[Reader-list] VIDEO CONTEST: Moksha Moola - 'One Minute Video' Contest / Invite : 'Cotton for my shroud' screening today @ Delhi

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Fri Dec 9 10:00:16 IST 2011




Moksha Moola - 'One Minute Video' Contest

Venue Goethe-Institute/Max Mueller Bhavan Auditorium, 4 Rutland Gate 5th street, Chennai - 600 006



MOKSHA MOOLA is a video film competition thrown open to anyone living in Tamil Nadu and under 23 years. ‘Seeking a Space called Peace’ will be the overriding theme and the video should not exceed 60 seconds in duration excluding the titles.
The film can be fictional or documentary, live or animation, tragic or slapstick and it may even be silent! From identity crises caused due to globalization to erosion of inter-personal relationships and changing lifestyles can all become the focus of your films! All you need to do is come up with an original idea, some trigger happy crew members and lots of ambition! The final project has to be submitted on DVD format to the Chennai office of the Max Mueller Bhavan. The films will be shown at a gala function and on that final judgement day there are going to be three or four attractive prizes for you to grab!
There will be screening of the films (date and venue to be announced on our website) and attractive prizes to be won for the best entries, selected by a special jury.
1st Prize               Cash award        Rs.50,000 ( Rupees Fifty Thousand only)
2nd Prize              Cash award        Rs.30, 000 (Rupees thirty Thousand only)
3rd Prize               Cash award        Rs. 20,000/-( Rupees twenty thousand only)



Last Date for submission of the DVDs 30.01.2012


For more info Log on to http://www.goethe.de/ins/in/che/kue/en8508311v.htm
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Invite : 'Cotton for my shroud' screening tomorrow @ Delhi



The Farmers of Vidarbha invite you to the screening of - 'Cotton for my shroud', 

directed by Nandan Saxena and Kavita Bahl.



Festival: Vatavaran Environment & Wildlife Film Festival
Venue and time: 

December 9, 2011 @ 1045 am,
Convention Centre (NDMC Building, near YMCA), Jaisingh Road, Delhi.











































Cotton for my shroud'






Short Synopsis:




Since 1995, a quarter of a million Indian farmers have committed suicide - the largest wave of recorded suicides in human history.
Most of them were cotton farmers from Vidarbha in Maharashtra.
Once known for its fine cotton, Vidarbha is now called the 'graveyard of farmers'.


'Cotton for my shroud' tries to understand from a grass-roots perspective what is driving the cotton farmers to despair - is it a crisis of farm credit or are they victims of faulty paradigms of development.


The escalating cost of inputs like seed, fertiliser and pesticide has made farming unsustainable. In the summer, the lack of resources or institutional credit for sowing the fields drives poor farmers to end their lives. In the winter, the depressed rates of cotton become the proverbial last straw.


While the state and the media label these deaths as suicide, the cotton fields of Vidarbha remain a mute witness to genocide.


The film documents the diabolical designs of American multinationals like Monsanto to control our seed supply. A nation that does not have food security, cannot claim to be independent. And the ruling elite are again complicit in this second colonisation of India.


The film was shot over two visits to the hinterlands of Vidarbha.
Narrated in the first person, it gives us a window into the drama and despair that forms the warp and weft of life at Vidarbha.




The film was awarded the Gold for script at the IDPA Awards for excellence,
by the Indian Documentary Producers Association.






Produced by: Top Quark Films Private Limited.


Duration: 82 min. Format: Hi-definition 1080p.


















‘Cotton for my shroud’


About the Directors: Nandan Saxena & Kavita Bahl




Nandan Saxena & Kavita Bahl work in the genres of documentary and poetry films.
Their oeuvre spans the domains of ecology, livelihoods, development and human rights.


After their Masters in English Literature from the University of Delhi, they did a diploma in journalism. Thereafter, Kavita worked for ' The Indian Express' for seven years and Nandan worked for the audio-visual media, doing News and Current affairs programming, in what they call their previous life.


They turned a new leaf in 1996, as independent film-makers. Their films explore man’s relationship with his environment through many windows- cultural, political and anthropo-botanical.


Their voluntary initiative ‘Via-Media’ is an effort to catalyse change by taking positive stories to receptive minds, and to build the capacity of citizens groups and movements. They take workshops to initiate inquisitive minds into film-making and photography. They are visiting faculty in the Department of Culture and Media Studies, Central University of Rajasthan.


Nandan is also an avid photographer. In 2009, he had a 30-day solo exhibition of his photographs at India Habitat Centre, New Delhi.




nandansaxena at gmail.com / kavitabahl9 at gmail.com







 

 



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