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Stories of three women living with depression and the social context that makes them vulnerable. Screened at Faro.
Directed by Pritha Chakraborty | 2019
Producer and Commissioning Editor: Rajiv Mehrotra
Pritha Chakraborty is a Kolkata based filmmaker and editor. A graduate of the Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute, she has worked on several film projects, including award-winning documentaries and fiction films. Silent Voices, her debut documentary, premiered at HotDocs, Canada, and has screened at Sheffield, Mumbai, New York and Los Angeles. Her first feature, Mukherjee Dar Bou, opened to much acclaim. Pritha is the Founder-Director of Flying Leaves Production and is associated with Docedge AFD, the documentary pitching and incubation platform of India.
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
Script Writer, Editor: Pritha Chakraborty
Researcher: Shahely Ganguly
Cinematographers: Pritha Chakraborty, Ranjay
Sound Recordist, Designer and Music Composer: Partha Halder
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: August 2020
Stories of three women living with depression and the social context that makes them vulnerable. Screened at Faro.
Directed by Pritha Chakraborty | 2019
Producer and Commissioning Editor: Rajiv Mehrotra
Pritha Chakraborty is a Kolkata based filmmaker and editor. A graduate of the Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute, she has worked on several film projects, including award-winning documentaries and fiction films. Silent Voices, her debut documentary, premiered at HotDocs, Canada, and has screened at Sheffield, Mumbai, New York and Los Angeles. Her first feature, Mukherjee Dar Bou, opened to much acclaim. Pritha is the Founder-Director of Flying Leaves Production and is associated with Docedge AFD, the documentary pitching and incubation platform of India.
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
Script Writer, Editor: Pritha Chakraborty
Researcher: Shahely Ganguly
Cinematographers: Pritha Chakraborty, Ranjay
Sound Recordist, Designer and Music Composer: Partha Halder
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: August 2020
