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2nd Nazariya Women Film Festival
March 5-8,2009 Ahmedabad.
Organized by DRISHTI in association with NATARANI
SCHEDULE FOR WOMEN FILM FESTIVAL
5th March 2009
AMU
Director: Shonali Bose
Minutes: 98 minutes
Language: English and Hindi with English subtitle, India
Synopsis: Kaju, a 21-year-old Indian American woman is visiting her family in India. In wandering around Delhi she is overcome by deja vu and stumbles upon secrets and lies from her past. Aided by Kabir, a young man who is deeply attracted to her and her quest, she embarks on an unstoppable journey that uncovers the suppressed history of the 1984 genocide in Delhi.
Director: Shonali Bose has been an activist since her student days. Bose was also passionately involved in theatre throughout school and college. In 1984 she co-wrote and acted in a street play on the Delhi riots. Her short narrative films and feature-length documentaries have screened throughout the world.
6th March 2009
NAACH
Director: Saba Dewan
Minutes: 84 minutes
Language: Hindi with English subtitle, India
Synopsis: The Sonpur cattle fair in rural Bihar comes alive every evening when more than fifty girls take to the stage and dance for an all male audience. A barbed wire fence separates the performers from the spectators. Originally part of the nautanki, a popular folk theatre genre of north India, the dance of the female performer today has become a replay of Bombay films and music videos that span rural and metropolitan landscape. It is a performance charged with sexual energy. The girls dance, make eye contact, beckon, gesticulate and even abuse a highly responsive all male audience.
What meanings related to contemporary construction and practice of gender, sexuality, labour and popular culture can we read in the dance of the female performer?
Director: Saba Dewan is a film maker based in Delhi, India. She did her masters in film and TV production from the Mass Communication Research Centre, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi in 1987 and since has been making independent documentaries. Her work has focused on gender, labour and sexuality. For the past few years she has been working on a trilogy of films focusing on stigmatised women performers. Each film is distinct and complete in itself, yet linked to the others through a shared subject. Naach (The Dance) is the second film of the trilogy, the first being Delhi –Mumbai –Delhi, that explored the lives of women bar dancers. The third and final film of the trilogy is about the art and lifestyle of the courtesans and is in progress.
7th March 2009
BLOOD ON MY HANDS
Director: Surabhi Saral, Manak Matiyani and Anandana Kapur
Minutes: 30 minutes
Language: English and Hindi with English subtitle, India
Synopsis: The film deals with how a woman's menstrual cycle is recycled from being a marker of her fertility to something that renders her untouchable and hence subject to multiple taboos and regulations. There is an inherent hypocrisy in society that both celebrates the fertility of a woman as well as considers her menstruating body impure. As an individual, a woman or young girl is isolated in her struggle to come to terms with the transformations in her body.
Director: Surabhi Saral is currently with Star Entertainment and has made a number of short films and documentaries (fiction and non-fiction) on socially relevant issues.
Manak Matiyani is currently working on a community radio project as part of the Tsunami Rehabilitation work carried out by TISS. He has directed and scripted on a number of films, documentaries and plays. His film All About Our Mothers was a finalist at the Asian Festival of First Film, 2007 at Singapore.
Anandana Kapur is working as an independent filmmaker and voice over artist and has been involved with gender sensitization workshops for graduate and under graduate students as well as community radio projects. She has directed and scripted a number of short films and documentaries (fiction and non fiction).
STORY OF SHALINI
Director: Sonya V Kapoor
Minutes: 30 minutes
Language: English with English subtitle, India
Synopsis: This documentary is a look at the life of Shalini, a woman in her 30s imprisoned in Tihar Central Jail, her struggle to free herself and live with dignity.
Director: Sonya is a Senior Manager, Programming, Zee Telefilms. She has been the supervising producer in the Pearson/ Freemantle Television Company. She has also worked with Mira Nair and Deepa Mehta during the shooting of their films in Delhi.
8th March 2009
PICTURE PERFECT
Director: Carol Tizzano
Minutes: 40 minutes
Language: English, US
Synopsis: We are barraged by media images that unrealistically glamorize and sexualize women and girls. This lively and engaging film explores the impact these messages have on young women's physical, psychological and emotional health. Through the voices of a racially and culturally diverse group of women and girls, the films examines the interplay of race and ethnicity, body image, dieting and eating disorders, and the early influence of toys and cartoons. The contrasts between how these women see themselves and the idealized imagery that dominates TV and print advertising are particularly stark.
Director: Carol Tizzano is an Emmy award winning producer and an art and media educator. As a PBS affiliate segment producer, she has covered the arts and cultural scene of northeast Ohio. Her educational and production work reflect her social justice commitments. She teaches arts and media studies to children, teens and adults at elementary through university levels and in community settings. Her media literacy resource writing includes co-authoring Kids Talk TV: Inside/Out, comprehensive media literacy resource distributed nationally. She holds an M.A in Art Education from the Ohio State University and is a recipient of an Artist Fellowship from the Ohio Arts Council.
SOUL VOICE SOLO VOICE
Director: Mallika Sarabhai
Minutes: 30 minutes
Language: Hindi and English, India
Synopsis: This film celebrates Rukmabai, a woman of grit and courage. This film celebrates Rukmabai, the first woman to break the male bastion amongst the Manganiars of Rajasthan, famed bards and singers, whose popularity has grown to enviable heights today. This is the story of a fight against every misfortune, a fight against every prejudice. And it is the story of a woman who laughs at life, who takes it on her own terms, always with a pinch of salt. It traces Rukmanbai's evolution, as a woman, as an Indian and as a singer of power.
Director: A multi-talented creative individual, Mallika Sarabhai celebrates positive reaffirmation of images of womanhood. She has used every medium – dance, theatre, television, film, writing and publishing – for her work, winning recognition in India and abroad. In recognition of her efforts to promote social justice through the arts, she was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize as part of the 1,000 Women for the Nobel Peace Prize campaign.
Contact
DRISHTI
Ph. 26930452 / nazariya@gmail.com
NATARANI
Ph. 27556669 / neeta@darpana.com
Passes will be available from 1st March
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