DOMESTIC HELP
India 2023 / 21′
a film by
Raveesh Jaiswal
with
Avantika Akerkar
Ghanshyam Lalsa
Based on the play by
Julianne Jigour
Screenplay | Raveesh Jaiswal |
Director of Photography | Prateek Pamecha |
Costume Design | Prachi Sharma |
Editor | Ratnesh Mishra Jeet Sorap |
Composer | Rohan-Rohan |
Sound | Lochan Kanvinde Gandhar Mokashi Alok Kotian |
Producer | Shilpa Lakshminarayan Raveesh Jaiswal Jeet Sorap |
Executive Producer | Jeet Sorap |
Production | Bombay Theatre Company Crew It Up |
Distribution | Esen Studios |
OFFICIAL SELECTIONS
- Bangalore International Short Film Festival (India)
Oscar Qualifying Festival - IDSFFK – International Documentary and Short Film Festival of Kerala (India)
Oscar Qualifying Festival - IFFSA Toronto (Canada)
- Fort Smith International Film Festival (USA)
Raveesh Jaiswal
Raveesh Jaiswal has worked in the theatre for over 15 years as an actor, director, producer and writer. He has been a part of over 40 English plays. He is a self-taught filmmaker and ‘Domestic Help’ is his first film as a director and producer. He has trained at Stagecraft Theatre, Nagpur, India & International School of Screen Acting, London. He holds a Masters’ Degree in Human Resources Management & Labour Relations from Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai. In 2021, he founded his theatre & film production company in Mumbai called ‘Bombay Theatre Company’. He successfully got an investor on board to fund the company’s film and theatrical projects and raised significant amount of funding to produce ‘Domestic Help’.
Director statement
I am based in Mumbai, India and the writer, Julianne Jigour is based in Los Angeles, USA. At the height of the pandemic, we collaborated to stage virtual plays on Instagram and thus discovered that one of Julianne’s play scripts can actually be made into a beautiful film. We have never met in person but are proud and happy to present to you “Domestic Help”.
The film is an artistic tribute to my favourite film-makers: Abbas Kiarostami, Sidney Lumet and my fellow Indians, Satyajit Ray, Mira Nair & Shekhar Kapur.