Headshot of a South Asian woman with black hair, wearing a black top and mustard-colored pants, standing against a background of trees.
Rintu Thomas
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Director & Producer

Rintu Thomas (she/her) is an Academy Award-nominated and Peabody Award-winning Indian filmmaker. 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, Grierson nominee, and the first Indian feature documentary to be nominated for an Academy Award. Rintu is the co-founder of New Delhi-based production company Black Ticket Films, and for her body of work she received India’s National Award and IDA’s Courage Under Fire Award.

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(Egg)celerator Lab 2018Research & Development Grant 2024
films by Rintu Thomas
Still from Writing With Fire. Two women sit on the ground, one holding up a phone in a gray case. She records a woman wearing a colorful, patterned hijab and pants. In the back, a woman in a hijab, a man, and a young boy are sitting on a bed.
Writing With Fire
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Two women are pictured together standing outside in front of a brick wall. Left: Rivkah, a white woman with shoulder length curly hair stands in a blue and white blouse smiling. Right: Jen, a white woman with short brown hair, stands in a black top smiling.
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