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Priyanka Chopra Jonas joins the documentary as executive producer
Netflix has acquired the Oscar-nominated documentary “To Kill a Tiger.”
The film, about a father’s search for justice in rural India, premiered at the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival and received best documentary at the 2023 Palm Springs International Film Festival. a tiger” has so far been the only film this year nominated for the Oscar for best documentary feature film without distribution.
Directed and written by New Delhi-born director Nisha Pahuja (“The World Before Her”), the 127-minute film chronicles the emotional journey of Ranjit, a Jharkhand farmer, who forces a social reckoning after his 13-year-old daughter is the victim of a gang rape.
Varieties Film critic Siddhant Adlakha wrote in his review of “To Kill a Tiger” that the documentary “is a powerful and daring example of the vitality of modern nonfiction filmed in South Asia. It joins recent films such as “Everything That Breathes,” “Against the Tide,” “As We Watch” and “A Night Knowing Nothing,” which fill the narrative gaps too often left in conventional Indian fiction, while also they adopt (and in many cases) forms, revitalizing: the visual language of traditional drama.”
The sale marks Netflix’s latest independent documentary acquisition. After a two-year slowdown, Netflix began actively purchasing independently made documentaries that don’t focus on crime or celebrities during the 2024 Sundance Film Festival. In Park City, the streamer snapped up “Skywalker’s” , a non-fiction film about a couple Angela Nikolau and Ivan Beerkus who bond over their love of climbing tall buildings. Netflix also bought “Ibelin,” a documentary about a Norwegian player named Mats Steen, who died of a degenerative muscle disease at the age of 25, and “Daughters,” about a show that allows young girls to participate in a special dance with their imprisoned. parents.
For the past six months, “To Kill a Tiger” executive producers Mindy Kaling and Dev Patel have been actively promoting the film. This month, Priyanka Chopra Jonas also joined the project as an executive producer.
Pahuja, who spent eight years making “To Kill a Tiger,” said Variety in January that the decision to include celebrities in the project was “deliberate.”
“I felt like this was a film that could have an impact and create a tangible, measurable change in the world in terms of attitude and also legal repercussions,” says Pahuja. “But I also knew it was a difficult topic and it was subtitled, so I thought if I didn’t get people on board to help me amplify this, I wouldn’t do the work I could do. It’s not going to turn out the way you need it to. So it was a very deliberate and delicate decision on my part to get support.”
“To Kill a Tiger” was co-produced by Notice Pictures and the National Film Board of Canada. Along with Patel and Kaling, the documentary’s executive producers were Andy Cohen of AC Films Inc, Anita Lee, Atul Gawande, Andrew Dragoumis of NFB, Samarth Sahni of Minor Realm, Deepa Mehta and Shivani Rawat of ShivHans Pictures.
Executive producers include Chopra Jonas, Patel, Kaling, Rupi Kaur, Andy Cohen, Anita Lee, Atul Gawande, Andrew Dragoumis, Shivani Rawat, Mona Sinha (Equality Now), Mala Gaonkar (Surgo Foundation), Regina Scully, Anita Bhatia, Niraj Bhatia. and Deepa Mehta.
Patel’s company, Minor Realm, was founded in 2021 with the mission to “nurture and develop voices and talents that too often go unrecognized in the creative landscape of commercial storytelling.”