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Reflections on image-making by the filmmaker, after twenty five years of creating them. Winner of two National Awards, the Indian Documentary Producers' Association Award, Awards at Trivandrum and Thrissur and screened at festivals at Bangalore, Gorakhpur, Kolkata, Long Island, New Delhi, San Francisco and Qatar.
Directed by Ranjan Palit | 2009
Producer and Commissioning Editor: Rajiv Mehrotra
Ranjan Palit is an established cinematographer, director and producer with over 35 years of experience. He has shot over a hundred documentaries, 14 feature films and around 250 commercials for screen and television. Ranjan has won four National Awards and several international awards. He has been conducting masterclasses on cinematography and documentary filmmaking, Berkeley, Austin, Helsinki, Busan and Taipei, among others, and been on several international festival juries, including at Yamagata, Japan.
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.
Credits
Cinematographer: Ranjan Palit
Editor and Sound Designer: Tarun Bhatiya
Sound Mixer: Julius L. Basaiawmoit
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: September 2020
Reflections on image-making by the filmmaker, after twenty five years of creating them. Winner of two National Awards, the Indian Documentary Producers' Association Award, Awards at Trivandrum and Thrissur and screened at festivals at Bangalore, Gorakhpur, Kolkata, Long Island, New Delhi, San Francisco and Qatar.
Directed by Ranjan Palit | 2009
Producer and Commissioning Editor: Rajiv Mehrotra
Ranjan Palit is an established cinematographer, director and producer with over 35 years of experience. He has shot over a hundred documentaries, 14 feature films and around 250 commercials for screen and television. Ranjan has won four National Awards and several international awards. He has been conducting masterclasses on cinematography and documentary filmmaking, Berkeley, Austin, Helsinki, Busan and Taipei, among others, and been on several international festival juries, including at Yamagata, Japan.
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.
Credits
Cinematographer: Ranjan Palit
Editor and Sound Designer: Tarun Bhatiya
Sound Mixer: Julius L. Basaiawmoit
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: September 2020
