‘Anuja’ Director Adam J. Graves On Creating An Empathetic Tale Of Two Sisters In Oscar-Nominated Short
deadline.comEditors note: Since solidifying its place on the Oscar shortlist and being nominated for Best Live Action Short Film, Anjua is now streaming on Netflix.
Check out Deadline’s interview with writer-director Adam J. Graves that originally published in December 2024. In Adam J. Graves and Suchitra Mattai’s Anuja, resilience in the face of hardship is the central heartbeat.
The short film, doubling as both a heartwarming tribute to sisterhood and as a social awareness campaign about the effects of unchecked child labor, focuses on Anuja (Sajda Pathan), a young girl who lives with her older sister, Palak (Ananya Shanbhag), in Delhi, India as they live in poverty working long hours at a garment factory.
One day, when a social worker (Gulshan Walia) arrives at the factory to expose the overseer for working Anuja illegally, he proposes that the youngster take part in an exam that will get her into a boarding school to better her chances of escaping her station.
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