tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-223030412009-07-12T14:57:38.217+05:30Documentary Films... Filmmaking Workshops... Manipur... Irom Sharmila... AFSPA 1958... and some musingsKavita Joshihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04148048836973218766noreply@blogger.comBlogger49125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22303041.post-22060384024743582942009-07-02T16:19:00.004+05:302009-07-12T14:57:38.233+05:30

LEARN FILMMAKING HANDS-ONScript • Shoot • Edit • Learn to make your own filmsINTENSIVE PROGRAMMES IN FILMMAKINGStarting mid-May and mid-September. Held in Delhi. Regn opens 23 March.PRIOR EXPERIENCE NOT REQUIREDWEEKEND OPTIONS FOR WORKING PEOPLETHE PROGRAMMES ARE:• The Basic Workshop( 250+ hrs; full-time programme; mid-May to mid-July) Introduces participants to the basics of directing, camera,

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"Tarav...To Return"wins the 2nd Prize at the Amity Engineering Short Film FestivalMade by participants of the Intensive Summer Workshop 2007, Tarav is a testimonial of a Kashmiri Pandit woman living in Delhi with her family, which had fled their village in the Kashmir valley when she was just a child. Tarav is an expression of her longing and of her dream to return to a home that now exists only

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a film by Kavita Joshi[Short Documentary; 23 min; colour; Manipuri with English subtitles; India; 2006]Twelve women disrobe publicly on the streets of Manipur, in protest… For over 6 years a young woman has been on a fast-to-death demanding justice; she is kept under arrest and is forcibly nose-fed. Why are the women of Manipur using their bodies as their battlefield?Manipur is a state in India’s

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Tales from the Margins wins theBest Documentary award at theYNW Film Festival 2008, Sri LankaThe festival was held at Maharagama, Sri Lanka from 26th to 30th Dec 2008.The jury was headed by noted filmmaker Adoor Gopalakrishnan.~RECENT SCREENINGS~Madhya Pradesh Mahila Manch PresentsMahila Matinee - A Festival of Films Made by WomenTales From the Margins shows on1st Feb 09 at about 3:15 PMVenue:

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Tales from the Margins recently won the Jury Prize at the Human Rights competition, Docudays Ukraine.This is the 5th award that the film has won, after the Silver remi at WorldFest Houston 2007, the Special Jury Mention at the Medias Nord Sud Geneva 2007, and two awards by UGC CEC India.EXCERPT FROM THE DOCUDAYS WEBSITEhead of the jury of Human Rights competition Alla TytyunnykPrize of the jury

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"The Doctor, The State, And A Sinister Case"The untenable imprisonment and victimisation of Dr Binayak Sen, a heroic humanitarian from Chhattisgarh, exposes Indian democracy as increasingly hollow, says SHOMA CHAUDHURY.FAR AWAY from the glittering salons of Bombay and Delhi, away from its obsessions with booming malls and plummeting stocks, a good man waits in jail. He’s been in for nine months.

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THE UNLIKELY OUTLAWThe immensity of Irom Sharmila Chanu's now six-year-old protest is matched only by the paralysing indifference of the State and the national media, says Shoma ChaudhuryAn ordinary November evening in Delhi. A slow halting voice breaks into your consciousness. “How shall I explain? It is not a punishment, but my bounden duty…” A haunting phrase in a haunting voice, made slow

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IROM's IRON IN THE SOULYoung, stoic and dogged, Irom Sharmila has been on a fast-unto-death since November, 2000. She wants the repressive Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act repealed. The Act gives draconian powers to the security forces and has repeatedly been used with brazen brutality in the Northeast. For five years, she has been imprisoned and force-fed by the State for her ‘crime’. Filmmaker

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Tales from the Margins(23 min / short doc / India / 2006)shows at the Global Investigative Journalism Conference, Lillehammeron 12th September 2008, 9:00 AMand at the Freedom House in Osloon 16th September 2008, 4:00 PMread more about the film here

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Tales from the Margins(23 min / short doc / India / 2006)shows on Saturday, September 6th, 4-6 pmat 110 South Hall, UC Berkeleyas part of the film festival,Human Rights in South Asia, organised by AID BerkeleyEven as India celebrates 61 years of freedom from colonial rule, we must remember that the battle for freedom did not end in 1947. Many communities in India, and in the other South Asian

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TALES FROM THE MARGINSnow shows in London, on 22nd July 2008, at 17:45 PM, atThe Flea Pit,49 Columbia Road, London E2 7RG.Ticket Price: Entry: £5 per evening of films or £8 for both evenings.http://www.thefleapit.com/The screening is a part of the travelling Persistance Resistance film festival of contemporary political documentaries from India. Viewers can also see other documetaries incuding

