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Reflections on love, desire, dating, friendships and intimate relationships, by two people - a lesbian and a transman. Screened at festivals in Bangalore, Calcutta, Chennai, Colombo, Delhi, Mumbai, Pune and Philadelphia.
Directed by Rituparna Borah, Ritambhara Mehta, Srishti Lakhera, Bhamati Sivapalan | 2018
Producer and Commissioning Editor: Rajiv Mehrotra
Rituparna Borah and Ritambhara Mehta are part of Nazariya, a Delhi-based queer feminist resource group working on issues of gender and sexuality, with a focus on lesbian, bisexual, queer, genderqueer, non-binary people assigned gender female at birth, and transmen.
Bhamati Sivapalan is an independent filmmaker and editor, whose work has been around documenting community struggles and social movements.
Srishti Lakhera is a filmmaker and community trainer.
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
Cinematographer: Srishti Lakhera
Sound Recordist, Editor: Bhamati Sivapalan
Sound Recordists: Bhamati Sivapalan, Ritambhara Mehta, Rituparna Borah
Produced by PSBT, for and in partnership with the Human Capability Foundation, UK.
psbt.org/; humancapabilityfoundation.com
For festival and screening queries, please write to us at distribution@psbt.org
Last updated: July 2020
Reflections on love, desire, dating, friendships and intimate relationships, by two people - a lesbian and a transman. Screened at festivals in Bangalore, Calcutta, Chennai, Colombo, Delhi, Mumbai, Pune and Philadelphia.
Directed by Rituparna Borah, Ritambhara Mehta, Srishti Lakhera, Bhamati Sivapalan | 2018
Producer and Commissioning Editor: Rajiv Mehrotra
Rituparna Borah and Ritambhara Mehta are part of Nazariya, a Delhi-based queer feminist resource group working on issues of gender and sexuality, with a focus on lesbian, bisexual, queer, genderqueer, non-binary people assigned gender female at birth, and transmen.
Bhamati Sivapalan is an independent filmmaker and editor, whose work has been around documenting community struggles and social movements.
Srishti Lakhera is a filmmaker and community trainer.
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
Cinematographer: Srishti Lakhera
Sound Recordist, Editor: Bhamati Sivapalan
Sound Recordists: Bhamati Sivapalan, Ritambhara Mehta, Rituparna Borah
Produced by PSBT, for and in partnership with the Human Capability Foundation, UK.
psbt.org/; humancapabilityfoundation.com
For festival and screening queries, please write to us at distribution@psbt.org
Last updated: July 2020
