sacks of rice with a camera that costs more than they make in several years.
S K: You trained at Bhartendu Natya Academy, Lucknow, the Indian national drama school in India. Why did you decide to take yourself there? What were you going to get there?
R J: I had kind of a peculiar career trajectory. It wasn’t about going to India. I went to West Africa and that’s where I started, in Kenya. I was really interested in African filmmakers. It was purely the discovery of filmmaking and I thought, I might want to write about film or be a critic. I really didn’t know.
S K: What was it about the filmmaking tradition there that was so enticing for you?
R J: I think it was the pace of it and the world that was being described in it. I had seen couple of Kenyan’s films. I saw that there was just a whole other thing going on. I was really curious about it, probably