A series of 6 creative documentaries showing India through the eyes of Indian film makers

The series intends to show the flip side of India's development story - how different parts of India will be impacted by the process of rapid economic growth. The final selection procedure will start in co-operation with attached broadcasting channels.


Duration of each documentary: 25 minutes

This is a documentary project initiated by UNESCO and executed by Wiek Lenssen Filmprodukties.  In fact, the United Nations aims to stimulate more 'local media content' from developing countries. In April 2010, UNESCO took the initiative to bring together a selection of documentary filmmakers from Asia in a seminar that took place at Whistling Woods International Film Institute in Mumbai’s FilmCity in India. The goal of this event was to offer filmmakers resources and skills that can enable them to get their ideas produced, if necessary, in other parts of the world.

One of the outcomes of the intensive 6-day workshop was that around 20 proposals were developed in it and this was the start of a series of 1 hour documentaries under the title, 'India from the Inside' which have mostly grown out of the filmmakers’ continued engagement with certain subjects that they know closely. 

The filmmakers involved all originate from India. Those who are attached to the series are the same core group who had been instrumental in organising the initial workshop event. The European counterpart and executive producer is Wiek Lenssen, producer, filmmaker and seminar leader who is based in Europe/The Netherlands, Rut Gomez Sobrino from Unesco, based in Spain and Indranil Chakravarty, a professor in Asia's largest film school, Whistling Woods International in Mumbai, which had also hosted the seminar and will also be involved in the production of the series.