Professional Entries

Student Entries

Non Competitive Entries

Awards category and cash prize 2015

Best FEATURE Documentary

Rs 50,000 (Above 30 Minutes)

Best SHORT Documentary

Rs 40,000 (Below 30 Minutes)

Best STUDENT Documentary

Rs 20,000

Best CINEMATOGRAPHY

Rs 10,000

Best EDITING

Rs 10,000

Jeevika FREEDOM Award

Rs 10,000

1. CONTENTS

1.1 OBJECTIVES:

a) To document the livelihood challenges of the rural and urban poor across Asia.

b) Identify and bring to light policies and social, religious and cultural practices which prevent people from earning an honest living and being an entrepreneur.

c) To highlight the policy challenges of:

• Entrepreneurs in the micro, small, medium and large enterprise.
• Education Entrepreneurs whose livelihood is connected to schools.

d) Advocate with the policy makers for changes in policies and with social leaders for changes in practices that can have far-reaching impacts on the lives of the poor.

1.2 SUBJECT: The subject of the films must be on the livelihood of the individuals & communities of the following nations:

Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brunei, Cambodia, East Timor, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Iran, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Macau, Malaysia, Maldives, Mongolia, Myanmar, Nepal, North Korea, Pakistan, People’s Republic of China, Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Vietnam, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Thailand, Tajikistan, Taiwan.

1.3 FILMAKERS: The filmmakers can be of any nationality.

1.4 LANGUAGE: The entry could be in any language. It must have English sub-titles.

2. ENTRY CONDITIONS

• Film completed within the year 2013 to 2015
• Entries without the duly filled-in entry forms will not be considered.
• Two DVD copies (PAL format) of the film should be submitted.
• Each entry item should be labeled with title, running time, name of director and date of production.
• Multiple entries can be submitted. But requires separate entry form and fees.
• Only films received by 15 September 2015 20 September 2015 will be considered.
• Films once entered cannot be withdrawn.
• Entering films for Jeevika indicates acceptance that the entered copies will be part of the Centre for Civil Society Audio-visual Documentation Library and for Screenings.
• The films kept in our archive will not be screened commercially or sold.
• Entry fees in non-refundable under no circumstance.

3. EVALUATION PROCESS

a) Screening Committees

b) The five-member Screening Committee (2) comprising of five members will meet to shortlist the best twenty entries. The directors/producers of short listed entries will be notified by the last week of September 2015 and may be requested to send stills & more copies of films for multiple screenings. They are also invited to participate in the Festival 2015, New Delhi, especially to introduce and discuss their films.

c) Jury: The five-member Jury will meet to evaluate the shortlisted entries and select the top three winners, special jury award and the Best Student Film.

For a blind and fair review, the identities of the Screening Committee and Jury members will not be disclosed until the declaration of the final result.

4. THE AWARDS

The winners of the 2015 Jeevika festival will take home an exclusively designed Jeevika trophy and cash prize will be awarded to the winners during the Festival.

Awards Category:

1. Best FEATURE Documentary: INR 50,000 (Above 30 minutes)

2. Best SHORT Documentary: INR 40,000 (Below 30 minutes)

3. Best STUDENT Documentary: INR 20,000

4. Best CINEMATOGRAPHY: INR 10,000

5. Best EDITING: INR 10,000

6. Jeevika FREEDOM Award: INR 10,000

One of the winners will win a trip and three nights stay to be part of the Asia Liberty Forum in January 2016 in Malaysia.

Please Note: Taxes applicable as per the government rule.

5. BEYOND Jeevika 2015

CCS would like to screen select shortlisted films as part of the Livelihood Campaign in CCS seminars, various schools, colleges, cultural centers & organisations and at festivals in different parts of the country and the world. CCS would like to partner with other organisations to organise the Jeevika Festival in other countries, states and cities of the region. CCS would appreciate any such initiative by the directors and organisations.

