A young boy and his grandfather unite their desperate village against a crisis caused by toxic farming.
Team Bhoomi
Ramchandra PN
Writer, Director
Ramchandra PN is a 1991 graduate from The Film & TV Institute of India, situated in Pune. Based in Mumbai, he makes feature films, documentaries and TV shows. He has produced and directed many documentaries for the Films Division, UNDP, UNESCO and other organizations; as well as for the TV Serial SURABHI.
His programs have been broadcast in the BBC, Pogo, Doordarshan, ETV, UK Community and other TV Channels. His films 'Suddha' (The Cleansing Rites) and
‘Putaani Party’ have won the Best Indian Film at the Osean Cinefan Festival of Asian films, 2006 and the Swarna Kamal for the Best Children’s film at the 2009 National Film
Awards.
His latest offering ‘Miyar House’, is doing its film festival rounds, including the forthcoming Mumbai International Film Festival. He occasionally also dabbles with film academics occasionally conducting worships at various Film Institutes in India.
Richa Khandelwal Bhat
Executive Producer
Richa recently wrapped a successful stint as Television Producer for the reputed Proctors Theatre, Schenectady, New York. There she produced Impact, a weekly interview show with well known personalities in the Capital District Region of New York. She also conceptualized and produced SCCC presents MasterMinds, a quiz show with high school kids from all over Upstate New York. Her production credits also include Theatre Talk, a talk show with the cast and crew of famous Broadway shows.
Richa’s 1-hour documentary, Canada Curry, won the Special Jury Award at TV Cogeco’s Star Awards in Ontario, Canada in 2008. Her first short film, Aatma, won the Best Documentary Award at Millbrook International 3-Minute Film Festival in 2007 in Canada.
For three years before moving to North America, she worked as a television reporter and news anchor for Sahara Samay News Channel, India. She also worked as a freelance reporter for the Hindustan Times – India’s leading national daily. In her two years in the Toronto neighborhood, she wrote a column for the Peterborough Examiner and also worked on a number of independent film projects with local filmmakers.
She is currently taking a certificate course in Feature Film Writing at the University of California in LA. She also took a certificate course in Creative Writing at Trent University, Canada.
Keerthi Suresh
Executive Producer
Keerthi Suresh is a Filmmaker based in London currently employed at Prime Focus, UK. She has been also the Festival Programmer of the London Asian Film Festival since 2009.She has over 6 years of experience in the film, media & advertising Industry worldwide. She has directed, produced and worked in features, shorts & documentaries in both India and the UK. She was schooled in India and Oman, and acquired proficiency in the French language from CIEL, Brest and Sorbonne, Paris. She holds a Bachelor's Degree in Fine Arts (B.F.A), with a major in Advertising Design and Photography, from Sir JJ Institute of Applied Arts, University of Bombay, A Diploma in Filmmaking from the London Film Academy, London and a Masters in Broadcast Futures from Ravensbourne College of Design and Communication, United Kingdom. She is currently involved in the production of two feature films.
