Oscar-Nominated Docs: Writing With Fire

The Brian Lehrer Show | Feb 22, 2022

Sushmit Ghosh and Khabar Lahariya, directors of the documentary "Writing With Fire"- nominated in the best feature-length documentary category - about India's only women-run newspaper in India, as it moves from print to digital and its impact expands, join to discuss their film.

→"Writing With Fire" makes its television debut on PBS’s INDEPENDENT LENS at 10pm on Monday, March 28.

Click here for interviews with other Oscar-nominated documentary filmmakers.

→Hear interviews with all five nominees in this category here. 

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