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Vaishnavi Sundar, activist filmmaker

Activist #womeninfilm from around the world are my major online blessings.  Vaishnavi Sundar, from  Chennai, India, is one of these. We met when she supported t he open letter to Cannes that a group of us circulated a couple of months ago and then wrote about the letter for her Women Making Films site, ' an online platform with an offline collaboration model. Women come together, create' .  Vaishnavi's Lime Soda company has made a group of short films and docos and her  Aage Jake Left   ( Go Ahead and Take Left ) has been selected for this year's London Feminist Film Festival.  Vaishnavi is currently crowd-funding for her But What Was She Wearing ?, exposing Indian policies of workplace sexual harassment, with an all-women crew. WW You started out in a completely different field. What made you pivot towards film? Was there an 'inciting incident'? VS No, there was no inciting incident, but a lot of clues from the universe. I have ...