SMILE PINKI
- Director : Megan Mylan
- Awards: 2008 Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Subject.
- Synopsis: Pinki, a rural Indian girl, does not attend school because she has a
cleft lip. A simple surgery could fix her problem, but instead she suffers extreme social ostracism. Pinki’s destiny changes when she meets a social worker who gathers patients for a hospital that provides free surgery.
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FLOATING LAMP OF THE SHADOW VALLEY
- Directed By: Rajesh.S. Jala
- Awards: Nominated in the Competition Category-Amsterdam Film festival
Selected for screening at- Palm Springs International Film Festival,US
Selected for screening at-Raindance Film festival, London
- Synopsis: This inspirational documentary features nine-year-old Kashmir boy Arif, who serves as breadwinner of the family after his Muslim militant father abandons them for the sake of the jihad.
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WE ARE TOGETHER
- Directed By: PAUL TAYLOR
- Awards: Black Pearl Grand Jury Award for Best Documentary, Middle Eastern International Film Festival 2007
Best International Film, Tri-Continental Film Festival 2007
Audience Award, Edinburgh Intl Film Festival 2007
Audience Award, Tribeca Film Festival 2007
Special Jury Prize, Tribeca Film Festival 2007
Audience Award, Amnesty International Film Festival 2007
All Rights Award, Amnesty International Film Festival 2007
Special Jury Prize, One World International Film Festival 2007
- Synopsis: Filmed over three years, We Are Together tells the remarkable and
moving story of a group of children who use music to overcome hardship
and loss.
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ROUGH AUNTIES
- Directed By: KIM LONGINOTTO
- Awards: The World Cinema Jury Prize,09
Sundance Film Festival,2009 Won Grand Jury Prize World Cinema – Documentary
Cracow Film Festival,2009 Won Golden Horn -- Special Mention
- Synopsis: "Fearless, feisty and resolute, the 'Rough Aunties' are a remarkable
group of women unwavering in their stand to protect and care for the
abused, neglected and forgotten children of Durban, South Africa.
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HARISHCHANDRACHI FACTORY
- Directed by : Paresh Mokashi
- Awards: India’s Official Entry in Academy Awards 2010.
- Synopsis:Dada Saheb Phalke had abandoned a well established printing
business after a quarrel with his business partner. He decides he would never enter into the printing business again. It was during one of his job searches that he accidentally stumbled across a tent theatre that was screening a silent motion picture. The idea of film making struck him. Along with his wife and two kids by his side, he ventured into a field unknown to contemporary India.
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SUPERMAN OF MALEGAON
- Directed by: Faiza Ahmed Khan
- Synopsis: Filmmaker Faiza Ahmed Khan visits a textile factory town 100 miles
outside of Mumbai to craft this colorful profile of regional filmmaker
Nasir, whose homemade spoof films have become a local sensation.
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THE GARDEN
- Directed By: SCOTT HAMILTON KENNEDY
- Awards: AcademyAward Nominee for Best Documentary Feature
- Synopsis: The Garden has the pulse of verité with the narrative pull of fiction, telling the story of the country’s largest urban farm, backroom deals, land developers, green politics, money, poverty, power, and racial discord.
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TEXTURE OF OUR SOULS
- Directed By: Deepak Gera
- Awards: Special Critic Film- Jaipur International Film Festival
- Synopsis: Life in a leper colony in India and the
difficulties they are facing in these circumstances, waiting for a
brighter future.
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THE FORGOTTEN WOMAN
- Directed By: Dilip Mehta
- Awards: The EMPA Work Life Award, Ann Arbor Film Festival
- Synopsis: The Forgotten Woman brings the understanding of the destitution and marginalization of millions of widows who are forced by age-old traditions to live out their remaining years isolated and shunned by society. In the 21st century, many issues still surround women's search for economic independence in order to attain a modicum of self-sufficiency and basic human dignity.
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BEGGINING FILMMAKING
- Directed By: Jay Rosenblatt
- Awards: The EMPA Work Life Award, Ann Arbor Film Festival
- Synopsis: Beginning Filmmaking takes us through one year of trying to teach a pre-schooler how to make a film.
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FLOW: FOR LOVE OF WATER
- Directed By: Irena Salina
- Awards: Sundance Film Festival,2008 Nominated Grand Jury Prize Documentary
Vail Film Festival,2008 Won Festival Award Best Documentary
- Synopsis: AN INVESTIGATION INTO WHAT EXPERTS LABEL THE MOST IMPORTANT POLITICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUE OF THE 21ST CENTURY--THE WORLD WATER CRISIS.
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ANDHERI
- Directed By- Sushrut Jain
- Awards: Grand Jury Prize- SAN FRANSISCO Short Film Festival, Jury Honourable Mention INDIAN Film Festival of LOS ANGELES, Best Short Drama BRECKENRIDGE Festival of Films.
- Synopsis: Ever since she was a little girl, Anita has led a quiet, lonely existence as a live-in maid for the cantankerous old Mrs. Kapoor. Based on true events, the film is shot on the crowded streets of Mumbai and offers a gritty, realistic depiction of the city.
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WORK IN PROGRESS
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Directed By- : Krishnendu Bose
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Synopsis: Delhi, known as one of the greenest capital in the world is changing fast. Who is planning the change and for whom? Is this change inclusive? This film made over 2007-2008, captures the key milestones of this transformation
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MORALITY TV AUR LOVING JIHAD – EK MANOHAR KAHANI
- Directed By- Paromita Vohra
- Awards- Best Short Documentary,
International Film Festival of
Kerela 2007
- Synopsis: The film looks at Meerut’s complex dynamics – the fear of love, the constant scrutiny and control of women's mobility and sexuality, a history of communal violence, caste and feudal equations.
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