6. About Centre for Civil Society

Centre for Civil Society advances social change through public policy. Our work in education, livelihood, and policy training promotes choice and accountability across the private and public sectors. To translate policy into practice, we engage with policy and opinion leaders through research, pilot projects and advocacy.

Vision: Each individual leads a life of choice in personal, economic and political spheres and every institution is accountable.

Application Form [PDF | DOCX | Online]

Documentary ​Submission Deadline: 15 September 2015

Extended Deadline: 20 September 2015

Check documentaries received so far here.

For more information, contact:

For any queries drop us an email at jeevika@ccs.in and we will get back to you within 24 hours.

A unique documentary festival, taking place annually in the city of New Delhi captures livelihood challenges faced by the rural and urban poor. 12th Jeevika: Asia Livelihood Documentary Festival is a non-profit film showcase promoting documentaries that put livelihood on the live wire!

Organised by India’s leading think tank, Centre for Civil Society, the documentary festival is a part of the larger Livelihood Freedom Campaign “JEEVIKA” which helps develop public policy measures to clear the path for free enterprise.

We invite you to watch the Official VIDEO of the Festival.

In addition to screenings, discussions, great networking opportunities for upcoming and veteran film-makers alike, the festival also offers fabulous prizes with cash honorarium, trophies, certificates and one of the winners will win a trip and three nights stay to be part of the Asia Liberty Forum in January 2016 in Malaysia.

AWARDS:

Best FEATURE Documentary: Rs 50,000 (Above 30 Minutes)

Best SHORT Documentary: Rs 40,000 (Below 30 Minutes)

Best STUDENT Documentary: Rs 20,000

Best CINEMATOGRAPHY: Rs 10,000

Best EDITING: Rs 10,000

Jeevika FREEDOM Award: Rs 10,000

Meet Rubel, a fourteen year old boy smuggling rice from India to Bangladesh. He has to cross the river Ganga, which acts as an international border. The same river eroded his home in mainland India when he was just four. Years later, a fragile island called Char was formed within the large river. With his family and a herd of homeless people, Rubel decided to settle in this barren expanse controlled by the border police from both the countries. Rubel dreams of going to his old school in India but reality forces him to smuggle stuff to Bangladesh. After a scorching summer, dark monsoon clouds roll on, the river swells up again. We see the edges of the island cracking. Char may disappear someday but we won’t—smiles the boy.

The film emerges from a recently issued government order in Mumbai which reduced the age limit of the iconic black and yellow Padmini taxis to a maximum of 20 years. What this means is that in a few years from now, the charming yet robust Padmini taxis will have vanished from the streets of Mumbai, taking away with it the livelihood of many who depend on it for their day to day survival. The film explores the various ways in which the government-imposed age limit affects the livelihoods of the taxi drivers on the one hand and shatters a peripheral economy around the taxi on the other. The four protagonists of the film talk about issues of migrant labor, the status of taxi drivers and the importance of taxis in the city of Mumbai through their own personal narratives, thereby offering a ringside view of the changing city and its invisible workers.

Tichi Goshta (Her stories) by Farred Muhammed, Milanth Gautham, Ridhima Sharma, Shiva Thorat & Silja Wurgler
Duration: 0:15:12

An attempt to challenge the conventional male-centric way of looking at histories. Her stories revolves around the lives of Vaishali Girkar, Sulekha Rana and Laxmi Dhamanse—all of them former mill workers. The film explores their life in the mills, their struggle after the strike of 1982 and the way in which they continue to negotiate the personal with the political. The owner of a food stall in Worli, an artist, and a broker respectively today, Vaishali , Sulekha and Laxmi are successful independent women in their own right but the mills and the great textile strike of 1982 continues to be an important part of their lives that they cannot and do not wish to forget. In fact, theirs is also a struggle to keep the legacy of the mills alive.

The documentary film is about a poor ‘street family’, which makes their living by disguising children as Mahatma Gandhi (Father of The Nation – India). The film is a comment on the poverty-stricken situation of street-children and the use of Gandhiji’s image to make money.