Docedge Kolkata

Varun Trikha’s DocedgeKolkata pitch for his project Shape of Silence centres around congenitally blind wildlife sound recordist Izabela who has spent 15 years listening and engaging with the forests of Poland. “The portrayal of disabled people in cinema is often one dimensional,” Trikha tells BDE. “With this film, I want to film her as a person with autonomy, with emotional depth, with all her struggles and joys, with all her vulnerabilities as well.”

For over two decades, DocedgeKolkata has been the launchpad for some of the most ground-breaking South Asian documentaries. “Stories start travelling the moment you pitch, moving into markets and forging connections. It's a paradigm shift in terms of accessing finance and eventually bringing resources on board,” Docedge’s Nilotpal Majumdar tells BDE during the event’s 22nd roll-out.