[Reader-list] INVITE for Debaranjan's film 'The Conflict'

[Nagraj Adve]

KRITI FILM CLUB

and India International Centre

invite you for the screening of



The Conflict:  Whose Loss? Whose Gain?

(80 mins/ Oriya with English subtitles)



Script and Direction: Debaranjan Sarangi

Produced by: Pedestrian Pictures, Bangalore



on

3rd November, 6.45 pm

at the

IIC Annexe Auditorium, Lodi Road, New Delhi



The screening will be followed by a discussion with the film maker.



ABOUT THE FILM: Adivasi communities in India are increasingly becomes
victims of an intensifying corporate globalization, and also the focus
of a brutal right-wing communalism. Not coincidentally, these are
happening at the same time. As a consequence, adivasi communities are
feeling increasingly alienated from their lives and cultures in their
own lands.



This film is about how tribal communities of southern Orissa, mainly
Kandha, are facing upto this dual onslaught. It explores the brutal
violence in Kandhamal unleashed by right-wing forces following the
killing of Swami Laxmananda in August 2008. It also examines the loss
of lands and livelihoods faced by Kandhas and the fierce resistance
over 15 years to the mining of bauxite by large private mining
companies in Kashipur.



This film is the director's journey with three tribal leaders to
Kandhamal and Kashipur, soon after the violence in Kandhamal broke out
in August-September 2009.  The film asks an important question “Are
adivasis being turned into sacrificial goats by corporate
globalisation and communalism?”



About the Director: Debaranjan Sarangi is an Orissa-based anti-mining
activist, writer and film-maker. He spent eight years with the
anti-mining movement of adivasis in Kashipur, Orissa, and is also
involved in anti-communal struggles. He writes on anti-mining
resistance, development trajectories, communalism, and related issues.
The Conflict is his first documentary film.

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oriented initiative of ‘Kriti: a development research, praxis and
communication team’. We offer an independent and informal platform for
screening documentary films on a whole range of development, human
rights & environment issues. We also serve as a access space for
documentary films.

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