India's Healing Forests

The amazing ways in nature affects the body, mind and spirit. Screened at Colorado, Delhi, Ithaca, Los Olivos and Madrid.

Directed by Nitin Das | 2018
Producer and Commissioning Editor: Rajiv Mehrotra

Nitin Das runs an independent production house that specialises in creating films with socially relevant themes - films that tell stories of uncommon people and extraordinary places. His Youtube channel has over a 100 million views. Nitin is an Asia Society Fellow, being one amongst 21 people chosen from across Asia each year. He has also won a special award by the British Council for creative entrepreneurship in the social sector.

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
Cinematographer, Editor, Script Writer: Nitin Das
Musician: Borrtex
Voice Over Artist: Mina Lepps
Assistant: Arghadeep Barua

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

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