Tales from the Margins
received the Special Jury Prize at the
23rd International Medias Nord Sud Geneva 2007
It screened in Geneva during the
23rd Festival International Medias Nord Sud
ON: 5th October 2007, 04:10 PM
Bâtiment des Forces Motrices, 2, Pl. des Volontaires, Genève http://www.nordsud.ch/english/programme.html#films
TALES FROM THE MARGINS
is showing at the DOCSDF Mexico:
CINEMEX CASA DE ARTE I / September 28 / 23:30
JAIMA DOCSDF / October 1 / 22:00
CINEMANIA LORETO I / October 4 / 21:35
More here
http://www.docsdf.com/
Tales from the Margins
(short docu / 23 min / India / 2006)
will be screened on World Peace Day by KRITI
Venue: Open Palm Court Gallery, IHC, New Delhi
Date and time: 21st Sep 2007, Friday at 3:00 PM
There 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.
Tales from the Margins
will be screening at the MADCAT Film Festival 2007 at San Francisco
on Fri • Sept 14 2007 • 7:30 pm
at the Artists’ Television Access
992 Valencia Street, San Francisco
(415) 824-3890
Its part of a package called “At the Margins”, which is co-presented by 3rd I South Asian Film Festival and Center for Asian American Media
Tales from the Margins received a Silver Remi at this edition of WorldFest, for films on Political / International Issues. There were more than 4,500 category entries in all film and video competitions across categories at WorldFest 2007.
WorldFest’s mission is to recognize and honor outstanding creative excellence in film & video, validate brilliant abilities and promote future filmmaking in Texas as well as enhance cultural tourism for Houston. The 10-day film festival ran to a smooth finish with 14 World Premieres, 50 Indie features and 68 award winning shorts.
WorldFest evolved into a competitive Intl Film Festival in April 1968 and has a long list of “discovered” film greats such as Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, David Lynch, Oliver Stone, Atom Egoyan, Ang Lee and many others. Multi award-winning producer/director, Hunter Todd, founded this Int’l. film festival to honor all categories of film and video production.
All award results from this year’s WorldFest competition are posted on http://www.worldfest.org/
FOR COPIES / ENQUIRIES, CONTACT: kj.impulse (at) gmail.com
TALES FROM THE MARGINS
- a film by Kavita Joshi
[documentary / 24 min / India / 2006]
will shortly be screened at the DOK.FEST Munich in the Competition, Horizons.
Date: Sunday May 6th at 7 p.m
and Tuesday May 8th at 5 p.m.
“The 22nd edition of the International Documentary Film Festival Munich will be held from 2nd to 10th May 2007. The festival presents premières together with the international highlights of the year, creative documentaries produced for cinema release together with the most interesting proofs of new talents from all over the world, simply a best-of-programme, a festival for documentaries and documentary filmmakers.”
Read more about film on the festival website:
http://www.dokfest-muenchen.de/filme_view_web.php?fid=1377
Tales from the Margins
(women’s protest in conflict-torn Manipur)
will shortly be showing at the
47th Festival Dei Popoli
International Festival of Documentary Films 2006, Florence
Date: 6th Dec 2006
Time: 4:00 PM
Visit the festival page here
TALES FROM THE MARGINS
About the 6 year long fast-to-death of Irom Sharmila, the naked demonstration by Manipuri women activists and the epic protests by the women of Manipur in their fight against the AFSPA.
Director: Kavita Joshi (India)
Duration: 23 minutes
SCREENING ON
May 21st 2007, Monday. 8.30 pm
At the Natarani Theatre, Ahmedabad
Preview of Rough Cut in the Telegraph
‘Outsider’ look at Manipur- Film salutes courage and sacrifice of state’s womenfolk
- A STAFF REPORTER
Guwahati, April 5: Manipur has always revered its womenfolk as the epitome of courage and sacrifice. A New Delhi-based filmmaker has now come up with a short film that looks at these stories from the perspective of an “outsider”.
