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A Quick View |
Y o u a r e i n 1st ACFF, 2002 - Report on Day 4 : DT. 17-Nov-2002 ! |
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Programmes held in the 1st Asian Children's Film Festival' 2002 |
Indelible Impressions ! "Her father now discusses things with her! Sonali of Pune came to Hyderabad for vacationing. She participated in the Script-writing and Film-making workshops. She was chosen to play one of the leading roles in the film The Sit-ups made by the children. But her vacations ended and she had to go back to Pune. However, she returned to Hyderabad with her father for the 1st ACFF. Her father, a reserved person, was reluctant to come and watch the festival movies. Sonali almost forced him to. When the father saw a couple of films made in other countries he was impressed. He was taken up by the locales and the landscapes, which he loved. On the day, Sonali was still sleeping when her father came and woke her up. "Get ready fast, otherwise we’ll be late" he said. Sonali was stunned. Her father had got interested in the films. Not only this, she discovered he had begun to talk and discuss things with her. A thing he had never done before. ====()====
All women are not hapless The screening of Mr. BPV Rao’s short film Willing to Sacrifice at the Telugu University auditorium was just over and children dazed by the inspiring story of sacrificing of lives by the Bishnois of Rajasthan to protect trees and animals were still recovering when the producer of the film Mr. D.Dayakar Rao was introduced to them. "We are fortunate to have him with us at this screening. Don’t miss this opportunity. Ask him whatever you want to," the organiser concluded
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"A film-maker is more than just a film maker" this was the topic at today’s Open Forum held at Hari Hara Kala Bahavan as a part of the ongoing 1 st Asian Children’s Film Festival-Hyderabad organised by Children’s film Society-AP. To find out whether a film-maker is also a parent, a teacher, a psychologist, a sociologist, an educationist and a social activist, a panel of experts consisting of Mrs. Sumitra Bhave (trained social worker and a maker of 4 feature films, 23 documentaries and one TV serial of 26 episodes), Sunil Sukhtankar (theatre activist and Sumitra’s co-director), Mr. Sachin Kundalkar (Dir. Out of the Box) and Mr. J.R.Jyoti (writer and film-critic) was present.
Mr. Veda Kumar, Chairperson, CFS-AP, welcoming the gathering briefly outlined the film-festival programme and told that the CFS-AP is identifying children’s film makers from all parts of India and he hoped that soon a national federation would evolve out of this effort. He also indicated the likelihood of Mr. Sachin Kundalkar shouldering the responsibility for India’s western zone. Underscoring the need for children and people to know that there are so many films made for children, Mrs. Sumitra Bhave said that she was happy to see festival films being shown in so many theatres freely. Acknowledging that a film-maker has to be several beings she said that a film maker, in effect, has to be a complete person. Sharing her experiences of social work she said that she had worked with vagabonds, criminals, addicts and women and she found that they were all people with some problem. She decided to show women a mirror and made her first film showing how a poor woman was in reality strong all along. Based on real life and real people this film Bai fetched Sumitra and her colleagues several national and international laurels. Sumitra Bhave feels that such real-life films can make people think and change for better. Mr. Sunil Sukhtankar, an active participant in children’s plays, became restless as he grew. Neither children’s theatre nor the existing theatre of the grown ups could satisfy him. He became a theatre activist and began to perform with own scripts and own young team. Soon he joined Sumitra Bhave. Sunil described the making of their film 10 th F.Mr. Sachin Kundalkar, who was with Mrs. Sumitra Bhave and Mr. Sunil Sukhtankar, did a wee little film on his own. The film Out of the Box made good impact and Sachin came to stay as a children’s film-maker. J.R.Jyoti, a writer, film critic and a prominent poet, said that film-makers innovatively created their own world. They made up for the deficiencies found in the world of God and the realm of society. The film-makers learn from the society, create films. Give back to the society to learn from them. He pleaded for more sports related films as, he felt, most of the problems would be solved if all take to sports. "Let us take to sports religiously and religion sportively," he concluded. In a lively discussion that followed, child Praneet voiced his criticism about the theme of 10th F and Dhananjay from Sagroli, Nanded asked social worker-turned film-maker what, beside making a film and exposing problems of dalit students, she has done to solve the problem so depicted. Bhave told him that making people aware of the problem itself was a social work. Another question posed was whether school children shown working and earning money in the film amounts to encouraging child labour? The film-maker told that only when exploitation is there, children’s working amounts to child labour. On the whole there was an in depth discussion on the issues raised in the film 10th F vis a vis the present situation in schools and society. The Open Forum concluded with a vote of thanks proposed by Om Dev, President, Hyderabad Region of the Children’s Film Society.
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Children's Film Society, A.P."Chandram" 490, Street # 11, Himayatnagar,Hyderabad - 500 029 INDIA |
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