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Yeshi and Dema run a small eatery at the mouth of the Sela pass, at an altitude of 14000 feet, more often than not, the only sign of human habitation. Winner of three awards at Delhi and Thrissur.
Directed by Sange Dorjee Thongdok | 2015
Producer and Commissioning Editor: Rajiv Mehrotra
Sange Dorjee Thongdok belongs to the Sherdukpen tribe from Arunachal Pradesh and is the first person from his state to pass out of a film school, the Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute, Kolkata. His film Crossing Bridges was the first feature film based on his own people and received a State Award. His other films include Pratyabartan and Evening Café.
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: Sange Dorjee Thongdok
Sound Recordist: Khechog Tenzin
Editors: Sanglap Bhowmik, Ayan Bhattacharya
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: August 2020
Yeshi and Dema run a small eatery at the mouth of the Sela pass, at an altitude of 14000 feet, more often than not, the only sign of human habitation. Winner of three awards at Delhi and Thrissur.
Directed by Sange Dorjee Thongdok | 2015
Producer and Commissioning Editor: Rajiv Mehrotra
Sange Dorjee Thongdok belongs to the Sherdukpen tribe from Arunachal Pradesh and is the first person from his state to pass out of a film school, the Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute, Kolkata. His film Crossing Bridges was the first feature film based on his own people and received a State Award. His other films include Pratyabartan and Evening Café.
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: Sange Dorjee Thongdok
Sound Recordist: Khechog Tenzin
Editors: Sanglap Bhowmik, Ayan Bhattacharya
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: August 2020