Kavita Joshi brings to light the struggles of Manipuris through extraordinary stories of its never-say-die women population in Tales from the Margins… Read the rest of this entry »
Tales from the Margins will be screened at the
3 Screens Film Festival at the India Social Forum in Delhi.
at 5:40 PM on 10th Nov 2006, Friday
at the Auditorium 2, Public Ka Multiplex
INDIA SOCIAL FORUM
Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium Grounds, New Delhi
ENTRY is OPEN TO ALL
(a one-time registration at the ISF entrance will be required)
duration 23 min / Manipuri w Eng Subtitles / 2006
The film’s synopsis is here
TALES FROM THE MARGINS
- a film by Kavita Joshi
[documentary / 24 min / India / 2006]
will shortly be screened at the DOK.FEST Munich in the Competition, Horizonte.
Date: Sunday May 6th at 7 p.m
and Tuesday May 8th at 5 p.m.
“The 22nd edition of the International Documentary Film Festival Munich will be held from 2nd to 10th May 2007. The festival presents premières together with the international highlights of the year, creative documentaries produced for cinema release together with the most interesting proofs of new talents from all over the world, simply a best-of-programme, a festival for documentaries and documentary filmmakers.”
Read more about the festival here.
Tales from the Margins
(women’s protest in conflict-torn Manipur)
will shortly be showing at the
47th Festival Dei Popoli
International Festival of Documentary Films 2006, Florence
Date: 6th Dec 2006
Time: 4:00 PM
Visit the festival page here
Untitled 3 Narratives
on women and conflict in Manipur
will shortly be showing at the
48th International Film Festival of Documentary and Short Films 2006, Bilbao, Spain
in the Competition Section
Date: 28th Nov 2006
Time: 5:30 PM
Visit the festival page here
Portraying unheard voices and unravelled lives
- Staff Reporter
KOZHIKODE: “For people who live in less troubled regions, it is impossible to imagine the extent of anguish and violence the people of Manipur experience. I made Untitled: 3 Narratives on Women and Conflict in Manipur (a trilogy of short films) because of a very strong need to get the situation in that State to be seen by the people,” says filmmaker Kavita Joshi, when asked what inspired her to make the telling narrative on the situation in Manipur.
Irom Sharmila, Manipuri woman who is on a six-year hunger strike to highlight the anguish of her counterparts in the State, is a protagonist featured in the trilogy that highlights the daily struggles of women in Manipur.
Kavita’s film Women and Conflict in Manipur was the inaugural film at the Asian Women’s Film Festival held in Kozhikode from November 4 to 7. It set the tone of the fete that sought to project exclusively the works of women from Asian countries with portrayals of “voices unheard and lives unravelled.”
The festival package got up by the International Association of Women in Radio and Television was showcased under the aegis of the Women’s Initiative, Kozhikode, Navatharangam, and the Cultural Initiative.
Read the full article here:
http://www.hindu.com/2006/11/12/stories/2006111207490300.htm
UNTITLED: 3 NARRATIVES
On Women and Conflict in Manipur
[Documentary shorts; India; 2005]
[17 min; colour; Manipuri with English subtitles]
12 women protest naked on the streets of Manipur. A mother laments the extra-judicial killing of her teenage son. For 5 years now, a young woman has been on a fast-to-death. What fuels these anguished protests?
Manipur is a conflict-torn state in India’s North-East region. For decades, it has witnessed insurgency and armed separatist movements. The Indian government has attempted to crush these through force, using its military power. Arrests, torture, extra-judicial killings – Manipuri people havefaced them all. Yet, little is heard about Manipur and its troubles. This is a place that mainland India has marginalised; that the world has forgotten.
A film in 3 chapters, this project documents the extraordinary narratives of Manipur’s women:
1. The Mothers’ Protest (5m 20s):
focuses on the naked protest by the Imas (mothers) of Manipur after the custodial killing of Th. Manorama.
2. Lament (4m 55s):
centers on the disapperance of the schoolboy Yumlembam Sanamacha and the impact of this upon his family.
3. Fast Unto Death (6m 20s):
is the story of the extraordinary protest of Irom Sharmila, a young woman who has not eaten for over 5 years now.
