Filmmaking Workshops 2008

Coming UP in 2008!!! TWO new workshops

the INTENSIVE SUMMER WORKSHOP we conduct annually

and later, a WEEKEND WORKSHOP for working persons and NGOs.

----- THE SUMMER WORKSHOP-----

Every summer for 6 years now, Impulse organises a filmmaking workshop

conducted by Kavita Joshi.

SUITABLE FOR BEGINNERS.

Prior experience in this field is not needed.

STARTS LATE MAY. REGISTRATIONS ARE OPEN.

THE WORKSHOP IS AIMED AT PEOPLE WHO:
- want to make their own film, but don't quite know how
- or are thinking of a career in TV/films, but are not sure if it's right for them
- or are doing a media / communication course which doesn't have enough video training
- or simply want a creative new activity

There is no age bar - while many participants are in college, we are also happy to consider older people in their forties and fifties.

PARTICIPANTS GET TO:
- Shoot. Edit. Script. Make a film...
- Watch rare films from over the world and read film books
- Work on digital equipment
- Go for Field Trips, and more...

The course is held every summer in south Delhi.
It is modular - 4 weeks + 4 weeks (full time).
Each batch has 16-18 people max.

----- THE WEEKEND WORKSHOP-----
In 2008, we are launching an additional NEW weekend-based workshop, suitable for working people who hold full time jobs, and especially for people working with NGOs that may have video shooting needs.

We aim to launch this workshop by August. Registrations start soon.
In case you are interested, please send us an email asap.

FOR FULL INFORMATION ON EITHER WORKSHOP:
send us an email at [ impulsemail AT gmail DOT com ]

All email enquiries should include
- your full name, a back-up email id, phone nos. and city
- and pl. mention which workshop you are interested in
In case you are working, it helps a lot if you tell us a bit about your profession, nature of work, timings, and organisation.

Please note - these are PAID workshops.

visit the workshop web-group here

for a list of ALL our workshops, click here

read comments and TESTIMONIALS from participants, here

watch "My Body My Weapon", a short doc by Kavita Joshi here

more about "Tales from the Margins" here

Workshop in Video / Film Making 2006: Photos

Srishti rehearsing the child actor; Sumit adjusting audio; Bharat with lights; Abhimanyu checking the frame; and much more... with the participants of 2006

Workshop film wins an award!

"Tarav...To Return"
wins the 2nd Prize at the Amity Engineering Short Film Festival

Made by participants of the summer workshop 2007, Tarav is a testimonial of a Kashmiri Pandit woman living in Delhi with her family, which had fled their village in the Kashmir valley when she was just a child. Tarav is an expression of her longing and of her dream to return to a home that now exists only in her memories.
[11 minutes / 2007 / DV]

The film has been researched, shot and directed by
Astik Sinha * Bhaskar Pant * Sudarshan Aravamudhan * Abhishek Chaudhry
as their final film in the workshop 2007

(more on this coming soon...)

Tales from the Margins awarded at Docudays Ukraine

Tales from the Margins recently won the Jury Prize at the Human Rights competition, Docudays Ukraine.

This is the 5th award that the film has won, after the Silver remi at WorldFest Houston 2007, the Special Jury Mention at the Medias Nord Sud Geneva 2007, and two awards by UGC CEC India.

EXCERPT FROM THE DOCUDAYS WEBSITE
head of the jury of Human Rights competition Alla Tytyunnyk
Prize of the jury of Human Rights competition
Film “Tales from the Margins”, director Kavita Joshi
“for not accepting violence”

original posting by Docudays Ukraine is here

Tales from the Margins (short documentary): information

a film by Kavita Joshi
[Short Documentary; 23 min; colour; Manipuri with English subtitles; India; 2006]



Twelve women disrobe publicly on the streets of Manipur, in protest… For over 6 years a young woman has been on a fast-to-death demanding justice; she is kept under arrest and is forcibly nose-fed. Why are the women of Manipur using their bodies as their battlefield?

Manipur is a state in India’s North-East region, riven for decades by insurgency and violence. The Indian government has attempted to crush the insurgency through its military might; shielded by by undemocratic laws. Yet, little is heard about Manipur and its troubles across the nation’s landscape. This is a place that mainland India has marginalised; that the world has forgotten.

‘Tales from the Margins’ travels to this remote, strife-torn corner of India to document the extraordinary protests of Manipuri women for justice. And through their lives, to focus on a vast human tragedy.

