‘The Elephant Whisperers’ about a pair of elderly caretakers at a wildlife reserve in Tami Nadu, won the Best Documentary (Short) category at the Oscars. The event was held in Los Angeles on Sunday.
Kartiki Gonsalves’s film has been produced by Guneet Monga, who has previously co-produced the 2018 winner ‘Period. End of Sentence’.
In her acceptance speech, Gonsalves, who was flanked by Guneet Monga, said, “I stand here today to speak for the sacred bond between us and our natural world, for the respect of indigenous communities, and empathy towards other living beings we share space with and finally, for coexistence.” She dedicated her award to “my mother and India”.
Monga tweeted: “Two women did this! I am still shivering.”
The documentary is available on Netflix.
‘The Elephant Whisperers’, directed by Kartiki Gonsalves and produced by Guneet Monga, has won Best Documentary Short Subject at the 95th Academy Awards. The other four nominees in the category were ‘Haulout’, ‘The Martha Mitchell Effect’, ‘Stranger At The Gate’, and ‘How Do You Measure A Year?’. The Elephant Whisperers is the first Indian film to win an Oscar in this category and the third to be nominated after ‘The House That Ananda Built’ and ‘An Encounter With Faces’ which competed for Best Documentary Short in 1969 and 1979 respectively.
India is having an Oscar moment this year – in addition to ‘The Elephant Whisperers’, the globally viral ‘Naatu Naatu’ from SS Rajamouli’s blockbuster ‘RRR’ is nominated for Best Original Song, and filmmaker Shaunak Sen’s ‘All That Breathes’ was nominated in the Best Documentary Feature Film category, which was won by Navalny. All the nominees attended the Oscars with the bonus presence of actress Deepika Padukone who is a presenter, the third Indian star to present at the Oscars after Persis Khambatta and Priyanka Chopra. She introduced the live ‘Naatu Naatu’ performance on stage.
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