documentary films from other media communications
Santhosh Kumar
Dear friends,
Greetings from Other Media Communications, Bangalore!
Other Media Communications is an institution set up to cater to the communication needs of social movements and civil society groups in India. We work in print, audio-video and new media areas. We have produced more than half a dozen documentaries and published a number of books and reports on social issues in India.
Here we are presenting our six films for your information as part of our endeavour to make socially meaningful films more accessible to individuals, organisations and educational institutions. We request you to buy them and use them in your workshops, awareness programmes and campaigns which will help to spread awareness about social issues as well as help us in our ongoing work.
These are available both in DVD and VCD formats.
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List and Synopsis of the films
1. Hey Ram!! Genocide in the Land of Gandhi
Dir. Gopal Menon/ DV/25 min./Hindi with English Subtitles/2002
Hey Ram!! was the first film to be completed on the Gujarat Genocide, February 2002 in the aftermath of Godhra and was released even as the violence was raging in Gujarat.
2. Resilient Rhythms
Dir. Gopal Menon/ DV/ 64 min./ Tamil/Telugu/Hindi/Kannada/Bhojpuri with English Subtitles/ 2002
This film documents the various atrocities that are committed on people simply because of their caste and shows how Dalits are fighting back.
3. Naga Story: The Other Side of Silence
Dir. Gopal Menon/ DV/64 min./With English Subtitles/2003
The film provides an introduction to the history of the Naga struggle, and documents the human rights abuses suffered by the Naga people in more than 50 years of existence as part of Independent India.
4. Naka Naka Dupont, Naka (No to Dupont)
Dir. Partha Sarkar and Reena Kukreja Beta/24min./English/1998
This film is the story of the Goan peoples’ triumph over the multinational company ‘Dupont’ and a sterling model for similar struggles.
5.BHOPAL – The Survivor’s Story
Dir. Rumah Rasaque/ DV/30 min/ Hindi with English Subtitles/2005
‘Bhopal – The Survivors Story’ explores the grim reality of lakhs of survivors and their children, caught between Dow-Carbide’s denial of liability and the Government’s reluctance to pursue Dow-Carbide, as they continue to face the unfolding hardships of the nearness of death and living poisoned everyday.
6. Yi As Akh Padshah Bai (There was a Queen…)
Dir. Kavita Pai / Hansa Thapliyal/ Kashmiri/Urdu/Hindi/English with English subtitles/105 minutes/ India/ 2007
Over more eighteen years, flashes of intensified conflict and bouts of negotiations have followed one another with monotonous regularity in Kashmir. Newspapers and television channels manufacture predictable binary images of conflict – angry men and weeping women, peace loving Kashmiris and terrorist Kashmiris, misguided innocents and fundamentalist separatists, victims and aggressors.
It is through Kashmiri women – proud, strong, with an undying zest for life – that film examines what peace means and how it can come about in Kashmir.
It won John Abraham National award for ‘Cinema of Resistance’ in Signs Festival 2009 in Thiruvananthapuram.