I met Paramita Nath a few months ago when we were classmates at the Summer Institute of Film and Television in Ottawa. We were both in Peter Wintonick’s Docology workshop and over the five days we were there, I got a glimpse of both her perfectionist side and her considerable charm. Near the end of the week, she let it slip that she had a completed short film that she might like some feedback on. Despite playing back on a small laptop screen, Found (review) knocked our socks off. On the last day of the workshop, she found out that it had been accepted by the Palm Springs Shortfest. Since then, the film has played several other US festivals and now, on the eve of Found’s hometown premiere at TIFF, I sat down to talk to her about her background and the experience of making her first short film.
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