Farming the Revolution takes us to the heart of the massive year-long protests against the
Indian government’s then newly enacted farm laws during the COVID lockdown. Over half
a million protesters gathered – men and women from all generations, religions, classes and
castes – and reinvented co-existence at massive protest sites that burgeoned on the borders
of Delhi. The film invites us to experience the everyday textures and indomitable spirit of this
historic farmers ’movement – until, finally, victory! 

Nishtha Jain is India's leading documentary filmmaker best known for her critically acclaimed films: The Golden Thread (2022), Gulabi Gang (2012), Lakshmi and Me (2007). Her latest film, Farming the Revolution (2024) premiered at Hot Docs and won the Best International Documentary Prize. Experiential and immersive, her documentaries are subjective, focus on the quotidian, and embrace the surprises and imperfections inherent in actuality.

Jain is a Chicken & Egg Award winner (2020); a Member of the Academy of Motion Pictures and Sciences (AMPAS); a Film Independent Global Media Maker Fellow (2019-20); and a Recipient of Fulbright-Nehru Academic and Professional Excellence Fellowship (2019).

Her films have been screened at over 250 film festivals including IDFA, Busan, Hot Docs, Zurich, Viennale et al. They have won numerous international awards. and have been written about in academic journals/books.

Jain's films have received support from the IDFA Bertha Fund, Sundance Documentary Fund, Sorfund, Alter Cine Foundation, Indian Foundation for the Arts and Chicken & Egg Pictures and they've been broadcast on Arte France, France TV, PBS, DR, NRK, YLE et al.

Jain has served as a juror at IDFA, Zurich, TIDF, Cinema Verité and IDSFFK. She’s presented her films at numerous universities including Stanford, NYU, Wellesley College, UCSB, Northwestern University, UT Austin, Cambridge University, University of London, St. Andrews University, Heidelberg, Danish Film School, FTII Pune, India, Satyajit Ray Film & TV Institute.

The screening is open to all. Everyone is invited. Mandatory for PSYC208(B) 

Note: No recordings are allowed during the session