The 96th Academy Awards is an upcoming ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), which will honor the best films of 2023, and is expected to take place at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, on March 10, 2024.
The ceremony, to be televised in the United States by ABC, will be produced by Raj Kapoor and Katy Mullan, with Hamish Hamilton serving as director. Comedian Jimmy Kimmel will host the show for the fourth time, following the 2017, 2018 and 2023 ceremonies.
Delhi-born Nisha Pahuja’s film ‘To Kill a Tiger’ has been nominated in the best feature documentary category for the Oscars 2024. She is a filmmaker based in Toronto and shot this in small village of Jharkhand, India. It has also won Amplify Voices award for Best Canadian Feature Film in Toronto International Film Festival 2022. And in total has 15 Awards in various fields like best editing, soundtrack, documentary etc.
She said that she learned about the honour along with the rest of the world while watching the live announcement, reported The Hollywood Reporter.
“I was in shock. I couldn’t believe it. I was over the moon. Yeah, I just couldn’t believe it,” Pahuja told The Hollywood Reporter about her emotional reaction.
“This film has work to do in the world,” commented Nisha about her documentary about an Indian farmer’s legal battle for his daughter after a brutal sexual assault. The film follows Ranjit’s uphill battle to find justice for his 13-year-old daughter, Kiran who was abducted and later sexually assaulted by three men. The documentary brings attention to heinous crime and the battle for justice.
Pahuja insisted on the determination to work on this film for the urgency of attention to this tough subject. She also hopes to change attitudes to legal justice for survivors of rape and other sexual violence around the world, especially in the U.S. and the UK where the conviction rates for those accused of rape remain stubbornly low and below those of the courts in India.
To Kill a Tiger is competing against other documentaries like The Eternal Memory, Four Daughters, Bobi Wine: The People’s President and 20 Days in Mariupol.
Watch the trailer : https://www.imdb.com/title/tt21688772/
