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.
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 15 years from our inception, we screened on a monthly basis at our workplace in Delhi on a Televsion screen and then moved to screening at public venues like India Habitat Centre (IHC), India International Centre, Indian Social Institute, Alliance Francaise de Delhi, etc. in New Delhi, when the audience numbers and need for better screening quality increased. 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 has been an independent effort and we have not taken any grants to keep it going for 25 years. This decision 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 has been an independent effort and we have not taken any grants to keep it going for 25 years. This decision came from the belief in creating a collectively resourced space, and we have been committed to building this organically and ground-up.
Support to the KRITI Film Club's gullak (collection box), QR code or contribution link has always been welcome so we could continue this work.
However, today, we need sustained resources to reach diverse audience groups with the non-fiction and fiction independent films to promote active citizenship and strengthe social impact around the issues and storytelling that this cinema offers.
Come and connect with this space to Watch and Access Films on rights…development…environment...livelihood...health..labour...education..disability...and many more socially relevant themes.
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’
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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