[Reader-list] [Announcements] At the World Social Forum 2004

[Work in Progress]

Screening of ‘WORK IN PROGRESS: AT THE WORLD SOCIAL FORUM (WSF), 2004

 
Date:
FRIDAY 13 MAY 2005

Time:
6:30 p.m.

Place:
THE LITTLE THEATRE
National Centre for Performing Arts (NCPA)
Dorabji Tata Road, Nariman Point, Mumbai 400021

 
About the Film
 
Work in Progress: At the WSF 2004 (59 min., documentary, digital video, 
English)

We came into this world to understand certain things:
Very few, but exceedingly important ones.
 
Andrei Sinyavsky
 
This film has made its journey from being a document of an event to 
becoming an impression of a worldwide movement for economic, political 
and cultural justice and a travelogue of ideas for change.

The World Social Forum began in Brazil in the year 2000 as a space for 
defining alternatives to globalisation, economic imperialism, war and 
discrimination. In 2004, it’s fourth year, it came to Bombay and 
widened its horizons to include issues of gender, indigenous people’s 
rights, alternative sexuality, women and war, caste and racism. For 5 
days people protested and analysed existing economic, political and 
social injustice; celebrated alternatives and resistance through 
speeches, processions, music, debate, performance, conversation; and 
sharpened their imagination of a better world with diversity and 
justice at its heart, under a common slogan -- Another World Is 
Possible.

This film has been created from video material gathered by student 
crews to document this five day event.


Credits

PRODUCER: World Social Forum India

DIRECTOR: Paromita Vohra

EDITORS: Rikhav Desai with Irene Dhar, Batul Mukhtiar, Neeraj Voralia, 
Kavita Pai, Shan Mohammad, Nirupama Kaul CAMERA Ajay Noronha, Anirudh, 
Arun Varma, Chandidas, Kapil Sharma, Mukesh Kumar, Sameer Mahajan, 
Setu, Subhra Dutta SOUND Amla, Anita Kushwaha, Gissy Michael, Hari M, 
Manoj Sicca, Shubhashish Roy, Suresh Rajamani

FIELD PRODUCERS: Akshay Sujir, Divya Unny, Gifty Sahny, Mahafreed 
Irani, Nikita Jain, Payal Raj, Poornima Swaminathan, Pratibha Prakash, 
Sai Raje, Sandeep Francis, Sangeeta Joardar, Shalini Nair, Sohil Shah, 
Supriya Thanawala


About the Director

PAROMITA VOHRA is a documentary filmmaker and screenwriter. Her films 
as director are Work In Progress (2004),  Cosmopolis: Two Tales of a 
City,(2004),  Un-limited Girls (2002), , A Short Film About Time 
(2000), A Woman’s Place,(1999) and Annapurna (1995. Some of her films 
as writer are the Pakistani feature film Khamosh Pani (Golden Leopard, 
Locarno Film Festival, 2003, (Best Screenplay, Kara Film Festival, 
2003),  the documentaries If You Pause: In a Museum of Craft (2004), A 
Few Things I Know About Her (Silver Conch, Mumbai International Film 
Festival 2002), and the faux documentary Skin Deep (1998). As part of 
the international women in media collective A Woman’s Place, she is the 
India Co-ordinator for a media exchange project around identity and 
context between teenage girls in Bombay and New York. She teaches 
scriptwriting as visiting faculty at Sophia Polytechnic and is a PUKAR 
Associate.


Enquiries:

Paromita Vohra
D-404, Trans Apartments
Mahakali Caves Road
Andheri (E), Bombay 400093
Phone: +91.22.2837.7960
E-Mail: parodevi at mtnl.net.in



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