CAST IN INDIA
Director & Producer: Natasha Raheja
2014 | 26 min
USA | India
Language: English
Iconic and ubiquitous, thousands of manhole covers dot the streets of New York City. Enlivening the everyday objects around us, this short film is a glimpse of the working lives of the men behind the manhole covers in New York City.
FESTIVALS & AWARDS
Special Mention, SIMA 2015
12th International Ethnofilm Festival – Heart of Slavonia
Material Culture Prize | Student Film Prize, Royal Anthropological Institute International Festival of Ethnographic Film
Jury Prize, The People’s Film Festival
Rainier Independent Film Festival
Workers Unite! Film Festival
Montclair Film Festival
ETHNOCINECA: Ethnographic and Documentary Film Fest Vienna
Grand Jury Prize, ETNOfilm: 7th International Ethnographic Film Festival
Grand Jury Prize, Dallas International Film Festival
Sebastopol Documentary Film Festival
CAMRA: Screening Scholarship Media Festival
FIFEQ: The International Film Festival of Quebec
Nominee, 30th Annual IDA Documentary Awards Ceremony
Athens Ethnographic Film Festival
Official Selection, DOC NYC Film Festival
World Premiere | Official Selection, Margaret Mead Film Festival