Filmmaking Programmes for 2010

LEARN FILMMAKING HANDS-ON 2010
Script • Shoot • Edit • Make your own films

INTENSIVE PROGRAMMES IN FILMMAKING
Held in Delhi. Regn. opens 23 March.

PRIOR EXPERIENCE NOT REQUIRED
WEEKEND OPTIONS FOR WORKING PEOPLE

THE PROGRAMMES FOR 2010 ARE:

• INTENSIVE SUMMER PROGRAMME IN FILMMAKING
300+hrs, full time. Late-May to mid-July 2010.
Suitable for beginners, esp. aimed at students
Introduces participants to the basics of direction and filmmaking; and culminates in the making of short films. Simultaneously, the participants get hands on training in camerawork, sound, editing etc. The entire process is mentored by filmmakers.
Registration closed for 2010. Reopens 15/Mar/2011Email us at impulsemail AT gmail.com to know more


• WEEKENDS PROGRAMME IN FILMMAKING
450+ hrs, weekends based. Early-July to mid-Dec 2010.
Suitable for beginners, esp. working persons
Helps participants make short films (fiction or documentary). In the process, participants grasp the essentials of filmcraft – scripting, storyboarding etc (if fiction), or idea development, interview techniques etc (if documentary). Simultaneously, they get hands-on training in camerawork, sound, editing etc. The entire process is mentored by filmmakers.
Registration closed for 2010. Reopens 15/Mar/2011Email us at impulsemail AT gmail.com to know more


• THE CRAFT OF EDITING
120+ hrs, Evenings & Flexi-time.
Suitable for both beginners & people with some experience.
Introduces participants to the craft of editing. It familiarises them with the essential principles of editing, while providing hands-on training on editing software.
Dates to be announced.


• CUSTOMISED PROGRAMMES
For organisations / institutions / teams / groups of individuals who need targeted and customised training.


REDUCED FEES AND WAIVERS TO PARTICIPANTS FROM DISADVANTAGED BACKGROUNDS


CONDUCTED BY:
The programmes are principally conducted by Kavita Joshi, an independent filmmaker based in Delhi and an alumnus of FTII Pune. Other filmmakers also provide specialised inputs and training.

HELD IN SOUTH DELHI (NEAR AIIMS)

CONTENTS, DATES, FEES ETC ARE DIFFERENT FOR EACH PROGRAMME.

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Workshop Films Win More Awards

Several films from the 2009 summer programme have been garnering acclaim at the University level film festivals and youth events. These include:

HAPPY BIRTHDAY (2009)
A little boy makes a greeting card... his simple act raises an important question - what happens to old people in our society?
BY: Anubhuti, Vijender, Swati, Madhu

First prize at "Contre Jour", the annual film festival of Shaheed Sukhdev College of Business Studies, University of Delhi, Feb 2010
Screenings: Cinemela, Jawaharlal Nehru University, September 2009
India International Youth Film Festival, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Feb 2010
JournoJunction, Kamla Nehru College, September 2009. Delhi
Crescendo 2010, S S College of Business Studies Annual Fest, February 2010, Delhi


THE VOID (2009)
A boy on the cusp of childhood and teenage copes with a troubled home life, frustrated parents, and the cold silences of a loveless home.
BY: Udit, Nandini, Vaishali

Second prize at "Contre Jour", the annual film festival of Shaheed Sukhdev College of Business Studies, University of Delhi, Feb 2010
Screenings: Cinemela, Jawaharlal Nehru University, September 2009
India International Youth Film Festival, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Feb 2010
JournoJunction, Kamla Nehru College, September 2009. Delhi
St. Stephens, University of Delhi, Feb 2010

RASIYA (2009)
Rasiya looks at 3 minutes from the life of a sex worker, her relationship with her "lovers", and her relationship with money.
BY: Debashish, Atit, Deepak, Imrana
Cinemela, Jawaharlal Nehru University, September 2009
India International Youth Film Festival, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Feb 2010
"Critical Acclaim award" at "Contre Jour", the annual film festival of Shaheed Sukhdev College of Business Studies, University of Delhi, Feb 2010


