A selection of six award-wining documentaries by independent filmmakers from India. Commissioned and produced by Public Service Broadcasting Trust (PSBT), the films present a different, more complex panorama of life through work that offers a distinctive presentation of issues and situations that affect the everyday life of the people of a complex society, coming to grips with fundamental transformation, and which attempts a deeper level of reflection and analysis
Organised in collaboration with Public Service Broadcasting Trust. Public Service Broadcasting Trust is a not-for-profit that nurtures and supports the production of documentary films by independent filmmakers. Over the past twenty years, it has mentored 500 of mostly young, starting out talents, producing over 700 documentary films on myriad themes and subjects, travelling to over 1860 film festivals worldwide and winning more than 320 Awards, including 53 National Film Awards, from the President of India.
Framing Lives - I
A selection of six award-wining documentaries by independent filmmakers from India. Commissioned and produced by Public Service Broadcasting Trust (PSBT), the films present a different, more complex panorama of life through work that offers a distinctive presentation of issues and situations that affect the everyday life of the people of a complex society, coming to grips with fundamental transformation, and which attempts a deeper level of reflection and analysis
Organised in collaboration with Public Service Broadcasting Trust
The six films listed below are available viewing on the following links given below with English subtitles:
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A Drop of Sunshine (39 min/ 2011)
Director: Aparna Sanyal
Recipient of the National Film Award for Best Educational Film 2011; and Indian Documentary Producers' Association Awards, New Jersey, USA
The story of Reshma Valliappan and her journey of eventual triumph over schizophrenia. Embodying a controversial and contrarian view towards recovery, it proposes that the only treatment that can work is the one wherein the ‘patient’ is encouraged and empowered to become an equal partner in the process of healing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Ro5B2ecFSk
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I'm Jeeja (28 min/2016)
Director: Swati Chakroborty
Recipient of the Best Film Award on Social Issues, National Film Awards; National Film Awards; Award, FilmSaaz International Film Festival, Aligarh; We Care Fest, New Delhi; among others
Filmmaker Swati Chakraborty beautifully captures the enriching life of Jeeja Ghosh, who was born with cerebral palsy, in the 28-minute documentary, I Am Jeeja. The film focuses on the extraordinary woman, who not only holds a double master’s degree from the University of Delhi and the University of Leeds (UK), but also has defied every stereotype and expectation to become a social worker
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzfdYrCfjbw
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Nirnay (56 min/2012)
Directors: Pushpa Rawat, Anupama Srinivasan
Recipient of the Pramod Pati Award for Most Innovative Film, Mumbai International Film Festival; Indian Documentary Producers’ Association Awards; Best Documentary, Mumbai Women's International Film Festival; among others
The Film is Pushpa’s journey as she tries to make sense of her own life and those of her women friends. Set in a lower middle-class colony in Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, it explores the lives of women, who are young, educated and bright, but feel bound and helpless when it comes to taking any major decision regarding their lives
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oh2L_TcrIO8
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Journey to Nagaland (26 min/2010)
Director: Aditi Chitre
Recipient of the awards for Best Animation Film and Special Jury Mention for Sound Design, with citation 4th IDSFFK, 2011; Best Animated Short Film (Professional Category), INFOCOM–ASSOCHAM EME AWARDS, Kolkata, 2011; and Golden Conch, MIFF, for Best Animation Film, Mumbai 2012; among others
Journey to Nagaland is a short animated documentary about a young girl who is led to a distant land by the force of her visions and goes on a journey to discover her mother’s origins
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3JXx7WMJlk
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Morality TV and the Loving Jehad (30 min/2007)
Director: Paromita Vohra
Recipient of the Award for Best Documentary, International Film Festival, Kerala
The film looks outside the frames that weave the frenetic tapestry of breaking news on India’s news channels, to uncover a town’s complex dynamics – the fear of love, the constant scrutiny and control of women’s mobility and sexuality, a history of communal violence, caste brutalisation and feudal mindsets
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTFjfn9nl_w
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On and Off the Records (57 min/2014)
Director: Pratik Biswas
Tareque Masud Award for Best Debut, Film Southasia, Nepal
The post-twentieth-century history of Hindustani music and the story of recording in India are inseparable. The former has constantly been influenced by the growth chart of the latter. How does this constant and continuous interplay affect the aesthetics of one of the oldest musical tradition of the world? The film tries to understand the equation through intimate discussion on the issue with a group of concerned, conscious, and convincing individuals
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFQgE9lc0T8
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