Testimony Of Ana
SYNOPSIS Anaben Pawar is an elderly tribal woman accused of witchcraft in rural India. Through Ana's story, we delve into a deep-rooted culture of patriarchy and examine one of the most monstrous attacks on women's bodies in modern India: the witch-hunt.
RUNTIME 24'
COMPLETION DATE November 2020
COUNTRY OF ORIGIN India
SHOOTING FORMAT Digital
SCREENING FORMAT DCP
ASPECT RATIO 2.39:1
SOUND 5.1
LANGUAGE Dangi
the team
FEATURING Anaben Pawar
DIRECTOR, EDITOR Sachin Dheeraj
PRODUCERS Sachin Dheeraj, Janani Vijayanathan
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY Rohin Raveendran Nair
PRODUCTION SOUND Nilesh Jatwa
ASSISTANT CAMERA Alpesh Singh Jadeja
SOUND DESIGN Shreyank Nanjappa
SOUND MIXING Morgan Honaker
COLORIST Mahak Gupta
ASSOCIATE PRODUCER Utsav Chadha
LINE PRODUCER Roshan Saroliya
GRADING STUDIO Bridge PostWorks
EDITING SUPERVISOR Anne Lewis
TRANSLATORS Laxman Bagul, Sahil Bhoye, Nilesh Pawar
GRAPHIC DESIGNERS Clara Hill León, Utsav Chadha
PRODUCTION ASSISTANTS Umesh Bhoya, Hiralal Deshmukh, Ramesh Dhoom, Santosh Chaudhary, Pruthvi Bhoye, Akash Chaudhary
AWARDS
BEST NON-FEATURE FILM 68th National Film Awards of India (Swarna Kamal / Golden Lotus)
BEST SHORT DOCUMENTARY 13th International Documentary and Short Film Festival of Kerala
BEST SOUND EDITING 11th Annual Social Impact Media Awards
SPECIAL MENTION 15th SiGNS Film Festival of Kerala (Cinema of Resistance)
BEST SHORT FILM 7th Indie Meme Film Festival (Audience Choice Award)
BEST SOCIAL JUSTICE SHORT FILM 16th Tasveer South Asian Film Festival
Festivals
WORLD PREMIERE 28th Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival (29th April to 9th May 2021)
EUROPEAN PREMIERE 61st Kraków Film Festival (30th May to 6th June 2021)
SPANISH PREMIERE 20th Imagine India International Film Festival (24th September to 9th October 2021)
U.S. PREMIERE 16th Tasveer South Asian Film Festival (1st October to 24th October 2021)
U.K. PREMIERE 29th Raindance Film Festival (27th October to 6th November 2021)
MISSOURI PREMIERE 30th St. Louis International Film Festival (4th November to 21st November 2021)
HUNGARIAN PREMIERE 18th Verzió International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival (9th November to 21st November 2021)
NORWEGIAN PREMIERE 9th Nordic/Docs Documentary Film Festival (10th November to 14th November 2021)
TORUN PREMIERE 29th EnergaCAMERIMAGE International Film Festival (13th November to 20th November 2021)
ASIAN PREMIERE 13th International Documentary and Short Film Festival of Kerala (9th December to 14th December 2021)
SOUTH AMERICAN PREMIERE 9th International Documentary Film Festival, Buenos Aires (13th December to 20th December 2021)
FRENCH PREMIERE 35th Festival International de Programmes Audiovisuels (17th January to 23rd January 2022)
UKRAINIAN PREMIERE 19th Docudays UA International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival (25th March to 3rd April 2022) - POSTPONED due to the War
MUVATTUPUZHA PREMIERE 15th SiGNS Film Festival, Kerala (2nd April to 7th April 2022)
TEXAS PREMIERE 7th Indie Meme Film Festival (14th April to 17th April 2022)
ODISHA PREMIERE 3rd Indian Documentary Film Festival of Bhubaneswar (14th October to 16th October 2022)
Supported By
The Nicholas Cominos Award for Documentary Filmmaking
Dina Sherzer Award for Documentary Filmmaking
Austin Film Society Grant for Shorts Projects
Moody Innovation Grant for Pre-Thesis Film at UT Austin