The edit studio shifts to a quaint mountain village. Five mountain dogs become our best friends and BTF’s spiritual mascots!

HUGE YEAR! Writing With Fire premieres at the Sundance Film Festival and wins two awards – Audience Award and Special Jury Award. First Indian doc to be a double Sundance winner!

We travel (first virtually) and then in person to festivals. With the protagonist of the film at the glorious IDFA, the film wins the beloved Audience Award and the standing ovations don’t stop.

Writing With Fire travels far and wide, across global festivals amassing love from audiences all over. A 100% RT rating. Washington Post calls it, ‘The most inspiring journalism movie — maybe ever’ and NYT makes it their Critics’ Pick! Rave reviews pour in. Check them out here.

The film’s impact campaign builds visibility for the newspaper, curates new international partnerships and raises significant funds. The newspaper increases its team size and expands to more geographies across India, our hearts are full.

Writing With Fire becomes the first Indian feature documentary to be nominated for an Academy Award.

Rintu and Sushmit are invited as members to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

The film comes to India through the Dharamshala International Film Festival. Our first public screening with a desi audience – tears of joy everywhere and this sets the film on an organic run of screenings all across the country.

We win a Peabody Award, a first for Indian filmmakers in the awards’ 80-year awards history.