Dear
Friends
Greetings
from the Kriti Team!
We hope you all had a great Diwali!! Our team
sends lots of wishes for unending joy, good health, love and light in your
life.
With this mailer, we update you on our initiatives
and events conducted in October and at the same time, invite you to our November events – Kriti Film Club screening
on 1st November (on Men’s perspectives & changing roles) in collaboration
with PSBT and ITVS; and the Children’s Film Festival on 15th
November where we have lined up some exciting films for the young ones. Ours is
a small but one of its kind interactive space for watching and talking films so
if you have not been here until now give yourself a chance for a new
experience!
Octoberscape with the Kriti team
In October we celebrated the International Day of Older
Persons on 1st October with a very inspiring film on Zohra
Sehgal by Anant Raina. We were honoured to have both the film-maker and Mr.
M.K. Raina, the distinguished actor/director and Anant’s father, for the
discussion following the film screening. The audience was spell-bound with the
inspirational message of living life to the fullest and Zohra ji’s life-story
touched a chord in everyone’s heart! We also had a 72 year old member of our
audience play some lovely songs on his harmonica and we salute his spirit and
hope that we have many more young spirited oldies perform next year! See
pictures on
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.836521113045995.1073741838.195759603788819&type=1
Some of the other important days that
we mark in the month of October are:
02
October Gandhi Jayanti/International
Day of Non-Violence
10
October World Mental Health Day
13
October International Day for Natural
Disasters Reduction
17
October International Day for
Eradication of Poverty
24
October United Nations Day/World
Development Day
In 2011, we
had for the first time organised a Mental Health Day event in collaboration
with PHFI and a Kriti Film Club curated festival of documentaries called
‘MindReels’. In the Kriti team tradition of consistency, we have continued to
mark this day for the last three years. This year we used the social media to organise
an Online Mental Health Festival (on facebook) to mark the World Mental Health Day
(10th October), where a very path-breaking documentary film “A Drop
of Sunshine”, directed by Aparna Sanyal,
was screened online from 10th – 14th October in
collaboration with PSBT. Besides the film, there were several other articles,
talks, videos and other resources shared to create more awareness and dialogue on
mental health issues. There are very few spaces and platforms to discuss mental
health concerns; hence it was a small initiative by us to instil more courage,
hope and positivity through the social media. See more on https://www.facebook.com/events/1498742460385144/
We
continue our efforts of triggering thought and action on socially relevant
issues and hope that you will join and support us with full gutso!
Wishing
Lights & Joy
Kriti
Team
Documentary
Screenings in November
Kriti Film Club @Alaknanda (1st
November 2014)
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Mardistan
(Macholand): Reflections on Indian Manhood
26 mins/ English, Hindi
Director: Harjant Gill
&
Men Against the Tide
22
mins/ English, Hindi
Directors: ITVS & CNN-IBN
Date: 1st November, Saturday
Time: 6.00 pm to 8.00 pm
(screenings followed by discussion)
at the Kriti team workplace
A-15
Tara Apartments, near Alaknanda market
New
Delhi 110019 (nearest metro – Govindpuri)
https://www.facebook.com/events/278811358982319/?ref_dashboard_filter=upcoming
ABOUT THE FILMS:
Mardistan - Through the experiences of four different men,
ranging in age from 20s to 40s, Mardistan explores the notion of contemporary
manhood in a rapidly globalising India. A middle-aged writer attempting to make
sense of the physical and sexual abuse he witnessed growing up in an elite
military academy, a working class father of twin daughters resisting the
pressure to have a son, a young college student searching for a girlfriend with
whom he can lose his virginity, a middle-aged gay man deciding to come out to
his wife after nearly 20 years of marriage, together make up different
dimensions of what it means to be a man in India today.
About the Filmmaker – Harjant Gill is Assistant Professor of Anthropology and
Cultural Studies at Towson University, Maryland. He received his PhD from
American University. His academic research examines the intersections of
masculinity, modernity and migration in South Asia. He is also a documentary
filmmaker and has made several films that have screened at film festivals
worldwide and won numerous awards. His previous documentary with PSBT, Roots of
Love, explored the changing significance of hair and turban among Sikhs and has
been telecast on BBC World News, BBC America, and Doordarshan. He is currently
also the Co-Director of Society for Visual Anthropology Film and Media
Festival.
Men Against the Tide – How men across the world are challenging the various facets of
masculinity: December 2012 Delhi gang rape cut short the life of a
promising young woman. It also sparked an emotional response,
revolutionizing India’s consciousness around gender-based violence, and
provoking many of us to speak out and take action against it.
One year later, a new film by CNN-IBN and ITVS (Independent Television Service,
Inc.) honors men throughout India who are striking at the root of
gender-based violence.
Children’s Film Festival
(For
children 7 – 14 years of age)
On 15th November, 2014
Timings: 12 noon – 5 p.m.
at the Kriti Team workplace
A-15,
Tara Apartments, Alaknanda
New
Delhi – 110019 (nearest metro: Govindpuri)
To celebrate
Children’s Day, Kriti Film Club launches the first edition of Children’s Film
Festival with some selected documentary and mainstream films for children. The
films have been chosen that will stimulate the young sparkling minds with some
lessons and learnings for life, in a light hearted and fun way. The screenings
will be followed by reflections and discussions with the kids – to understand
their perspectives and ideas.
Films include:
- I am
Kalam
- Jadui
Pankh and selected short films by Nitin Das
- Kung
Fu Panda
- Lukka Chhuppi (the world’s first children’s feature film fully shot in Ladakh) by Vinod Ganatra
The celebration
will include small healthy eats for the children. So do send your kids for a
fun-filled yet educational event to ignite their thinking!
Please send us confirmations in advance to help us make suitable
arrangements!
ABOUT THE FILM CLUB: Kriti Film Club is an educational and research oriented
initiative of Kriti: a development research, praxis and communication team. We offer an independent and
informal space for screening documentary films on a whole range of development,
human rights &environment issues. We also serve as a borrowing & access
space for documentary films.
Phone: 26027845/ 26033088
Facebook
group: Kriti team Facebook page: Gestures by Kriti team
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