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Rintu THOMAS

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Rintu Thomas is an Academy Award-nominated and Peabody Award-winning Indian director and producer, whose work sits at the intersection of storytelling and narrative change. Her double Sundance-winning Writing With Fire (2021) is India’s first Academy Award-nominated feature documentary. A recipient of the President’s Medal of India and the International Documentary Association's Courage Under Fire Award, Thomas is also a Skoll Stories of Change Fellow, a Logan Elevate Grantee and a South Asia Fellow with the Japan Foundation. Thomas’s critically acclaimed work centers on creating powerful, socially engaged films that amplify underrepresented voices. She is a co-founder of Black Ticket Films, an award-winning production company dedicated to the transformative power of storytelling. Her award-winning shorts include Dilli (2010) and Timbaktu (2012). In 2023, she co-founded the Himalayan Story Lab, an incubation lab for indigenous filmmakers from the Himalayan regions of South Asia, fostering ambitious storytelling with strong regional roots and global relevance.

From Busan International Film Festival 2026, No. 31

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Busan International Film Festival 2026, No. 31, BIFF Mecenat Award