[Reader-list] Cinema of Resistance's 3rd National Convention and Open session on People's Strugle and Role of New Camera

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Open Session :People's Struggles and the Role of the New Camera

3rd National Convention of CINEMA OF RESISTANCE



Dear Friends,


The Cinema of Resistance initiative, organized by 'The Group' – the cinemacollective of Jan Sanskriti Manch – has entered into the 9th year of itsactivities. Beginning from 2006, we have organized 35 film festivals andinnumerable smaller film screenings till date. The crux of the matter beingthat ever since the 1st Gorakhpur Film Festival in March 2006 till today, wehave been able to follow the model of negating big sponsorships of all kindsand relying on peoples' contributions instead. Our model has allowed us tospread the movement that sparked off in Uttar Pradesh all the way to Bihar,Uttarakhand, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Chattisgarh, Haryana, West Bengal,Odisha, Delhi and now to a few cities in South India as well.
 
To sharpen the Cinema of Resistanceinitiative and to formulate policy and planning to organize it better, we wouldbe holding the 3rd National Convention in New Delhi during February 15-16,2014. Apart from the Delegate Sessions scheduled for the above two days, wewould be holding an Open Session on the evening of 15th February. The theme forthe Open Session is “People's Struggles and the Role of the New Camera”.Speakers in this session would include Arundhati Roy, Ashok Bhowmick, SanjayKak, Sanjay Joshi, Surya Shankar Dash, Manoj Singh, Amitabh Patra, MohammadAslam and Shailendra Pratap Singh Bhati. Kasturi will conduct the session andUma Chakravarti will chair it.


All of you are cordially invited to attend and participate.

Time: 5:30 pm 
Date: 15th February, 2014
Venue: Gandhi Peace Foundation, near ITO, Deen Dayal Upadhyay Marg, New Delhi
Contact: Sanjay Joshi, National Convener, Cinema of Resistance, Jan SanskritiManch
thegroup.jsm at gmail.com91-9811577426


Speakers:


1. Arundhati Roy, Writer 
2. Ashok Bhowmick, Convener Jan Kala Samooh, Jan Sanskriti Manch
3. Sanjay Kak, Independent Filmmaker
4. Sanjay Joshi, Convener, Cinema of Resistance, Jan Sanskriti Manch
5. Manoj Singh, Convener, Gorakhpur Film Society, Jan Sanskriti Manch
6. Md. Aslam, Convener, KBK Samachar, Kalahandi, Odisha
7. Amitabh Patra, Cinema activist from Baragarh, Odisha
8. Shailendra Pratap Singh Bhati, Convener,Udaipur Film Society, Jan Sanskriti Manch
9. Surya Shankar Dash, Video Republic,Odisha 
 
Session conducted by Kasturi, Convener,Cinema of Resistance (Kolkata Chapter)
Chaired by Uma Chakravarti, Historian and Filmmaker
 

    
             
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