[Reader-list] Fwd: [vikalp] Adda and Vikalp at TISS: RELEASE AJAY TG FILM FESTIVAL

[Shilpa Phadke]

*Adda*, the film club of the Centre for Media and Cultural Studies

and *Vikalp : Films For Freedom*, Mumbai cordially invite you to attend the

*RELEASE AJAY TG FILM FESTIVAL*

*Join the Campaign!*

releaseajaytg at gmail.com <releaseajaytg%40gmail.com>

www.releaseajaytg.in

*on August 4, 2008 at 6pm *

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*Conference Hall, Tata Institute of Social Sciences*

as part of the nationwide campaign by filmmakers and human rights activists
for the release of Ajay TG, arbitrarily arrested on 5th May 2008 under the
Chattisgarh Special Public Security Act (CSPSA) . The arrests of Ajay and
earlier of Dr. Binayak Sen in May 2007 are the tip of the iceberg of
state-sponsored repression and stifling of dissent in Chattisgarh. The
festival will also be an occasion to kick off a signature drive and other
events in solidarity with the campaign, at TISS.

*Adda* is a new initiative of CMCS students, which will have screenings on
every Monday at 6pm.

*Vikalp* is a nationwide collective of filmmakers against censorship and for
freedom of expression. It has regular screenings in Mumbai. Every first
Monday of the month, during the semester, will be a Vikalp at TISS event.

*SCHEDULE*

*1800 hrs*

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Introduction to Adda, Vikalp at Tiss and the campaign

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*1815 hrs***

*Anjam */ Original Language

20 mins 41 sec / 2007-08

Directed by Ajay TG

Documentary about Binayak Sen

*The Other Side of the Mirror *

7 mins 26 sec

Extract of unfinished film which links a critique of Indian chauvinism with
the contrast between the education of rich and poor children and then
introduces the *bal angan *which Ajay started.

*Aisa Kyon? *

1 min 51sec / 2007 / Original Language

Short drama devised and shot by girls at the school run by Ajay TG. The
brief was to focus on an issue which affects them. In this film they chose
discrimination in education. It was to have been the first of a series of
such short dramas on various issues but the project has been interrupted by
Ajay's imprisonment.

*Hathaure Wala *(Man with the Hammer)

5 mins 46 sec / 1999 / Original Language

Directed by Ajay TG

A portrait of an 80-year old lohar (blacksmith) who works in the shadow of
the Bhilai Steel Plant in Chhattisgarh. This is Ajay's first film and one
from the first trio of films made at Jandarshan.

*Golapalli: A Fact Finding by the PUCL *

15mins / 2004 / Original Language

Direction, Camera, Editing and Graphics by Ajay TG

This film describes an incident in which two school teachers and a student
were killed by paramilitary forces in Village Golapalli, Tehsil Konta,
District Bastar. The film is based on testimonies of the people of the
village to a fact finding team of the Peoples Union for Civil Liberties.

*Heads and Tales *

20 mins 54 sec / 2002 / English subititles

Directed by Alpa Shah and Ajay TG

Research and Script by Alpa Shah

A Jandarshan student film about the relationship between tradition and
politics. *Parha Mela*, a festival in Jharkhand, was initiated to symbolise
tribal unity and the tribal system of socio-political governance. From 1990
it became two separate events, held two kilometres away from one another on
the same day, each supported by a politician of a different party. The film
explores this dichotomy.

*The Journey (Safar) *

15 mins 7 sec / 2001 / English subtitles

Directed by Reeta Chandel and Ajay TG

A Jandarshan student film about Reeta's father, a porter in the hospital of
the Bhilai Steel Plant. This film is a development of Reeta's 5 minute film,
*Papa Says*, shot by Ajay, as part of an earlier student exercise. *The
Journey *was made because Ajay felt that they should explore questions about
marriage and gender which had come up by chance during the shooting of the
earlier film.

*Photographs *

5 mins 57 sec / 2007

A sequence of stills taken by girls in the school Ajay runs, put in order
and set to music.

*2000 hrs*

Moderated discussion and plan for campaign follow-up.

Vikalp at Tiss <Vikalp at Prithvi> is a monthly series of documentaries and shorts
brought to you by Vikalp: Films For Freedom in collaboration with Adda, The
CMCS Film Club at the TISS Conference Hall on the first Monday of every
month from 6 PM onwards. This is the first event of Vikalp at Tiss and of Adda.

For more information or inquiries on screening your film, please send an
email to adda.cmcs at gmail.com <adda.cmcs%40gmail.com>

**Centre for Media and Cultural Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences,
Sion Trombay Road, Opposite Deonar Bus Depot, Mumbai-88.Tel: 022-25525667**