January 2019
Over the past five to six years, Indian cinema has been increasingly enriched by narrative features and documentaries coming out of Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland, Sikkim and Mizoram. It is still only a trickle, but it is a trickle that is slowly but steadily gathering momentum.
It is never easy being an uncompromisingly independent filmmaker anywhere in India. But nowhere is it more difficult than in the Northeast. Several of the states there have no filmmaking facilities or movie screens. What they do have, however. . .
