[Reader-list] Persistence Resistance 2010

[Gargi Sen]

Dear Friends,
I write to invite you to the 3rd edition of Persistence Resistance: a
festival of contemporary political films (
http://www.magiclanternfoundation.org/Events/pr2010/pr10_home.html)

The festival will be held from 25 to 27 February at the India International
Centre, 40 Max Mueller Mar, New Delhi 110003

Screenings will being at 9:30 each morning and continue till late night.

Some of the highlights of this edition are:

89 films will be screened in 14 venues across the IIC. We are honoured to
present film by very senior and eminent filmmakers as well as new comers.
Films will be screened in 2 auditoria, in simulated video parlours, outdoors
at night, as installations and at a muti-hub video library.

The festival will present retrospective of six directors: Manjira Datta,
Deepa Dhanraj, Saba Dewan, Krishnendu Bose, Sanjay Barnela (with Vasant
Sabarwal) and Supriyo Sen.

The festival will showcase works by student from the FTII and NID.

The festival will host two video installations.

The festival is happy to present 6 in-depth conversations on documentary
practice with 5 eminent filmmakers and a cinematographer: Kesang Tseten,
Majira Datta, Saba Dewan, Bishakha Datta, Supriyo Sen and Avijit Mukul
Kishor.
Discussants are: Samina Mishra, Brinda Bose, Veena Hariharan, Sabina
Gadihoke, Ira Bhaskar and Shankhajeet De.

The festival will be inaugurated at 10:30 am on 25 Feb by Ms. Jai Chandiram.
A key note address by The Hoot (www.thehoot.org)  represented by Sevanti
Ninan will follow, and the New Delhi launch of the book 'From Rajas and
Yogis to Gandhi and Beyond' by Ms. Vijaya Mulay would close the inaugural
session. 

The inaugural film is: Wagah by Supriyo Sen, and the closing film is: Sound
of Tibet: Awakening Kindness by Kim Joon-Nyeon (with a repeat screening of
Wagah)


I invite you to attend the festival, and do please forward the invite to
your friends and networks in Delhi who might be interested to attend or
write about the festival.

With best wishes,
Gargi Sen