Academy Crosses Borders To Deliver Varied List Of Best Feature Documentary Candidates
deadline.comOscar documentary branch voters can’t be accused of parochialism. They ventured far and wide to select their shortlist of feature documentaries for 2023, tapping films from countries as varied as a U.N.
roll call: Ukraine, Uganda, Poland, Denmark, Tunisia, Canada and the United States. To Kill a Tiger, one of the 15 finalists, unfolds in a village in the Indian state of Jharkhand.
Nisha Pahuja, who was born in India and raised in Canada, directed the film about a humble couple who fight for justice after their 13-year-old daughter is sexually assaulted by three men.
Before the shortlist was announced, Pahuja wondered whether doc branch members would embrace her documentary. “It’s a Canadian film, but it’s an Indian story,” she said, “and it’s subtitled.” Pahuja needn’t have worried.
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