''Purple Skies'' is a 2014 movie directed by Sridhar Rangayan and produced by

Public Service Broadcasting Trust The Public Service Broadcasting Trust is an Indian non-governmental organisation. It helps independent documentary film-makers to work free from commercial and political pressures. It hosts the annual Open Frame film festival in New Delhi ...

and Solaris Pictures. It documents the opinions of lesbians, bisexuals and trans men in India. It was broadcast on

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in 2015. The documentary film showcases stories of the LGBT community about living in India and is the first documentary on LGBT topics to be screened on a national network,

. As of 2015, it has been screened at 27 international film festivals.

Cast

Betu Singh Betu Singh (25 November 1964 to 4 October 2013) was a lesbian rights activist, born in an Army family in Kolkata. She set up the Sangini Trust, an NGO based in Delhi under the umbrella of the Naz Foundation, in 1997 to fight for lesbian rights. Th ...

Sonal Giani Sonal is a given Indian name originating from the Hindu religion. It is a unisex name often nicknamed as “Sona” and means "curious", "golden", or “precious” in Hindi, Marathi, and Gujarati. A similar name is Sonali. It is also a name used ...

* Maya Lisa-Shanker *

Shobhna S Kumar Shobhana S. Kumar, an Indian female entrepreneur, who started India's first online queer (LGBT) bookstore, Queer-ink.com. Early life Shobhna Kumar was born and brought up in Fiji. When she was 18, she along with her family left for Australia a ...

* Raj Kanaujiya

Screenings

* 38 Frameline San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival * GAZE International LGBT Film Festival, Dublin * 5th Annual Chicago South Asian Film Festival, 2014 * 13th Prague Indian Film Festival, 2014 * 10th Gay Film Night International Film Festival, Romania, 2014 * 18th

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, USA, 2014 * 13th Q! Film Festival, Indonesia, 2014 * Trikone Australasia Queer Film Night, Melbourne, Australia, 2014 * 3rd Everybody's Perfect, Geneva, Switzerland, 2014 * South Asian Film Festival, North Carolina, 2014 * Florence Queer Festival, Italy, 2014 * Festival of Lesbian Identities, Budapest, 2014 * Sappho LGBT Film Festival, Kolkata, 2014 * 5th

KASHISH Mumbai International Queer Film Festival The KASHISH Mumbai International Queer Film Festival (also known as Mumbai International Queer Film Festival and Mumbai International Queer Film Festival) is an annual LGBT event that has been held in Mumbai, India, since 2010. The film festiva ...

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References

External links

IMDB

Solaris Pictures
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