25 Years In Films As Director, Writer And Actor | Nishanthi Evani, Director of Impure
How a filmmaker with 25 years in ad films, acting and streaming directed her first feature in 24 days with newcomers, and took it to festivals in Brazil, Kolkata and Jaipur and a people's choice award in Los Angeles. Nishanthi Evani, director of Impure, on what it takes to make an independent film in India.
She starts with how Impure happened: a bold script about a wedding called off because the bride is not a virgin, a producer who could not find a director, and the friends who turned up for her. Then the craft: why a film is 24 crafts, why most first scripts are flat, the ad that needed 65…
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