STAINED GLASS-20150608

The Film is a sequel to the Film Whose Children? made in 1986 - a portrait of child workers in the glass factories of Firozabad. Two and a half decades and two anti-child labour laws later, this Film revisits the same town, the same children, now with children of their own. / / Directed by MEERA DEWAN / Producer & Commissioning Editor - RAJIV MEHROTRA / / Pune, India / / Meera has extensively filmed documentaries in India, South Asia, Vietnam, Germany and Canada. Her films have won over 21 international and national awards, including at the International Film Festival of India; Festival de films du femmes, France; Oberhausen Film Festival; Leipzig Film Festival; Reina Film Festival, France; Okomedia Film Festival and the Mumbai International Film Festival. She curates film programmes and has been on the juries of the Oberhausen, Leipzig, Okomedia, Freiberg, Indian Panorama and National Film Festivals. / / Rajiv Mehrotra is the 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. / / / / / PSBT is a not-for-profit that nurtures and supports the production of independent documentary films. Over two decades, it has produced some 700 documentary films. Each film averages two festival selections and every second film an award. / / Its Board of Trustees includes Adoor Gopalakrishnan, Fali Nariman, Kiran Karnik, Shyam Benegal, Sharmila Tagore and CEO, Prasar Bharati. / / CREDITS / CAMERA: Amarjeet, Sushmit Ghosh, Hitesh Kumar / EDITING: Satya Vivvek, Vishal Chauhan / SOUND: Varun Sahini / / Produced by PSBT supported by The Films Division, The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Government of India / http://www.psbt.org/; http://filmsdivision.org/ / / Festival and screening queries: [email protected]