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India’s Epic Farmers’ Protest Documented in Nishtha Jain’s Hot Docs Selection ‘Farming the Revolution’: ‘The Movement Was Massive’
Eminent Indian documentarian Nishtha Jain's latest effort is an account of the epic, year-long farmers' protest that took place in India in 2020-21.
Jain is known for jute weaving documentary “The Golden Thread,” which won the top prize at Bergamo this year and multiple award-winning woman empowerment film “Gulabi Gang” (2012). A few months prior to that were the Delhi ‘riots’ which brought the India-wide protests against the citizen amendment bill to an end leading to the arrests of many human rights activists,” Jain told Variety. “The third and the most difficult part of it was editing 500 hours of rushes into a 100-minute film and translate the social-cultural-political context to the outside audience which knows very little about India, be it farming, Punjab’s history or Sikhism’s influence on the farmers protests,” Jain said.
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