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Docs by Moundain is a collection of handpicked, good and free documentaries on India available for free in the internet.

Rita Banerji

Rita is one of the leading wildlife and environment filmmakers in India, having made multiple award winning films under Dusty Foot Productions. This includes ‘The Wild Meat Trail’ that won the Panda award, also known as the Green Oscar in 2010 at Wildscreen UK.

In 2017 she was awarded the National Geographic – CMS Prithvi Ratna Award for contribution to environment through films. In 2015 she initiated the Green Hub Project ( A North East Network – Dusty Foot Initiative), which looks at leveraging the power of youth in conservation action and social change through the power of the visual medium.

With a growing alumni of Green Hub fellows becoming the spokesperson for environment conservation and sustainable futures in the northeast region, the model is now getting initiated in other parts of India. Rita got inducted as an Ashoka Fellow in 2019.


Rita BanerjiDirector
Saving the Wild (25:00)
The Film understands wild life rescue and rehabilitation in one of the prime wild life habitats of India – Kaziranga, Assam. The Center for Wild Life Rehabilitation and Conservation (CWRC) along with the forest department has been rescuing animals for over a decade. Many of these juvenile animals are successfully hand-raised and rehabilitated back in […]
Gaur in my garden (26:00)
The Film looks at human-animal interactions and conflicts arising in Kotagiri, Nilgiris – a key biodiversity hotspot in India, through the experiences of the residents of the Keystone Foundation Campus with the Gaur or the Indian Bison, a threatened and endangered species. Rita Banerji is a conservation filmmaker. Under her banner Dusty Foot Productions, she has […]
Saving the Wild – Wildlife Rescue and Rehabilitation (26:00)
Winner of four awards at Delhi and Kolkata, and screened at festivals across Bangalore, California, Gwalior, Guwahati, Krakow, Matsalu, Pokhara, Thiruvananthapuram, Thrissur and Vaasa, among others, wild life rescue and rehabilitation in one of the prime wild life habitats of India – Kaziranga, Assam. Directed by Rita Banerji | 2016 Producer and Commissioning Editor: Rajiv […]