Documentary films in India

FN's view of the very real but often neglected world of documentary films. There's an amazing amount of interesting world out there, depicting the (sometimes harsh) reality of India, in a manner few other media can do.

Tuesday, February 02, 2010

Query from London, Indian documentary online

Fathima Nizaruddin wrote I am Fathima and currently I am doing a postgraduate course in Documentary in London. I was planning to work on Ind...

Saturday, March 04, 2006

Very British Bollywood... a documentary This is from http://www.goanvoice.org.uk : Documentary: A Very British Bollywood: 2 Mar: 9:00 – 10:0...

Sunday, February 05, 2006

A reminder from Puri...

A great idea. Festival with *your* own films... Bring Your Own Film Festival <byoffpuri@gmail.com> writes in to say: The countdown has...

Saturday, February 04, 2006

MIFF gets underway ... a report from Mumbai

This is by Ervell E Menezes, a senior writer on films.... MIFF: A curtain-raiser (by Ervell E Menezes) From: The Navhind Times, January 2...

Wednesday, January 04, 2006

Can you help us locate...

Those on the Docuwallahs2 mailing list [1] would be rather used to seeing messages from the Delhi-based Kriti group asking "can you hel...

Wednesday, December 28, 2005

Film-making, in Bangalore

Rakesh 'arky' Ambati <rakesh_ambati at yahoo.com> of the Free Software networks says a three-day film making workshop titled ...

Monday, December 26, 2005

Tricontinental comes to India again... Jan 2006

Ajay Bhardwaj sent in a detailed note about the Tri Continental Festival 2006 . For more details, you could get in touch with Monica Mody/A...

Films selected, films rejected...

Vikalp list [1] is currently, as of December 26, 2005, discussing the films selected and those rejected by the MIFF, or Mumbai Internationa...

Saturday, December 24, 2005

VIBGYOR, colours of the rainbow, in Kerala

Benny Benedict informs that the Chetana Media Institute is organizing the VIBGYOR Film Festival at Trichur, Kerala, from February 23-26...

Where the twain shall meet by Arshia Sattar 'Kitte Mil Ve Mahi (Where the Twain Shall Meet' Punjabi

Where the twain shall meet By Arshia Sattar Kitte Mil Ve Mahi (Where the Twain Shall Meet) Punjabi with English subtitles, 72 mins, 2004 Di...

INFOCHANGEINDIA-REVIEW: Development flows from the barrel of a gun

The review below appeared on Infochangeindia.org ....................................................................... DEVELOPMENT FLOWS F...

Friday, December 23, 2005

Second annual UN Documentary Film Festival

http://www.mediarights.org/news/2005/12/22/call_for_submissions_secong_annual_un_documentary_film_festival There's a call for submissio...

Formal distribution of independent documentary to schools, etc

Vipul Kulkarni vipulkulkarni.metaphor at gmail.com read of this blog via the CAC-Delhi network and introduced us to Metaphor Media -- www.m...

Thursday, December 22, 2005

Films on education! Fascinating....

Manish Jain -- shikshantar at yahoo.com -- recently informed that Shikshantar is putting together a two-day film festival called "Re-me...

Films on people's movements

Soumitra Dastidar <soumitra_dastidar at rediffmail.com> is a documentary film-maker from Kolkata (the city formerly known as Calcutta)...

Godhra Tak... a hard-hitting film

Shubhradeep Chakravorty, a New Delhi-based documentary filmmaker, recently sent in his self-intro to the Docuwallahs2 [1] mailing list: An i...

Jeevika 2006, in Delhi in January

Something that might be of interest. It came up on the Docuwallahs list: The Centre for Civil Society (K-36 Hauz Khas Enclave, New Delhi 110...

Films, censorship and documentary...

Vijaya Mulay <vijaya.mulay at gmail.com> shared this letter on the issue of films and censorship, taken up by the Indian Documentary P...

In Bhubaneswar, a film archive...

AMAR KANWAR in New Delhi reminds us about the formation of a Bhubaneswar film archive. Amar writes: You will be happy to know that the Bhuba...

Dress codes... audio documentary

Pukar (see contact details below) described this audio documentary recently. Sounds fascinating... Then They Came For My Jeans… The audio do...

Wednesday, December 21, 2005

Link from Canada...: water and film

Kolkata-based Jesuit Gaston Roberge gaston.roberge at gmail.com sent me this note, with a cc to Brian McDonough bmcdonough at diocesemontrea...

Monday, December 12, 2005

Vatavaran 2005: award winners

This list came in a bit late... and my travel (to Bangalore) delayed it further. Dipti Kulkarni of the Vatavaran Film Festival Directorate...

Free software... and film

V. Sasi Kumar <sasi.fsf at gmail.com> informs the FSF-Friends (Free Software Foundation India list) that the International Film Festiv...

SNAPSHOT-INDIA: The Story of Virgin Iron (Bappa Ray, 29 minutes)

SNAPSHOT: The Story of Virgin Iron English/29 minutes/video/colour IFFI 2005 --- It was an ancestor of the Agaria, who with a single stroke...

Wednesday, December 07, 2005

Film festival, VIBGYOR in Kerala

Benedict Varghese Chiramel <bennyb0107@gmail.com> has written in from Trichur, Kerala, saying their Chetana Media Institute, is organi...

Friday, November 25, 2005

In Orissa, green films

Ranjan Kishor Panda has announced, via the grassroots-caucus on Dgroups.org that the Travelling Film Festival 2005: Environment, Beyond Tr...

Tuesday, November 22, 2005

The Fifth Annual Media That Matters Film Festival : Apply : Application Step 1

There's this apparently US-based call for entries for the Fifth Annual Media That Matters Film Festival . It quotes Tim Robbins saying: ...

