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10 ON 10: CHILDREN DECIDE (26 min)
[ Filmmaker/s : MEENAKSHI & VINAY RAI ]
[ Theme : Children , Media/ Film ]
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The film attempts to evolve a set of indicators for the filmmakers on what makes a good children's film.

A FORERUNNER OF FREE MEDIA (UP) (52 min)
[ Filmmaker/s : S. KRISHNASWAMY ]
[ Theme : Media/ Film , ]
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K. Subrahmanyam, the “father figure” of Tamil Cinema, combined the roles of social reformer, political activist and lawyer-turned-film-pioneer, active for three decades as Director starting 1934. The high watermark of his creativity was "Thyagaboomi" (1939) – the only Indian Feature Film banned by the colonial government for propagating the freedom struggle. An important aspect of the Film was its advocacy of women’s empowerment, highlighted by a wife offering alimony to her tyrannical husband in the court room, refusing to live with him. Subrahmanyam was also called a “Star Maker” since he introduced three generations of top artistes to Tamil Cinema.

ADVERTORIAL: SELLING NEWS OR PRODUCTS? (27 min)
[ Filmmaker/s : PARANJOY GUHA THAKURTA ]
[ Theme : Media/ Film ]
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The film examines the commercial nature of media organisations all over the world, and in India in particular, which adversely impacts the democratic ideal of objective journalism.

ALL ROADS LEAD TO CINEMA (30 min)
[ Filmmaker/s : SUMIT KHANNA ]
[ Theme : Urbanscapes , Media/ Film ]
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The film offers glimpses into the lives of assistant directors in an attempt to understand their role in the film making process. How some have realised their dreams whereas most are driven to the point of despair.

BEYOND MONARCHS AND MERCHANTS (30 min)
[ Filmmaker/s : GARGI SEN ]
[ Theme : Media/ Film ]
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The film engages with different audiences in order to explore the concept, need and possibilities of public television in India.

- Silver Award, Film & Video Production Category, Houston World Film Festival

BEYOND WOMEN’S STEREOTYPES (30 min)
[ Filmmaker/s : BINDU NAIR ]
[ Theme : Gender & Sexuality , Media/ Film ]
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The film explores stereotypical images of women portrayed on Indian television by juxtaposing them against lived realities.

BREAKIN' NEWS (30 min)
[ Filmmaker/s : ISHANI K. DUTTA ]
[ Theme : Urbanscapes , Media/ Film ]
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The film examines the impact of the recent deluge of 'entertaining' and 'investigative' television news, how the news content is received by the viewers in an attempt to understand what is 'responsible news' in the Indian context.

CHILDREN WITH A MOVIE CAMERA (UP) (52 min)
[ Filmmaker/s : KRISHNENDU BOSE ]
[ Theme : Media/ Film , ]
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This is a personal journey of an urban filmmaker and his interactions with 3 groups of children from diverse cultural and political access. He explores the world of the children through his lensing and biases. This is juxtaposed by the children, documenting their own lived lives and their realities. The Film creates itself through the dialectics of vision as they both learn and engage with each other. One coming from the adult world of a dominant vision and the other from a child’s world, layered with varied socio cultural experiences.

The integral part of this film experience is the use of the participatory video tool with children. Socially deprived children from Kolkata, middle class privileged children from Delhi and Adivasi children from the resource rich Mandla in Madhya Pradesh, learn simple film narrative techniques and share the stories of their lives with each other including the filmmaker.

CINEMA CITY - I (28 min)
[ Filmmaker/s : MADHUSREE DUTTA ]
[ Theme : Media/ Film , Urbanscapes ]
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A series of two short Films.

CERTIFIED UNIVERSAL by Avjit Mukul Kishore

An impressionistic sketch of 'the public' as created by our cinema and its relationship with cinema itself.

Avijit Mukul Kishore is based in Mumbai and works as a cinematographer. Besides filmmaking, he has been involved in video-art installations and pedagogy and theatre groups - Music Theatre Workshop and Ruchika Theatre Group. He studied cinematography at Film and Television institute of India, Pune.

DO RAFIQUE by Rafeeq Ellias

Rafeeq meets Rafique Bagdadi, an extraordinary living archive of the city and its cinema, and explores the cinema city through him.

An international award-winning advertising and magazine photographer, Rafeeq Ellias has shot three previous documentaries as a cinematographer. “The Legend of Fat Mama” was his first documentary as a director and scriptwriter as well. The Film has won two National Awards, one award (best short film) at the Mumbai International Film Festival. He is currently preparing for his first feature film.

CINEMA CITY - II (28 min)
[ Filmmaker/s : MADHUSREE DUTTA ]
[ Theme : Media/ Film , Urbanscapes ]
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A series of two short Films.

HAVE YOU DREAMT CINEMA? by Hansa Thapliyal

A cinema theatre in a suburb of cinema city, is pulled down. Three women, who live in that suburb, reflect on their various relationships with that fantasy of a film in a darkened theatre. Was it ever theirs'?

Hansa Thapliyal graduated in 1998 from the Direction Course at the Film and Television Institute of India. She has sustained her interest in narrative forms in different media, working on an audio novel, short fictions, scripting, on a photo installation and teaching. She has worked on setting up an audio visual archive, Godaam, at Majlis, Bombay. She is currently working on a project on the history of early cinema in India.

DHANANJAY KULKARNI 'CHANDRAGUPT' by Rrivu Laha
A journey of migrants to the dream city through the tract of filmi aspiration.

A graduate of the Film and Television Institute of India, Rrivu Laha works as a freelance Cinematographer and Director. He began his career with assisting Rakesh Sharma on his film Final Solution.His first documentary Aamchi Kasauti received several awards and accolades at various national and international film festivals. He is currently a fellow of Commutiny Youth Collective working on ‘addressing information gaps in the area of food security through creation, compilation and use of audio visual materials’.

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