New Documentaries & Films added in Digital Archive’s Collection:
1. Amrit Beeja :eternal seed
Meera Dewan (Director)
Filmmaker Meera Dewan visits women using traditional farming methods in India, in this documentary.
Differences between people who consider seeds as sacred and multinational corporations using sterilized hybrids are shown; healthy use of the land is emphasized.
2. Life of the law
Manjira Dutta (Director)
An attempt is being made, since the late 1990s to resolve disputes at the local community level in the villages of West Bengal. With an unprecedented increase in land disputes, dowry cases and violence against women, it has become imperative to settle matters before they escalate. Participants from villages, women’s movement, peasant union, relatives of both sides (contesting) are physically present as participants and observers.
3. Imagining India with Nandan Nilekani a talk show hosted by Shereen Bhan by CNBC TV 18
An inspiring talk show brought to you by CNBC-TV18 with Nandan Nilekani in Imagining India.
Talks with Nandan Nilekani about India’s Socio-economic development, especially healthcare and education. Can our huge population become an unbeatable advantage in our global competitiveness?
4. Kali Bein: the black river
Surendra Menon (Director)
The Pink Mirror’ (Gulabi Aaina) – a Bollywood entertainer with a difference: India’s first film on Drag Queens is a camp romp about two transsexuals and a gay teenager seducing a handsome hunk!
The film, for the first time, peeps into the fascinating closet of Indian gender-benders and discovers deep emotional bonds.
5. Capitalism : a love story
Michael Moore (Director)
Capitalism: A Love Story examines the impact of corporate dominance on the everyday lives of Americans (and by default, the rest of the world). The film moves from Middle America, to the halls of power in Washington, to the global financial epicenter in Manhattan. With both humor and outrage, the film explores the question: What is the price that America pays for its love of capitalism? Families pay the price with their jobs, their homes and their savings. Moore goes into the homes of ordinary people whose lives have been turned upside down; and he goes looking for explanations in Washington, DC and elsewhere. What he finds are the all-too-familiar symptoms of a love affair gone astray: lies, abuse, betrayal…and 14,000 jobs being lost every day.
Capitalism: A Love Story also presents what a more hopeful future could look like.
6. The Story of India with Michael Wood
Jeremy Jeffs (Director)
The Story of India is a BBC TV documentary series, talks about the 10,000-year history of the Indian subcontinent in six episodes.
Michael Wood has explained historical events by travelling to the places where they took place, examining archeological and historical evidence at first hand and interviewing historians and archaeologists, as well as chatting with local people.
7. The Advocate
Deepa Dhanraj (Director)
The name of K.G. Kannabiran is synonymous with the founding of the human rights and civil liberties movement in India.
The film as part biography and partly history of the times attempts to document the remarkable contribution of Mr Kannabiran in challenging the Indian State to uphold the rule of law in institutions of governance, justice and political praxis.
As president of the Andhra Pradesh Civil Liberties Committee from 1978 to 1994, he brought its work international recognition. As a founding member of the Concerned Citizens Committee he acted in the capacity of a mediator in the peace talks between the Andhra Pradesh Government and the Maoist Peoples War Group. He was elected national president of the Peoples’ Union for Civil Liberties in 1994, a position he continues to hold.
