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Winner of the Golden Conch at Mumbai, three other awards and screened at festivals across Thrissur and Trivandrum, an enquiry into the life and works of Assamese pulp fiction writer - Ranju Hazarika.
Directed by Altaf Mazid (Late) | 2012
Producer and Commissioning Editor: Rajiv Mehrotra
Altaf Mazid was a two time National award winning filmmaker, who wrote extensively on cinema in Assam. He was on the juries of Festivals in Amsterdam, Japan, Moscow and Cannes, besides being invited to Fajr Film Festival, Tehran, as guest critic. He reconstructed the first Assamese film Joymoti from found footage that premiered internationally at Stuttgart with subsequent screenings at Asiatica film mediale, Rome and the Munich Film Festivals.
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: Arnab Gayan,Topo Xavier, Jiten Boro
Sound Recordist: Debajit Gayan
Editor: W. Dorendra
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 of the Golden Conch at Mumbai, three other awards and screened at festivals across Thrissur and Trivandrum, an enquiry into the life and works of Assamese pulp fiction writer - Ranju Hazarika.
Directed by Altaf Mazid (Late) | 2012
Producer and Commissioning Editor: Rajiv Mehrotra
Altaf Mazid was a two time National award winning filmmaker, who wrote extensively on cinema in Assam. He was on the juries of Festivals in Amsterdam, Japan, Moscow and Cannes, besides being invited to Fajr Film Festival, Tehran, as guest critic. He reconstructed the first Assamese film Joymoti from found footage that premiered internationally at Stuttgart with subsequent screenings at Asiatica film mediale, Rome and the Munich Film Festivals.
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: Arnab Gayan,Topo Xavier, Jiten Boro
Sound Recordist: Debajit Gayan
Editor: W. Dorendra
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
