Rough Edges, with support from the Sher-Gil Sundaram Arts Foundation, has instituted Subtext Artistic Research Fellowships that facilitate in-depth and insightful explorations of myriad complex and intimate relationships and connections between gendered realities and varied forms of documentary film practice, storytelling, politics, histories and spectatorship.

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Open to women, trans and queer researchers, artists and practitioners, the fellowships will involve research, enquiry, analysis and the creation of varied artistic material around the Indian documentary, from diverse locations. The outcomes would be as much about the making of new pieces and forms that amalgamate archival and original material, as offering critique, readings and commentaries on existing films and practices.​

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Five fellowships have been awarded in 2026:

ANSH (qabeer) sharma

nawa fatima and zoya fatima

oshee johri

parul kunkal

rinI

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