A documentary film ‘Powerless’ based on the backdrop of Kanpur
is selected for Berlin Film Festival. This film, already much acclaimed in the
international circuit, is based on the power crisis of Kanpur district of Uttar
Pradesh.
Watch the trailer here:
The director of the
film Fahad Mustafa’s first feature-length documentary ‘FC Chechnya’ was
premiered at the 2010 ‘This Human World Film Festival’ in Vienna and won the
Audience Award for Best Film. Born in Kanpur Fahad has lived, studied and
worked in India, the Middle East, Europe and the United States. Previously,
Fahad was a researcher with the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture, and a
freelance writer on energy and development issues in India. He was also
Assistant Director of Hot as Hell (2006), a documentary on underground fires
that plague coal mines in India.
The Co-Director/Producer of the film Deepti Kakkar has
worked on several projects in the field of sustainable livelihood development
focusing on South Asia, with international NGOs and research groups. She was an
Erasmus Mundus Scholar and has previously directed a film on microfinance in
India for CARE. Deepti worked on story-development and as production manager on
FC Chechnya.
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