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Winner of five awards at Edinburgh, Kathmandu and the Indian Documentary Producers’ Association Awards, and screened at festivals across Caserta, Göttingen, Mumbai, Seattle, Sydney, Thrissur and Trivandrum, among others, a journey into the music and everyday life of pastoral Muslim communities of the Great Rann of Kutch.
Directed by Anjali Monteiro and K. P. Jayasankar | 2011
Producer and Commissioning Editor: Rajiv Mehrotra
Anjali Monteiro and K. P. Jayasankar are Professors at the Centre for Media and Cultural Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai. Both of them are involved in media production, teaching and research. Jointly, they have won over twenty national and international awards for their films, including the Prix Futura Berlin Asia Prize for Identity and Best Documentary Award at the Three Continents Festival, Venezuela.
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: K. P. Jayasankar
Script Writers, Editors, Sound Designers, Mixers: Anjali Monteiro, K. P. Jayasankar
Location Sound Recordist: Harikumar M
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: August 2020
Winner of five awards at Edinburgh, Kathmandu and the Indian Documentary Producers’ Association Awards, and screened at festivals across Caserta, Göttingen, Mumbai, Seattle, Sydney, Thrissur and Trivandrum, among others, a journey into the music and everyday life of pastoral Muslim communities of the Great Rann of Kutch.
Directed by Anjali Monteiro and K. P. Jayasankar | 2011
Producer and Commissioning Editor: Rajiv Mehrotra
Anjali Monteiro and K. P. Jayasankar are Professors at the Centre for Media and Cultural Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai. Both of them are involved in media production, teaching and research. Jointly, they have won over twenty national and international awards for their films, including the Prix Futura Berlin Asia Prize for Identity and Best Documentary Award at the Three Continents Festival, Venezuela.
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: K. P. Jayasankar
Script Writers, Editors, Sound Designers, Mixers: Anjali Monteiro, K. P. Jayasankar
Location Sound Recordist: Harikumar M
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: August 2020
