ANJALI MONTEIRO AND K.P. JAYASANKAR RETROSPECTIVE: 21 TO 23 FEBRUARY 2018

A retrospective on the work of two leading Indian documentary filmmakers, Anjali Monteiro and K.P. Jayasankar, Professors at the School of Media and Cultural Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai. Involved in media education, research and production, they have made over 40 documentaries and have jointly won 32 national and international awards

 

The films will be introduced by Anjali Monteiro and K.P. Jayasankar

 

YCP 1997(43 min; 1997; dvd; English subtitles)

Recipient of the Certificate of Merit, Mumbai International Film Festival 1998; Jury’s Award for Best Innovation, Astra Festival of Anthropological Documentary Film, Sibiu, Romania 1998

 

Built between 1865 and 1876, Yerawada Central Prison (YCP), Pune, is one of the oldest prisons in India with over 2500 inmates. In this film, six poets and artists of the YCP share their work, their lives

 

Saacha (The Loom; 31 min; 2001; dvd; English subtitles)

Abridged version of the film – Saacha is a portrait of a poet and a city. The poet is the late Narayan Surve, and the city is the city of Mumbai (a.k.a.Bombay), the birthplace of the Indian textile industry and the industrial working class

 

 

Our Family (56 min; 2007; dvd; English subtitles)

Recipient of the Special Mention of the Jury, Signs 2007; Certificate of Merit & special Mention of the Jury, MIFF 2008; Indian Documentary Producers Association (IDPA) Gold for Best Sound Design, Gold for Best Script, Silver for Editing, and Certificate of Merit for the Best Documentary

 

What does it mean to cross that line which sharply divides us on the basis of gender? Our Family brings together excerpts from Nirvanam, a one person performance, by Pritham K. Chakravarthy and a family of three generations of trans-gendered female subjects, Aasha, Seetha and Dhana, who are bound together by ties of adoption, belong to the community called Aravanis