Director, Sindha Agha, and female lead production company, The Corner Shop, have created a short film for MTV that brings an authentic insight into the Pain Gap – a bias in the medical community that leads to women’s pain being under researched, misdiagnosed, mistreated and/or untreated.
The Waves, inspired by the words of Virginia Woolf, finds women engaged in familiar rituals of surviving and concealing chronic pain. It brings to the fore the suffering society has historically looked away from and is a testament to women’s strength.
Sindha Agha is an Emmy-nominated director, writer and visual artist, who is known for her viral, vibrant work. She kicked off her career by writing and directing Birth Control Your Own Adventure, which was acquired by The New York Times and quickly reached 12.5 million organic views. It was nominated for a 2019 News & Documentary Emmy and accepted into Tribeca and Palm Springs Film Festivals as a part of their official selection. Agha has since been awarded two separate Sundance Institute fellowships, won the Cannes Lions Gold Young Director Award, won Best Episodic at Tribeca X, directed two seasons of her striking series, Body Language for BBC Three, contributed to Radiolab, The New Yorker, Vox and The Atlantic, created the series, Twenty Ten Twenty-Five, for the Academy of American Poets and the Mellon Foundation and directed a short film for The Wellcome Trust.
The Waves will run across all linear, social and digital platforms within MTV Entertainment Group (MTV, VH1, Comedy Central, Paramount Network, CMT, Logo, Smithsonian Channel, PopTV, TVLand) throughout the month of March.
Credits:
Director: Sindha Agha
Production Company: The Corner Shop
Founder: Anna Hashmi
Executive Producer: Tess Mitchell, Katie Taylor
Producer: Tara Trangmar
Production Manager: Siona Davis
Production Coordinator: Katie Scott
Location Assistant: Tom Page
@smithsonianchannel The Waves, a short film inspired by the words of Virginia Woolf, finds women engaged in familiar rituals of surviving and concealing chronic pain. Though filmmaker Sindha Agha compels us to turn our gaze toward the suffering society has historically looked away from, her work is ultimately a testament to women’s strength— and a celebration of all the ways they survive and thrive. #womenshistorymonth ♬ original sound – Smithsonian Channel
1st AD: Carlotta Beck Peccoz
2nd AD: Sylvia Notermans Piattoni
DOP: Natasha Duursma
1st AC: Ali Baines
2nd AC: Rory Power
Steadycam Op: Gary Kent
Gaffer: Joe Sherno
Sparks: Peter Piotrek & Freddie Gregorian
Lighting Trainee: Felix Sherno
Art Director: Kat Hawker
Art Assistants: Joshua Brooks & Lea Emmery
Wardrobe: Lauren Rucha
Hair & MUA: Kayla Selway
Editing: Raine Keene
Post House: Work Editorial
Colour: Primary
Colourist: Ale Amato
Sound: Paramount
