Holy Cowboys won first prize in the Short documentary category at the 40th Flickers Rhode Island International Film Festival held from August 8-14, 2022.

Holy Cowboys was featured in Variety at Palm Springs Short Fest

Director Varun Chopra won a silver in the documentary category at the Young Directors Award 2022 held during Cannes Lion.

Holy Cowboys was awarded top honors at the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival, winning Golden Reel Award for Best Short Doc.

“Top Docs” talks to director Varun Chopra about his nuanced, inventive portrait and the larger cultural, political and economic context surrounding his story..

Varun Chopra’s politically charged documentary about cow vigilantes and extremism in India, premieres at the Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles 2022.