THE KRITI FILM CLUB
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Our Festivals
EcoReels Festival on Environment, Climate Change and Sustainable Development
The KRITI Film Club has been screening documentary films at least once a month for the past 25+ years. We screen films on a range of issues connected with development, human rights and social attitudes/ trends. A neighbourhood film club that showcases films made by amateur and professional filmmakers, for young and old hands, for Indian, South-Asian and international films….it provides a space for brainstorming and sharing on these issues among different others.
This is an initiative of KRITI: a development praxis and communication team, a not-for-profit entity, based in New Delhi and Mumbai, with work across India. Founded by Aanchal Kapur, who has over 30 years of work experience as a social sector practitioner, trainer and knowledge-communication expert; and 25+ years of experience as an Impact Curator and Facilitator in the independent cinema space.
The whole idea of the KRITI Film Club is to place thought-provoking cinema in a discussion group that will help to deepen understanding on social and development issues among viewers and film-makers. It is an attempt to create a forum where students, activists, academicians, development professionals, media professionals and friends can come together and interact, through meaningful cinema. It also helps increase access of these films to a larger audience beyond film festivals and special screenings, as we keep the films for sale at our workplace after their screening. Our efforts are also to make it a place of rendezvous and meeting new people, especially the ‘non-converted’.
For the first 15 years from our inception in 1999, we organised monthly screenings at our workplace in Delhi on a Television screen, and sporadic screenings at the American Centre, British Council, Indian Social Institute etc. As the audience numbers increased alongwith the need for better screening quality we moved to regularly screening at public venues including India Habitat Centre (IHC), India International Centre, Alliance Francaise de Delhi, etc. in New Delhi. Since 2019, we have also been screening in Mumbai, and online on Doculive. Over the years we have also screened in other states of India, as possible.
Our annual festivals include ecoReels Film Festival on Environment, Climate Change and Sustainable Development, Beyond Borders Feminist Film Festival, Bacchon ka Bioscope: A Young People's Film Festival and monthly issue-based Reels.
All our screenings include the filmmaker (as far as possible) so that the audience interaction is insightful and useful. Conversations around the films are critical flagposts for creating social impact, changing mindsets and behaviours of individual and collective viewers.
We have also curated and organised screenings in slums, schools and colleges of Delhi, as well as different parts of India especially with communities and staff of development organisations and people’s movements, in solidarity and support for their work.
The Kriti Film Club has and continues to inspire several individuals and organisations to start local neighbourhood film clubs in their communities of work, institutions and cities. You can see and access documentaries made by independent film makers, documentary producers and development organisations from across India and parts of the world with us.
The Kriti Film Club has and continues to inspire several individuals and organisations to start local neighbourhood film clubs in their communities of work, institutions and cities. You can see and access documentaries made by independent film makers, documentary producers and development organisations from across India and parts of the world with us.
We have to thank the independent film makers’ fraternity for sharing and screening their films with us so that we have been able to reach these out to the civil society, students and general public.
Our film club began as an independent and has continued its work without external grants for a quarter of a century. In the early years, we had a membership based access so that people could come watch and borrow films too...in VHS, VCD and DVD formats. This decision initially came from the belief in creating a collectively resourced space, and we have been committed to building this organically and ground-up.
Our film club began as an independent and has continued its work without external grants for a quarter of a century. In the early years, we had a membership based access so that people could come watch and borrow films too...in VHS, VCD and DVD formats. This decision initially came from the belief in creating a collectively resourced space, and we have been committed to building this organically and ground-up.
Today, with growing demands and the need to deepen the impact is leading us to fundraise to sustain and expand our impact footprint. Sustained resources will enable us to reach diverse audience groups with non-fiction and fiction independent films to promote active citizenship and strengthen social impact around the issues and storytelling that issue-based cinema offers.
Come and connect with this space to Watch, Access and Support Films on rights…violence...development…environment...livelihood...health...labour...education... culture...disability...and many more socially relevant themes across a gender and intersectionality lens.
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Support to the KRITI Film Club's gullak (collection box) at screenings or online is welcome via https://milaap.org/fundraisers/crowd-fund-kriti-film-club or this link.
- If you are an interested donor or sponsor, write to space.kriti@gmail.com with the subject "resourcing interest"
- If you are a film maker interested in screening with us or having us disseminate your films in collaboration, write to space.kriti@gmail.com with the subject “film screening interest”
- If you would like to join our mailing list and be informed of our screenings write to space.kriti@gmail.com with the subject: ‘add to Kriti film club list’
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