Cinema City: Mumbai - Certified Universal and Do Rafique

Certified Universal by Avijit Mukul Kishore
An impressionistic sketch of ‘the public’ as created by our cinema and its relationship with cinema itself. Screened at Berlin, Delhi, Karachi, London, Prague, Sheffield and Thiruvananthapuram.
Avijit Mukul Kishore is a filmmaker and cinematographer who works in different genres of filmmaking, with special interest in the documentary and interdisciplinary moving-image practice. He is actively involved in cinema pedagogy and works as a curator of film programmes. Some of his most acclaimed works include Nostalgia for the Future, Vertical City, Electric Shadows, Kali Salwaar, Bidesia in Bambai, I am Micro and An Old Dog's Diary.
Credits
Cinematographer: Avijit Mukul Kishore
Sound Recordist: Suresh Rajamani
Editor: Jabeen Merchant
Music: Masta Justy
Do Rafique by Rafeeq Ellias
Rafeeq meets Rafique Bagdadi, an extraordinary living archive of the city and its cinema, and explores the cinema city through him. Screened at Delhi and Prague.
An international award winning advertising and magazine photographer, Rafeeq Ellias has shot many documentaries. The Legend of Fat Mama was his first documentary as director and scriptwriter which won two National Awards and the Best Short Film Award at the Mumbai International Film Festival.
Credits
Cinematographers: Rafeeq Elias, Sudeep Sengupta
Sound Recordists: Girish Ramtele
Editors: Shweta Venkat, Abhro Bannerjee
Sound Designer: Tapan Bhattacharya
The Cinema City series (2010) was co-produced by Madhusree Dutta, Majlis. Madhusree is a filmmaker, curator, author and cultural activist.
Producer and Commissioning Editor: Rajiv Mehrotra
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.o....
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, www.civilsocie..., psbt.org/wp-co..., www.thehindu.c..., psbt.org/wp-co...)
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.
Produced by PSBT, for and in partnership with Doordarshan India.
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Last updated: June 2020