Canadian documentary film maker Joe Moulins made a film about Sainath titled "A Tribe of his Own". When the jury at the Edmonton International Film Festival picked its winner, it decided to include Sainath in the award along with the maker of the film because this was 'an award about inspiration'. Another documentary film, "Nero's Guests", looks at inequality (as manifest in India's agrarian crisis) through Sainath's reporting on the subject. "Nero's Guests" won the Indian Documentary Producers Association's Gold Medal for best documentary for 2010.