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Tales from the Margins(23 min / short documentary / India / 2006) will be showing at the5th International Human Rights Film Days - Ukrainian Contexton 29th March 2008, in Kiev http://www.docudays.ua/

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SAVAC (South Asian Visual Arts Centre)and Pleasure Dome presentTales from the Margins(23 min / short documentary / India / 2006)in MONITOR 4: New South Asian Short Film and VideoCurated by Oliver HusainWednesday, February 20th 2008 at 7 PMInnis Town Hall2 Sussex Avenue, TorontoMONITOR 4 is SAVAC’s annual experimental film and video screening, presenting new, award winning work from India,

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Tales from the Margins(23 min / 2006 / India / short documentary)will be screening at the Mumbai International Film Festivalfor Documentary, Short and Animated Films, orMIFF 2008, as part of the National Competition.On Thursday 7th Feb 2008, at 1:20 PMat the Godrej Theatre, NCPA Mumbai

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Hospital buzz on Sharmila’s healthOUR CORRESPONDENTImphal, Jan. 4: Hospital authorities are worried over the “deteriorating” health of Manipur’s human rights crusader Irom Sharmila who has refused nasal feeding for the past 12 days.Sharmila, who has been on a fast unto death since November 2000, is surviving only on nasal feeding for more than seven years now in the security ward of Imphal’s

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Tales from the Margins[23 m / 2006 / India / short documentary]will be screening in Torontoon 7th Dec 2007, 5 PMat Flavelle House, Faculty of Law, University of Toronto84, Queens ParkRoom FLA (basement)For more info, pl Download Presskit using the SIDEBAR on the right

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TALES FROM THE MARGINS(short doc / India / 2006 / 23 min)will be screening on 29th nov 2007, at 3.45 PMat the General Zorawar Singh Auditorium Complex, University of Jammuas part of the Rhythms of Peace Festival(28th - 30th November 2007)Presented by the Intl. Resource Cell, University of Jammu& theKriti Team

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Tales from the Margins(23 min / 2006 / India / short doc)will soon be shown at L’Alternativa 2007,the 14th Barcelona Independent Film Festival.It will be screened onSunday 18th november at 21.15hat Pantalla Hall, in a selection on "filming conflict".The film is part of a thematic programme that presents an international selection; one of its main characteristics is the discovery of new, unusual,

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Tales from the Margins(23 min / 2006 / India / short documentary)will be screening at the50th International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated FilmAfter IDFA, DOK Leipzig is one of the largest documentary and animation film festivals in Europe.Tales from the Margins will be shown as part of the International programmeon Friday 2nd November, at 17.00 hrsat the CineStar 7and on Sunday

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Tales from the Margins(short doc / 23 min / 2006 / India)will be showing at theFilm South Asia 2007 in Kathmandu, Nepalon 11th October 2007, 6:15 PMHall B at the Kumari Cinema,KathmanduRead More here:http://www.himalassociation.org/fsa/Read a review of Film South asia 2007, here:Film Feast in the Mountain Kingdom

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Tales from the Marginsreceived the Special Jury Prize at the23rd International Medias Nord Sud Geneva 2007It screened in Geneva during the23rd Festival International Medias Nord SudON: 5th October 2007, 04:10 PMBâtiment des Forces Motrices, 2, Pl. des Volontaires, Genève http://www.nordsud.ch/english/programme.html#filmsRead the award announcement here:http://www.nordsud.ch/francais/news.htm

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TALES FROM THE MARGINSCINEMEX CASA DE ARTE I / September 28 / 23:30JAIMA DOCSDF / October 1 / 22:00CINEMANIA LORETO I / October 4 / 21:35More herehttp://www.docsdf.com/

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Tales from the Margins(short docu / 23 min / India / 2006)will be screened on World Peace Day by KRITIVenue: Open Palm Court Gallery, IHC, New DelhiDate and time: 21st Sep 2007, Friday at 3:00 PMThere is ALSO a screening a SARAI (29, Rajpur Road, Delhi)at 4:30 PM the same day.for more on the film, please go here.

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Tales from the Marginswill be screening at the MADCAT Film Festival 2007 at San Franciscoon Fri • Sept 14 2007 • 7:30 pmat the Artists’ Television Access992 Valencia Street, San Francisco(415) 824-3890Its part of a package called "At the Margins", which is co-presented by 3rd I South Asian Film Festival and Center for Asian American Mediaget more details hereand here

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Tales from the Margins received a Silver Remi at this edition of WorldFest Houston, for films on Political / International Issues. There were more than 4,500 entries in competitition at WorldFest 2007 across genres and categories.WorldFest is one of the oldest competitive international film festivals in USA (since 1968) and has a long list of “discovered” film greats such as Steven Spielberg,

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