From: Priyanka Borpujari <[email protected]> Date: 2 August 2011 12:22 Subject: Facilitator For Film Screenings
Hi, My name is Priyanka. My work as an independent journalist seems to be the easiest way to describe what I do, among a multitude of other things that I do. I attribute my hunger for stories to my college days, when I was exposed to a variety of films and workshops. If one Saturday meant learning to link 100 different words with each other to make a story, a Sunday meant tree-planting and learning a lot about trees, birds and insect bites! Each time I get back to Mumbai from my sojourns which take me to beautiful villages, I realise that quite a section of the Mumbai youth hasn't been exposed to a wider world, beyond their text books and lectures and Hollywood films. Did you know that most of the chocolate we love to eat comes from countries in Africa where kids are exploited? Did you know that in the aftermath of the tsunami in 2004, music was one of the best ways in which the seafront communities could be salvaged? Did you know that some of most "philanthropic" corporations have had, and continue, with their legacy of oppressing people? Did you know that cancer could actually be curable, but the US government's FDA doesn't want this to be known? Did you know that the Bombay of 1985 is exactly the same as Mumbai of 2011 (except for more malls and flyovers)? Where do all these questions leave us? As a journalist, my role has been to seek beyond the soil surface, and dig down to the roots. I would love to see a generation of hungry youth, get them to disbelieve the mundane and believe in newer truths, through my role as a *Facilitator For Film Screenings*. I have a good collection of documentary as well as feature films, and have filmmaker friends who would be more than happy to have their films screened for a young audience, almost anywhere. I am looking forward to bringing these films to your institutions (schools, colleges, offices, homes!) and screen them, initiate a discussion, and perhaps have the filmmaker or someone associated with the film's subject to talk more on the film. Personally, I can talk on the covered-up civil war within our country today, when we do show films on that subject. I can take up the responsibility to organise a day-long film fest on just one subject too, so that the viewer is able to see different layers of understandings within a given subject. And there are many many many of such broad themes -- gender, sexuality, divorce, globalisation, music, dictatorship, journalism, democracy, mining, Kashmir, Varanasi, farmers, tribes........... Would you be interested to see the world through new lens, smell the tiny flowers as well as the hidden muck, and understand better the fabric of the world that we live in? We never tire from listening to stories. So, here is the opportunity for more stories to be seen and heard. Please email me at [email protected] if you want to be a part of my world of story-telling --- if you want me to facilitate a screening at your premises, and/or if you want to share a film that could be screened at various informal but significant venues. I am unable to decide a fee for this work --- there will be travel expenses to the site of the screening that I will have to incur. But at the moment, just anything would be appreciated. Also, please take a moment to visit my blog, which gives you a glimpse of my journalism. Regards, Priyanka Borpujari +91-9820741992 www.priyanka-borpujari.blogspot.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "humanrights movement" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/humanrights-movement?hl=en.
