Sunil Sadarangani

As they scan their Emmy nomination ballots, TV Academy voters are considering a number of travel-themed series for recognition, among them The Reluctant Traveler with Eugene Levy, and On a Quest: with Jaswant. The latter show, written, directed and starring Nepal-born Jaswant Dev Shrestha, is the…

UPDATED with minor clarifications from Martiros Vartanov. The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures is shining a spotlight on one of the most revered filmmakers in cinema history. On Friday evening the museum in Los Angeles will screen a restored version of visionary Armenian filmmaker and poet Sergei…

Canadian director Vincent René-Lortie's film Invincible tells the story of the last 48-hours of a 14-year old boy's life as he grapples with self-destructive impulses while still yearning for his freedom from mental health struggles. Shortlisted for the Oscars in the Live Action Short Film category, the…

In Varun Chopra's Oscar-contending documentary short Holy Cowboys, the director offers a peek into a side of India's societal structure on how the cow, a sacred and holy animal to the majority Hindu population, is being protected from slaughter by a growing group of Hindu nationalists. Winner of the Grand…

Pakistani-American documentary filmmaker and political activist Mohammed Ali Naqvi's Primetime Emmy-nominated film The Accused: Damned or Devoted? has been called a "scarily acute portrait of how religion and politics intersect" by the U.K.'s Telegraph.  Nominated for Exceptional Merit in Documentary…

There is a raw, dangerous yet distinctly unapologetic demeanor to the grainy archival footage in the documentary film The Stroll, now streaming on HBO, where transgender sex workers bravely walk the streets of New York City and solicit potential customers cruising by in their cars. Winner of the Special…

Indian Matchmaking could be a match for Emmy voters. Season 2 of the Netflix series is up for consideration as Outstanding Unstructured Reality Program, following season 1’s nomination in that same category. Season 3 of  the show, which premiered on Netflix last month, takes audiences to the U.K. for the…

The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures wraps up its 10-day major retrospective of filmmaker Lourdes Portillo's work later today, with a screening of her 2001 documentary Missing Young Woman (Señorita Extraviada).  For over four decades, the Mexican-born, Chicana-identified Portillo has crafted nuanced…

Culinary super tastemaker Padma Lakshmi is once again in the running for Emmys, both for Bravo's Top Chef and her Hulu series Taste the Nation. Over her years of hosting and executive producing Top Chef, she has earned 14 Emmy nominations herself, but victory has remained, tantalizingly, just beyond her…

For India's Oscar nominees, awards season has brought excitement, triumph and no doubt regular bouts of jet lag as they hop from one distant time zone to another. The South Asian country has seen three of its films earn Academy recognition — All That Breathes (Best Documentary Feature), The Elephant Whispe…

When the Oscar nominations for Best Documentary Feature were announced last year, a big underdog made the cut: Writing with Fire. The film lacked both a major U.S. distributor and streaming partner. It hailed from India, a country with a vast narrative filmmaking tradition, but less of an imprint in…