Somewhere Nowhere
Exploring the universe of a city, ever reincarnating, to accommodate newer narratives. Screened at Delhi and Trivandrum.
Directed by Reema Kaur, Shashank Walia | 2019
Producer and Commissioning Editor: Rajiv Mehrotra
Reema Kaur has a post-graduate diploma in Film Editing from the Film and Television Institute of India. She has edited several short films, including the National Award winning fiction Aushadh, documentary Maru Ro Moti (Docedge/ Busan) and videos for the Lalit Kala Academy. Reema conducts filmmaking workshops for school students, including one at the inaugural National Children's Film Festival. She has conceptualised and assisted on several short films, music videos and documentaries and is currently working on an international documentary Toy Stories.
Shashank Walia is a post-graduate in Mass Communication from AJK MCRC, Jamia Millia Islamia, and in Cinematography from the Film and Television Institute of India. He has written and directed a short fiction - In the month of Love. He has shot various international documentaries, including Love in the time of Hate for NHK Japan. He was Associate Cinematographer for the Hindi feature Soni. Shashank takes lectures on art aesthetics and cinematography at various media institutes, including Xavier Institute of Communication, Mumbai. He won the Best Cinematography Award at the DMCS Film Festival, Pune, for his film Yaan.
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 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajiv_M....
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PSBT is 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
Assistant Director: Ranjit Nair
Researchers, Script Writers: Shashank Walia, Reema Kaur
Cinematographer: Shashank Walia
Sound Recordists: Shashank Kothari, Reema Kaur
Editor, Sound Designer: Reema Kaur
Sound Mixer: Saurabh Kumar
Produced by PSBT, for and in partnership with Doordarshan India.
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Last updated: June 2020