Kartiki Gonsalves

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister, M.K. Stalin congratulated 'The Elephant Whispers' team for winning the Best Documentary Short Film award at the 95th Academy ...

Guneet Monga, the producer of the movie Elephant Whisperers while taking to twitter immediately after winning the Oscar said: "We just win the first ever Oscar for an Indian production! The 41-minute short documentary film was directed by Kartiki Gonsalves and produced by Guneet Monga. No better news to wake up to than two women bringing the first ever Oscar for an Indian production.

Shaunak Sen's All That Breathes, which made it to the nominees for Best Documentary Feature, lost to Russia's Navalny.

All That Breathes revolves around two brothers — Nadeem and Saud — whose lives in Delhi are dedicated to caring for birds at a makeshift basement hospital. For Guneet, my producer, Sikiya and Douglas Blush- my mentor to my entire team and finally mother, father and sister, who are up there somewhere - you are the centre of my universe and to my motherland India,” Kartiki further said in her acceptance speech. For Bomman and Bellie for sharing their tribal wisdom.

The couple named Bomman and Belli is entrusted with an orphaned baby elephant named Raghu The story tracks how a strong bond develops between the couple and ...

The couple named Bomman and Belli is entrusted with an orphaned baby elephant named Raghu. Thank you to the academy for recognising our film, highlighting indigenous people and animals." Her work is mainly focused on wildlife, environment and nature and she also explores themes connected to cultures, communities and their connections.

Meet the director behind the Oscar winning documentary 'The Elephant Whisperers'. Here's all you need to know about Kartiki Gonsalves.

And while Gonsalves is in the pursuit to make an impact on environmental and cultural issues through her work, she is also focussing her attention on bringing solutions to the existing challenges with her projects. Having grown up in the Nilgiris, Kartiki Gonsalves describes herself as a traveller and explorer. Much of it also came from her experience as a social documentary photojournalist and filmmaker.

India's 'The Elephant Whisperers' wins Oscars award for the Best Documentary Short Film.

To all the women watching….The future is audacious and the future is here. The Elephant Whisperers is the first Indian film to win an Oscar in this category and the third to be nominated after The House That Ananda Built and An Encounter With Faces which competed for Best Documentary Short in 1969 and 1979, respectively. “The Elephant Whisperers" depicts an unbreakable bond between two abandoned elephants and their caretakers. Earlier, two entries were set in India - "Smile Pinki" and "Period. After the big win, producer Guneet Monga took to her social media handle and thanked her parents. For the respect of indigenous communities.

The Elephant Whisperers won at the Oscars 2023. Know all about director Kartiki Gonsalves who dedicated the award to India.

For Kartiki, the focus of the documentary was to highlight the bond between man and nature. "It was a correlation of a lot of years of storytelling and photography," she had said. Talking about the documentary, Kartiki had told HT, "While most films have focused more on humans being cured by a bond with an animal, humans being harmed by wild animals or wild animals suffering from human expansion into their territory, The Elephant Whisperers lets viewers understand both the elephant and the human carers with minimal, outside interpretation. [Kartiki Gonsalves on The Elephant Whisperers](https://www.hindustantimes.com/entertainment/others/interview-kartiki-gonsalves-on-the-elephant-whisperers-oscars-nom-and-more-101675162431777.html)) [The Elephant Whisperers](https://www.hindustantimes.com/topic/documentary-film), a Tamil documentary directed by Kartiki Gonsalves, won the Oscar in the Best Documentary Short Film category. Know all about director Kartiki Gonsalves who dedicated the award to India.

Los Angeles, Mar 13: As short documentary 'The Elephant Whisperers' brought home an Oscar, its director Kartiki Gonsalves credited her "motherland India" for ...

Thank you to the academy for recognising our film, highlighting indigenous people and animals." Kartiki is the daughter of Timothy Gonsalves, former founder director of IIT Mandi. Timothy Gonsalves is the son of Alan Gonsalves who is the son of Monica Gonsalves, the daughter of PFX Saldanha.

Kartiki Gonsalves directed The Elephant Whisperes, the documentary that bagged an Oscar 2023 award. But did you know, Golsalves is also a photographer?

It was nominated in the Documentary Short Film Category alongside Haul Out, How Do You Measure A Year, The Martha Mitchell Effect, and Stranger At The Gate. I count this journey as a blessing that Kartiki came into my life and brought Bomman, Billie and of course the Gentle Giants Raghu and Ammu along with her.(sic)” She added, “Kartiki has spent the last five years living alongside Bommon, Billie and the Elephants, uncovering the extraordinary story of two caregivers, who despite all odds, saved an orphaned baby elephant. Through her work, she has aimed at focusing on two major aspects - one is the environment, nature and wildlife, where she seeks to raise awareness about the marvellous diversity of nature and wildlife and the importance of conservation. The other, our cultures, communities and their connection.(sic)” The magic was created by two women- Guneet Monga and Kartiki Gonsalves.

