Qissa-e-Parsi

Описание: Winner of the National Film Award, the top Award at Trivandrum and screened at festivals across Delhi, Madrid, Panaji, Seattle and Thrissur, a humours take on the Parsi community, its faith and ways of life.

Directed by Divya Cowasji and Shilpi Gulati | 2014
Producer and Commissioning Editor: Rajiv Mehrotra

Divya Cowasji and Shilpi Gulati are award winning documentary filmmakers, photographers and researchers. Their work engages with issues of gender, public space and documenting oral histories of minority communities. They have collaborated with NGOs and institutions across the country, to generate training and research material that has been showcased as films and online archives.

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....

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, https://www.civilsocietyonline.com/ci..., https://psbt.org/wp-content/uploads/2..., https://www.thehindu.com/features/cin..., https://psbt.org/wp-content/uploads/2...)

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.

Credits
Cinematographers: Divya Cowasji, Jall Cowasji
Editor: Shilpi Gulati
Colorist, Additional Editor: Jall Cowasji
Music Composer: Anindo Bose

Produced by PSBT, for and in partnership with the External Publicity and Public Diplomacy Division, Ministry of External Affairs
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Last updated: July 2020