Women's issuesOn the government’s push to increase the age of marriage for women from 18 to 21, the track advocates for better measures that will be more useful for women.Tnm StaffScreengrab/YouTube- Oxfam IndiaOxfam India and Agents of Ishq have teamed up to produce a track titled ‘#SorryThankYouTataByeBye’ to discuss the government’s push to delay the age of marriage for women. While raising the minimum age of marriage for women from 18 to 21 seems like a progressive step on the outset, the track — which is produced as a part of the #EmpowermentNotAge campaign – advocates for a holistic approach focusing on better education, employment opportunities and agency, among a host of other factors that would equip women to make choices pertaining to their marriages, rather than a legislation mandating minimum age of marriage for women to be increased from 18 to 21 years. The song has also been released in the backdrop...
- 11/29/2021
- by SaradhaU
- The News Minute
The curatorial project film festival organised by Katha Centre for Film Studies will be held over five weekends starting February 18, 2012. The festival will have day-long screenings curated by five participants of the Katha workshop on film curatorial practices held in 2011. The venue for this festival is Whistling Woods International, Mumbai.
For February 18, screenings have been curated by Srajana Kaikini, an architect from Delhi on the theme ‘Familiar Strangers’: Exploring how communities are constantly in conversation with each other. To probe unknown bonds between unknown, the unseen crowd and the connected individual.
The films that will be screened are Following by Christopher Nolan, Man on Wire by James Marsh, Babel by Ag Inarritu and Where is the Friend’s Home by Abbas Kiarostami.
For February 24-25, Afrah Shafiq, who works with Majlis has curated the screenings on the theme ‘A Bit of I, A Bit of Me’: Works where...
For February 18, screenings have been curated by Srajana Kaikini, an architect from Delhi on the theme ‘Familiar Strangers’: Exploring how communities are constantly in conversation with each other. To probe unknown bonds between unknown, the unseen crowd and the connected individual.
The films that will be screened are Following by Christopher Nolan, Man on Wire by James Marsh, Babel by Ag Inarritu and Where is the Friend’s Home by Abbas Kiarostami.
For February 24-25, Afrah Shafiq, who works with Majlis has curated the screenings on the theme ‘A Bit of I, A Bit of Me’: Works where...
- 2/16/2012
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
A film and discussion series, "Moving Politics – Cinemas from India", curated by Dorothee Wenner and Nicole Wolf will be held at the Deutsche Guggenheim museum at Germany. The event will be organized on the occasion of the exhibition, "Being Singular Plural: Moving Images from India" at the museum.
Three program blocks with a selection of recent feature and documentary films as well as several classics of Indian film history will be screened.
Filmmakers Paromita Vohra and Partho Sen-Gupta, as well as the curator Kaushik Bhaumik will be present at the opening of the exhibition. The following films will be screened at the festival:
Superman Of Malegaon (Faiza Khan, India 2008, June 27, introduction: Dorothee Wenner and Nicole Wolf, followed by a discussion) Malegaon is located far away from the Indian metropolises, geographically lying in the center of India. With the decline of the textile industry, tensions in the population increased: Amidst this chaos,...
Three program blocks with a selection of recent feature and documentary films as well as several classics of Indian film history will be screened.
Filmmakers Paromita Vohra and Partho Sen-Gupta, as well as the curator Kaushik Bhaumik will be present at the opening of the exhibition. The following films will be screened at the festival:
Superman Of Malegaon (Faiza Khan, India 2008, June 27, introduction: Dorothee Wenner and Nicole Wolf, followed by a discussion) Malegaon is located far away from the Indian metropolises, geographically lying in the center of India. With the decline of the textile industry, tensions in the population increased: Amidst this chaos,...
- 6/17/2010
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
NEW DELHI -- The fifth Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles concluded Monday night at ArcLight Cinemas in Hollywood with the U.S. premiere of Rajnesh Domalpalli's South Indian film Vanaja.
The screening was followed by the awards ceremony during which director Pan Nalin's epic love story Valley of Flowers won the grand jury prize for best feature while the audience choice award went to John Jeffcoat's romantic comedy Outsourced.
Revolving around a young girl who battles odds to become a classical dancer, Vanaja, which received a special mention for debut feature, received the Berlin International Film Festival's best debut feature award in February.
"Q2P" directed by Paromita Vohra won the grand jury prize for best documentary, and best short went to Tea Break by Srinivas Sunderrajan. The animated short Printed Rainbow by Gitanjali Rao received a special mention.
Audience award winners were the documentary Divided We Fall by Sharat Raju and the short Monsoon by Shyam Balse.
"Over the past six days, we have received overwhelmingly positive feedback from filmmakers, audiences, sponsors and press," festival director Christina Marouda said.
The screening was followed by the awards ceremony during which director Pan Nalin's epic love story Valley of Flowers won the grand jury prize for best feature while the audience choice award went to John Jeffcoat's romantic comedy Outsourced.
Revolving around a young girl who battles odds to become a classical dancer, Vanaja, which received a special mention for debut feature, received the Berlin International Film Festival's best debut feature award in February.
"Q2P" directed by Paromita Vohra won the grand jury prize for best documentary, and best short went to Tea Break by Srinivas Sunderrajan. The animated short Printed Rainbow by Gitanjali Rao received a special mention.
Audience award winners were the documentary Divided We Fall by Sharat Raju and the short Monsoon by Shyam Balse.
"Over the past six days, we have received overwhelmingly positive feedback from filmmakers, audiences, sponsors and press," festival director Christina Marouda said.
- 4/25/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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