FOR COPIES / ENQUIRIES, CONTACT: kj.impulse (at) gmail.com
TO DOWNLOAD A PRESS KIT: see side bar on the right

FESTIVALS AND AWARDS:
§ Jury Prize for film on Human Rights, Docudays Ukraine
§ Special Jury Mention, Festival Medias Nord Sud 2007 Geneva
§ Silver Remi, World Fest Houston 2007
§ Citation for Film on Human Rights, 19th UGC CEC awards
§ Technical Excellence in Audiowork, 19th UGC CEC awards

also:
Asian Hotshots 2008 Berlin
50th DOK Leipzig 2007
South Asian Visual Arts Collective, Toronto
22nd DOK.Fest Munich 2007
International Museum of Women, California
Mumbai International Film Festival (MIFF) 2008
L’Alternativa Barcelona 2007
Film South Asia 2007, Kathmandu
Docs DF 2007, Mexico
Mad Cat San Francisco 2007
DC Meets Delhi Washington DC
Open Frame 2007 Delhi (UNESCO Package)
VIBGYOR 2007, Thrissur
Festival Dei Popoli, Florence 2006
Marupakkam Madurai 2006
IAWRT Asian Women’s Film Festival 2007 Delhi; Ahmedabad; Pune
World Social Forum India 2006

KEY TEAM:
Director and Producer: Kavita Joshi ; Camera: Sunayana Singh ; Sound: Asheesh Pandya ; Editing: Mahadeb Shi. The filmmakers thank IAWRT, NRK Norway, NIPCO Manipur, Jai Chandiram, Ima Gyaneshwari Devi and K. Sunil for their unstinting support.

The Doctor, The State, And A Sinister Case

"The Doctor, The State, And A Sinister Case"
The untenable imprisonment and victimisation of Dr Binayak Sen, a heroic humanitarian from Chhattisgarh, exposes Indian democracy as increasingly hollow, says SHOMA CHAUDHURY.

FAR AWAY from the glittering salons of Bombay and Delhi, away from its obsessions with booming malls and plummeting stocks, a good man waits in jail. He’s been in for nine months. But it is unlikely that the story of Dr Binayak Sen would have caught your attention. He’s been written about in bits. Some channels have covered him. But even though he is a mesmeric character — intense, articulate, idealistic, a man of privilege who seeks nothing for himself — and his imprisonment is a scandal that should shame any civilised society, for the most part, news of him here has been overwhelmed by hotter media preoccupations. Lead India competitions. And polls on who should be awarded Indian of the Year. Shah Rukh, Manmohan, or Vijay Mallya? Men like Dr Binayak can wait their turn in jail.

The story of Binayak Sen is the story of the dangerously thin ice India’s democratic rights skim on. The story of every dangerous schism in India today: State versus people. Urban versus rural. Unbridled development versus human need. Blind law versus natural justice. It is the story of an India unraveling at the seams. The story of unjust things that happen — unreported — to thousands of innocent people, the story of unjust things waiting to happen to you and me, if we ever step off the rails of shining India to investigate what’s happening in the rest of the country. Most of all, it is the story of what can be done to ordinary individuals when the State dons the garb of being under siege."

READ THE REST OF THE ARTICLE here

READ ABOUT THE FREE BINAYAK SEN CAMPAIGN here

AND here

Tales from the Margins: Screening in Kyiv

Tales from the Margins
(23 min / short documentary / India / 2006)

will be showing at the
5th International Human Rights Film Days - Ukrainian Context
on 29th March 2008, in Kiev

http://www.docudays.ua/

Tales from the Margins: screening in Toronto

SAVAC (South Asian Visual Arts Centre)
and Pleasure Dome present

Tales from the Margins
(23 min / short documentary / India / 2006)

in MONITOR 4: New South Asian Short Film and Video
Curated by Oliver Husain

Wednesday, February 20th 2008 at 7 PM
Innis Town Hall
2 Sussex Avenue, Toronto

MONITOR 4 is SAVAC’s annual experimental film and video screening, presenting new, award winning work from India, Malaysia, Pakistan and Canada. This 90 minute screening gives a glimpse of the critically engaged, political, poetic and humorous work being produced by South Asian artists today.

Curated by German-born, Toronto-based video and performance artist, Oliver Husain, MONITOR 4 presents works by artists Ferwa Ibrahim, Amit Dutta, Kavita Joshi, Azharr Rudin, Saba Khan and Debashis Sinha. Highlights include Amit Dutta’s FIPRESCI award-winning film Kramasha, a sumptuous dreamscape of an Indian village; Azharr Rudin’s independent and experimental video of small town boys in the big city of Kuala Lumpur; and Kavita Joshi’s harrowing documentary on women’s grassroots activism in Manipur.

Following the screening, Oliver Husain will lead a panel discussion with film critic Cameron Bailey, artist Debashis Sinha, and Independent curator Jacob Korczynski.

http://www.savac.net/

Tales from the Margins: shows in Mumbai

Tales from the Margins
(23 min / 2006 / India / short documentary)

will be screening at the Mumbai International Film Festival
for Documentary, Short and Animated Films, or
MIFF 2008, as part of the National Competition.

On Thursday 7th Feb 2008, at 1:20 PM
at the Godrej Theatre, NCPA Mumbai

Irom Sharmila's Health Deteriorating: The Telegraph

Hospital buzz on Sharmila’s health
OUR CORRESPONDENT

Imphal, Jan. 4: Hospital authorities are worried over the “deteriorating” health of Manipur’s human rights crusader Irom Sharmila who has refused nasal feeding for the past 12 days.

Sharmila, who has been on a fast unto death since November 2000, is surviving only on nasal feeding for more than seven years now in the security ward of Imphal’s Jawaharlal Nehru Hospital.

read more here:
The Telegraph - Calcutta (Kolkata) Northeast Hospital buzz on Sharmila’s health<B> Irom Sharmila. </B>A file picture