Apsara Awards (TM)

The Film & Television Producers is reporting that its Second Apsara Film and TV Producers Guild Awards (Apsara Awards) will be held on ...

Monday, August 29, 2005

A film-makers network being planned in India

Pankaj Gupta of Delhi (his email address says "Lodhi Road") is forwarding a note announcing plans for an Indian grassroots film-ma...

Telesur... from down south in Venezuela

This is an article about TeleSur , described as To balance the anti-Chavez local press and pro-American CNN, Venezuela is launching a South...

IDPA awards... from Mumbai (Bombay)

Indian Documentary Producers' Association is talking about its IDPA Awards for Excellence 2005 . Films produced between January 1, 2004...

Another fest... at Madurai

This announcement from Amudhan R.P lets us know about plans for the 7th Madurai Documentary Festival -- a non-competitive one -- to be hel...

Details of 'Deconstructing Disasters'

Max Martin's post announces details of the 'Deconstructing Disasters' film festival, to be held in October 2005 in India, featu...

CEE's video resource centres

Thanks to a posting from Nandini from the Video Resource Centre of the Centre for Environmental Education , a network in India, I came acro...

Docuwallahs2 crosses double century

Good news! Docuwallahs2 has just crossed 200 members. Actually, it's 202 right now. This list, started on an idea from Stalin Kurup in G...

Thursday, August 25, 2005

What more! A billion eyes...

Another, earlier blog-entry brought me here to the One Billion Eyes, Indian documentary film festival . And it does seem like a very interes...

Disaster, tragedy and film

In case you were curious to know why there's this spate of disaster films being spoken of (below), the mailing list Docuwallahs2 recen...

Cyclone in Gujarat...

' Cyclone in Gujarat - Lessons Learnt,' is a film by Sehjo Singh , a freelance journalist. The film depicted the aftermath of the Ka...

Tuesday, August 23, 2005

Jahangirabad? Where's that?

Gauhar Raza has announced that he is heading the 'Jahangirabad Media Institute' and is currently collecting documentaries for their...

Monday, August 22, 2005

Old Sea and The Man... film on the tsunami

R.R.Srinivasan has informed us about his new film on the tsunami. It's called Old Sea and The Man ("a documentary film on tsunami...

Saturday, August 20, 2005

A documentary on droughts, a story from Orissa

This is an article on Rupashree Nanda 's film on drought, hunger and exploitation in Orissa. By some coincidence, one of our local new...

Friday, August 19, 2005

Therapy for Tsunami-affected kids

Leena Manimekalai -- leenaraghu at yahoo.co.uk -- who describes herself as a media activist based in Chennai has completed a documentary fea...

SheWrite... narratives of work and Tamil poetry

Dr Anjali Monteiro and Dr K.P. Jayasankar of Tata Institute of Social Sciences , Deonar, Bombay's Unit for Media and Communications ha...

Monday, August 15, 2005

Jinnah versus Jinnah, Pakistani versus Indian perspectives

Deccan Herald (Bangalore, August 14, 2005) is reporting that a documentary "Jinnah versus Jinnah", with voice-over by renowned ad...

Sunday, April 24, 2005

Indian reality gets a new face on the screen

You may have not noticed it, but something big is happening on the small screen across the country. Alternative Indian documentary is boomin...

Wednesday, March 02, 2005

Of brothels, Oscars and censors...

It's unlikely you haven't heard it. The Oscar for the best documentary this year has gone to Born Into Brothels , which tells the s...

To the Garos, in Meghalaya

Robin De of Kolkata's Robin's Visual Concepts produced a film in May-June 2004 on the Wangala dance of the Garo tribe in the Garo H...

Taking films to the beach... and beyond

Bring Your Own Film Festival is a fascinating concept from the eastern Indian state of Orissa. Organisers explain it thus: "For a whil...

Films that focus on the fight for a living

Jeevika describes its goal as that of "show caseing films which focus on peoples' struggles in earning a living in a vocation of t...

The Indian documentary... historical background

Upperstall.com has this two-part commentary on the Indian documentary. It begins thus: " The Indian documentary may be traced back to ...

Film-makers in Delhi

Via Media introduces itself thus: "We are independent filmmakers based in New Delhi, India, involved in the production of documentary ...

Database of documentary film in India... only an attempt

Here's an attempt to build a listing of Indian documentary films. Only 22 as of date. Obviously huge gaps in information...

From Mumbai (Bombay): Anjali, Jayasankar's work... and more

Naata, or "The Bond" is a touching film about how we can learn the message of peace and tolerance from Asia's "largest s...

FreedomFilmsIndia.org ... out a battle against censorship

FreedomFilmsIndia.org calls itself " an action platform of over 300 Indian documentary filmmakers. The filmmakers came together as Cam...

Tuesday, March 01, 2005

Films Anonymous? Yes, from Hyderabad

Found FilmsAnonymous.com which calls itself a platform for short films and documentaries. . It explains the concept thus: "Short film...

Cinemawoman.com ... gender, human rights from Kolkata

Quote from the CinemaWoman.com website: Ananya Chatterjee Chakraborti is a filmmaker, television journalist, writer and activist based in C...

Infochange film forum (from Pune)

Check out this Infochange Film Forum which has some interesting links to documentary films coming out of India.

Links to documentary in India, censorship

Docuwallahs2 is a network that discusses documentary films in India. It was launched in its earlier form of Docuwallahs by Stalin, a film-...

Thursday, May 23, 2002

Horror through teens' lens ... (and Evil Stalks The Land)

Shocked by the violence and brutality that tore apart the social fabric of Gujarat, a 15-year-old now tells the world his story as seen thro...

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