Centre for Civil Society (CCS) is proud to present Jeevika 2008
   

 

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South Asia Livelihood Documentary Film Festival
August 28-31, 2008
India Habitat Centre, Delhi

1st Award: Chilika Bank$ by Akanksha Joshi

2nd Award: Lakshmi and Me by Nishtha Jain

3rd Award: Hollow Cylinder Nandan by Saxena & Kavita Bahl

Student Category Award: What is the Point of Stories if they aren't even true? by Aditi Banerji

Special Jury Award: Hearts Suspended by Meghna Damani


South Asia Documentary Festival, which began in 2003, aims at capturing the livelihood challenges faced by the rural and urban poor and bringing it to the attention of the public, media, judiciary, and most importantly, policy makers.

Over the years, Jeevika has been successful in advocating for the cause of numerous small entrepreneurs, self employed, rick­shaw pullers, street vendors, sex-workers, child labourers, farmers and forest-dwellers. more...

   
 

SCHEDULE

Thursday: Inaugural Ceremony-Evening on TIBET
Thursday: August 28, 2008, Stein Auditorium

18.45 :

Introduction

18.50 :

Opening Address: ‘Why Jeevika?’
Dr Parth Shah, President of Centre for Civil Society

18.55 :

Chief Guest Address: Mr Tempa Tsering,
Official Representative of H.H. Dalai Lama
Dance by Tibetan students, Central School of Tibetans, Delhi

19.30 :

Screening ‘Tribute to Life’ by Neal Kartik (Tibetan Story/18 min)

19.50 :

Discussion on the documentary-Tibetan livelihood issues and concerns

 

 

Friday: August 29, 2008, Casuarina Hall

10.00 :

Bahurupia (25 min)

Rappai Poothokaren, S.J.

10.45 :

Ek Shunya Shunya (40 min.)

Ipsit Patel, Rika Choudhry & Sagrika

11.40 :

No Body’s Man (20 min)

Mrinal Talukdar & Abhijeet Das

12.15 :

The Last Hoarding Painters (30 min)

Saurav Dey

13.00 :

Kathputli (30 min)

Sudheer Gupta

13.45 :

A Shawl to Die For (21 min)

Rita Banerji

14.20 :

Of Land, Labour and Love (65 min)

Ajay Bhardwaj

15.40 :

Gaubolombe – Our Island (30 min)

Kaushik Gupta

16.25 :

Baru Garra (30 min)

Shriprakash

17.10 :

Hollow Cylinder (24 min)

Nandan Saxena & Kavita Bahl

17.50 :

Story Tellers (26 min)

Prashanth Kumar R & Daya J

18.30 :

What is the point of Stories
if they aren’t even true?
(12 min)

Aditi Banerjee

 

 

 

Saturday: August 30, 2008, Casuarina Hall

10.00 :

Agria – The Sons of fire (27 min)

Nandan Saxena

10.45 :

Voices from the Forest - India (32 min)

Rita Banerji

11.30 :

Chilika Bank$ (60 min)

Akanksha Joshi

12.45 :

Hearts Suspended (27 min)

Meghna Damani

13.30 :

I Sing, Therefore I am (19 min)

Subrat Kumar Sahu

14.05 :

Our Family (56 min)

K P Jayasankar & Anjali Monteiro

15.15 :

Theater Workshop by Arvind Gaur, head of ASMITA

16.45 :

When God Begs (18 min)

Manish Saini

17.20 :

Stories of Change (55 min)

Kamar Ahmad Simon & Sara Afreen

18.30 :

Lakshmi and Me (59 min)

Nishtha Jain

 

 

 

Award Ceremony: August 31, 2008, Stein Auditorium

18.30 :

Musical Performance by ‘EkamSatyam’

19.00 :

Introduction by Dr Parth Shah, President of Centre for Civil Society

19.05 :

Chief Guest Address by Mr. Tarun J Tejpal, Editor-in-Chief and Publisher of Tehelka

19.15:

Keynote Address by Padma Shree 2008 Recipient Dr. Amit Mitra,Secretary General, Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce & Industry (FICCI)

19.30 :

Presentation of Awards

19.55:

Vote of Thanks by Mr Manoj Mathew, CCS Program Manager

20.00 :

Theatre Play ‘Unsuni’ a play by Arvind Gaur, Asmita Theatre Group

   

The winners will be announced on 31 August during the award ceremony