Le Fil d'or
Réalisation
Nishtha JAIN
Outside Kolkata, several jute mills crank on, virtually unchanged since the industrial revolution. The film puts the analogue and digital, the early industrial and post-industrial, and the aspirations of the young vs expectations of the old workers into an immersive mix and asks whether an alternative future can emerge from the near dystopian present.
Réalisé par
Nishtha JAIN
Photographie
Rakesh HARIDAS
Montage
Alex GOEKJIAN & Nishtha JAIN
Musique
Kenneth ISHAK
Son
Niraj GERA
Production
Raintree Films
Taskovski Films
Taskovski Films
Nishtha JAIN (Raintree Films)
Co-Production
Fabien GREENBERG (Antipode Films)
Bård Kjøge RØNNING (Antipode Films)
Franck VAN DEN ENGEL (Zeppers Films)
Bård Kjøge RØNNING (Antipode Films)
Franck VAN DEN ENGEL (Zeppers Films)
Nishtha JAIN (Raintree Films)
Distribution
Taskovski Films
Ventes
Taskovski Films
Réalisé par
Nishtha JAIN
Nishtha Jain is an internationally-recognized filmmaker based in Mumbai best known for Gulabi Gang (2012), Lakshmi and Me (2007) and City of Photos (2004). Her films interrogate lived experience at the intersection of gender, caste and class. They explore the political in the personal and uncover the mechanisms of privilege.
She’s a Chicken & Egg Award winner (2020); Member of the Academy of Motion Pictures and Sciences (AMPAS); Film Independent Global Media Maker Fellow (2019-20); Recipient of Fulbright-Nehru Academic and Professional Excellence Fellowship (2019).
After postgraduate training at Jamia Mass Communication Research Centre, New Delhi, she pursued Film Direction at the Film and Television Institute of India, Pune prior to launching a career in independent cinema.
She’s been working across various platforms –documentary, narrative, virtual reality and TV series. Her films have been widely screened at film festivals and art-house cinemas and broadcast on TV. They have won over 25 international awards and have been reviewed by print-media and academic journals.
Jain has served as a juror at IDFA, ZFF, Cinema Verité and IDSFFK. She’s given lectures and master classes at numerous universities internationally, including Stanford, NYU, Wellesley College, UCSB, Northwestern University, UT Austin, Cambridge University, University of London, St. Andrews University, Heidelberg, Danish Film School, FTII Pune, India, Satyajit Ray Film & TV Institute.
FILMOGRAPHY
The Golden thread (91’ - 2022) - In-Production
Summer with Roxanne (70’ – 2022) – In-Production
Proof (21’ - 2019)
Submerged (8’. V.R. - 2016)
Gulabi Gang (96’ - 2012)
Family Album (60’ - 2010)
At My Doorstep (70’ - 2009)
Lakshmi and Me (59’ - 2007)
6 Yards to Democracy (66’ - 2007)
Call it Slut (14’ - 2005)
City of Photos (60’ - 2004)
She’s a Chicken & Egg Award winner (2020); Member of the Academy of Motion Pictures and Sciences (AMPAS); Film Independent Global Media Maker Fellow (2019-20); Recipient of Fulbright-Nehru Academic and Professional Excellence Fellowship (2019).
After postgraduate training at Jamia Mass Communication Research Centre, New Delhi, she pursued Film Direction at the Film and Television Institute of India, Pune prior to launching a career in independent cinema.
She’s been working across various platforms –documentary, narrative, virtual reality and TV series. Her films have been widely screened at film festivals and art-house cinemas and broadcast on TV. They have won over 25 international awards and have been reviewed by print-media and academic journals.
Jain has served as a juror at IDFA, ZFF, Cinema Verité and IDSFFK. She’s given lectures and master classes at numerous universities internationally, including Stanford, NYU, Wellesley College, UCSB, Northwestern University, UT Austin, Cambridge University, University of London, St. Andrews University, Heidelberg, Danish Film School, FTII Pune, India, Satyajit Ray Film & TV Institute.
FILMOGRAPHY
The Golden thread (91’ - 2022) - In-Production
Summer with Roxanne (70’ – 2022) – In-Production
Proof (21’ - 2019)
Submerged (8’. V.R. - 2016)
Gulabi Gang (96’ - 2012)
Family Album (60’ - 2010)
At My Doorstep (70’ - 2009)
Lakshmi and Me (59’ - 2007)
6 Yards to Democracy (66’ - 2007)
Call it Slut (14’ - 2005)
City of Photos (60’ - 2004)
