From: Ridhima <ridhima@psbt.org>
Date: Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 10:36 AM
Subject: PSBT Open Frame 2010
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PROGRAMME HIGHLIGHTS
10 SEPTEMBER
10:00 am: FILM APPRECIATION WORKSHOP - I Suresh Chabria, FTII
02:00 pm: CINEMA CITY Short films on Bombay and cinema.
03:00 pm: CINEMA AND THE CITY: DISCUSSION - Madhusree Dutta, Majlis
04:15 pm: BELONGING | Ranu Sharma The Film questions the urge to define India and Indianness, for consumption by an unseen outsider.
05:00 pm: FLOW | Irena Salina Sundance Selection, investigates the world water crisis and exposes governmental and corporate culprits.
06:30 pm: ENVIRONMENT RIGHTS: DISCUSSION - Vandana Shiva, Founder, Navdanya
07:00 pm: CRUDE | Joe Berlinger Sundance Selection, Best Film & Grand Jury Awards, legal drama of the Amazon Chernobyl case - of human rights, multinational power & fast-disappearing indigenous cultures.
11 SEPTEMBER
11:00 am: FILM APPRECIATION WORKSHOP - II
02:00 pm: LAST TRAIN HOME | Lixin Fan Best Documentary, IDFA, & Sundance Selection, draws us into the fractured lives of a single migrant family in China.
03:30 pm: THE LAST TRUCK: CLOSING OF A GM PLANT | Steven Bognar & Julia Reichert Oscar nominee, puts human faces on stories painfully familiar, precipitated by globalisation and loss of livelihood.
04:15 pm: BLACK GOLD|Marc Francis & Nick Francis Official Selection, Sundance, Hot Docs, exposes multi-billion dollar coffee industry, tracing one man's fight for a fair price.
05: 45 pm: NERO'S GUESTS | Deepa Bhatia IDFA Selection & Jury Award, MIFF, the poignant story about India's agrarian crisis & growing inequity, an India we don't want to see, seen through the work of P. Sainath.
07:00 pm: RABBITS A LA BERLIN | Bartek Konopka Oscar nominee & Winner, Hot Docs & Toronto, the untold story about wild rabbits that lived between the Berlin Walls.
07:45 pm: IN CAMERA | Ranjan Palit Best Film, Kerala Fest, about the Filmmaker's experiences as cameraperson and reflections after 25 years of image-making.
12 SEPTEMBER
10:30 am: THE ART OF NEW MEDIA TECHNOLOGIES - Ossi Urchs, Germany
02:00 pm: TWO STORIES AND A CITY Stories on Delhi.
02:45 pm: MUGABE AND THE WHITE AFRICAN | Andrew Thompson & Lucy Bailey Best Film & Grand Jury Award, an intimate, moving & terrifying account of one man and his family's extraordinary courage in the face of overwhelming injustice and brutality.
05:15 pm: RAJA HINDUSTANI | Arvind Sinha On the Nat community and their marginalisation.
06:30 pm: SONGLINES | Vasudha Joshi An exploration of blues notes in folk music across India.
07:30 pm: PRAY THE DEVIL BACK TO HELL | Abigail E. Disney & Gini Reticker Best Docu, Tribeca & Tri Continental, the gripping account of a group of brave women who demanded peace for Liberia.
13 SEPTEMBER
10:00 am: THE ART & POLITICS OF THE DOCUMENTARY, Prof. Shohini Ghosh, AJK MCRC
01:45 pm: AMERICAN RADICAL | David Ridgen &Nicolas Rossier Probing, definitive film about academic Norman Finkelstein.
03:15 pm: JOURNEY TO NAGALAND | Aditi Chitre A young girl lead to a distant land by force of her visions.
04:00 pm: IRAQ IN FRAGMENTS | James Longley Oscar nominee, Winner, Sundance & Full Frame, explores lives of ordinary Iraqis, illustrative of larger issues.
05:45 pm: AFSPA, 1958 | Haobam Paban Kumar An extraordinary look at abuses of authority and the fearless strength of an abused people in Manipur.
07:00 pm: THE NATION STATE AND HUMAN RIGHTS: DISCUSSION Nandini Sundar, Vani Subramanian
07:30 pm: BURMA VJ | Anders Østergaard Oscar nominee & Sundance, Full Frame Winner, chronicles Burmese reporters who face death to expose a repressive regime , armed with pocket-sized video cameras.
14 SEPTEMBER
09:30 am: THE HEART OF JENIN| Leon Geller & Marcus Vetter Cinema for Peace Award, heart wrenching story of a Palestinian father's decision to donate the organs of his son, killed by Israeli soldiers, to Israeli citizens.
02:00 pm: THE RECKONING | Pamela Yates Official Selection, Sundance, follows International Criminal Court Prosecutor and his team as they issue arrest warrants for the world's most notorious human right offenders.
04:00 pm: INCURABLE INDIA | Umesh Aggarwal The Film investigates what ails the Indian health care system.
05:15 pm: GODHULI - THE GOLDEN DUSK | Jasjit Purewal & Meenakshi Vinay Rai What is happening to the ageing hearts and minds of India?
05:45 pm: COMPLAINTS OF A DUTIFUL DAUGHTER | Deborah Hoffman Emmy Winner & Oscar nominee, chronicles a mother's Alzheimer's and the evolution of a daughter's response to it.
06:30 pm: CARING FOR THE AGEING: DISCUSSION Deepika Nair, Harmala Gupta, Jasjit Purewal, Rajiv Mehrotra
07:15 pm: ENCOUNTER POINT | Ronit Avni & Julia Bacha Multiple award-winning riveting stories of an Israeli settler, Palestinian fighter, a bereaved Israeli mother and Palestinian ex-prisoner, fighting for non violence and peace.
15 SEPTEMBER
10:00 am: STATE OF THE MEDIA - FILMS IN PARTNERSHIP WITH MEDIA EDUCATION FOUNDATION, USA, AND DISCUSSION WITH SUDIP MAZUMDAR, JOURNALIST, NEWSWEEK
03:30 pm: MONICA & DAVID | Alexandra Codina Monica and David - two adults with Down's Syndrome - are blissfully in love and want what other adults have - an independent life.
05:45 pm: BODY & SOUL| Alice Elliott Extraordinary and rare look at an unusual relationship between two people some would call profoundly disabled.
06:30 pm: LOCATING AFFIRMATION IN THE DISABILITY DISCOURSE: DISCUSSION Anita Ghai, Javed Abidi, Merry Barua, Ranjana Pandey, Renu Addlakha
07:30 pm: BOY INTERRUPTED | Dana Perry Sundance Selection, a courageous film on a son' suicide.
16 SEPTEMBER
10:00 am: JERUSALEM IS PROUD TO PRESENT | Nitzan Gilady Outstanding Docu, Outfest, captures the homophobic hate campaign of fundamentalist groups against gay pride.
06:15 pm: THROUGH OUR VIEWFINDER | Jasmine K. Roy & Avinash Roy A group of MSM come together to narrate their own stories.
06:45 pm: SEXUALITIES, LOVE AND HUMAN RIGHTS: DISCUSSION Gautam Bhan, Jasmine K. Roy, Justice A. P. Shah, Pramada Menon, Shohini Ghosh
07:45 pm: SUDDENLY, LAST WINTER | Gustav Hofer & Luca Ragazzi About the fight for gay civil partnerships, directed by the most charming gay couple you could ever hope to meet. | OSCAR NOMINEES
Films livelihood, migration, violence, development, globalisation, environment, freedom of expression, media matters, rights of people living with disabilities, gender and sexuality...
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