New Delhi and a quaint mountain-town in North India.

Participating Sessions

DX ACCESS

DX ACCESS connects registered attendees to representatives of the most respected and innovative organizations and individuals in film and journalism, and provides unparalleled face time with funders, producers, festival programmers, distributors, media outlets, reporters, writers and directors. In one-on-one sessions, they will unpack how they work, learn more about your goals, and explore the possibilities for supporting your project. This edition, DX Access will take place primarily online for both...

REFRAMING REPRESENTATION

Rintu Thomas and Sushmit Ghosh are Academy Award nominated independent documentary filmmakers whose decade long work has focussed on developing a new visual and narrative language for telling stories of under-represented voices in India – ranging from farming communities and journalists working to create transformative change for their communities, to refugees and LGBTQ artists finding ways of platforming critical issues around citizenship. Their work focusses on movements in the margins that re-center...