Testimony of Ana Synopsis
Anaben Pawar is an elderly tribal woman accused of witchcraft in rural India. Through Ana’s story, we delve into a deep-rooted culture of patriarchy and examine one of the most monstrous attacks on women’s bodies in modern India: the witch-hunt.
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About the Filmmaker
Sachin is a DGA Student Award-winning filmmaker who studied at The University of Texas at Austin as part of their MFA program in Film & Media Production. His work has been screened at prestigious film festivals such as Hot Docs, Raindance, EnergaCAMERIMAGE, and Krakow. He strives to tell stories that demand an urgent conversation and seeks to engage with people, places, and communities that are slowly disappearing. He aims to affirm their existence through cinema by preserving their lives and memories.
His pre-thesis film, TESTIMONY OF ANA, won the National Film Award (Swarna Kamal/Golden Lotus) for the Best Non-Feature Film issued by the Government of India and was qualified for the 95th Academy Awards in the Best Documentary Short category. The film also secured distribution on reputed platforms such as MUBI and Kinoscope.
He received the prestigious President’s Award for Global Learning at UT Austin and the Austin Film Society Grant in 2020.
Sachin won the competitive Panavision New Filmmaker Program Equipment Grant and the UT Graduate Continuing Fellowship (an award given to support the final year of an outstanding graduate student) to implement his MFA thesis project, MEN IN BLUE, which was shortlisted for the 2023 Yugo BAFTA Student Awards.
More From the Filmmaker
Website: https://www.kinostreetfilm.com/films/testimony-of-ana
Instagram: @kinostreet_official
Key Roles / Shout Outs
PRODUCER: Janani Vijayanathan
CINEMATOGRAPHER: Rohin Raveendran Nair
PRODUCTION SOUND Nilesh Jatwa
ASSISTANT CAMERA Alpesh Singh Jadeja
SOUND DESIGN Shreyank Nanjappa
SOUND MIXING Morgan Honaker
COLORIST Mahak Gupta