ViBGYOR Beckons!

Posted May 9th, 2007 by admin
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International Film Festival for Short & Documentaries, Thrissur, Kerala, India

2007 May 10-13, Regional Theatre-Natyagruham-Chetana Hall
Festival to the People: Pananchery Panchayat


Every hillside, every valley, every plain and grove, has been hallowed by some sad or happy event in days long vanished. Even the rocks, which seem to be dumb and dead as the swelter in the sun along the silent shore, thrill with memories of stirring events connected with the lives of my people, and the very dust upon which you now stand responds more lovingly to their footsteps than yours.
(Chief Seattle’s Treaty Oration 1854)

In the same spirit of reverence of the tribal chief (towards Mother Earth, our ancestral land) we dedicate ViBGYOR International Film Festival, the celebration of identities and diversity, to the ground of our existence-- Earth. Since ViBGYOR is not just another film festival, not just an array of films screened, we wish to begin from the basics, from the womb of Nature, where the potential for creation and destruction coexist in hybrid and complex colours and textures, much similar to the complexity and richness of the non-feature cinema (films) that ViBGYOR International Film Festival, Thrissur is set to showcase for the second time, from May 10-13, 2007.

So far, close to 250 films have been received and the film selection process is on the way. We have received films from all over the world. Many filmmakers are confirming their participation. Mr. Anand Patwardan will be at VIBGYOR for his retrospective. Yasmin Kabir (Bangaldesh), Herman Wehlagen (France) Deepak Roy, R.P. Amuthan, C.Vanaja, Meghanath, Vipin Vijay are some of the confirmed guests.

The Festival will begin at 10am on May 10th with the National Conference on `Earth’, organized in collaboration with VAK-DIC and ActionAid, India. Swami Agnivesh, Ram Dayal Munda, K.K.Kochu, Dr. Unnikrishnan, Max Martin, Satya Shivram and T.peter are the main speakers at the conference.

The highpoint of ViBGYOR-07 will be the Village Festival at Pananchery, one of the largest panchayath in Kerala. From May 11-13, screenings will be organized at four different centres of the panchayat and filmmakers and activists would interact with the people from the locality. Stree Jagruta Samiti of Pananchery takes the lead in organizing the events there. Few films made by the people in the panchayat will also be screened in the ‘Festival to the People’.
Varika! (come)…..join us in this celebration of peace, diversity and democracy!