Rintu Thomas

Rintu Thomas is an Academy Award nominated documentary filmmaker and director-producer from India.

Her Peabody-winning documentary ''Writing with Fire'', co-directed with Sushmit Ghosh, is the first Indian feature documentary to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. The film also won the Audience Award and Special Jury Award in the World Cinema Documentary Competition at 2021 Sundance Film Festival. Thomas is also known for directing ''Timbaktu'', a short documentary which won the National Film Award for the Best Environment Film at the 60th National Film Awards and ''Dilli'', which was awarded Best Documentary at the Jaipur International Film Festival in 2012. She is the co-founder of the award-winning production company, Black Ticket Films. In 2021, she was awarded the IDA Courage Under Fire Award for her body of work. Provided by Wikipedia