FOR COPIES / ENQUIRIES, CONTACT: kj.impulse (at) gmail.com
FESTIVALS / SCREENINGS / AWARDS
Bilbao International Festival 2006 Spain * VIBGYOR 2006, Kerala * IAWRT IIC Asian Women’s Film Festival Delhi 2006 * as also Kolkata, Chennai, Bangalore, Calicut
Winner of the Best Film on Human Rights, 18th CEC UGC Awards
Winner of the III Best Film at VIBGYOR 2006, Kerala
Also – Citation for Best Film and Technical Excellence in Editing – 18th CEC UGC Awards
KEY CREW
Directed and Produced by: Kavita Joshi Camera: Sunayana Singh Sound: Asheesh Pandya Editing: Mahadeb Shi Production Company: Impulse
READ A LONGER SYNOPSIS IN THE TEHELKA MAGAZINE
http://www.tehelka.com/story_main17.asp?filename=Cr032506naked_on.asp
Tales from the Margins will be screened at the
3 Screens Film Festival at the India Social Forum in Delhi.
at 5:40 PM on 10th Nov 2006, Friday
at the Auditorium 2, Public Ka Multiplex
INDIA SOCIAL FORUM
Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium Grounds, New Delhi
ENTRY is OPEN TO ALL
(a one-time registration at the ISF entrance will be required)
duration 23 min / Manipuri w Eng Subtitles / 2006
The film’s synopsis is here
FOR COPIES / ENQUIRIES, CONTACT: kj.impulse (at) gmail.com
Preview of Rough Cut of TFTM in the Telegraph
‘Outsider’ look at Manipur- Film salutes courage and sacrifice of state’s womenfolk
- A STAFF REPORTER
Guwahati, April 5: Manipur has always revered its womenfolk as the epitome of courage and sacrifice. A New Delhi-based filmmaker has now come up with a short film that looks at these stories from the perspective of an “outsider”.
Kavita Joshi brings to light the struggles of Manipuris through extraordinary stories of its never-say-die women population in Tales from the Margins…
to read the full article, pl follow this link
18TH UGC-CEC EDUCATIONAL VIDEO COMPETITION
RESULT
“…to announce the results of 18th UGC – CEC Educational Video Competition 2005. The Jury Screening for the competition was held from 24th July to 9th August, 2006 in CEC, Delhi. This year CEC received 246 entries for the Competition in various categories from UGC-CEC Media Centres, Educational Institutions, other Organizations and individuals.
(i) Best Programme of the Year: Citation
“UNTITLED: 3 NARRATIVES ON WOMEN AND CONFLICT IN MANIPUR”
(vi) Best Programme On Human Rights:
“UNTITLED: 3 NARRATIVES ON WOMEN AND CONFLICT IN MANIPUR”
(iv) Technical Excellence: Editing: (jointly)
“UNTITLED: 3 NARRATIVES ON WOMEN AND CONFLICT IN MANIPUR”
To see full list of awards on the CEC site, go to
http://www.cec-ugc.org/
and then click the link for the “video competition results”
UNTITLED: 3 NARRATIVES
On Women and Conflict in Manipur
[Documentary shorts; India; 2005]
[5 min each approx X 3; colour; Manipuri with English subtitles]
12 women protest naked on the streets of Manipur.
A mother laments the extra-judicial killing of her teenage son.
For over 5 years, a young woman has been on a fast-to-death.
What fuels these anguished protests?
Manipur is a conflict-torn state in India’s North-East region. For decades, it has witnessed insurgency and armed separatist movements. The Indian government has attempted to crush these through force, using its military power. Yet, little is heard about Manipur and its troubles. This is a place that mainland India has marginalised; that the world has forgotten.
This project consists of a set of 3 narratives that work best together:
1. The Mothers’ Protest (5m 20s): focuses on the naked protest by the Imas (mothers) of Manipur after the custodial killing of Th. Manorama.
2. Lament (4m 55s): centers on the disapperance of the schoolboy Yumlembam Sanamacha and the impact of this upon his family.
