Thodi si zameen, thoda aasmaan

Director: Shashi Ghosh Gupta 8’/2009 /English

‘Thodi Si Zameen, Thoda Aasmaan’ has been showcased at the City Possible Film Festival 2012, organized by the National University of Singapore; Jeevika 2010 Asia Livelihood Documentary Film Festival at New Delhi; Madurai International Documentary & Short Film Festival and Persistence Resistance Film Festival at New Delhi.

Shashi Ghosh Gupta is a Filmmaking alumna of Xaviers’ Institute of Communication (XIC), Mumbai. She is an author and a documentary filmmaker, presently based in Ahmedabad. Besides ‘Thodi Si Zameen, Thoda Aasmaan’ Shashi has also made ‘Arzoo’, a documentary on Sulekha Ali, a young Muslim woman, who underwent an astonishing transformation post the 2002 Gujarat riots. ‘Arzoo’ has been screened in several Film Festivals and venues, including:

  • Madurai International Documentary & Short Film Festival
  • Persistence Resistance Film Festival, New Delhi
  • Abhivyakti 2010 – Ravi Bharati Bihar Video Festival, Patna
  • Sarojini Naidu School of Arts & Communications, Hyderabad
  • Samsung Women’s International Film Festival 2012, Chennai
  • ‘Our Lives To Live’ Festival of Films Against Gender Violence, Gwalior, Bhopal and Kaithal, Haryana