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Day2 Openforum: Re-imaging South Asia.
Posted May 12th, 2007 by adminRe-imaging South Asia.
Re-imaging South Asia. This was the theme of the second Open Forum session held today, May 12, 2007 at the VIBGYOR Film Festival.
Placing the theme in the context of the films being shown at the festival, the session moderator CS Venkiteswaran, well-known film critic and writer, raised questions about the role of the post-globalisation emergence of new communication technologies, which while revolutionizing communication has also concentrated power in the North. He also raised questions about the role of the nation state in countries of South Asia.
Politics of representation & realities of indigenous people under scanner at ViBGYOR 2007
Posted May 11th, 2007 by adminThe first Open Forum session of the ongoing VIBGYOR International Film Festival focused on the topic "Indigenous people, Representation & Realities". Dr. K Gopinath, Professor of Philosophy at Calicut University chaired the session. The panelists included Bhagaban Majhi, Leader of Prakrutik Sampada Surakshya Parishad (PSSP) from Kashipur, Orissa; JP Raju, Leader of the adivasi movement from Nagarhole, Karnataka; Meghnath, activist film-maker from Jharkhand; and KP Sasi, activist film-maker and VIBGYOR Festival Director.
