With This Ring
Directed By
Ameesha Joshi
At a wedding on New Years Eve, 3 desperate, single women make a vow to get married within a year or else marry the fallback guy.
- ABOUT
- BIO
With This Ring follows the meteoric rise of three Indian women who sidestep traditional roles to become world champion boxers. Worried that boxing will disfigure their faces and hurt their chances of getting married, their parents are reluctant to embrace their chosen careers. Boxing becomes their lifeline, their source of income, their community, and ultimately what rips them apart.
Ameesha Joshi has a B.A. in Psychology and worked as a UX designer in the software industry for 7 years before turning her full attention towards filmmaking. She has an M.F.A in Film Production and has written and directed several short fiction and documentary films that have screened in film festivals around the world. Her first feature film, With This Ring (2016) a documentary ten years in the making is about champion women boxers from India. It recently won Best Emerging Director Award at the Asian American International Film Festival in New York and Best Documentary at the New Jersey Indian International Film Festival. Her work is often inspired by her Indian heritage and she wants to create stories about complex characters with diverse cultural backgrounds that avoid clichés.
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