About Us

DUSTY FOOT PRODUCTIONSDusty Foot Productions, established in 2002 and based in New Delhi,India, represents a team of young wildlife filmmakers who all share a common vision – of establishing a place recognized for films on wildlife and environment. This commitment comes not only as filmmakers but as individuals who love nature and are concerned about its future.

At Dusty Foot, our endeavor is to incorporate this commitment into mainstream media . Our objective is to bring out a balanced approach and focus on solutions that exist or are being attempted.

Over the last four years ‘The Right To Survive ‘ and ‘Earth calling’ by Dusty Foot have won awards at various film festivals. In Vatavaran 2009 ( premier wildilife and environment film festival), ‘The Wild Meat trail’, ‘On the Right Track’ and ‘A Shawl to Die For’ have been nominated in the wildlife conservation and livelihood category. More…

DUSTY FOOTS

The core team.

RITA BANERJIRita heads Dusty Foot Productions, incidentally it is her dusty feet that inspired the name of our company ‘dusty foot’! A wildlife – environment filmmaker and cameraperson, with over 15 years of experience Rita has produced, directed and filmed many award winning documentaries and television programs… More…

SHILPI SHARMAShilpi grew up hoping to be a wildlife filmmaker and is quite pleasantly surprised to be living her dream. A partner at Dusty Foot Productions, she has spent more than ten years now working on documentaries and television programs related to environment and wildlife… More…

IMRANA KHANImrana joined Dusty Foot in 2007 and in these two years has become a core part of the Dusty Foot team. Imrana manages all the production and coordination for the Dusty Foot Projects. She is also training as a cameraperson – editor and has already made a considerable headway… More…

FREE FOOTS

The freelancers who

work closely with

Dusty Foot projects.

Shibani or ‘Bani’ as we all call her, is an integral part of the Dusty Foot team. Even if we try, we just can’t do without her! Shibani and Rita have worked together on ‘The Last Migration’ and ‘Shores of Silence’ – the two Panda Award (Green Oscar) winning films from India, before Dusty Foot was established… More...

Arjun Sen popularly known as Aj, is a musician and composer. Aj has a knack of getting under the skin of our projects and coming out with just the right sound and feel for the tracks. Great to brainstorm and work with Aj handles music for all the key Dusty Foot Projects… More…

Payal has been involved with wildlife film and education work for over 10 years now. Since the last 6 years she has focused on wildlife and conservation education as her main line of work. She has been a part of several international education teams that have taught issues on tigers, hoolock gibbons … More…

Nina is a filmmaker, scriptwriter and editor based in Bangalore, India. She is a founder/partner of elephant corridor; a film collective that makes documentaries on environment and human right issues. Nina likes collaborating on projects and welcomes fresh perspectives in her own work as well… More…

A graduate of MCRC, Jamia University, New Delhi, Pooja has worked on a diverse range of film and television programs as a freelance editor over the last 6 years. Pooja has a great feel for visuals and sound, and makes any footage work into a good sequence… More…

Madhyama Subramanian, known mainly as Maddy, graduated from the National Institute of Design in 2004 with specialisation in film and video communication. Having worked at Moving Images, Delhi and The Energy and Resources Institute, Delhi, (2004 – 2008), she is currently working as a freelancer… More…

Sidhartha has his own design company for corporate communications – MediaKen Productions. He has been associated with Dusty Foot right from our first production ‘Under the Sun’. With a strong grip on both 3d and 2d graphic work and animation, Sidharth is of immense value to any project… More…