Best Documentary award for Tales from the Margins; and other screenings

Tales from the Margins wins the
Best Documentary award at the
YNW Film Festival 2008, Sri Lanka

The festival was held at Maharagama, Sri Lanka from 26th to 30th Dec 2008.
The jury was headed by noted filmmaker Adoor Gopalakrishnan.

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”

Tales from the Margins shows in Norway

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

shows at the Global Investigative Journalism Conference, Lillehammer
on 12th September 2008, 9:00 AM

and at the Freedom House in Oslo
on 16th September 2008, 4:00 PM

Tales from the Margins: shows at UC Berkeley

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

shows on Saturday, September 6th, 4-6 pm
at 110 South Hall, UC Berkeley

as part of the film festival,
Human Rights in South Asia,
organised by AID Berkeley

Even as India celebrates 61 years of freedom from colonial rule, we must remember that the battle for freedom did not end in 1947. Many communities in India, and in the other South Asian countries, continue to struggle for political and economic equality. The films being screened this weekend depict peoples' struggle... Read more

Tales from the Margins: now showing in London

TALES FROM THE MARGINS
now shows in London, on 22nd July 2008, at 17:45 PM, at
The Flea Pit,
49 Columbia Road, London E2 7RG.
Ticket Price: Entry: £5 per evening of films or £8 for both evenings.
http://www.thefleapit.com/

The screening is a part of the travelling Persistance Resistance film festival of contemporary political documentaries from India.

Viewers can also see other documetaries incuding Waiting (Atul Gupta and Shabnam Ara); Q2P (Paromita Vohra); 7 Islands and a Metro (Madhushree Datta); Manjuben Truckdriver (Sherna Dastur); and other films...

For Screening Schedule 22 July, click here
For 23 July, click 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

Tales from the Margins: Faculty of Law, Toronto

Tales from the Margins
[23 m / 2006 / India / short documentary]

will be screening in Toronto
on 7th Dec 2007, 5 PM

at Flavelle House, Faculty of Law, University of Toronto
84, Queens Park
Room FLA (basement)

For more info, pl Download Presskit using the SIDEBAR on the right

Tales from the Margins screening in Jammu

TALES FROM THE MARGINS
(short doc / India / 2006 / 23 min)

will be screening on 29th nov 2007, at 3.45 PM
at the General Zorawar Singh Auditorium Complex, University of Jammu

as part of the Rhythms of Peace Festival
(28th - 30th November 2007)

Presented by the Intl. Resource Cell, University of Jammu
& the
Kriti Team

Tales from the Margins at L’Alternativa Barcelona

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

will soon be shown at L’Alternativa 2007,
the 14th Barcelona Independent Film Festival.

It will be screened on
Sunday 18th november at 21.15h
at Pantalla Hall, in a selection on "filming conflict".

The film is part of a thematic programme that presents an international selection; one of its main characteristics is the discovery of new, unusual, investigative film and video.

read more here:
http://alternativa.cccb.org/2007/en/pphh/docs.php

Tales from the Margins shows at DOK Lepzig

Tales from the Margins
(23 min / 2006 / India / short documentary)
will be screening at the
50th International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film

After IDFA, DOK Leipzig is one of the largest documentary and animation film festivals in Europe.

Tales from the Margins will be shown as part of the International programme
on Friday 2nd November, at 17.00 hrs
at the CineStar 7

and on Sunday 4th November, at 20.00 hrs
at the Wintergarten

To find out more:
http://www.dok-leipzig.de

Tales from the Margins screening at Film South Asia 2007

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

will be showing at the
Film South Asia 2007 in Kathmandu, Nepal

on 11th October 2007, 6:15 PM
Hall B at the Kumari Cinema,
Kathmandu

Read More here:
http://www.himalassociation.org/fsa/

Read a review of Film South asia 2007, here:
Film Feast in the Mountain Kingdom

Tales from the Margins: Awarded in Geneva

Tales from the Margins
received the Special Jury Prize at the
23rd International Medias Nord Sud Geneva 2007


It screened in Geneva during the
23rd Festival International Medias Nord Sud
ON: 5th October 2007, 04:10 PM
Bâtiment des Forces Motrices, 2, Pl. des Volontaires, Genève http://www.nordsud.ch/english/programme.html#films

Read the award announcement here:
http://www.nordsud.ch/francais/news.htm

Tales from the Margins screens at DocsDF Mexico

TALES FROM THE MARGINS

CINEMEX CASA DE ARTE I / September 28 / 23:30
JAIMA DOCSDF / October 1 / 22:00
CINEMANIA LORETO I / October 4 / 21:35

More here
http://www.docsdf.com/

Tales from the Margins: Screenings on World Peace Day

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

will be screened on World Peace Day by KRITI
Venue: Open Palm Court Gallery, IHC, New Delhi
Date and time: 21st Sep 2007, Friday at 3:00 PM


There is ALSO a screening a SARAI
(29, Rajpur Road, Delhi)
at 4:30 PM the same day.

for more on the film, please go here.

Tales from the Margins: in San Francisco

Tales from the Margins

will be screening at the MADCAT Film Festival 2007 at San Francisco

on Fri • Sept 14 2007 • 7:30 pm
at the Artists’ Television Access
992 Valencia Street, San Francisco
(415) 824-3890

Its part of a package called "At the Margins", which is co-presented by 3rd I South Asian Film Festival and Center for Asian American Media

get more details here
and here

Tales from the Margins: Wins at WorldFest Houston 2007

Tales from the Margins received a Silver Remi at this edition of WorldFest Houston, for films on Political / International Issues. There were more than 4,500 entries in competitition at WorldFest 2007 across genres and categories.

WorldFest is one of the oldest competitive international film festivals in USA (since 1968) and has a long list of “discovered” film greats such as Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, David Lynch, Oliver Stone, Atom Egoyan, Ang Lee and many others.

WorldFest’s mission is to recognise outstanding creative excellence in film & video, validate brilliant abilities and promote future filmmaking in Texas. Multi award-winning producer/director, Hunter Todd, founded this festival to honour all categories of film and video production.

The 10-day film festival ran to a smooth finish with 14 World Premieres, 50 Indie features and 68 award winning shorts.

All award results from this year’s WorldFest competition are posted on http://www.worldfest.org/

Tales from the Margins shows at DOK.FEST Munich

TALES FROM THE MARGINS
- a film by Kavita Joshi
[documentary / 24 min / India / 2006]

will shortly be screened at the DOK.FEST Munich in the Competition, Horizons.
Date: Sunday May 6th at 7 p.m
and Tuesday May 8th at 5 p.m.

"The 22nd edition of the International Documentary Film Festival Munich will be held from 2nd to 10th May 2007. The festival presents premières together with the international highlights of the year, creative documentaries produced for cinema release together with the most interesting proofs of new talents from all over the world, simply a best-of-programme, a festival for documentaries and documentary filmmakers."

Read more about film on the festival website:
http://www.dokfest-muenchen.de/filme_view_web.php?fid=1377

Tales from the Margins shows at Festival Dei Popoli, Florence

Tales from the Margins
(women's protest in conflict-torn Manipur)

will shortly be showing at the
47th Festival Dei Popoli
International Festival of Documentary Films 2006, Florence
Date: 6th Dec 2006, Time: 4:00 PM

Visit the festival page here