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The Public Service Broadcasting Trust (PSBT)
- Country:
INDIA - Submitted Films:
- 17
- Registered since:
- 10.05.2004
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- City:
- New Delhi
- Contact Person:
- Rajiv Mehrotra
- Contact Title:
- Mr.
- Contact Email
- psbt@vsnl.org
Location of The Public Service Broadcasting Trust (PSBT)
Description:
The Public Service Broadcasting Trust represents the confluence of energies to shape the contours of Public Broadcasting in India in a manner that validates the public nature of the media in our society. It is an attempt to foster a shared public culture of broadcasting that is as exciting and cutting edge, as it is socially responsive and representative of democratic values. In seeking to do this, PSBT seeks to situate a new vocabulary and activism at the very heart of broadcasting in India.Films in the catalogue:
Title / Date
Catalogue
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ALL THE WORLD’S STAGE / 2008
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Synopsis: They left in dhows and returned on a plane. But the journey back, took over 700 years. Along the way; they lost their language and the knowledge of their native land, but retained their music and their dance – the most telling clue to their history. A film on the Sufi Sidis of Gujarat.
APNA ALOO BAZAAR BECHA / 2008
5.0 / 1 votes
Synopsis: What happens when remote, isolated mountain communities come face to face with globalization? Jardhar gaon, a village in the Hemval valley of Garhwal, led an isolated, egalitarian existence until a series of events forced it, into joining the market economy. This short documentary, based entirely on local perspectives, reflects on the process of change – what triggers the shift to modernisation and what impact it has on the personal, social and environmental spaces.
Golden Deer Award, 1st Prize in Short Length Film, 8th Ecofilms Festival, Rodos, Greece
AUTUMN IN THE HIMALAYAS / 2008
5.0 / 1 votes
Synopsis: The film brings to light the story of a group of elderly Buddhist nuns from Ladakh, who represent the last generation of unordained and uneducated women in robes. They have led quiet lives in isolated high mountains working as domestic helps and road construction labourers. Neglected by religious and social systems for centuries, the new Nyerma nunnery is their last call for dignity, enhancement and purification of their religious status.
CHILIKA BANK$ - Stories from India’s Largest Coastal Lake - 1970-2007 / 2008
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Synopsis: In a canvass spread over four decades, a banyan tree, on the banks of the lake Chilika, silently whispers tales of the lake and her fisher folk. From the times when there was no export bazaar to the time when there maybe no lake.
First Prize, Jeevika 2008: South Asia Livelihood Documentary Film Festival, New Delhi
Diya in the Dargah / 2002
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Synopsis: Narrating about the tragedy in Gujarat, India, on February 2002, this film expresses hope for a peaceful coexistence of Hindus and Muslims.
FOUR WOMEN AND A ROOM / 2008
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Synopsis: A documentary that explores the complex ways in which women understand and experience motherhood. The key question it raises - is motherhood always a ‘natural’ precondition towards the fulfillment of a woman’s subjectivity? A package that tends to fix the role of women as ‘producers’ in the given cultural context. The film explores this juncture to etch out individual and diverse desires of women and the ways in which they relate to being mothers or its absence.
Harvesting Baby Girls / 2003
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Synopsis: The documentary illuminates the phenomenon of selling baby girls in the Telangana region of Andhra Pradesh. It offers an incisive look into the poverty conditions, conjoined with illiteracy and false beliefs that cause people to believe that having a girl baby means payment of dowry at the time of marriage and hence, it has to be killed or sold away. In addition, Harvesting Baby Girls brings attention to the unscrupulous behavior of middlemen who make a fast buck by taking advantage of disadvantaged women through the harvest of their baby girls. The film tracks the process through which the middlemen identify pregnant mothers, cultivate them if they are carrying a female foetus and finally buy the baby and sell it at high prices to persons in foreign lands.
If You Pause - In A Museum Of Craft / 2004
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Synopsis: Urban India. A museum of craft. Skill, beauty, art. Wandering through, other stories suggest themselves. Stories of the farmer, the indigenous painter, the ritual healer.
