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Nisha Pahuja

Nisha Pahuja

Indian-Canadian filmmaker Nisha Pahuja was born in New Delhi and is based in Toronto. Her directing credits include Bollywood Bound (2002), Diamond Road (2007), The World Before Her (2012) and the NFB co-production To Kill a Tiger (2022), an Oscar nominee and the winner of 19 awards. The doc is about a farmer in India who demands justice for his 13-year-old daughter, a survivor of sexual assault. Pahuja’s respectful treatment of this disturbing subject matter focuses on the hurdles experienced by the main characters, foregrounding the protagonists’ courage above all else.

In addition to the Academy Award nomination, Pahuja’s work has received a host of other prestigious cinema honours, including a Grammy nomination, the Best Documentary Feature Award and the Jury Award at the Tribeca Film Festival, Best Canadian Feature Documentary at Hot Docs, and Canadian Screen Awards and Gemini Awards.

 

  • To Kill a Tiger
    To Kill a Tiger
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    Nisha Pahuja 2022 2 h 5 min
    On the night of a family wedding in a village in India, Ranjit’s 13-year-old daughter is abducted and sexually assaulted by three men. Ranjit takes on the fight of his life when he demands the men be brought to justice. With tremendous access to all facets of this story, To Kill a Tiger charts the emotional journey of an ordinary man thrown into extraordinary circumstances—a father whose love for his daughter forces a social reckoning that will reverberate for years to come.

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