The documentary movie is directed by Gauri’s sister and award-winning director Kavitha Lankesh
The documentary movie is directed by Gauri’s sister and award-winning director Kavitha Lankesh
Gauri, a documentary primarily based on late journalist-activist Gauri Lankesh, directed by her sister and award-winning director Kavitha Lankesh, has received the ‘Best Human Rights’ movie on the Toronto Women’s Film Festival 2022.
The movie has additionally been chosen for the South Asian Film pageant of Montreal and is in consideration at Doc New York, International Documentary Film Festival of Amsterdam, Sundance Film Festival, and different festivals the world over.
Kavitha Lankesh, in an announcement, stated the documentary exposes the bodily and verbal threats journalists face each day in India.
“There were over 200 reported attacks on journalists in India in the last five years, out of which over 30 were murders in the last decade,” she stated. “The attacks range in severity but the intention behind them matte”.
“India’s number in the global press freedom index is 150 out of 180”, she additional stated and added that assaults on dissenters and journalists are sadly not new nor restricted to India, however it’s the depth through which the assaults have taken place within the final decade is one thing to be involved about.
Gauri Lankesh was shot useless on the night time of September 5, 2017, from shut vary close to her home in Rajarajeshwari Nagar in Bengaluru.
Gauri has been commissioned by Free Press Unlimited, Amsterdam. Free Press Unlimited’s mission stems from Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights which says everybody has the proper to freedom of opinion and expression; this proper consists of the liberty to carry opinions with out interference and to hunt, obtain and impart info and concepts by means of any media and no matter frontiers, it stated.
Source: www.thehindu.com