Accolades & Press

Cynthia Lukas accepting the

Cynthia accepting the "Best Story" award at Santa Fe Film Festival, February 2023

KASTURBA GANDHI: Accidental Activist has garnered praise and these Film Festival Awards. More kudos: American Public Television has called it “excellent,” “insightful” and “ground-breaking.” Beginning on March 1, 2023, APT distributed it for broadcast on PBS stations, the largest audience for documentaries in the U.S. The PBS website estimates that over one year, 86% of all American TV households–or 211 million people–watch PBS. About 90% of the stations aired KASTURBA GANDHI in the first month.

Global Nonviolent Film Festival award
Art Film Spirit Awards Film Festival award
Santa Fe Film Festival award
Bostong Independent Film Festival award
LA Independent Women Film Festival award
Global Nonviolent Film Festival award
Tagore International Film Festival award
Tagore International Film Festival award
Tagore International Film Festival award
Tagore International Film Festival award
Tagore International Film Festival award
Toronto International Women's Film Festival Award

A few comments from audience members at the SNEAK PREVIEW in Detroit, Michigan, August 9, 2022:

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"I was stunned by what I didn't know." - K.B.

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"You have told a complex story artfully" - G.P.

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"Excellent. I hope all the world can see this soon." - J.N.

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"I see this film as a classic" - C.M.

Read the article: Kasturba Gandhi: Accidental Activist– Feature Documentary Feature Documentary by Will Espero, in Daria!, An Arts, Culture and Entertainment Magazine, October 2022

Read the article: Kasturba Gandhi: Accidental Activist in the Toronto Film Magazine, December 2022

Read the article: Documentary reveals the overlooked life of activist Kasturba Gandhi by Adrian Gomez, in Albuquerque Journal February 15, 2023

Support KASTURBA GANDHI Part II, about the second half of Kasturba Gandhi's amazing life. It's already in the making!