LAKSHMI AND ME | Directed by: Nishtha Jain, Produced by: Smriti Nevatia | |
Exploring the relationship between employer and servant, LAKSHMI AND ME asks how do two women negotiate the ingrained social and cultural attitudes that govern their lives?
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Nishtha Jain
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Nishtha Jain, Director Nishtha Jain worked as an editor in television before joining the Film and Television Institute of India, where she specialized in film direction. Since 1998 she has been making documentaries and shorts and briefly worked as commissioning editor for a documentary channel. Among her special interests are the individual and collective narratives that abound in photographic images. Her 2005 film City of Photos explored neighborhood photo studios, unearthing the fantasy worlds buried under gritty physical realities. In her current work, she moves closer to people who inhabit her immediate surroundings and whose lives and work profoundly, if implicitly, touch her own. |
Smriti Nevatia
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Smriti Nevatia, Executive Producer Smriti Nevatia has worked as a film and theatre critic and on many independent documentaries and TV shows in the capacities of research coordinator, scriptwriter and director. Since 2002 she has been collaborating with Nishtha Jain on several documentary projects and was associate director on City of Photos. She recently wrote the dialogue for a play by sex workers about their lives and is currently working on a feature film script. Read more about the film >> View more filmmakers >> |
