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Kartiki Gonsalves (The Elephant Whisperers | Netflix)
Kartiki Gonsalves (The Elephant Whisperers | Netflix)
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Length:
36 minutes
Released:
Sep 29, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
Kartiki Gonsalves is the first Indian Film Director to have ever won an Academy Award in the history of India, which she received for her 2022 short film “The Elephant Whisperers”. Available on Netflix, this film follows a a couple in South India who devote their lives to caring for an orphaned baby elephant, forging a family like no other that tests the barrier between the human and the animal world. Kartiki shares with Tiller the experience of winning an Oscar (1:45), the origin of the film (5:30), the process of following her artistic instinct (11:05), intertwining the various love stories (16:40), finding the editorial structure (25:30), and the most special moment of the entire filmmaking process (31:00).
Released:
Sep 29, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode
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