Prerana Thakurdesai

Check out this profile on Bitchitra Collective, documenting some of our major milestones. Each one of us 350+ Bitchitra has played a huge role in getting us where we are in such a short time. Here’s to more milestones in 2024! 👏🏾 Do read and share. moneycontrol.com/news/trends/en…

Bitchitra Collective's @VaishaliSinha and @preranatd were honored to attend the first ever #ColorCongress National Convening in Atlanta this September. A unique and wonderful meetup of many BIPOC industry leaders from across the nation in non-fiction indie filmmaking.

There are so many beautiful nuggets in this deep conversation about making independent distribution a political act. If you find yourself outside the corporatized structures that have engulfed the indie film industry, this is a healing read. @ArtSentient filmmakermagazine.com/121896-keisha-…

500 days in jail/bail in 3 cases/PSA order quashed. Still, Kashmiri journalist Fahad Shah is jailed in a 4th case for an article posted 11 yrs ago. We found no evidence linking the piece to an "increase in terrorism" in J&K, only assumptions/absurdities article-14.com/post/500-days-…

📣 New working paper on residential segregation in India. We’ve been working for 5 years on this. 8 facts about residential segregation in India, from new administrative data. The situation is not great 🧵 1/N

Lee Sung Jin’s ode to collaboration helped me take a breath today. latimes.com/entertainment-…

C’mon, break the two-party system, Uhmerica!!

Ethan’s ability to be vulnerable and open in front of a stranger is extremely endearing: Producer Prerana Thakurdesai of The Last Ecstatic Days -- by Vijayalakshmi Narayanan #FPJWeekendJournal #SundayRead #weekend #movie #story #filmmaker #producer freepressjournal.in/bollywood/etha…

India under Modi. 💔

The writers of your favorite movies and shows are workers just like you. They deserve your solidarity. jacobin.com/2023/05/writer…

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Two images capture this day. The Prime Minister inaugurates the new Parliament building. Less than a kilometre away, this is how our sportswomen seeking justice, facing a powerful politician accused of sexual harassment by multiple women, are treated. It is monstrous.

Is this the new parliament of the largest democracy? What are these uncountable non-elected priests doing inside? This parliament owes its allegiance to the Constitution of India, not religious institutions.

PSA Mosfilm has put of many of its most acclaimed films on YouTube for free, including six of Andrei Tarkovsky's films: Stalker, Solaris, Ivan's Childhood, The Mirror, Andrei Rublev, and The Passion According to Andrei.  kottke.org/23/05/watch-ta…

@KristalSotomayr @DorianAwards Congratulations!!

@SunaliniK Do share the exact words in the apology for public service.

One for the over-inquisitive employer, by a shayara, of course ;-) Kuraydta hai bahut raakh mere maazi ki,
Main chook jaoon to woh ungliyan jala lega (He digs too much into the ashes of my past,
If I make a tiny mistake he’d burn his fingers) - Aziz Bano Darab Wafa

On June 4, #NCSD2023, join us for a special screening of my film @ForeignPuzzle followed by a movement workshop by the film’s protagonist Sharon Marroquin, an award-winning modern dancer. RSVP: event.newschool.edu/cancersurvivor… #CelebrateLife #Artheals #cancersurvivor #dance

Ma peeps! ♥️

@amyyeewrites @aaja @CityLab Congratulations, Amy!!

Huge thanks to @AAJA for this award! Normally when one thinks of political reporting, powerful and wealthy politicians come to mind. But my midterm elections @CityLab article from swing state Pennsylvania was about upholding voting rights & mobilizing new, #immigrant voters.