Suma Josson
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Suma Josson is an Indian-American journalist and filmmaker. Her documentary film Niyamgiri, You are still alive, on the ecological and human damage done by bauxite mining,[1] won a first prize in the Short Film, Environment category at the 2010 International Film Festival of India.[2][3]
She was born in Kerala, India and graduated in English Literature from the University of Minnesota, United States. She began her career as a journalist at Press Trust of India, and in 1992 switched over to the visual media.[4] She has made a number of documentary films. She has published three books: Poems and Plays, A Harvest of Light (a collection of plays), and Circumferences (a novel).[5]
Her debut film was Janmadhinam which won three state awards, and was screened at various international film festivals including the 1999 Berlin Festival.[citation needed] She was one of the five women filmmakers commissioned to make a documentary Trading Images on the subject 'women's space' in a German international coproduction.[citation needed] Saree is her second feature film.[citation needed]
