Indian documentary The Elephant Whisperers bagged the Best Documentary Short Award on Monday morning on the ongoing ninety fifth Academy Awards. This makes it the primary Indian manufacturing to win beneath the class
Directed by Kartiki Gonsalves, the Netflix documentary competed alongside 4 different movies within the class: Haulout, How Do You Measure a Year?, The Martha Mitchell Effect and Stranger on the Gate.
While receiving the award, Kartiki mentioned, “I stand right here as we speak to talk for the sacred bond between us and our pure world, for the respect of indigenous communities, and empathy in direction of different residing beings we share area with and at last, for coexistence,” Gonsalves mentioned in her acceptance speech.”
She then thanked the Academy, the producer of the brief, Guneet Monga, and her household earlier than dedicating the win to her “motherland India”.
“Thank you to the Academy for recognising our movie, highlighting indigenous folks and animals. To Netflix for believing within the energy of this. To Bomman and Belli for sharing their sacred tribal knowledge. To Guneet, my producer. To my total crew and at last, to my mom, father and sister who’re up there someplace and you’re the centre of my universe, to my motherland India,” she mentioned.
The Elephant Whisperers depicts an unbreakable bond between two deserted elephants and their caretakers. It is produced by Guneet Monga and Achin Jain of Sikhya Entertainment.
Meanwhile, India’s nomination for the Best Documentary Feature, All That Breathes, misplaced the award to Navalny.