Person with Desires

A personal account of self-realisation, expression and desire, while living with Dopamine Responsive Dystonia, causing severe loss of mobility.

Directed by Swati Chakroborty | 2019
Producer and Commissioning Editor: Rajiv Mehrotra

Swati Chakroborty has a Masters in Economics from Jadavpur University and has been working in the field of Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) for over 30 years. She has also worked in audio-visual media, as researcher, script writer and director, engaged in themes of gender sensitivity, human rights and marginal cultures. Her film I’m Jeeja, for PSBT, won the National Film Award and has been screened at various national and international festivals.

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 is a not-for-profit that has nurtured and supported the production of independent documentary films by a diversity of filmmakers from across India. Over two decades, it has 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 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
Direction Assistant: Teesta Lahiri
Researcher, Script Writer: Swati Chakraborty
Cinematographer: Ladly Mukhopadhaya
Sound Recordists: Biswajit Maity, Tapan Bhattacharya
Editor: Saikat Das
Music Composers: Pradip Chatterjee, Krishanu Ghosh

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

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