Kasturi kasturi.basu@gmail.com [docuwallahs2]
2018-04-20 04:49:06 UTC
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Dear friends and comrades,
Farmers' protests, particularly those comprising of smallholding and
middleholding farmers, have been massive in state after state. The farmers'
protests are facing State bullets, arrests and severe clampdown. India has
had a long march to an agrarian dystopia facing us, the scale of which is
astronomical. A scenario of widespread farmers' suicides and massive
dispossession of farmers and agricultural labourers has been caused by a
deep agrarian crisis, reasons behind which are multipronged, and the crisis
has been developed gradually but very systematically through the economic
policy of the State. As the farmers fight back, we will gather on the
evening of April 21st to watch two gripping documentary films on the
subject and have an engaging post-screening discussion for a conversation
on the many questions that haunt us.
* Check our event page for more details:
https://www.facebook.com/events/589353628110731/
<https://www.facebook.com/events/589353628110731/?acontext=%7B%22source%22%3A22%2C%22action_history%22%3A%22%5B%7B%5C%22surface%5C%22%3A%5C%22timeline%5C%22%2C%5C%22mechanism%5C%22%3A%5C%22surface%5C%22%2C%5C%22extra_data%5C%22%3A%5B%5D%7D%5D%22%2C%22has_source%22%3Atrue%7D&source=22&action_history=%5B%7B%22surface%22%3A%22timeline%22%2C%22mechanism%22%3A%22surface%22%2C%22extra_data%22%3A%5B%5D%7D%5D&has_source=1&fref=mentions>*
*People's Film Collective presents*
* Monthly Film Screening & Conversation LONG MARCH TO AGRARIAN DYSTOPIA
When : 21st April (Saturday) What time : 5 p.m. - 9 p.m. Where : Jogesh
Mime Academy (Kalighat Park) Film Screening THE DISPOSSESSED Dir: Mathieu
Roy (1.5 hour long excerpt from the film) COTTON FOR MY SHROUD Dir:
Nandan Saxena & Kavita Bahl Recent Videos: Farmers' Movement & Long March
Post-screening Discussion Subhanil Chowdhury & Aparajita Sengupta
Moderator: Dwaipayan FREE ENTRY Spread the word, please!â*
*SYNOPSES:*
*THE DISPOSSESSED / Dir: Mathieu Roy (2017)*
The disastrous environmental impacts of modern agribusiness are no longer
up for debate, but few documentaries have explored the consequences for
workers. An ambitious project, filmed around the world, THE DISPOSSESSED
approaches the global food crisis from the farm workerâs perspective. While
multinationals, blessed with government support, keep developing solutions
supposed to solve the worldâs hunger problems, rural folks keep getting
poorer, perpetually pushed toward bankruptcy, displacement, a paradoxical
inability to feed themselves, and even suicide. With enlightening
interviews and keen observations of agricultural work, backed by
exceptional cinematography, THE DISPOSSESSED unpacks the systemic causes of
this tragedy.
On this day, we will screen a 1.5 hour long excerpt, which deals
specifically with the Indian agricultural crisis, from this powerful recent
film.
*COTTON FOR MY SHROUD / Dir: Nandan Saxena & Kavita Bahl (2011)*
Cotton for my Shroud investigates the ongoing farmer suicide crisis in
India and the culpability of the multinational Monsanto and the Indian
government. It examines the strategy of multinational corporations to
control seed supply, and corrupt politicians' willingness to help in this
second colonisation of India.
___________
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<http://facebook.com/KolkataPeoplesFilmFestival/>*
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*JOIN OUR FACEBOOK GROUP -
http://facebook.com/groups/PeoplesFilmCollective/
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* -- PEOPLE'S FILM COLLECTIVE Email: ***@gmail.com
<***@gmail.com> Phone: +91-9163736863 <091637%2036863>
(also WhatsApp) Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/KolkataPeoplesFilmFestival/
<http://www.facebook.com/KolkataPeoplesFilmFestival/> (page)
http://www.facebook.com/groups/PeoplesFilmCollective/
<http://www.facebook.com/groups/PeoplesFilmCollective/> (group) ABOUT
People's Film Collective is an independent, autonomous, people-funded
cultural-political collective based in West Bengal. Formed in 2013, it
believes in the power of films as a weapon of pedagogy as well as
alternative media for people. PFC organises monthly film screenings &
conversations in Kolkata and travels in Bengal with films & movemental
videos. PFC organises an annual film festival (KPFF) and publishes a
magazine (Pratirodher Cinema). PFC collaborates with like-minded
collectives of the working class and peopleâs movements. CAMPAIGNS &
INITIATIVES Kolkata Monthly Documentary Screenings and ConversationsKolkata
People's Film Festival (KPFF)Little CinemaTravelling CinemaPeople's Media
People's Study CirclePratirodher Cinema : film and counterculture magazine
-- *
Dear friends and comrades,
Farmers' protests, particularly those comprising of smallholding and
middleholding farmers, have been massive in state after state. The farmers'
protests are facing State bullets, arrests and severe clampdown. India has
had a long march to an agrarian dystopia facing us, the scale of which is
astronomical. A scenario of widespread farmers' suicides and massive
dispossession of farmers and agricultural labourers has been caused by a
deep agrarian crisis, reasons behind which are multipronged, and the crisis
has been developed gradually but very systematically through the economic
policy of the State. As the farmers fight back, we will gather on the
evening of April 21st to watch two gripping documentary films on the
subject and have an engaging post-screening discussion for a conversation
on the many questions that haunt us.
