ABOUT

'TRINETRA' means 'third eye' in Sanskrit - the all-seeing cosmic eye - the imagination and the camera as third eye. Trinetra Productions is based in Toronto, Canada and Mumbai, India. Our production house is a little different, a little left of centre. Telling stories that look under the expected and question the status quo. We create the stories we wish to see, whether they are documentary or drama. Our films are truly international stories that are intimate yet epic in nature, that tell the human story in the most moving way possible.

Award winning writer-director Rama Rau trained in films on one of the largest film sets in Mumbai, India. Now based in Toronto, Canada, her passion is to make films and create content that are cross-cultural and examine "the extraordinariness of ordinary lives".

Rama's dramatic short film Aftermath, a poetic look at the Mumbai terror attack, had its World Premiere at the Cannes Film Festival 2011.

Her feature documentary, The Market (2010) had its World Premiere at IDFA Amsterdam (International Documentary Festival of Amsterdam), where it screened to a full house. Also screening at various other festivals across the world, including the Prague International Festival, The Market is a never-before journey into the dangerous underworld of illegal international kidney trade and was filmed across Canada and India over three intense years.

Rama has won the Hot Docs Don Haig Award, the Tom Shoebridge Screenwriting Award, received the 'Filmmaker of the Year' award by the Toronto Business Forum and has been named a Quebecor Fellow of DOC, Toronto. She is an alumnus of the Momentum program of the National Film Board of Canada and Doc Lab at Hot Docs (2007). She serves on various arts council juries as well as on the DOC Toronto Board. (Documentary Organization of Canada)