CURATORS NOTE
बच्चों का बाइस्कोप, A Young People's Film Festival
celebrating Children's Day week
17th November 2023
10 am to 5 pm
@Jawahar Bhawan, New Delhi
Curated by
Curated by
Aanchal Kapur and Shivani Monga
Conceptualised and Organised by
Kriti Film Club
Conceptualised and Organised by
Kriti Film Club
in collaboration with
HAQ Centre for Child Rights and Rajiv Gandhi Foundation
Curators Note
Films are a powerful medium that immerse us in new worlds, bringing us closer to unseen places, people and ideas. The collective experience of viewing a film in a theatre builds newer understandings not just on the content of the film, but of ourselves and our place in our world.
With the technological boom, all age groups of people have access to audio-visual content and mediums on different topics. From being informative to disruptive, entertaining to harmful, there is a lot of content that is still not available or accessible. Here, we refer to issue-based content, socially relevant and documentary cinema that offers an opportunity to gain knowledge, insights and engagement with important social, environment, development and human rights issues. While adult audience may still have the forums and opportunities to access this content, it is limited for children and youth. In the current climate of strengthening youth citizenship and offering children a holistic and socially conscious education, films are a significant tool for learning, conversations and motivation for them to make social and sustainable footprints.
Films are a powerful medium that immerse us in new worlds, bringing us closer to unseen places, people and ideas. The collective experience of viewing a film in a theatre builds newer understandings not just on the content of the film, but of ourselves and our place in our world.
With the technological boom, all age groups of people have access to audio-visual content and mediums on different topics. From being informative to disruptive, entertaining to harmful, there is a lot of content that is still not available or accessible. Here, we refer to issue-based content, socially relevant and documentary cinema that offers an opportunity to gain knowledge, insights and engagement with important social, environment, development and human rights issues. While adult audience may still have the forums and opportunities to access this content, it is limited for children and youth. In the current climate of strengthening youth citizenship and offering children a holistic and socially conscious education, films are a significant tool for learning, conversations and motivation for them to make social and sustainable footprints.
Bacchon ka Bioscope, A Young People's Film Festival is an endeavour to create a forum for children to come watch films and celebrate the children’s day week. The festival will create an engaging space for children to explore new ideas, stories, and styles of storytelling, creating a fun, playful space that inspires. The intent is to open up new worlds, and connect them to places, people, languages, sounds they have not experienced yet. The festival will also introduce the audience to contemporary social issues like the environment, climate change, girl child issues, gender, right to play, through the power of films especially created for a young audience.
The festival includes animation, fiction and documentary films. The language of the films will mostly be Hindi with English subtitles with some films without dialogues too! Some of the films have been made by children and youth too! The language of the films will mostly be Hindi with English subtitles with some films without dialogues too!
The festival is OPEN for children over 8 years, youth and accompanying adults. In itself, the festival will be a forum for children of diverse backgrounds to interact with each
other.
The Kriti Film Club is a 23 year old documentary screening initiative run by the non-profit, Kriti: a development praxis and communication team. It has been screening documentaries and organising issue-based film festivals on a range of social, development and rights issues. Over the years, it has screened several children and youth friendly films and organised small Children’s Film Events to mark National Children’s Day on 14th November (the birthday of Chacha Nehru). In June 2023, over 200 children from slums of Delhi, associated with eight NGOs attended a two-day film festival organised by Kriti Film Club on the theme of environment and climate change. Starting a focussed children's and youth film festival has been a long-standing dream and its coming true in November 2023.
HAQ Centre for Child Rights is a human rights organisation that focuses on all rights for all children, recognising them as citizens of today and adults of tomorrow.
For participation and other information, email space.kriti@gmail.com
Look out for the film schedule on https://krititeam.blogspot.com/2023/10/bacho-ka-bioscope-young-peoples-film.html
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