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Introduction to Documentary Writing by Alka Raghuram
Do you have a story that won’t leave you alone? A memory, a question, a person you can’t stop thinking about, a truth that feels urgent…
Junoon Labs’ 4-Week Documentary Writing Intensive is an in-person development lab designed to help you move from idea to articulation — shaping a documentary concept with structure, voice, stakes, and ethical intention.
Alka Raghuram is an award winning Bay Area based filmmaker and a multidisciplinary artist. She has made several fiction, experimental, and documentary films. Her feature documentary Burqa Boxers, about Muslim women boxers in Kolkata, was awarded the Director Of The Year award at the IDF Forum, Westlake International Documentary Festival, and also the top prize, Grant Open Doors, at the Locarno Film Festival co-production market. Burqa Boxers was distributed via MUBI until the end of 2023. She was awarded the L’Oreal Woman of Worth Filmmaker Award at Tribeca All Access for her script The Conqueror. Currently she is in advance development for her debut fiction film In The Ring, and documentary “Naksha Paani (Face of Water).