About The Movement
The CAMPAIGN AGAINST CENSORSHIP is an action platform of over 300 Indian documentary filmmakers who came together in August 2003 to protest the attempt by the Ministry of Information & Broadcasting to make censor certificates a mandatory precondition for Indian documentaries entered into the Mumbai International Film Festival (MIFF2004).

The documentary film-making community saw through this apparently innocuous step, recognizing it as a part of a wider structure of control and repression, where the rights to free speech, dissent, and even creative expression are increasingly coming under threat in India.

In an unprecedented display of collective resistance filmmakers from across the country organized around the Campaign Against Censorship, and were successful in forcing the Ministry of Information & Broadcasting to drop its attempts to introduce censor certification for the festival.