[Reader-list] Four Women and a Room: Telecast

[ambarien al qadar]

Hi.

(Apologies for cross posting)

Please watch my film Four Women and a Room (28 min, 42 min, DVCAM,
English, Hindi, India) on Saturday, August 16 at 9 am on DD-1.

(The 42 min version of the film will premier shortly at The Open Frame
Film Festival, New Delhi, September 12th-22nd.)

Director: Ambarien Al Qadar
Producer: The Public Service Broadcasting Trust
Camera: Shakeb Ahmed
Sound: Girjashanker Vohra
Additional location sound: Balbir Singh Rawat
Editing: Ambarien Al Qadar and Anil Jr.
Executive Producer: Shakeb Ahmed

About the film: Four Women and a Room is a film about the fragmented
associations of four women with the Labour Room. Late into pregnancy,
Mili is confounded with the unknown. Having gone through endless
rituals of matchmaking, Latika is wondering about her desire to be a
biological mother. The dreamscape of the filmmaker throws up images
and associations of a hospital visited sometime back and reminds her
of meeting the fourth woman; a fictitious character; who might have
undergone a sex selective abortion. The film raises critical questions
about debates around the falling sex ratios and biological motherhood
while making a strong case for the agency of women.

About the filmmaker: Ambarien has a degree in Mass Communication from
The Anwar Jamal Kidwai Mass Communication Research Center. She has
assisted on features and documentaries and worked in films like
Khamosh Pani and The City Beautiful. Her first independent
documentary, Elsewhere, won the Best Documentary Award at the 0110
Digital Film Festival, Mumbai 2005. Four Women and a Room is her
second film. Currently, she teaches Video and TV Production at the
A.J.K. Mass Communication Research Center, Jamia Millia Islamia.

Contact info:
ambarien at gmail.com, ambarien at yahoo.co.uk
9810946273.

cheers
Ambarien Al Qadar