Chilkuri Sushil Rao’s 'Captain’s Knock' documentary selected for two international film festivals

HYDERABAD: A documentary titled 'Captain’s Knock,' produced and directed by Hyderabad-based documentary filmmaker Chilkuri Sushil Rao, has been selected for two international film festivals.

The documentary was selected for the Red Fox International Film Festival in Tbilisi, Georgia, to be held in June 2024.

It was also officially selected for the Hollywood Best Indie Film Awards, an IMDb qualifying film festival. The announcement about the selection was made on May 17, 2024.

The documentary is about how six Indian seafarers, abandoned on a ship for two years, struggled to survive. They eventually emerged victorious, showing grit and determination in their difficult situation.

Original footage from the ship abandoned at sea forms the basis of the documentary, where the captain of the ship talks about the hardships seafarers face when they are literally abandoned without even being supplied with proper food and drinking water.

Thanks to the intervention of the Government of India and the Seafarers Associations, the seafarers were eventually able to disembark the ship and return to their families.