‘The Elephant Whisperers’: From the wild to the West

Updated On: 20 January, 2023 07:49 AM IST | Mumbai | Uma Ramasubramanian

Guneet, whose documentary The Elephant Whisperers is shortlisted at the Oscars, on how it has brought attention to south India’s Kattunayakan community

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Guneet Monga

Producer Guneet Monga is no stranger to the Oscars. In 2019, Period. End of Sentence, on which she served as an executive producer, bagged the Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Subject. Four years on, her documentary The Elephant Whisperers has been shortlisted for the 95th Academy Awards. The shortlist comes as a huge validation to the producer, who says she has been nothing but “a dreamer”. She begins, “I come from nowhere. Also, producers in India are like financiers. So, it has been about discovering one story at a time, and backing it. The Oscar is the biggest film award in the world. If The Elephant Whisperers gets nominated, I will officially be an Academy-nominated producer. To win the Oscar will be surreal.”

The Elephant Whisperers