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Forgotten threads of local history of the city born with goddess Kali coded in its name - Kalikata/ Kolkata. Screened at festivals in Bangalore, Delhi and Thrissur.
Directed by Anirban Datta | 2019
Producer and Commissioning Editor: Rajiv Mehrotra
Anirban Datta is a freelance writer, filmmaker and visual artist. Tetris, his diploma film, premiered at Cannes, and travelled to numerous international festivals. He has made
films with NHK (Japan), YLE (Finland), VPRO (The Netherlands) and PSBT, which have screened internationally and won three National Awards, among others. .in for motion premiered at IDF, Amsterdam.
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
Cinematographers: Amlan Datta, Anirban Datta
Location Sound Recordists: Moumita Roy, Sanjib Saha
Editor: Sankha
Sound Designer, Mixer: Subhadeep Sengupta
Music Composer: Pradeep Chattopadhyay
Line Producer, Direction Associate: Sanyukta Sharma
Associate Editor: Eshan Sil
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: June 2020
Forgotten threads of local history of the city born with goddess Kali coded in its name - Kalikata/ Kolkata. Screened at festivals in Bangalore, Delhi and Thrissur.
Directed by Anirban Datta | 2019
Producer and Commissioning Editor: Rajiv Mehrotra
Anirban Datta is a freelance writer, filmmaker and visual artist. Tetris, his diploma film, premiered at Cannes, and travelled to numerous international festivals. He has made
films with NHK (Japan), YLE (Finland), VPRO (The Netherlands) and PSBT, which have screened internationally and won three National Awards, among others. .in for motion premiered at IDF, Amsterdam.
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
Cinematographers: Amlan Datta, Anirban Datta
Location Sound Recordists: Moumita Roy, Sanjib Saha
Editor: Sankha
Sound Designer, Mixer: Subhadeep Sengupta
Music Composer: Pradeep Chattopadhyay
Line Producer, Direction Associate: Sanyukta Sharma
Associate Editor: Eshan Sil
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: June 2020
