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Film : AT MY DOORSTEP
A film by Nishtha Jain
Documentary / 70 min / Hindi with Eng subtitles / India / 2009
Synopsis : A closer look at those who come to the filmmaker’s door becomes a way of entering a parallel world of garbage collectors, domestic workers, delivery boys, watchmen — all those who labour long hours in difficult conditions to make middle and upper class lives in the city of Bombay more comfortable.
These providers of services and goods often remain faceless and nameless. They are, like the people who enjoy their services, mainly migrants, but their presence here is more sharply defined by the lack of survival options back home. Nothing else explains why they should bear with such harsh living and unfair working conditions.
The film looks at the crisscrossing of various lives in the filmmaker’s housing colony, gleaning from this microcosm a sense of how millions work, interact and struggle for a firmer foothold in an indifferent, often hostile megacity.
Film : AT MY DOORSTEP
A film by Nishtha Jain
Documentary / 70 min / Hindi with Eng subtitles / India / 2009
Synopsis : A closer look at those who come to the filmmaker’s door becomes a way of entering a parallel world of garbage collectors, domestic workers, delivery boys, watchmen — all those who labour long hours in difficult conditions to make middle and upper class lives in the city of Bombay more comfortable.
These providers of services and goods often remain faceless and nameless. They are, like the people who enjoy their services, mainly migrants, but their presence here is more sharply defined by the lack of survival options back home. Nothing else explains why they should bear with such harsh living and unfair working conditions.
The film looks at the crisscrossing of various lives in the filmmaker’s housing colony, gleaning from this microcosm a sense of how millions work, interact and struggle for a firmer foothold in an indifferent, often hostile megacity.
Crew Credits
Direction & Editing Nishtha Jain
Research & Script Nishtha Jain, Smriti Nevatia
Film Consultant Smriti Nevatia
Cinematography Rakesh Haridas
Location sound Indrajit Neogi
Sound design Niraj Gera
Film Festival Screenings
Premiere – Isola Film Festival, Slovenia, 2009
Dokma, Croatia, 2009
FFPDM, Montreal, 2010
IFFLA, 2010
Dokfest, Munich, 2010
IDSFFK, 2010
Best Documentary Award Indian Film Festival Los Angeles, 2010
About the Director
Nishtha Jain is an internationally-recognized filmmaker based in Mumbai best known for Gulabi Gang (2012), Lakshmi and Me (2007) and City of Photos (2004). Her films interrogate lived experience at the intersection of gender, caste and class. They explore the political in the personal and uncover the mechanisms of privilege.
She’s a Chicken & Egg Award winner (2020); Member of the Academy of Motion Pictures and Sciences (AMPAS); Film Independent Global Media Maker Fellow (2019-20); Recipient of Fulbright-Nehru Academic and Professional Excellence Fellowship (2019).
After postgraduate training at Jamia Mass Communication Research Centre, New Delhi, she pursued Film Direction at the Film and Television Institute of India, Pune prior to launching a career in independent cinema.
She’s been working across various platforms –documentary, narrative, virtual reality and TV series. Her films have been widely screened at film festivals and art-house cinemas and broadcast on TV. They have won over 25 international awards and have been reviewed by print-media and academic journals.
Nishtha has served as a juror at IDFA, ZFF, Cinema Verité and IDSFFK. She’s given lectures and master classes at numerous universities internationally, including Stanford, NYU, Wellesley College, UCSB, Northwestern University, UT Austin, Cambridge University, University of London, St. Andrews University, Heidelberg, Danish Film School, FTII Pune, India, Satyajit Ray Film & TV Institute.
Select Filmography (Direction)
The Golden Thread (WIP) Summer with Roxanne (WIP) Saboot (Proof) (2019) Submerged (2016) Change the Story (2015) Gulabi Gang (2012) At My Doorstep (2009) Lakshmi and Me (2007) 6 Yards to Democracy (2007) (Co-director - Smriti Nevatia) Call it Slut, 2006 City of Photos, 2005
The film was supported by HIVOS, Netherlands Alter-Ciné Foundation, Canada
Watch Trailer here – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9bWWx1GeqA
Email: raintrefilms@gmail.com
Websites: www.nishthajainfilm.com
Produced by Raintree films © 2009
Nishtha Jain is an internationally-recognized filmmaker based in Mumbai best known for Gulabi Gang (2012), Lakshmi and Me (2007) and City of Photos (2004). Her films interrogate lived experience at the intersection of gender, caste and class. They explore the political in the personal and uncover the mechanisms of privilege.
She’s a Chicken & Egg Award winner (2020); Member of the Academy of Motion Pictures and Sciences (AMPAS); Film Independent Global Media Maker Fellow (2019-20); Recipient of Fulbright-Nehru Academic and Professional Excellence Fellowship (2019).
After postgraduate training at Jamia Mass Communication Research Centre, New Delhi, she pursued Film Direction at the Film and Television Institute of India, Pune prior to launching a career in independent cinema.
She’s been working across various platforms –documentary, narrative, virtual reality and TV series. Her films have been widely screened at film festivals and art-house cinemas and broadcast on TV. They have won over 25 international awards and have been reviewed by print-media and academic journals.
Nishtha has served as a juror at IDFA, ZFF, Cinema Verité and IDSFFK. She’s given lectures and master classes at numerous universities internationally, including Stanford, NYU, Wellesley College, UCSB, Northwestern University, UT Austin, Cambridge University, University of London, St. Andrews University, Heidelberg, Danish Film School, FTII Pune, India, Satyajit Ray Film & TV Institute.
Select Filmography (Direction)
The Golden Thread (WIP) Summer with Roxanne (WIP) Saboot (Proof) (2019) Submerged (2016) Change the Story (2015) Gulabi Gang (2012) At My Doorstep (2009) Lakshmi and Me (2007) 6 Yards to Democracy (2007) (Co-director - Smriti Nevatia) Call it Slut, 2006 City of Photos, 2005
The film was supported by HIVOS, Netherlands Alter-Ciné Foundation, Canada
Watch Trailer here – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9bWWx1GeqA
Email: raintrefilms@gmail.com
Websites: www.nishthajainfilm.com
Produced by Raintree films © 2009
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