[Reader-list] NLSIU Bangalore | Film Screening and Discussion with Anand Patwardhan on Saturday

[Pranesh Prakash]

From: <lawandsociety at nls.ac.in>
Date: Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 14:55
Subject: Film Screening and Discussion with Anand Patwardhan on Saturday


The Law and Society Commmittee of National Law School of India University is
hosting renowned documentary film-maker and activist Anand Patwardhan for a
screening of his film 'Jang Aur Aman'and discussion thereafter on Saturday,
12 July, 2008. The screening will commence on the NLS campus at 2.30 pm.
All are cordially invited to attend the same.

For further details please contact, Aishwarya +919886947147.

Law and Society Commmittee
National Law School of India.


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 *Jang Aur Aman*

*Film Screening And Discussion With Anand Patwardhan*

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Date: July 12, 2008

Time: 2:30 p.m.

Venue: National Law School of India University.

Anand Patwardhan <http://www.patwardhan.com/> is an Indian documentary
filmmaker, most known for his activism through social action documentaries
on topics ranging from corruption, slums dwellers, nuclear arms race,
citizen activism to communalism, noted amongst these are * Ram ke Nam* ("In
the Name of God", 1992), *Pitr, Putr aur Dharmayuddha* ("Father, Son and
Holy War") (1995) and Jang Aur Aman ("War and Peace", 2002), which have won
several national and International awards.

Virtually all his films have faced censorship: "Father Son and the Holy War"
(1995), although adjudged in 2004, as one of 50 most memorable international
documentaries of all time, by DOX, Documentary film magazine; was shown on
India's National Network, Doordarshan only in the year 2006 after a
prolonged court battle which lasted 8 years.

*Jang Aur Aman* <http://www.patwardhan.com/films/warpeace.htm> is a documentary
journey of peaceful activism in the face of global militarism and war.
Filmed over three tumultuous years in India, Pakistan, Japan and the USA
following nuclear tests in the Indian sub-continent, the film explores the
sub-continent's trajectory towards unabashed militarism and captures stories
of resistance along the way. The same is framed by the murder of Mahatma
Gandhi in 1948, an act whose portent and poignancy remains undiminished half
a century later. It moves on to examine the costs being extracted from
citizens in the name of national security, the plight of residents living
near the nuclear test site to the horrendous effects of uranium mining on
local indigenous populations.

This film has won numerous awards, including Grand Prize at the Earth Vision
Film Festival in 2002, FIPRESCI International Critics' Award at Sydney Film
Festival <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney_Film_Festival> in 2002
and National
Film Award for Best Non-Feature
Film<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Film_Award_for_Best_Non-Feature_Film>,
India, 2004.