[Reader-list] [Announcements] Telecast of PASSING CONFLICTS --- A series of 5 short films

Wed Oct 11 12:34:47 IST 2006

PASSING CONFLICTS --- A series of 5 short films

Telecast:  October 14th at  09.00 am on DD I 
                                          10:30 pm on DD News

Passing Conflicts is as series of 5 short films (6 mts each) made by first time filmmakers under the guidance of Pankaj Rishi Kumar, and prouced by PSBT

Bol Golu Bol / Suvir Nath / Fiction / Hindi
Synopsis -- A boy wants to propose to a girl, the girl wants to be proposed. They both are going through their conflict and are trying to reach a resolution. As they try to do so external forces encourage and discourage them. When the resolution shapes up, it takes various shades.

Bare / Santana Issar / Documentary / English
(longer version of the film is 11mts)
Synopsis -- A daughters search to find meaning, if any, in her relationship with her alcoholic father. In the piecing together of home videos shot by her parents nearly 2 decades earlier, and through a string of conversations with her father, mother, and sister, the filmmaker looks to understand the impact of her father's alcoholism on each of their lives: the sister's  refusal to include him in her life; the mother's belief that her daughters should reach out to their father despite her own refusal to see him; the father's moment of honest introspection. In talking to them, the questions she is struggling with come to the fore: should she stand behind him and continue to suffer the pain and the indignity, based only on her memories of what a wonderful father he was? Or should she rebuild her life without him, consigning him to a fate that will almost certainly be wretched? 

The Mall on top of my House/ Aditi Chitre / Annimation 
Synopsis  -- An animation film that deals with the issue of rampant land reclamation by the flouting of environmental laws and the consequent displacement of the fishing community. The film narrates the story of a fisherman living in a dark underground tunnel, constantly negotiating with the chaos of traffic, fancy malls, luxury housing etc built on land that was once his. Reclamation has pushed the sea further away from him and reduced it to a puddle of industrial waste. In the past, he had a home, a family and a sustaining catch from the sea. But emerging land laws rendered the community homeless overnight. Being uneducated and poor, they were displaced and cheated out of compensation.  With builders taking ever increasing chunks of the citys open space, the fisherman is finally driven out even from his dingy tunnel to make way for more development.

A place to stay / Prayas Abhinav  / Documentary / Hindi
Synopsis --While thousands in Mumbai, lose their home every month, thousands also search for one. One of these thousands, Prayas is disoriented and frustrated, fearful of what would happen if he doesn't find a place to stay. His friend offers him his place for the weekend, but for the week he still has to figure something out. He starts exploring Mumbai at night hoping to discover some places where he can sleep safely. As he begins his exploration, he finds friends who guide him to places he could never have imagined as shelters. And Prayas finds a place to stay!

Vasudevs /  Documentary / Hindi       
Synopsis -- Vasudevs are a group of mendicants, best described as a group of singing minstrels who move from one village to another, door to door, singing songs and collecting a ritualistic grant in cash or kind.  The film looks at this ritual in the present context
is it Begging?

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Biographies

Pankaj Rishi Kumar  graduated from FTII in 1992 where he specialised in Film Editing. He was a Asia Society fellow at Harvard University in 2003. Pankaj began his film career in 1993 as an assistant editor on Sekhar kapur's "Bandirt Queen" . He edited documentaries, and TV serials before turning to making films himself. He was a Teaching Assistant  at the first AFA program organized by Pusan film festival.

Pankaj has movies in his blood. His late father turned an old factory into the town of  Kalpi 's only cinema, Kumar Talkies. His first documentary, Kumar Talkies, offered a cinéma vérité portrait of people of Kalpis relationship to their only picture show and an examination of the consciousness-shaping role of local cinema in a globalised and digitised world. Made with support of Hubert Bals fund and India Foundation of The Arts, the film won critical acclaim. (screened at 40 festivals and won Best Film-L'alternative Barcelona, Special Jury at Zanzibar and Indian National awrd for Best Sound. ) The film has been recently been blown up to 35mm and will be released theatrically in 2006.  His second film Pather Chujaeri (The Play Is On) was about the survival of folk thetaer in war strife kashmir. (The film was screened at 25 film festivals and won Unesco Prize for Best Film at MITIL, Bronze Remi at Houston and a special Jury at Karachi , Dallas South Asia festival and
 Earthvision Santacruz festival.) His third film 'The Vote" looked at the intricacies of the electoral politics. The film premierecat the Asia society in New York and picked up a special jury prize at Dallas South Asian festival and Earthvision Santacruz festival. His latest film " 3 Men and a Bulb" won the IDPA Best Documentary prize.Pankaj is currently working on his new project--a documentary on women boxers in India with support from Jan Vrijman Fund.  Punches  Ponytails  Ringtones
http://kumartalkies.blogspot.com/

 Suvir Nath was born in Bihar and did his schooling throughout India. He graduated in English literature from Delhi University and pursued Dramatic Arts from Shri Ram Centre for Performing Arts, New Delhi. He later joined Film & Television Institute of India, Pune and pursued diploma course in Film and Television Editing.He worked as assistant editor and chief editor in films, television and documentaries. Bol Golu Bol is his first independent assignment as a director

 Santana Issar graduated in Economics from St Stephens College in 2005. In the one year since her graduation, she has worked at a news channel, on two corporate films, and assisted on a documentary film tracing the evolution of different forms of music in Goa. This is her first documentary film

Aditi Chitre  trained as a painter from the Faculty of Fine Art, MSU Baroda (BFA 2004) and since then has been working as a free lance graphic designer, illustrator and storyboard artist. Her hobbies include traveling to places of natural and historical interest, watching movies, music (she learnt sitar for two years) and reading.

Prayas Abhinav is an artist, writer and activist working from Mumbai at present. He is an enthusiastic supporter of commons-based cultural movements. He published and edited Crimson feet, a literary arts print and online magazine under a creative-commons license. His practice is strongly inter-disciplinary  attempting to blend art, film, technology, drawing, poetry fluidly for fuller and more complete experiences. He has received numerous awards and fellowships for his creative works and has spoken at numerous conferences about the issues he supports. He dreams of establishing an open, sustainable and independent  platform to reach his audience and interact with it.

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