Thank you Benny...warm greetings! Great to hear from you. Currently am working as documentation officer with SIFFS Tsunami reconstruction Project in Tarangambadi, Nagapattinam.Tarangambadi is a former Denmark Settlement, and the village is undergoing a master palanning with so many NGOs.I am doing the process documentation with SIFFS( www.tarangambadi.in) an dit is twnty months since i joined there....
I am am about to leave from the project due to some health reasons, the allergy hit me badly... and wish to back to the visual media field. I will surely participate in your efforts. Please do the future commmunications with me. Regards Jeeva Jayadas On 3/8/07, Ramachandran G P <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Dear Friends, > This is Benny from Trichur, Kerala. We are organizing the 2nf edition of > ViBGYOR International Film Festival for Short & Documentaries, based on > the > theme `Celebrating identities and diversity'. The theme for the `Focus of > the Year 2007' is `Earth'. We don't have a competition section this time. > Next year on we hope to bring it back. > Please do support our festival by sending your films(2005-2006) and also > telling your freinds. Pass it on! > Regards, > Benny Benedict > > ViBGYOR International Film Festival 2007 > -Celebrating Identities and Diversity > Thrissur, Kerala May 10-13 > > Dear Friends, > ViBGYOR Film Festival celebrates the vagaries of identity and the richness > of its embodied diversity in the festival of short and documentary films > held every year in Thrissur, Kerala. The Second Edition of ViBGYOR will be > held from 10th to 13th of May 2007. The four-day Film festival invests not > just in the banquet of films of value and sense but strive to make the > event > a rich visual and intellectual experience in interfacing with filmmakers, > activists, peoples' movement leaders and academicians from as divergent > streams of life and activities. The marked difference from the last year > is > the absence of competition section. Instead, we are introducing the > 'Festival to the People', creating an additional venue in a rural area > next > to Thrissur town, where screenings and interaction with the filmmakers > will > be interspersed. > > ViBGYOR Package will have seven themes like `Indigenous People', `Dalit > Reality', `Gender & Sexuality', `Fundamentalism v/s Diversity', `Nation > State', `Globalization' and Country/Region focus. Seven films each will be > selected for each catagory. `Earth' will be the theme for the Focus of the > Year 2007. The festival will start with a national conference on the same > theme. Apart from the above two packages, there will be Short Fiction, > Music > Videos, Animations and Spots, a `Kerala Spectrum' and as usual the > Retrospectives. The other features include Open Forum every day, a film > market etc. > We invite short and documentary films, music videos, animations and spots > from around the world for screening at ViBGYOR 2007 in the categories > mentioned above and works from Kerala for the `Kerala Spectrum'. There > will > be a selection process to include films in appropriate themes as per > available screening time. Films made in 2005 and 2006 can participate. We > also invite filmmakers, activists and film lovers from every corner of the > world to participate in this celebration of ideas, art, struggles and > dreams. > ViBGYOR-2007 is organized by Chetana Media Institute (Thrissur) along with > Nottam(Cochin), GAIA (Thrissur), Abhivyakti (Nasik), Visual search > (Bangalore) and Marupakkam (Madurai), with the support of Governmental and > Non-Governmental institutions. > Contact us at [EMAIL PROTECTED] for further details. > > K.P. Sasi Fr. Benny Benedict > K.C.Santhosh Kumar Festival > Director Executive Director Joint > Executive Director > > _________________________________________________________________ > G P Ramachandran > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ greenyouth mailinglist is the activist support mailinglist for kerala run by Global Alternate Information Applications (GAIA) To post to this group, send email to [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
