[Reader-list] PSBT Call for Proposals 2009

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PSBT invites proposals from filmmakers exploring India’s Diversity:  
its celebrations, challenges and opportunities.
 
We seek proposals for films that will meaningfully engage with 
diversities in its myriad manifestations embracing issues such as (but 
not limited to) the environment, religion, the arts, culture, rituals, 
economic systems, personal and social histories, knowledge systems, 
livelihoods, sexualities etc.

They could explore these in contexts such as personal quests, national 
identity, political action, people's movements, globalisation, issues 
of equity, etc. Diversities can be a window to our varied histories, an 
understanding of the unfolding present and a lens for imagining new 
futures. While celebrating and applauding them, we also seek 
explorations that enquire into processes and forces that both nurture 
and threaten them.  
 
While there is an increasing recognition of pluralism and diversity and 
their absolute indispensability to human and social existence, is there 
a shrinking of space for their expression? What do these diversities 
mean in terms of our everyday lives and experiences and the larger 
wholes we are part of? What is the impact of globalisation and 
transnational developments on diversities? What is the relationship 
between diversity and identity? How have these diversities shaped our 
histories, cultures, polities and continue to impact them in 
contemporary times? How do these m
ultiple diversities interact with 
each other, respond to and evolve with changing times and forces that 
may either challenge or resurrect them? Have we forgotten to 
acknowledge some diversities in our need for a formal notion of 
uniformity? How do we ensure they are preserved before we exhume them?
 
We look forward to innovative and creative proposals that articulate 
varied diversities in their many manifestations.
 
The duration of the films will be 26 minutes. Budgets will average Rs 4 
lakh and ordinarily range from Rs 2.5 lakh to Rs 4.5 lakh. Proposals 
must be received by 15 October 2009 using the Preliminary Proposal 
Submission Format, available on our website. 


Filmmakers can submit ONLY ONE proposal.
 
Proposals prominently marked REGULAR COMMISSIONING PROPOSAL, must be 
sent ONLY by POST or COURIER to:

PSBT
A 86, Basement
Nizamuddin East
New Delhi 110 013








Public Service Broadcasting Trust
A 86, Nizamuddin East
New Delhi 110 013
India
91-11-24355941 / 41826115
www.psbt.org