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Respondent, "To Kill a Tiger," a film on sexual assault in India, by Nisha Pahuja, Loyola Marymount University

Panel Respondent to “To Kill a Tiger,” a film about sexual assault in India, and globally. The film maker will be present, and will speak to the film.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt21688772/

ABOUT THE FILMMAKER

Nisha Pahuja is an Oscar®, Peabody, Grierson and Emmy nominated
filmmaker. Her latest film, To Kill a Tiger has garnered 29 awards including the
Amplify Voices Award for Best Canadian Feature Film at TIFF, 2022, the Best
Documentary Feature, Palm Springs International Film Festival, three Canadian
Screen awards and the DGC Allan King Award for Best Documentary Feature,
2023. The film grew out of a long career of addressing various human rights
issues, notably violence against women in India. In 2015, she won the Amnesty
International media award for Canadian journalism after making a short film
about the Delhi bus gang rape for Global News. Pahuja’s other past credits
include the multi-award-winning The World Before Her, the series Diamond Road
and the feature documentary Bollywood Bound. In 2024, Pahuja was invited to be
a Member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

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