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Winner at Ferizaj and screened at over thirty film festivals across Belize, Berlin, Brussels, Byron, Chicago, Delhi, Florence, Göttingen, Johannesburg, Kabul, Mumbai, New York, Oaxaca, Ottawa, Reykjavík, San Francisco, Seattle, Stuttgart, Tartu, Thiruvananthapuram, Tokyo, Vienna, Warsaw, Wisconsin and Yekaterinburg, stories from a society obsessed with marriage, traversing the universe of classifieds, matchmaking bureaus and websites!
Directed by Geetika Narang and Anandana Kapur | 2012
Producer and Commissioning Editor: Rajiv Mehrotra
Geetika Narang Abbasi is a filmmaker based in Delhi. She has worked on various formats – from documentaries to TV commercials. She has edited and directed several documentaries that have been recognised and showcased nationally and internationally.
Anandana Kapur is a filmmaker and co-founder of CINEMAD. Her films have received critical acclaim globally and are a part of courses on Gender Justice, Social Development and Innovation. A recipient of the Fulbright-Nehru and Shastri India Canadian Institute Fellowships, Anandana teaches Documentary Practice and Researching Media and Culture and writes on cinema and popular culture.
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: Yasir Abbasi
Sound Recordist: Bal Krishna
Editor: Geetika Narang Abbasi
Produced by PSBT, for and in partnership with the Films Division.
psbt.org/; filmsdivision.org
For festival and screening queries, please write to us at distribution@psbt.org
Last updated: July 2020
Winner at Ferizaj and screened at over thirty film festivals across Belize, Berlin, Brussels, Byron, Chicago, Delhi, Florence, Göttingen, Johannesburg, Kabul, Mumbai, New York, Oaxaca, Ottawa, Reykjavík, San Francisco, Seattle, Stuttgart, Tartu, Thiruvananthapuram, Tokyo, Vienna, Warsaw, Wisconsin and Yekaterinburg, stories from a society obsessed with marriage, traversing the universe of classifieds, matchmaking bureaus and websites!
Directed by Geetika Narang and Anandana Kapur | 2012
Producer and Commissioning Editor: Rajiv Mehrotra
Geetika Narang Abbasi is a filmmaker based in Delhi. She has worked on various formats – from documentaries to TV commercials. She has edited and directed several documentaries that have been recognised and showcased nationally and internationally.
Anandana Kapur is a filmmaker and co-founder of CINEMAD. Her films have received critical acclaim globally and are a part of courses on Gender Justice, Social Development and Innovation. A recipient of the Fulbright-Nehru and Shastri India Canadian Institute Fellowships, Anandana teaches Documentary Practice and Researching Media and Culture and writes on cinema and popular culture.
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: Yasir Abbasi
Sound Recordist: Bal Krishna
Editor: Geetika Narang Abbasi
Produced by PSBT, for and in partnership with the Films Division.
psbt.org/; filmsdivision.org
For festival and screening queries, please write to us at distribution@psbt.org
Last updated: July 2020