CHOCOLATE (2009)
What happens when a little boy is rewarded a chocolate for his honesty? A comic look at the tragic state of relations between parents and children.
BY: Abhinav, Vrishnika, Prateek
Cinemela, Jawaharlal Nehru University, September 2009
India International Youth Film Festival, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Feb 2010
JournoJunction, Kamla Nehru College, September 2009. Delhi
Crescendo 2010, S S College of Business Studies Annual Fest, February 2010, Delhi

THE FACTORY (2009)
A little girl learns to draw. Or does she? A critical look at our "education" system.
BY: Shrutipriya, Sunil Kumar, Zubair, Paramjeet
Cinemela, Jawaharlal Nehru University, September 2009
India International Youth Film Festival, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Feb 2010

For a full list of all films made in our workshop programmes, please visit our google group

Filmmaking Programmes for 2010: Coming Up!

We'll soon be announcing our filmmaking programmes and workshops for the year 2010. These include our regular annual programmes like the
- Intensive Summer Programme in Filmmaking, and the
- Weekend Programme in Filmmaking,
as also new programmes like
- The Craft of Editing

As always, we will also be offering customised programmes for organisations and groups of people with specific requirements.

Full details are expected to be announced by late March 2010, when admission reopen. Please write to us at impulsemail AT gmail DOT com for more information.

IROM SHARMILA: Interview by Kavita Joshi

IROM's IRON IN THE SOUL
Young, stoic and dogged, Irom Sharmila has been on a fast-unto-death since November, 2000. She wants the repressive Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act repealed. The Act gives draconian powers to the security forces and has repeatedly been used with brazen brutality in the Northeast. For five years, she has been imprisoned and force-fed by the State for her ‘crime’. Filmmaker Kavita Joshi spoke to her in the hospital room in Imphal, her prison

An eye: piercing, intent. A nose, covered by a swatch of medical tape, as a yellow tube forces its way in. Lips, stretched tight as if in pain. A woman sits against a bare wall, huddled under a blanket, tightly hugging herself. This is my first impression of Irom Sharmila as I walk to her hospital bed. She is incarcerated at the security ward of JN Hospital in Imphal, Manipur, in custody of the Central Jail, Sajiwa. It takes her immense effort to speak, but she tries her best. “How can I explain? This is not a punishment. It is my bounden duty at my best level.”

Irom Sharmila has not eaten for over five years now. For this, she has been locked up in jail by the government under very dubious charges and is being forcibly nose fed. Since November 2000, Sharmila has been on a fast-unto-death, demanding the removal of the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act 1958 (AFSPA).

Read the rest of the article and interview on Tehelka here

FIND ALL ARTICLES ON IROM SHARMILA POSTED ON THIS BLOG, HERE

Irom Sharmila back in custody

Irom Sharmila back in custody -The Imphal Free Press

IMPHAL, March 10: As expected, hunger striker Irom Chanu Sharmila, who was released from the security ward of JN Hospital on March 8 afternoon, has been rearrested today on the same charge of attempting to commit suicide.

Sources said Sharmila has been rearrested today at about 5.30pm from PDA complex, Porompat where she has been continuing her fast unto death stir in demand for repeal of the controversial Armed Forces Special Powers Act.

Mention may be made that Sharmila went straight to PDA complex moments after she was released from JN Hospital (security ward) on March 8 and continued her stir at the spot where the Sharmila Kanba Apunba Lup had been conducting relay hunger strike in support of her cause.

In the meantime, the Sharmila Kanba Apunba Lup, which has been staging relay hunger strike for the past 420 days in support of Sharmila and to save the life of the hunger striker has submitted memorandum to the Governor, Chief Minister, Speaker of the Manipur Legislative Assembly and Opposition leaders urging them to take action to repeal AFSPA, save Sharmila and restore Right to Life of the people.

