CAA Signs ‘Writing With Fire’ Directors Rintu Thomas and Sushmit Ghosh (EXCLUSIVE)
Selome Hailu editorCAA has signed documentary filmmakers Rintu Thomas and Sushmit Ghosh, directors of “Writing With Fire,” which won an audience award and special jury award at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival, and was just nominated for best feature honors by the International Documentary Assn.CAA will also represent Black Ticket Films, the social justice-focused production company Thomas and Ghosh founded in 2009.“Writing With Fire,” Thomas and Ghosh’s feature debut, tells the story of Khabar Lahariya, a female-run newspaper in northern India whose journalists are all Dalit, the lowest group in the Hindu caste system.