* Check our event page for more details:
https://www.facebook.com/events/589353628110731/
<https://www.facebook.com/events/589353628110731/?acontext=%7B%22source%22%3A22%2C%22action_history%22%3A%22%5B%7B%5C%22surface%5C%22%3A%5C%22timeline%5C%22%2C%5C%22mechanism%5C%22%3A%5C%22surface%5C%22%2C%5C%22extra_data%5C%22%3A%5B%5D%7D%5D%22%2C%22has_source%22%3Atrue%7D&source=22&action_history=%5B%7B%22surface%22%3A%22timeline%22%2C%22mechanism%22%3A%22surface%22%2C%22extra_data%22%3A%5B%5D%7D%5D&has_source=1&fref=mentions>*
*People's Film Collective presents*
* Monthly Film Screening & Conversation LONG MARCH TO AGRARIAN DYSTOPIA
When : 21st April (Saturday) What time : 5 p.m. - 9 p.m. Where : Jogesh
Mime Academy (Kalighat Park) Film Screening THE DISPOSSESSED Dir: Mathieu
Roy (1.5 hour long excerpt from the film) COTTON FOR MY SHROUD Dir:
Nandan Saxena & Kavita Bahl Recent Videos: Farmers' Movement & Long March
Post-screening Discussion Subhanil Chowdhury & Aparajita Sengupta
Moderator: Dwaipayan FREE ENTRY Spread the word, please!â*
*SYNOPSES:*
*THE DISPOSSESSED / Dir: Mathieu Roy (2017)*
The disastrous environmental impacts of modern agribusiness are no longer
up for debate, but few documentaries have explored the consequences for
workers. An ambitious project, filmed around the world, THE DISPOSSESSED
approaches the global food crisis from the farm workerâs perspective. While
multinationals, blessed with government support, keep developing solutions
supposed to solve the worldâs hunger problems, rural folks keep getting
poorer, perpetually pushed toward bankruptcy, displacement, a paradoxical
inability to feed themselves, and even suicide. With enlightening
interviews and keen observations of agricultural work, backed by
exceptional cinematography, THE DISPOSSESSED unpacks the systemic causes of
this tragedy.
On this day, we will screen a 1.5 hour long excerpt, which deals
specifically with the Indian agricultural crisis, from this powerful recent
film.
*COTTON FOR MY SHROUD / Dir: Nandan Saxena & Kavita Bahl (2011)*
Cotton for my Shroud investigates the ongoing farmer suicide crisis in
India and the culpability of the multinational Monsanto and the Indian
government. It examines the strategy of multinational corporations to
control seed supply, and corrupt politicians' willingness to help in this
second colonisation of India.
___________
*LIKE OUR PAGE ON FACEBOOK -
http://facebook.com/KolkataPeoplesFilmFestival/
<http://facebook.com/KolkataPeoplesFilmFestival/>*
*SUBSCRIBE TO OUR YOUTUBE CHANNEL -
http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNgoCDOcWswr-dlkc80lg1Q
<http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNgoCDOcWswr-dlkc80lg1Q>*
*JOIN OUR FACEBOOK GROUP -
http://facebook.com/groups/PeoplesFilmCollective/
<http://facebook.com/groups/PeoplesFilmCollective/>*
* -- PEOPLE'S FILM COLLECTIVE Email: ***@gmail.com
<***@gmail.com> Phone: +91-9163736863 <091637%2036863>
(also WhatsApp) Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/KolkataPeoplesFilmFestival/
<http://www.facebook.com/KolkataPeoplesFilmFestival/> (page)
http://www.facebook.com/groups/PeoplesFilmCollective/
<http://www.facebook.com/groups/PeoplesFilmCollective/> (group) ABOUT
People's Film Collective is an independent, autonomous, people-funded
cultural-political collective based in West Bengal. Formed in 2013, it
believes in the power of films as a weapon of pedagogy as well as
alternative media for people. PFC organises monthly film screenings &
conversations in Kolkata and travels in Bengal with films & movemental
videos. PFC organises an annual film festival (KPFF) and publishes a
magazine (Pratirodher Cinema). PFC collaborates with like-minded
collectives of the working class and peopleâs movements. CAMPAIGNS &
INITIATIVES Kolkata Monthly Documentary Screenings and ConversationsKolkata
People's Film Festival (KPFF)Little CinemaTravelling CinemaPeople's Media
People's Study CirclePratirodher Cinema : film and counterculture magazine
-- *