RATTAPALLAX, INCORPORATED

Rattapallax, Inc. is a not-for-profit organization focused on documentary films, poetry, and transmedia storytelling. Rattapallax is the producer of the augmented reality comic book, Priya’s Shakti comic book series which received the Tribeca Film Institute New Media Fund from the Ford Foundation and supported by the World Bank, and showcased at 2016 New York Film Festival. For creating India’s first female superhero who is a rape survivor, the project was named a “gender equality champion” by UN Women. The series has over 26 million readers and over 800 news stories. Rattapallax produced The Russian Woodpecker, which won the Grand Jury Prize at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival and nominated or won at Independent Spirit Awards, International Documentary Association, Cinema Eye Honors, Biografilm Festival, Greenwich Film Festival, Sheffield International Documentary Festival, and many others. The film was purchased by Amazon and shown in commercial theaters in New York City and Los Angeles. Rattapallax’s most recent film, The Karma Killings, about the Nithari serial killings in Noida was out exclusively on Netflix worldwide. The Karma Killings is hailed as “true crime watershed moment” in India (Arré). Rattapallax has set up and run dozens of documentary, comic book, and transmedia workshops in Kabul, Kathmandu, Mumbai, New York City, Bengaluru, São Paulo, Ahmedabad, Beijing, San Francisco, Chennai, Brisbane, and many other cities.