[Reader-list] [Announcements] The Tri-Continental Film Festival India 2004

[Monica Mody]

A GLOBAL CULTURE OF FILMS THAT MATTER: THE TRI-CONTINENTAL FILM FESTIVAL 2004

New Delhi, Nov 19, 2004: Breakthrough presents the Tri Continental
Film Festival, a showcase of human rights cinema from Latin America,
Africa and Asia. Held in earlier years at Buenos Aires, Johannesburg
and Cape Town, this is the first time the film festival arrives in
Asia with a diverse selection of powerful films by independent
filmmakers. Delhi, Mumbai and Kolkata are the 3 cities in India where,
through December, the films will be screened at popular venues as well
as schools and colleges.
 
The festival opens at Siri Fort Auditorium II, New Delhi, on December
3rd and runs until December 5th, arriving in Mumbai at the NCPA and
Fame Ad Labs from December 6th to December 9th. Finally, it moves to
Kolkata from December 13th to December 16th, at the Max Mueller Bhavan
and the Seagull Arts & Media Resource Centre.

The Tri-Continental Film Festival is an annual event that jumps
between the three continents of Latin America, Africa and Asia.
Conceived by a group of Latin American filmmakers in 2002, this is an
arts and cultural initiative that seeks to use the medium of film to
explore linkages between social struggles and respect for human rights
norms and practices. The festival organizers, apart from Breakthrough,
include Lawyers for Human Rights and Uhuru Productions from South
Africa and the Argentinian Movimiento do Documentalistas.

The festival features a vast array of stories from Argentina, Brazil,
Chile, Mexico, Peru and Venezuela, as well as from around the African
continent, South Asia and Palestine. Highlights of the program include
the award winning documentaries "Choropampa: The Price of Gold", about
a devastating mercury spill that transforms a quiet peasant village
into a hotbed of civil resistance; "Dias de Carton (Cardboard Days)",
about Buenos Aires' newly formed army of street scavengers; and
"Original Child Bomb", a poetic and contemplative film about the
nuclear bomb and its cost to humanity. Also featured are: an
innovative project where street children produce a video documentary
about themselves (Voces de la Guerrera); a mobile cinema unit which
takes HIV+ film stars through the mountains of Lesotho (Ask Me, I'm
Positive); and Junoon guitarist Salman Ahmed challenging hardline
Islam (The Rockstar and the Mullahs).

The films, along with mainstream venues, will be screened at colleges
across India such as Ramjas, Delhi University, as part of youth
outreach. Panel discussions and question and answer sessions with
international filmmakers such as Antonio Zirion, Don Edkins and Joel
Zito Araujo, as well as veteran filmmakers and activists from India,
will run in conjunction with the screenings.

For additional information, please contact Alika Khosla at 98998 88548
or Monica Mody at 98112 69257.

Breakthrough is an international human rights organization that uses
education and popular culture to promote values of dignity, equality
and justice.

CONTACT INFORMATION: 
Alika Khosla or Monica Mody
Breakthrough
C 3/15, Safdarjung Development Area, New Delhi 110016
011 26967040, 26967039
http://www.breakthrough.tv	
http://www.3continentsfestival.co.za

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