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Winner of six awards, including the National Award, and screened at over twenty film festivals including at Calcutta, Delhi, Jaipur, Goa, Mumbai, Pune, Roma, Seattle, Stanford, Sydney and Thiruvananthapuram, an exploration of food security and sovereignty through the exemplary efforts a tiny village in Andhra Pradesh, inspiring a silent revolution through organic farming.
Directed by Rintu Thomas and Sushmit Ghosh | 2012
Producer and Commissioning Editor: Rajiv Mehrotra
Sushmit Ghosh and Rintu Thomas are independent documentary filmmakers and founders of Black Ticket Films, an award-winning creative agency based in New Delhi. They are Sundance Fellows, whose work has also been supported by IDFA, The Bertha Fund, Tribeca Film Fund, Chicken & Egg Pictures, Sorfond and The Finnish Film Foundation. Sushmit and Rintu’s films have been used by various national and international stakeholders for impact, education and policy change and been showcased at global forums like the United Nations Climate Change Conference, becoming catalysts for new conversations.
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: Sushmit Ghosh
Location Sound Recordist and Designer: Pratik Biswas
Editor and Graphics Designer: Vishal Chauhan
Music Composer: Ishaan Chhabra
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: June 2020
Winner of six awards, including the National Award, and screened at over twenty film festivals including at Calcutta, Delhi, Jaipur, Goa, Mumbai, Pune, Roma, Seattle, Stanford, Sydney and Thiruvananthapuram, an exploration of food security and sovereignty through the exemplary efforts a tiny village in Andhra Pradesh, inspiring a silent revolution through organic farming.
Directed by Rintu Thomas and Sushmit Ghosh | 2012
Producer and Commissioning Editor: Rajiv Mehrotra
Sushmit Ghosh and Rintu Thomas are independent documentary filmmakers and founders of Black Ticket Films, an award-winning creative agency based in New Delhi. They are Sundance Fellows, whose work has also been supported by IDFA, The Bertha Fund, Tribeca Film Fund, Chicken & Egg Pictures, Sorfond and The Finnish Film Foundation. Sushmit and Rintu’s films have been used by various national and international stakeholders for impact, education and policy change and been showcased at global forums like the United Nations Climate Change Conference, becoming catalysts for new conversations.
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: Sushmit Ghosh
Location Sound Recordist and Designer: Pratik Biswas
Editor and Graphics Designer: Vishal Chauhan
Music Composer: Ishaan Chhabra
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: June 2020
