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WINNER: Student Academy Award Film based on an infamous school poisoning in India “BITTU” is a film about the close friendship between two girls which is eclipsed by an accidental poisoning at school. In 2013, at least 23 students died, and dozens more fell ill at a primary school in India after eating lunch contaminated with pesticide. The incident was a moment of mundane carelessness that resulted in horrific consequences. Karishma Dev Dube’s “BITTU” was shot in the foothills of the Himalayas and is based on this tragic event. This important film recently won a Student Academy Award. BITTU has also been screened at The Mosaic International South Asian Film Festival (Canada). ....
‘THE RESEARCHER WHO TOOK ON BIG TECH AND WON’ – ‘Fast Company’ Story Title “10 BEST FILMS OF 2020” – The New York Times “Thought-provoking. ‘Coded Bias’ serves as both a wake-up call (to invasive practices the public doesn’t yet realize are being implemented) and a call to action.” – (Valerie Complex) VARIETY “CODED BIAS,” Shalini Kantayya’s feature documentary, premiered at the 2020Sundance Film Festival The film explores the fallout of MIT Media Lab researcher Joy Buolamwini’s startling discovery that facial recognition software does not see dark-skinned faces and faces of women accurately, she delves into an investigation of widespread bias in algorithms. As it turns out, artificial intelligence is not neutral, and women are leading the charge to ensure our civil rights are protected. Buolamwini starts her journey to push for the first-ever legislation in the U.S. to govern against bias in the algorithms that impact us all. Mo ....