Indian Women Cinematographer Collective

21st April 2020 Indian Women Cinematographers Collective is shocked to learn that Masrat Zahra, a 26-year-old photojournalist from Srinagar has been charged under the draconian UAPA for “uploading anti-national posts (on Facebook) with criminal intentions to induce the youth and promote offense against public tranquility”. This stringent law allows the government to designate individuals...

16th December 2019 We, the undersigned members of Indian Women Cinematographer’s Collective are writing this letter in solidarity with the students of Jamia Millia Islamia and Aligarh Muslim University in their protest against the discriminatory CAA and NRC. Since 13th Dec 2019 disturbing images and videos have surfaced showing the police brutally targeting students...

Women cinematographers: Through a more equal lens A new collective seeks to draw attention to the work of Indian women cinematographers When she was starting out as a cinematographer in the early 1960s, Brianne Murphy, the first female director of photography (DoP) to work on a major American studio picture, found that the mispronunciation...

IWCC – Celebrating Women Cinematographers Women have today rattled the glass ceiling in fields that were generally perceived to be male-dominated. You name it, and there’s a woman or several women leading. Cinematography is one such field, an integral part of the film industry, where the presence of women is getting noticed. Being a...