Looking at the wealth of India’s wild life and our responsibility towards conservation. Screened at Delhi and Mumbai.

Directed by Syed Fayaz | 2007
Producer and Commissioning Editor: Rajiv Mehrotra

Syed Fayaz is a National Award winner and has been the recipient of several prestigious media fellowships. He started his career with Television Today as a journalist for their video magazine Newstrack. He has worked with major broadcasters like BBC, Channel 4, Sony TV, Star News, TV Today, APTV, Discovery and National Geographic Channel in various capacities. A number of his news reports have been discussed on the floor of the Parliaments in India and Britain and some have even been instrumental in bringing in legislations.

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_Mehrotra).

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/cinema/psbt-story-630-films-230-awards-400-filmmakers/, https://psbt.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/OnGlobalScreens-Article.pdf, https://www.thehindu.com/features/cinema/in-the-channels-of-trust/article3942019.ece, https://psbt.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/PSBT-Real-Films-on-Real-India.jpg)

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
Editor: Shitiz Kapoor
Sound Recordists: Jai Prakash, Manish
Cinematographers: Ashok Banot, Prashant Kumar, Jigmt Thakpa, Manzoor Hussain, Lck Singh, Johnson Dass, Aakeel Hassan, Shafqut Habib, Nandan Saxena, Syed Fayaz

Produced by PSBT, for and in partnership with Doordarshan India.
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Last updated: August 2020