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A portrait of different cultural practitioners in Kashmir whose art is their resistance, their collective expression in the world's most heavily militarised zone. Winner of seven awards, including the National Film Award, the Indian Documentary Producers' Award, those at Kathmandu and Trivandrum and screened at festivals in Kochi, Montreal, Mumbai, Singapore, Seoul, Srinagar and Virginia, among others.
Directed by Tushar Madhav and Sarvnik Kaur | 2016
Producer and Commissioning Editor: Rajiv Mehrotra
Tushar Madhav is interested in the geopolitics of contemporary and folk art and has independently shot and edited documentaries around the theme. He conducts workshops on audio-visual storytelling, documentation and media advocacy.
An alumnus of Jamia Millia Islamia, Sarvnik Kaur is a Mumbai based screenplay writer, working in the Hindi film industry. Her first novel Where Arrows Meet was published in 2012.
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 has 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: Tushar Madhav, Nagaraj Rathinam
Sound Recordist: Hemant Rao
Editor: Tushar Madhav
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: July 2020
A portrait of different cultural practitioners in Kashmir whose art is their resistance, their collective expression in the world's most heavily militarised zone. Winner of seven awards, including the National Film Award, the Indian Documentary Producers' Award, those at Kathmandu and Trivandrum and screened at festivals in Kochi, Montreal, Mumbai, Singapore, Seoul, Srinagar and Virginia, among others.
Directed by Tushar Madhav and Sarvnik Kaur | 2016
Producer and Commissioning Editor: Rajiv Mehrotra
Tushar Madhav is interested in the geopolitics of contemporary and folk art and has independently shot and edited documentaries around the theme. He conducts workshops on audio-visual storytelling, documentation and media advocacy.
An alumnus of Jamia Millia Islamia, Sarvnik Kaur is a Mumbai based screenplay writer, working in the Hindi film industry. Her first novel Where Arrows Meet was published in 2012.
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 has 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: Tushar Madhav, Nagaraj Rathinam
Sound Recordist: Hemant Rao
Editor: Tushar Madhav
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: July 2020
