Vertical City

Winner of Awards at London and Trivandrum and screened at festivals across Bangalore, Copenhagen, Delhi, Kochi, Melbourne, Prague and Rotterdam, a visual exploration of the oppressive spaces and living conditions in a suburb of Bombay.

Directed by Avijit Mukul Kishore | 2011
Producer and Commissioning Editor: Rajiv Mehrotra

Avijit Mukul Kishore is a filmmaker and cinematographer who works in different genres of filmmaking, with special interest in the documentary and interdisciplinary moving-image practice. He is actively involved in cinema pedagogy and works as a curator of film programmes. Some of his most acclaimed works include Nostalgia for the Future, Electric Shadows, Kali Salwaar, Bidesia in Bambai, I am Micro and An Old Dog's Diary.

Rajiv Mehrotra is the founding 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. He serves as the Trustee/ Secretary of the Foundation for Universal Responsibility of HH the Dalai Lama (For more, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajiv_M....

PSBT was a not-for-profit that nurtured and supported the production of independent documentary films by a diversity of filmmakers from across India. Over two decades, it produced close to 700 documentary films, each film averaging two film festival selections and every second film an award. (Read more here: www.psbt.org, https://www.civilsocietyonline.com/ci..., https://psbt.org/wp-content/uploads/2..., https://www.thehindu.com/features/cin..., https://psbt.org/wp-content/uploads/2...)

PSBT was led by some of India's iconic film personalities - Adoor Gopalakrishnan, Mrinal Sen, Shyam Benegal, Sharmila Tagore, with Fali Nariman and Kiran Karnik. From its inception in 2000, Tulika Srivastava was a key member of the Team, joined in 2005, by Ridhima Mehra.

Credits
Cinematographer: Avijit Mukul Kishore
Sound Recordist: Suresh Rajamani
Editor: Rikhav Desai
Music Composer: Simon Fisher Turner
Sound Editors: Pritam Das, Boby John

Produced by PSBT, for and in partnership with Doordarshan India.
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Last updated: August 2020