Filmmaker Vinay Shukla’s documentary Whereas We Watched, that includes information anchor Ravish Kumar, has bagged an award on the 2022 Toronto Worldwide Movie Competition (TIFF).
The movie, titled Namaskar! Primary Ravish Kumar in Hindi, gained the Amplify Voices Award on the lately concluded movie gala, the press launch from the makers acknowledged.
Different winners of the Amplify Voices Award included Nisha Pahuja’s To Kill a Tiger for greatest Canadian characteristic and Martika Ramirez Escobar’s Leonore Will By no means Die.
Whereas We Watched is described as a turbulent newsroom drama that intimately chronicles the working days of broadcast journalist Ravish Kumar as he navigates a spiralling world of fact and disinformation.
“By means of the lens of its protagonist – a person clinging onto integrity at the same time as every thing falls aside – ‘Whereas We Watched’ urges the viewer to contemplate their very own duty and culpability as information and media come underneath larger scrutiny than ever earlier than, Vinay’s upcoming movie delivers the promise of a daring, well timed, and globally related documentary,” the official description learn.
Vinay Shukla’s debut characteristic An Insignificant Man, chronicling the rise of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s Aam Aadmi Celebration (AAP), was additionally screened on the prestigious movie pageant in 2016.
“I hope this movie offers you hope on days once you want it” – Vinay Shukla, Director of Whereas We Watched. Winner of the Amplify Voices Award at #TIFF22 pic.twitter.com/ZbpSCjdlPB
— Whereas We Watched / नमस्कार मैं रवीश कुमार (@WhileWeWatched) September 18, 2022
The filmmaker mentioned journalists are the “foremost storytellers of our time”.
“I spent two years in Ravish’s newsroom, watching him construct his every day broadcast. Ravish and his crew would get some tales proper, some tales nearly. Watching him, I spotted that for each report that we see on the information, the journalist behind the report pays a value – an emotional, monetary, moral and psychological value.
“No story is simple, each story is private. This movie is about that non-public value that journalists pay to do their job proper. My movie would apply to any journalist who has stood their floor and chosen to file a narrative which was true to their beliefs. This movie is my love letter to journalism,” Shukla mentioned in an announcement.
Whereas We Watched is a UK manufacturing and is produced by LONO Studio and BRITDOC Movies.