DIRECTION: Nishtha Jain
SCRIPT: Nishtha Jain, Deborah Matzner
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Rakesh Haridas
PRODUCTION: Fabien Greenberg, Nishtha Jain, Elize Kerseboom, Bård Kjøge Rønning, Morana Komljenovic, Neda Lukic, Irena Taskovski, Frank van den Engel, Zorana Vuckovic
EDITION: Alexander Goekjian, Nishtha Jain, Nairita Thakurata
MUSIC: Kenneth Ishak
Synopsis
Outside Kolkata, a few jute mills crank on, virtually unchanged since the industrial revolution. Powered by steam and sweat, work is a dance to the rhythms of the century-old machines. The Golden Thread follows the weft and warp of jute work, weaving the ‘fiber of the future’ with the dreams and desperations of its workers.
Internationally acclaimed filmmaker from Mumbai (India), known for awarded films like Gulabi Gang (2012) or Lakshmi and Me (2007), that interrogate lived experience at the intersection of gender, caste, and class. After postgraduate training at Jamia Mass Communication Research Centre, New Delhi, she pursued Film Direction at the Film and Television Institute of India, Pune.