Sandhya Suri Reveals The Inspirations For UK Oscar Hopeful ‘Santosh’, The Impact Of The Sundance Labs & What’s Next
deadline.comDocumentarian and narrative filmmaker Sandhya Suri recalls being struck by an image taken during protests over the horrific gang rape and murder of Jyoti Singh by six men on a bus in Delhi. “In this photograph there was a line of female police officers standing against a crowd of ferociously angry women.
There was one police officer, and she has this amazing expression on her face, really enigmatic. Who is that woman, what is she thinking?
She has a police uniform that holds so much power especially in India,” she wondered. “What was it like to be her?” It was an idle thought at the time but which then took hold of the South London-based British-Indian filmmaker who wanted to make a film that focused on violence against women.
Following a decade of research and workshops at the Sundance Labs, Suri debuted Santosh, at this year’s Cannes Film Festival where it played in the Un Certain Regard strand.
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