City of PhotosIndia
2004, 60min.
 Script: Smriti Nevatia, Dir.: Nishtha Jain, Dir. of Phot.: Deepti Gupta, Compos.: Debojyoti Mishra, Sound: Gautam Nag, Gissy Michael.
This is a personal journey into neighborhood photo studios in Indian cities, a tour which discovers entire imaginary worlds in the smallest of spaces. People share their most personal photo fantasies, filled with romantic dreams and exuberant longings.Yet not everyone enjoys being photographed and not all photos are of happy moments. The cities in which these stories unfold themselves become backdrops, and their gritty urban reality - a counterpoint to the photo palaces. | Jain, Nishtha Nishtha Jain is an independent filmmaker. She is a graduate of the Film and Television Institute of India (FTII), Pune and Jamia Mass Communication Research Centre, New Delhi. Her thesis Jam invalid won the Gold Plaque in The Chicago IFF in 1999. Since then she has made several documentaries for TV, including a series on the conflict in Northeast India.
Filmography
Jam Invalid (1999, short feature), Northeast – A Case for Resurgence (1999, documentary series), Shadows out of Time (2002, Co-directed with Shobhit Jain), City of Photos (2004), Call It Slut (2006), Six Yards to Democracy (2006, Co-directed with Smriti Nevatia), Lakshmi and Me (2007).
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