The Oscar for the Best Documentary Short Film generally ends as a blur in the blaze of the bigger names jostling for international attention at any Academy Awards evening. For Guneet Monga, though, it has earned a special place in her heart, for she has come home with it twice. As executive producer, Guneet Monga was the force behind ‘The Elephant Whisperers’, photographer Kartiki Gonsalves’ maiden documentary, lifting the Oscar for Best Documentary Short Film at the 95th Academy Awards. It was her second time.
Monga’s first Oscar was for the documentary short film, Iranian American filmmaker Rayka Zehtabch’s ‘Period: End of Sentence’, which follows a group of local women at Kathikera village in Hapur, Uttar Pradesh, as they learn how to operate a machine that makes low-cost, biodegradable sanitary pads, which they sell to other women at affordable prices.
It is not only empowering for the women who produce the sanitary pads,...
Monga’s first Oscar was for the documentary short film, Iranian American filmmaker Rayka Zehtabch’s ‘Period: End of Sentence’, which follows a group of local women at Kathikera village in Hapur, Uttar Pradesh, as they learn how to operate a machine that makes low-cost, biodegradable sanitary pads, which they sell to other women at affordable prices.
It is not only empowering for the women who produce the sanitary pads,...
- 3/13/2023
- by News Bureau
- GlamSham
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