Oscars: The plot of the documentary revolves around a family who adopts two orphan baby elephants in Tamil Nadu's Mudumalai Tiger Reserve.

To Guneet my Producer and my entire team and finally, to my mother father and sister who are up there somewhere, you're the centre of my universe. In 2019, Guneet Monga's documentary Period. For the respect of indigenous communities.

'The Elephant Whisperers' bagged an Oscar in the Best Documentary Short category. Kartiki Gonsalves gave a moving speech after the big win.

She also went on says, "Thank you to the academy for recognizing our film highlighting indigenous people and animals. Because the truth is worth it.) [The Elephant Whisperers](https://www.thequint.com/entertainment/cinema/the-future-is-female-guneet-monga-on-the-elephant-whisperers-kartiki-gonsalves-oscar-win) bagged the Oscar for the [Best Documentary Short film category](https://www.thequint.com/entertainment/cinema/oscars-2023-the-elephant-whisperers-wins-best-documentary-short-film). The director gave a moving speech regarding the motivations behind the film and dedicated the award to India. For the respect of indigenous communities. And finally for co-existence."

Gonsalves's The Elephant Whisperers uses a tender family dynamic to explore climate change, shrinking animal habitats and our warped perception of the wild.

Both films focus on the kindness of humans trying to give animals (in Sen’s film, black kites from the skies of Delhi) a new lease of life. It’s a question that the humans in The Elephant Whisperers embody. “I think this is our opportunity, as humans, to think of animals as something more than the ‘other’. In 2017, while driving back from Bengaluru to her hometown Ooty, a hill station in the Western Ghats of southern India, Gonsalves saw a caregiver giving a young calf called Raghu a bath. The elephant is considered both a religious figure in Indian folklore and a marauding wild animal. Raghu is at the heart of this documentary directed by Kartiki Gonsalves that uses a tender family dynamic in the middle of an Indian forest reserve to comment on climate change, shrinking animal habitats and our warped perception of the wild.

New Delhi, Mar 13 (PTI) One is a debutante director and the other a seasoned producer. Together, Kartiki Gonsalves and Guneet Monga spun Oscar magic to ...

In the same interview, Gonsalves said a vast country like India had stories flourishing in every nook and cranny. “Congratulations to @EarthSpectrum, @guneetm and the entire team of ‘The Elephant Whisperers’ for this honour. The world is acknowledging that and it needs better structure, better funding. Sikhya Entertainment, the production house co-owned by Monga and Jain, is billed as a homegrown film studio with a global footprint. She also supported “Bittu”, a 17-minute film set on the day of the 2013 Bihar school meal poisoning when 23 children died, as executive producer. New Delhi, Mar 13 (PTI) One is a debutante director and the other a seasoned producer.

Oscars 2023 turned out to be great for India as it wins in Best Documentary Short Film and Best Originals Song at the 95th Academy awards.

The movie focuses on the bond between Raghu, an orphaned elephant and his caretakers, who devoted their whole life protecting him from preachers and raised him as their own child. However, the love for nature was passed on from her grandmother, who was an amateur naturalist. Check all the details about the director Kartiki Gonsalves

Meet the two women behind the Oscar-winning short documentary 'The Elephant Whisperers'. Kartiki Gonsalves, left, and Guneet Monga pose with the award for best ...

She is also one of the first women to be selected in India as a Monga soon became the breadwinner of the family, as her mother craved a more affluent life. She has also travelled across the country, to document the lives of indigenous communities and their contribution to preserving the ecosystem. But a film directed and produced by Indian women bagging an Oscar is nothing short of historic. However, in a cruel stroke of fate, both of them passed away before the house was ready. Due to a property dispute, her family was allotted just one room in her ancestral house and her mother was subjected to domestic abuse. A labour of love, ‘The Elephant Whisperers’ took five years to be made. She has worked as a camera operator for Animal Planet and the Discovery Channel. She eventually earned enough money to buy a house for her parents. She wrote, “ Tonight is historic as this is the first-ever Oscar for an Indian production. Her directorial debut ended up bagging an Oscar in the Best Documentary Short category. Monga, who produced the movie, took to Instagram to celebrate this momentous occasion.

New Delhi, Mar 13 (PTI) One is a debutante director and the other a seasoned producer. Together, Kartiki Gonsalves and Guneet Monga spun Oscar magic to ...

In the same interview, Gonsalves said a vast country like India had stories flourishing in every nook and cranny. “Congratulations to @EarthSpectrum, @guneetm and the entire team of ‘The Elephant Whisperers’ for this honour. The world is acknowledging that and it needs better structure, better funding. Sikhya Entertainment, the production house co-owned by Monga and Jain, is billed as a homegrown film studio with a global footprint. She also supported “Bittu”, a 17-minute film set on the day of the 2013 Bihar school meal poisoning when 23 children died, as executive producer. New Delhi, Mar 13 (PTI) One is a debutante director and the other a seasoned producer.