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By Philip Mathew Cherupuzha: Sister Jisha Jiya is the first Catholic woman religious in India to direct and produce a feature film. The 39-year-old Medical Sister of St. Joseph made the film “Ente Vellithooval” (“My Silver Feather”) in Malayalam, the language of the southern Indian state of Kerala, where sheContinue Reading

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Cinema was not exactly Sr Jiya’s field of expertise. She never learnt the craft of film making, didn’t plan to be associated with the industry or even bothered to spend much time watching films. Yet here she is… as the writer-director of a full-length Malayalam feature film. ‘Ente Vellithooval’, the two-and-a-half hour long film which is allContinue Reading