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National Award Winner and awards at Rio de Janeiro, Dehi, Mumbai and Aligarh, a moving and inspiring biographical film on Jeeja Ghosh, living with disability and leading the rights movement. Selected and screened at over fifteen film festivals, including Belgrade, Cumberland, Dhaka, Guwahati, Novi Dad, Taiping, Thrissur and Trivandrum.
Directed by Swati Chakroborty | 2016
Producer and Commissioning Editor: Rajiv Mehrotra
Swati Chakroborty has a Masters in Economics from Jadavpur University and has been working in the field of Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) for over 30 years. She has also worked in audio-visual media, as researcher, script writer and director, engaged in themes of gender sensitivity, human rights and marginal cultures.
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 was a not-for-profit that nurtured and supported the production of independent documentary films by a diversity of filmmakers from across India. Over two decades, it 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 was 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.
Cinematographer and Music Composer: Ladly Mukhopadhaya
Sound Recordists: Biswajit Maity, Tapan Bhattacharya
Editor: Tanmoy Chakraborty
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
National Award Winner and awards at Rio de Janeiro, Dehi, Mumbai and Aligarh, a moving and inspiring biographical film on Jeeja Ghosh, living with disability and leading the rights movement. Selected and screened at over fifteen film festivals, including Belgrade, Cumberland, Dhaka, Guwahati, Novi Dad, Taiping, Thrissur and Trivandrum.
Directed by Swati Chakroborty | 2016
Producer and Commissioning Editor: Rajiv Mehrotra
Swati Chakroborty has a Masters in Economics from Jadavpur University and has been working in the field of Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) for over 30 years. She has also worked in audio-visual media, as researcher, script writer and director, engaged in themes of gender sensitivity, human rights and marginal cultures.
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 was a not-for-profit that nurtured and supported the production of independent documentary films by a diversity of filmmakers from across India. Over two decades, it 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 was 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.
Cinematographer and Music Composer: Ladly Mukhopadhaya
Sound Recordists: Biswajit Maity, Tapan Bhattacharya
Editor: Tanmoy Chakraborty
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