Is skill separate from a lived reality, art different from a commemoration of life?
The artefacts in the museum have been made by people, living people.
Lives where skill and art cannot be museumised, where there is no room for forgetting.
Somehow, the patterns of urban living allow us to forget.
The stories behind the museum labels lie concealed, unheeded.
Which part of the self does one leave behind - listening to one story and not the other? Is there a way to hear all the stories?
Ladies Special / 2003
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Synopsis: Ladies Special - On the idea that took shape as the "Ladies Special" trains in Mumbai and how it became a space of their own and the lifeline of women in the city.
REVIVING FAITH- A Himalayan Journey…In Search of the Lost Tradition of Conservation / 2008
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Synopsis: The film takes its viewers into the sacred groves of the Himalayas that are still alive because of the faith of its people. It traces the struggles of the Himalayan people to save their forests from being plundered, but as they crumble under the pressure of countless development projects. The film raises a critical question - can the modern world restore the faith that conserved nature, before it gets too late?
SCAVENGING DREAMS / 2008
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Synopsis: The film takes a look at the lives of rag pickers and waste dealers in Delhi. It’s a world which thrives on the waste that the city generates. This is big business and it largely depends on the thousands of children working as rag pickers. The film is about them and their dreams and the dreams of a city somewhere gone haywire.
Some Roots Grow Upwards / 2003
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Synopsis: For over 25 years now, Ratan Thiyam, along with his team of dedicated artistes, has been creating a theatre that is riveting. For his work, he draws deeply upon the traditions & the arts of his home state, Manipur. At the same time, his concerns are intensely modem - war, violence & unrest; they reflect upon the current crisis gripping the region, in as much as they dwell on the larger human condition. This welding together of traditional styles of performance & contemporary themes forges a uniquely powerful dramatic experience. This theatre vibrates with the lived experience of a community, a people.
The film explores the art of Ratan Thiyam. It seeks to fathom the imagination & the process that gives form to this theatre
Testing The Waters / 2003
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Synopsis: A journey as long as numberless life times, as short as a glance. “Testing the Waters” is the quest for an instant of authenticity.
Reality and identity are now, more than ever before, locked in a game in which everything is broken down, remade, morphed endlessly. In this context, the film places the eye behind the camera, the creative eye, as the direct interpreter of consciousness, of the inner eye, of truth. Seeing becomes an act of self-definition, and of creation.
It is a film that begins haunted by a loss: Where is the world we wanted to create? And ends with one limitless possibility: Can we create the world we want?
The Policing Langur / 2004
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Synopsis: In India, monkeys freely wander through cities, towns and villages. But in India's capital, Delhi, a considerable population of destructive macaque monkeys plagues the city threatening people, raiding houses/ schools, offices, hospitals and even airports. Paradoxically the only remedy that has been found in dealing with the monkey menace is to engage the services of bigger@ powerful langur- "policing languur". The film "The Policing Langur" captures the colorful vista of man-monkey relationship in India that stretches from mythology to the modem and makes for a captivating tale of veneration, tolerance and co-existence.
The Shadows of Freedom / 2004
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Synopsis: The documentary traces the history of three women in a Muslim family in India and how the issues of identity and gender conflicts with their lives and that of their family. The story is narrated by the youngest woman (Sabina Kidwai) about her paternal grandmother Begum Anees Kidwai and her mother Amina Kidwai. The film while exploring the diversity of views and lives of these women also talks about the destruction of this diversity. It also interweaves into the narrative the history of India as seen from the perspective of a Muslim family which opted to stay back after Partition of India in 1947. The references to history are constructed around the death of the narrator's paternal grandfather in 1947 and the mysteries, which surround his death.
TO CATCH THE WIND / 2008
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Synopsis: A film exploring the connections between the American blues music and folk music from North-East India.
WATER WARRIORS / 2008
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Synopsis: “Anything else you're interested in is not going to happen if you don’t have water …. Don't sit this one out. Do something.” - Carl Sagan
This 2 part film series profiles ‘water warriors’ who have launched a series of innovations to combat water stress.
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