“India’s GreenHeart Dusharla Satyanarayana” moves up into semi-finalist category of Cannes World Film Festival

A documentary titled “India’s GreenHeart Dusharla Satyanarayana” directed by Chilkuri Sushil Rao of Hyderabad, India, has moved up into the semi-finalist category at the Cannes World Film Festival to be held at Cannes, French Riviera, France on April 17, 2023. The entry is in the best director – documentary short. The documentary was earlier accepted as a submission for the film.

“India’s GreenHeart Dusharla Satyanarayana” is about 69-year-old Dusharla Satyanarayana, a nature lover and environmentalist who created a forest on his 70 acre of ancestral land at Raghavapuram near Suryapet town in Telangana, India. He started developing the forest more than six decades ago and preserves it.

In the Telangana International Film Festival (TIFF) held in December 2022 in Hyderabad, the documentary won the Special Jury Award and was screened at Prasad Labs Preview Theatre as part of the festival.

Another documentary made by Chilkuri Sushil Rao titled “The Great Indian Tamarind Tree” on the tree that saved 150 lives during the 1908 Musi River floods in Hyderabad was selected as an official entry at the 11th Mumbai Shorts International Film Festival in December 2022.

A documentary titled “On Trail of the Genetic Code” made by Chilkuri Sushil Rao has been submitted for the prestigious  “Festival de Cannes”. The 76^th Cannes Festival – 2023 will be held from May 16-27, 2023.