Mrinal Desai

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Posts from the ‘documentary’ category

Sep 2022: ‘To Kill a Tiger’ screens at TIFF

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June 2021, Toronto: Filming for CBC’s “The Nature of Things” with Nathalie Bibeau

July 2019, Tokyo : Filming for Aya Domenig’s feature documentary begins

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May 2019, India : ‘Send Us Your Brother’ wraps

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2018 : Earthrise’s Ladakh Ice Stupas wins the Gold World Medal for Environment and Ecology

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  A documentary looking at the situation 10 years after the Financial Crisis. Directed by Talya Tibbon, Produced by Thomson Reuters for CJTN.

‘After The Fall’ : 10 years after the Financial Crisis

2017-2018 : Principal Photography on Nisha Pahuja’s ‘Send Us Your Brother’

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Feb 2017 : Earthrise – Al Jazeera

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June 2016 : Lingshed for Nat Geo

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April 2016 : Fabric of Indian Design

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Coming soon

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‘The Day the Sun Fell’ premieres at Locarno 2015. More about the film here. Teaser here.

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“Terror at the Mall” nominated for Current Affairs BAFTA.

“Dan Reed’s film for the This World strand is some sort of terrible masterpiece. It’s like watching the planes crash into the World Trade Centre and listening to the accounts of the survivors : it transfixes you with such appalled and disbelieving horror that you almost forget to breathe.”

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Nisha Pahuja’s ‘The World Before Her’ releasing in theaters across India on June 6. After a successful kickstarter campaign to raise funds for its India campaign ‘The World Before Her’ will get its theatrical release in India on June 6th. Later in the year the…

June 2014 : ‘The World Before Her’ releasing on June 6

March 2014 : Nairobi

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  Filming in Mumbai for PBS Frontline’s ‘A Prism of Terror’. Directed by Tom Jennings.

Jan 2014 : A Prism of Terror

Sep 2013 : Hiroshima : Final Schedule on ‘The Day the Sun Fell’

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Filming for Spandan Banerjee’s documentary, ‘Volume One’, a look at how changing India and its tourist trade has appropriated the English language.

July 2013 : Old Delhi and Agra

Filming in Hiroshima for Aya Domenig’s  feature documentary, “The Day the Sun Fell”. A film about violence and peace, voices and silence, life and death.

August 2012 : Hiroshima

April, May 2012 : ‘The World Before Her’ wins at Tribeca & Hot Docs 2012

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Filming in Japan for Dan Reed’s “Children of the Tsunami”. Looking at the aftermath of the March 11, 2012 tsunami through the eyes of children. To be aired on BBC & SWR on the first anniversary of the tsunami.

Oct 2011 : Miyagi, Sendai & Fukushima, Japan

Dan Reed wins the BAFTA for Director (Factual) for his ‘Battle for Haiti’.

May 2011 : BAFTA for ‘Battle for Haiti’ !

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Filming in NYC for Dan Reed’s “Ground Zero Mosque”. An inside look at the controversy that erupted in 2010 around the Islamic community centre and mosque coming up near the World Trade Centre site. For PBS Frontline and Channel 4’s primtime slots on the 10th…

Feb-Mar 2011 : New York City

Filming in Haiti for Dan Reed’s “The Battle for Haiti”. An incisive look into a country, devasted by an earthquake and its own tragic history, attempting to resurrect itself. For PBS Frontline and Channel 4 Dispatches. To be screened on the 1st anniversary of the…

Sep 2010 : Haiti

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