Team
- Sridhar Rangayan is a Bombay-based director/writer whose films present hard-hitting social issues and critique with warmth, compassion, and humour. His award-winning films The Pink Mirror, Yours Emotionally, and 68 Pages are at the forefront of India’s emergent queer cinema movement — ground-breaking in a country where homosexuality is illegal and socially unacceptable. In 2006, he was awarded the South Asian & Foreign Achievers Award which honours 50 achievers from around the world who have made an outstanding contribution in the global mainstream media. When not busy making films, Sridhar is an active member in several LGBT and HIV/AIDS community organizations in India.
- The Humsafar Trust, producer: The Humsafar Trust works with sexual minorities providing counselling, HIV testing and treatment facilities. Its Center for Excellence (CEFE) emphasizes research, capacity building of communities and media advocacy. The advocacy unit of Humsafar works on creating awareness and sensitization on issues of sexuality and HIV/AIDS through street plays, IEC materials and films. It has recently produced “Bridges of Hope,” a 28-minute educational film on issues of homosexuality and transgender for health care providers and State AIDS Control Societies in India.
- Solaris Pictures, associate producer/distributor: Solaris Pictures is perhaps the only Indian film production company that has consistently been making films on issues such as homosexuality and gay rights, films that engage the audience and initiate dialogues on issues dealing with health and sexuality, human rights, and the gay and transgender communities. Previous productions include The Pink Mirror, which has won two Best Film awards and was screened at over 72 festivals; and 68 Pages, which won the Silver Remi award at the 2008 WorldFest Houston. Solaris Pictures has pushed the envelope — as producer and as distributor — and in partnering with grassroots NGOs and CBOs in India, and international collaborators from around the world.
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