Jean,
Thanks so much for agreeing to co-sponsor!! You are right that law students are not our intended audience per se, but we'd certainly be interested in perhaps putting a program together with you in November. Let's be in touch about this. We have other films coming up in our independent film series this year that might work well (check out www.thirdi.org for a tentative schedule, we could also add you two to our 3rd I email list so you'd be informed about upcoming events--we don't send out too many emails!) . We're also looking to bring a very well known activist Malika Dhutt and it may coincide with the week you have planned but I'm not sure...will keep you posted.
I've included the description of the film, director, proposed date & time below. Let me know if you need more info (I'm actually guessing this is too much info but we'll also be updating our webpage with this info so you could just put a link to the site eventually). we'll keep you posted when it's updated.
Also have included the blurb on 3rd I Chicago, which will be sponsoring the screening & co-sponsoring will be SAPAC (South Asian Progress Action Collective):
3rd I is a non-profit, national organization committed to promoting diverse images of South Asians through independent film. We represent filmmakers and audiences from Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, The Maldives, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Tibet, and the South Asian Diaspora. We support our mission by providing film screenings, filmmaking courses, networking resources, and a distribution channel for the South Asian-American film community and our audiences.
FILM INFO:
Final Solution is a study of the politics of hate. Set in Gujarat during the period February/March 2002 � July 2003, the film examines the consequences of Hindu-Muslim polarization in the state.
Saturday, May 1, 2004
Tentative Showtimes (I need to verify with director that I've left enough time for both parts):
1:00 pm (Part 1 & 2) and 3:30 pm (Part 3 & 4)
Location Address:
For more info: http: www.thirdi.org/~chicago
FINAL SOLUTION Dir: Rakesh Sharma, 2004, India, 218 min
Part 1: Pride and Genocide deals with the genocidal violence against Muslims and its immediate aftermath. It probes the patterns of pre-planned violence by right-wing Hindu cadres which many claim was state-supported, if not state-sponsored.
Part 2: The Terror Trail reconstructs through eyewitness accounts the attack on Gulbarg (Ahmedabad) and acts of barbaric violence against Muslim women at Eral and Delol/Kalol (Panchmahals) even as Chief Minister Modi traverses the state on his Gaurav Yatra.
Part 3: The Hate Mandate documents the poll campaign during the Assembly elections in Gujarat in late 2002. It records in detail the exploitation of the Godhra incident (in which 58 Hindus were burnt alive) by the right-wing propaganda machinery for electoral gains.
Part 4: Hope and Despair studies the situation after the storm and its impact on Hindus and Muslims' ghettoisation, the call for economic boycott of Muslims and continuing acts of violence more than a year after the carnage.
Awards: Wolfgang Staudte award and Special Jury Award (Netpac), Berlin International film festival (Feb 2004).
Festivals: Berlinale (International premiere), Hong Kong, Fribourg, Istambul 1001fest, Singapore, Flanders (Belgium), World Social Forum (Mumbai; Indian premiere), Vikalp (Mumbai filmfest organised by Campaign against Censorship) and several other filmfests.
About the Director
Rakesh Sharma began his film/TV career in 1986 as an assistant director on Shyam Benegal's Discovery of India. His broadcast industry experience includes the set up/ launch of 3 broadcast channels in India: Channel [V], Star Plus and Vijay TV and several production consultancy assignments. He has now gone back to independent documentary film-making. His last film Aftershocks: The Rough Guide to Democracy won the Best documentary film award at Fribourg, Big Mini-DV and at Big Muddy and won 7 other awards (including the Robert Flaherty prize) at various festivals in USA and Europe during 2002-03. It has been screened at over 90 international film festivals.
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