Mumbai: Emmy Award-winning Indian director Geeta Gandbhir and Oscar-winner Pakistani filmmaker Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy’s new documentary, ‘A Journey of a Thousand Miles: Peacekeepers’, will be showcased at Jio MAMI 17th Mumbai Film Festival.
The film, about Bangladeshi police officers, follows a unit of 160 women who, between June 2013 and July 2014, travelled far from their families to join UN Stabilising Mission in Haiti. They form one of the world’s first all female, predominantly Muslim peacekeeping units. It took three years to make the film during which both Geeta and Sharmeen regularly spent time with the women in Haiti and Bangladesh.
“Sharmeen, my co-director, co-producer is based in Pakistan, so she covered most of what we shot in Bangladesh and I handled Haiti because I’m based in NY (New York),” Geeta said.
