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Official selection at the Berlin Competition, a film about missing people who left to faraway cities for work and of those who wait endlessly. Will they ever return or be found?
Directed by Ekta Mittal | 2019
Producer and Commissioning Editor: Rajiv Mehrotra
Ekta Mittal co-founded Maraa, a media and arts collective in Bangalore, where she works as a practitioner, researcher, curator, and facilitator — around issues of gender, labour, and caste in rural and urban contexts — and makes films about labour, migration, and cities. She also works with creative practices in the public space, through independent production and collaborations with other artists.
Rajiv Mehrotra is the founding Managing Trustee and Commissioning Editor of PSBT - his films have won more than 300 awards worldwide, including 32 in 31 years from the President of India. His nine books are available in 50 languages and editions. He serves as the Trustee/ Secretary of the Foundation for Universal Responsibility of HH the Dalai Lama (For more, see en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajiv_Mehrotra).
PSBT is a not-for-profit that has nurtured and supported the production of independent documentary films by a diversity of filmmakers from across India. Over two decades, it has produced close to 700 documentary films, each film averaging two film festival selections and every second film an award. (Read more here: www.psbt.org, civilsocietyonline.com/cinema/psbt-story-630-films-230-awards-400-filmmakers/, psbt.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/OnGlobalScreens-Article.pdf, thehindu.com/features/cinema/in-the-channels-of-trust/article3942019.ece, psbt.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/PSBT-Real-Films-on-Real-India.jpg)
PSBT is led by some of India's iconic film personalities - Adoor Gopalakrishnan, Mrinal Sen, Shyam Benegal, Sharmila Tagore, with Fali Nariman and Kiran Karnik. From its inception in 2000, Tulika Srivastava was a key member of the Team, joined in 2005, by Ridhima Mehra.
Credits
Researcher, Script Writer: Ekta Mittal
Cinematographers: Paromita Dhar, Amith Surendran
Sound Recordists: Ekta Mittal, Bigyna Dahal
Editor: Abhro Banerjee
Music Composers: Mrithunjay Sharma, Veecheet Dhakal
Produced by PSBT for and in partnership with Doordarshan India
psbt.org/; ddindia.gov.in
For festival and screening queries, please write to us at distribution@psbt.org
Last updated: May 2020
Official selection at the Berlin Competition, a film about missing people who left to faraway cities for work and of those who wait endlessly. Will they ever return or be found?
Directed by Ekta Mittal | 2019
Producer and Commissioning Editor: Rajiv Mehrotra
Ekta Mittal co-founded Maraa, a media and arts collective in Bangalore, where she works as a practitioner, researcher, curator, and facilitator — around issues of gender, labour, and caste in rural and urban contexts — and makes films about labour, migration, and cities. She also works with creative practices in the public space, through independent production and collaborations with other artists.
Rajiv Mehrotra is the founding Managing Trustee and Commissioning Editor of PSBT - his films have won more than 300 awards worldwide, including 32 in 31 years from the President of India. His nine books are available in 50 languages and editions. He serves as the Trustee/ Secretary of the Foundation for Universal Responsibility of HH the Dalai Lama (For more, see en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajiv_Mehrotra).
PSBT is a not-for-profit that has nurtured and supported the production of independent documentary films by a diversity of filmmakers from across India. Over two decades, it has produced close to 700 documentary films, each film averaging two film festival selections and every second film an award. (Read more here: www.psbt.org, civilsocietyonline.com/cinema/psbt-story-630-films-230-awards-400-filmmakers/, psbt.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/OnGlobalScreens-Article.pdf, thehindu.com/features/cinema/in-the-channels-of-trust/article3942019.ece, psbt.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/PSBT-Real-Films-on-Real-India.jpg)
PSBT is led by some of India's iconic film personalities - Adoor Gopalakrishnan, Mrinal Sen, Shyam Benegal, Sharmila Tagore, with Fali Nariman and Kiran Karnik. From its inception in 2000, Tulika Srivastava was a key member of the Team, joined in 2005, by Ridhima Mehra.
Credits
Researcher, Script Writer: Ekta Mittal
Cinematographers: Paromita Dhar, Amith Surendran
Sound Recordists: Ekta Mittal, Bigyna Dahal
Editor: Abhro Banerjee
Music Composers: Mrithunjay Sharma, Veecheet Dhakal
Produced by PSBT for and in partnership with Doordarshan India
psbt.org/; ddindia.gov.in
For festival and screening queries, please write to us at distribution@psbt.org
Last updated: May 2020
