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Exploring stories of organ donation in India. Award winner at Delhi and screened at Ryn.

Directed by S. Kumar and Malgorzata Skiba | 2014
Producer and Commissioning Editor: Rajiv Mehrotra

S. Kumar is a New Delhi based freelance cinematographer and director. A graduate from Film and TV Institute of Tamil Nadu, he has worked for the Press Trust of India. Since 1994, he has been working as Director of Photography, associated with a number of documentaries.

Malgorzata Skiba studied film at Jagiellonian University of Krakow. Her work focuses on religion, ecology, art and education. Her films have been screened and awarded at various film festivals. Amongst them are films made for PSBT- Eco Dharma and Autumn in the Himalayas.

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: Kumar Subramaniyan
Editor: Malgorzata Skiba
Sound Recordists: Kumar Subramaniyan, Gajendra Singh, Ashok Kumar, Virender Saxena

Produced by PSBT, for and in partnership with Doordarshan India.
psbt.org/; ddindia.gov.in

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Last updated: August 2020
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