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Indra Productions, Inc., and Wilderness Films India Ltd. Win Telly Award

(Brooksville, Florida, 2005) - Indra Productions, Inc., a multinational film and video production company, recently received a Telly Award for its documentary India in Transition. As the first chapter in a two-part series that examines the country’s past and present social, political, and economic climate, India in Transition explores the birth and growth of India and its people into the world’s largest democracy.

By incorporating the insights and experiences of Indian citizens, including politicians, sociologists, medical professionals, holistic practitioners, business people, media experts, and artists, Indra Productions, Inc. and its partner, Wilderness Films India Ltd., paint a poignant mosaic of India’s journey and emergence into the world marketplace.

"India in Transition is a masterful piece of storytelling that gives voice to a country's struggle to form and restructure its social, political, educational, and health care systems," said Joan Hartogs, Executive VP, LandMark Media, Inc.

"Indra Productions' efforts have propelled India's worldview image from that of a struggling country to that of a vibrant democracy already participating in the global arena."

Producer/Director Archie R. Scott, and Wilderness Films India Ltd. produced the two-part series. Production and post-production was completed at Wilderness Films India Ltd., a state-of-the-art film and broadcast production facility offering High Definition production and post on a variety of formats. The documentary series is targeted both at the broadcast and educational non-broadcast markets, and India in Transition has been sold to Science and Humanities for the non-broadcast market. Worldwide distribution is being handled by La Lee D. du Monceau at Advantage Media Group.

Indra Productions, Inc. and Wilderness Films India Ltd. are continuing their award-winning partnership and have teamed up to produce other programs, including Health Palaces - India, which highlights the growing popularity of Ayurvedic health spas; Raja's Kitchen, a co-production with Star TV; and Over the Himalaya, a half-hour, non-narrative video program about the Himalayan range that is intended for the international digital video disc (DVD) marketplace.

For information about Indra Productions, Inc., and Wilderness Films India Ltd. productions, contact us via email at wfil@wildfilmsindia.com. Information about distribution of India in Transition and Health Palaces - India may be obtained by contacting La Lee D. du Monceau, Advantage Media Group. Raja's Kitchen is distributed by Executive Producers Services for PBS.

The Telly Awards were created to honor and give recognition to outstanding non-network television commercials, videos, and films. Entries are not judged against each other. Instead, past winners judge the entries based on individual merit. Receiving a Telly statuette is a prestigious honor awarded to fewer than 7-10 percent of the more than 10,000 entries submitted each year.