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An evocative tapestry of LBT lives in contemporary India. Screened at over thirty film festivals, including those at San Francisco, Calcutta, Seattle, Chicago, North Carolina, Geneva, Lahore, Dublin, Prague, Mumbai, Delhi, luj-Napoca, Jakarta, Florence, Seoul, Montreal, Waterloo, Bangalore, Glasgow, Durban and Zagreb.
Directed by Sridhar Rangayan | 2014
Producer and Commissioning Editor: Rajiv Mehrotra
Sridhar Rangayan’s films engage with hard-hitting social issues with warmth, compassion and humour. His films are at the forefront of India’s emergent queer cinema movement and have been screened at over hundred national and international film festivals, won several awards and received critical acclaim. Sridhar has served as a jury member at major festivals. He is the Founder and Director of Kashish Mumbai International Queer Film Festival.
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
Cinematographers: Subranshu Das, Ayaskant Baral, Jaspreet Singh, Pramod Nayak, Sumanto Mhato
Editor: Pravin Angre
Music Composer: Suresh Iyer
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
An evocative tapestry of LBT lives in contemporary India. Screened at over thirty film festivals, including those at San Francisco, Calcutta, Seattle, Chicago, North Carolina, Geneva, Lahore, Dublin, Prague, Mumbai, Delhi, luj-Napoca, Jakarta, Florence, Seoul, Montreal, Waterloo, Bangalore, Glasgow, Durban and Zagreb.
Directed by Sridhar Rangayan | 2014
Producer and Commissioning Editor: Rajiv Mehrotra
Sridhar Rangayan’s films engage with hard-hitting social issues with warmth, compassion and humour. His films are at the forefront of India’s emergent queer cinema movement and have been screened at over hundred national and international film festivals, won several awards and received critical acclaim. Sridhar has served as a jury member at major festivals. He is the Founder and Director of Kashish Mumbai International Queer Film Festival.
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
Cinematographers: Subranshu Das, Ayaskant Baral, Jaspreet Singh, Pramod Nayak, Sumanto Mhato
Editor: Pravin Angre
Music Composer: Suresh Iyer
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