The Fake Encounter of Chongkham Sanjit, Manipur

MURDER IN PLAIN SIGHT
In Manipur, death comes easy. In this damning sequence of photos, a local photographer captures the death of a young man, killed in a false encounter by the police in broad daylight, 500 metres from the state assembly. How can a State justify such a war against its own people, asks TERESA REHMAN, here:

http://www.tehelka.com/story_main42.asp?filename=Ne080809murder_in.asp

LIFE IN A SHADOW LAND
As Manipur comes to a boil in the aftermath of a fake encounter, SHOMA CHAUDHURY maps the fractured truths and complex wars raging in the state. Photographs by SHAILENDRA PANDEY

http://www.tehelka.com/story_main42.asp?filename=Ne150809coverstory.asp

MY BODY MY WEAPON
the short film on Irom Sharmila and her fast to death

Best Documentary award for Tales from the Margins; and other screenings

Tales from the Margins wins the
Best Documentary award at the
YNW Film Festival 2008, Sri Lanka

The festival was held at Maharagama, Sri Lanka from 26th to 30th Dec 2008.
The jury was headed by noted filmmaker Adoor Gopalakrishnan.

Tales from the Margins awarded at Docudays Ukraine

Tales from the Margins recently won the Jury Prize at the Human Rights competition, Docudays Ukraine.

This is the 5th award that the film has won, after the Silver remi at WorldFest Houston 2007, the Special Jury Mention at the Medias Nord Sud Geneva 2007, and two awards by UGC CEC India.

EXCERPT FROM THE DOCUDAYS WEBSITE
head of the jury of Human Rights competition Alla Tytyunnyk
Prize of the jury of Human Rights competition
Film “Tales from the Margins”, director Kavita Joshi
“for not accepting violence”

original posting by Docudays Ukraine is here

IROM SHARMILA: The Unlikely Outlaw

THE UNLIKELY OUTLAW

The immensity of Irom Sharmila Chanu's now six-year-old protest is matched only by the paralysing indifference of the State and the national media, says Shoma Chaudhury

An ordinary November evening in Delhi. A slow halting voice breaks into your consciousness. “How shall I explain? It is not a punishment, but my bounden duty…” A haunting phrase in a haunting voice, made slow with pain yet magnetic in its moral force. “My bounden duty.” What can be bounden duty in an India bursting with the excitements of its economic boom?

You are tempted to walk away. You are busy and the voice is not violent in its beckoning. But then an image starts to take shape. A frail, fair woman on a hospital bed. A tousled head of jet black curls. A plastic tube thrust into the nose. Slim, clean hands. Intent, almond eyes. And the halting, haunting voice. Speaking of bounden duty.

That’s when the enormous story of Irom Sharmila begins to seep in. You are in the presence of something historic. Something unparalleled in the history of political protest anywhere in the world ever. Yet you have been oblivious of it. A hundred TV channels. An unprecedented age of media. Yet you are oblivious of it.

Irom Sharmila, 34, has not eaten anything, or drunk a single drop of water for six years. Six years. She has been forcibly kept alive by a drip thrust down her nose by the Indian State. For six years, nothing solid has entered her body. Not a drop of water has touched her lips. She has not combed her hair. She cleans her teeth with dry cotton and her lips with dry spirit so she will not sully her fast. Her body is wasted inside. Her menstrual cycles have stopped. Yet she is resolute. Whenever she can, she removes the tube from her nose. It is her bounden duty, she says, to make her voice heard in “the most reasonable and peaceful way”.

Yet we have remained oblivious to it. The Indian State has remained oblivious to it.
For six years, Irom Sharmila has been protesting the indefensible Armed Forces Special Powers Act (1958) that has been imposed in Manipur and most of the Northeast since 1980. The Act allows the army to use force, shoot, or arrest anyone without warrant, on the mere suspicion that someone has committed or was about to commit a cognisable offence. The Act further prohibits any legal or judicial proceeding against army personnel without the previous sanction of the Central Government.

Draconian in letter, the Act has been even more draconian in spirit. Since it was imposed, by official admission alone, more than 20,000 people have been killed in Manipur. Rather than...

read the rest on the TEHELKA website: page 1 and page 2

Tales from the Margins shows in Norway

Tales from the Margins
(23 min / short doc / India / 2006)

shows at the Global Investigative Journalism Conference, Lillehammer
on 12th September 2008, 9:00 AM

and at the Freedom House in Oslo
on 16th September 2008, 4:00 PM

read more about the film here