3. Fast Unto Death (6m 20s): is the story of the extraordinary protest of Irom Sharmila, a young woman who has not eaten for over 5 years now.
FESTIVALS / SCREENINGS / AWARDS
Bilbao International Festival 2006 Spain * VIBGYOR 2006, Kerala * IAWRT IIC Asian Women’s Film Festival Delhi 2006 * as also Kolkata, Chennai, Bangalore, Calicut
Winner of the Best Film on Human Rights, 18th CEC UGC Awards
Winner of the III Best Film at VIBGYOR 2006, Kerala
Also – Citation for Best Film and Technical Excellence in Editing – 18th CEC UGC Awards
KEY CREW
Directed and Produced by: Kavita Joshi | Camera: Sunayana Singh | Sound: Asheesh Pandya Editing: Mahadeb Shi | Production Company: Impulse
Stills from: Some Roots Grow Upwards
(c) Kavita Joshi
SOME ROOTS GROW UPWARDS
the theatre of Ratan Thiyam
[Documentary; India; 2002]
[52 min; Colour; Manipuri with English Subtitles]
Some Roots Grow Upwards is shot in the city of Imphal in Manipur, a region ravaged by violence and insurgency. Against this backdrop, it explores the work of acclaimed theatre director Ratan Thiyam.
For over 25 years now, Ratan Thiyam has been creating a theatre that is as visually compelling as it is intellectually stimulating. His theatre is steeped in the traditional performing arts of his home state, Manipur. But while his aesthetic influences are traditional, his concerns are intensely modern. His plays reflect upon the socio-political crisis gripping the region, the youth unrest, war and violence; at the same time, they also dwell on the larger human condition.
The film seeks insights into the art of Thiyam – in portraits of the city where he works, in the quiet beauty of the terrain, in the violent riots that tore the land apart, in the living traditions that come alive at festive time… Formally, it is a juxtaposition of the ‘lived’ and the ‘staged’.
AWARDS & FESTIVALS
15th UGC CEC Awards India:
Best Film (adults) · Technical Excellence (Sound) · Citation for Film on the Arts
HFF Amsterdam, 2005; India Many Faces: Antwerp 2004 & Ghent 2005 (Belgium); Oblo, Lausanne. Switzerland 2004; Vikalp Films for Freedom: Mumbai. Delhi. Bangalore. Chennai. Thiruvananthapuram. Kanpur 2004; Kathmandu International Mountain Film Festival 2004; KaraFest Karachi 2004; Small Films, Trichur 2004; PSBT UNESCO Film Festival Delhi 2003; IVFEST 2003; Crimson Feet Ahmedabad, 2003.
Special Screenings at the National School of Drama, Delhi; Kalanidhi’s Shaniwarwada Dance Festival, Pune; Fordham University, New York.
MAIN CREDITS:
Directed by Kavita Joshi and Malati Rao
Camera: Shanker Raman; Addl. Camera: Sulekh; Sound: Girjashanker Vohra; Editing: Monica Bhasin & Supratik Roy; Produced by PSBT
Some Roots Grow Upwards
the theatre of Ratan Thiyam
Directed by Kavita Joshi and Malati Rao
2002; English and Manipuri with subtitles; 51 mins; colour
This film on the theatre of Ratan Thiyam is timely, not simply because Manipur and the growing violence against Manipuris has been in the news, but also because Thiyam’s unique experiments with theatre and his startling productions need to be more widely seen and acknowledged.
Kavita Joshi and Malati Rao take the viewer into the Chorus Repertory Theatre and we watch as Thiyam develops his production of Ritusamharam, which explores the relationship between humans and nature through the work of the Sanskrit poet Kalidasa. Thiyam trained at the National School of Drama in Delhi and then returned to his native Manipur to work with and strengthen traditional theatre modes and techniques.
Thiyam’s Ritusamharam is a lyrical examination of the human predicament and differs somewhat from his earlier works where he takes on violence more explicitly. The spectacular but poignant Chakravyuha deals with…..
For FULL REVIEW, please follow the link below
http://infochangeindia.org/documentary27.jsp
