[Reader-list] Development and Discontent

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Media Solidarity 
presents 
Development and Discontent 

Film Screening and Discussion at Max Mueller Bhavan, Kolkata


1st day (3. 5. 2007, Thursday)

3.00 - 3.30 pm	Inauguration and Keynote Address.

3.30 -5.00 pm	Life and Debt (Jamaica / 85min)

A documentary look at the effects of globalization on 
Jamaican industry and agriculture, by Stephanie Black.

5.00 -5.30 pm	Break

5.30 - 6.00 pm	Who’s Land Is It Anyway? ( India / 28min.)

A documentary on peasant movement against land acquisition in Singur, by Ladly Mukhopadhyay

6.15- 7.30 pm	Interactive Discussion: Economy of Development

 Moderator: Subhendu Dasgupta
Participants: Anjan Chakraborty, Jaya Mitra, Raghab Bandyopadhyay and others.

7.30-8.35 pm	Aftershock: The Rough Guide to Democracy (India / 64min.)

A documentary about the transformation of the welfare State into an instrument of corporate governance after Gujarat earthquake, by Rakesh Sharma

2nd day (4. 5. 2007, Friday)

3.00-3.35 pm	SEZ: A Prelude to Anarchy (India / 35 min.)

A critical, in-depth documentary on Special Economy Zone projects, by Atul Pethe

3.50- 4.35 pm	Development at Gunpoint (India / 45min.)

A film on peasants’ resistance movement at Nandigram and the massacre following it, by Pramod Gupta

4.35- 5.00 pm	Break

5.00-5.30 pm	Filming Eviction:  Filmmaker Pramod Gupta and Ranu Ghosh share their experience.

5.30- 7.00 pm	Interactive Discussion: Reporting from the Edge - Singur and Nandigram. 

Moderator: Raju Raman 

Participants: Journalists who reported from Singur and Nandigram.  		

7.00-8.50 pm.	Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance (Canada / 120 min.)

The 1990 stand-off (78-day) between Mohawk Indians and the Canadian government provides the basis of this insightful documentary that focuses on the Mohawks’ courageous defiance and determination to protect their land in the face of mortal danger. by Alanis Obomsawin

OR

The Fourth World War (USA / 76 min.)

This documentary offers an eyeball-to-eyeball look at the people’s battle against the growing global empire. By Richard Rowley

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posted by V Ramaswamy
Calcutta
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