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Event Dates: 7 March 2010 - 2:30pm - 8 March 2010 - 2:30pm The IAWRT-INDIA, in partnership with the IIC Project, is organizing the 6th Asian Women’s Film Festival in New Delhi on 7- 8 March 2010. This two day event will showcase the works of Asian women film makers in a range of genres – fiction, non-fiction, animation, television reportage. The term ''Asian'' refers to origin – the film maker can be working in any part of the world. Past editions of the IAWRT-INDIA Asian Women’s Film Festival also travel to many cities in India. The theme of the Festival in 2010 is BREAKING BOUNDARIES : SHARED SPACES. The selection of films will reflect how women (as film makers and/or as protagonists) negotiate, resist or document political, social, cultural, environmental, educational or economic issues. This year’s Festival will include the very latest in animation to retrospectives to videos by women working at the grass roots to a selection of student films from cinema schools all over the world. The best three student films will receive certificates of merit. We take this opportunity to invite film makers to send in their entries by 20th Dec 2009. All enquiries should be directed to: Jai Chandiram, Festival Director : iawrtindiafestival@gmail.com, jaichandiram@yahoo.co.in Reena Mohan, Program Coordinator, iawrtindiafestival@gmail.com The IAWRT in partnership with the IIC Project is organizing the Fifth Asian Women's Film Festival in March 2009. The four previous festivals were : In 2009 we again celebrate the vision of women with a two day event, to mark the International Women's Day (March 7th to 8th 2009). The theme of the festival is 'Dialogues in Diversity'. The aim of the festival is to open up a space for debates on creative processes and concerns. IIC -project and IAWRT will use this forum to curate a special session dedicated to short films across genres of animation, fiction and documentary film. The forms for the festival are available from : Email: iawrtindiafestival(at)gmail.com |
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Event Dates: 7 March 2011 - 12:00am - 8 March 2011 - 12:00am WAYS OF SEEING: RHETORIC AND REALITY The India Chapter of the International Association of Women in Radio and Television (IAWRT) will hold its 7th Asian Women’s Film Festival in New Delhi on March 7-8, 2011 showcasing works of women film makers of Asian origin in a range of genres – fiction, non-fiction, animation, and television features – representing a diversity in country, content and form. The theme of the 7th Asian Women’s Film Festival is WAYS OF SEEING: RHETORIC AND REALITY. The theme expects to articulate through multiple lenses the lives, events and concerns of our multi-layered society and reflect how women (as filmmakers and/or as protagonists) go beyond manifestation, question and express through new forms and content. “Ways of Seeing” aims to create a language of understanding of ideas flux and explore hierarchies and contradictions in our realities and rhetoric. The IAWRT Asian Women's Film Festival is held annually around the International Women's Day celebration and is proving to be an increasingly popular event in the city's calendar. It provides an intimate atmosphere for interaction enriched with dialogues on gender concerns and changing approaches to documentaries. Past editions have travelled to various Indian cities – Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Kolkata, Pune, Madurai, Mumbai, Hyderabad and Thiruvananthapuram. The IAWRT Asian Women’s Film Festivals held in the past six years were as follows: 2005 - Expressions In Freedom 2006 - Women, Media and Society: Transformations 2007 - Reflections: Women Imaging Realities 2008 - Insights & Aspirations 2009 - Dialogues In Diversity 2010 - Breaking Boundaries: Shared Spaces Call For Entries The IAWRT-INDIA is now accepting entries from selection of films reflecting how women (as film makers and/or as protagonists) negotiate, resist or document political, social, cultural, environmental, educational or economic issues retrospectives to videos by women working at the grass roots to a selection of student films from cinema schools all over the world. Though not mandatory, films made in the last two years are preferred so that the selection reflects contemporary concerns and fresh energies. Deadline is the 20th of December 2010 to be submitted to: Jai Chandiram For further inquiries, please contact: Jai Chandiram Reena Mohan |
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Event Dates: 8 August 2011 - 9:00am - 12 August 2012 - 12:00am In August 2011, the International Association of Women in Radio and Television organized a new and unique film festival called the Festival of Emerging Cinemas at the India Habitat Centre, New Delhi. The festival was a celebration of the diversity in creative expression of the cinemas that are emerging in the towns and villages of India. We wanted to showcase films that are made by people living in the communities they are speaking to and about. We were looking for films that have something to say, speak in a local idiom, and are rooted in the region. The Festival of Emerging Cinemas was an experiment and turned out to be an amazing process of discovery for both the curators and the audience as it opened up a new way of looking at films. The viewing of the whole range of films raised many pertinent questions about popular culture, target audiences, activist filmmaking, market pressures etc even as it offered people in Delhi an opportunity to connect with and understand people from different parts of the country through the medium of cinema Acknowledgements All the participating filmmakers, India Habitat Centre, Dr. Aruna Vasudev, Dr. Raj Liberhan, Renu Oberoi, Programmes team and technical staff of IHC, Himanshu Joshi, Maulee Senapati, Paban Haobam, Meghnath, Prof. Vir Bharat Talwar, Sanjay Joshi, Tashi Dawa, Shabani Hassanwala, Uday Bhatia, Subhash Rawat, Reena Mohan, T.N. Uma Devi Curated by Jai Chandiram and Anupama Srinivasan August 2011 |
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