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Schedule of Jeevika 2011

8^th Jeevika: Asia Livelihood Documentary Festival
26-28 August 2011, India Habitat Centre

14 documentaries (10 professional and 4 amateur) films showcasing various aspects of livelihood have been shortlisted from a total of 73 films that were submitted for the 8^th JEEVIKA: Asia Livelihood Documentary Festival to be held at India Habitat Centre, New Delhi from 26 to 28 August 2011. National Award winning filmmaker and Padma Vibhushan, Shri Adoor Gopalakrishnan will declare the festival open and will give away the awards to the winners. Shri Ram Jethmalani, Lawyer and Member of Parliament will deliver the Keynote Address titled ‘Law, Liberty & Livelihood’.

The documentaries touch upon sensitive subjects such as surrogate mothers, security guards, tribal land issues. Apart from screening of the documentaries, there will be discussions, dance performance and a photo competition as part of the festival, for which entry will be free.

Jeevika: Asia Livelihood Documentary Festival is organised by Centre for Civil Society, a public policy think tank based in New Delhi. The documentary festival is a part of the larger Livelihood Freedom Campaign ‘JEEVIKA’ which helps develop public policy measures to clear the path for livelihood freedom.

FRIDAY, 26 August 2011, 18:30-20:30, Stein Auditorium

AWARD CEREMONY
	Inauguration: Festival and Photo Exhibition Nominations: Jeevika: Asia Livelihood Documentary Festival 2011 Awards Dance Performance: Indian Film & Television Institute, Meerut Introduction: Manoj Mathew, Director, Jeevika Festival Welcome Address: Parth J Shah, President, Centre for Civil Society Keynote Address: Ram Jethmalani, Lawyer and Member of Parliament Message: Padma Vibhushan Adoor Gopalakrishnan, Malayalam Filmmaker Presentations of Awards: 8th Jeevika: Asia Livelihood Documentary 2011
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SATURDAY, 27 August 2011, Gulmohar Hall
10:00	Sumangali	Pravin Mishra
10:30	Made in India	Rebecca Haimowitz & Vaishali Sinha
12:20	Defying Gravity	Akanksha Saxena & Chandrika Deb
13:00	Brave New Medium	Subasri Krishnan
13:40	Break
14:15	Law, Liberty & Livelihood	Workshop
15:15	Budhan Diaries	K. Harish Singh
15:50	Andhere se Pehle	Ajay T G
16:35	Dekha Andekhi : Kal aur Kala	Akash Kanthan
17:10	Whispers in the Night	Sushmit Ghosh & Rintu Thomas
17:45	Dailogue with Documentary makers

SUNDAY, 28 August 2011, Gulmohar Hall
11:30	Love Song of the World	Ishani K. Dutta
12:05	Platform No. 5	Vanaja C
13:40	Break
14:15	Street Economy	Lok Sabha TV Production
14:55	A Dream Called America	Anoop Sathyan
15:35	Koh – I – Noor	Saikat Mallick
16:25	Amar	Andrew Hinton
16:45	Jharu Katha	Navroze Contractor
17:55	Presentation of Awards	People’s Choice Documentary & Best Livelihood Photos
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Official Selection for Jeevika 2011 Festival Screening

Official Selection for Jeevika 2011 Festival Screening, 26-28 August, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi:

Professional Category
Sl.No	Documentary
1	Amar English / 09:14 / 2011 / Jamshedpur / Andrew Hinton
2	Andhere Se Pahale Hindi & Chhattisgarhi / 00:33 / 2010 / Chattisgarh / Ajay T G
3	Brave New Medium English / 00:32 / 2010 / Dharmshala, Kuala Lumpur, Singapore, Hanoi, Thailand / Subasri Krishnan
4	Jharu Katha Rajasthani & Hindi / 00:64 / 2010 / Rajasthan / Navroze Contractor
5	Koh-I-Noor Bengali / 00:37 / 2011 / Bangladesh / Saikat Mallick
6	Love Song Of The World English / 00:26 / 2010 / West Bengal / Ishani K Dutta
7	Made In India English & Hindi / 00:97 / 2010 / Mumbai, Texas / Rebecca Haimowitz & Vaishali Sinha
8	Platform No. 5 English / 00:26 / 2010 / Andhra Pradesh / Vanaja C
9	Sumangali English / 00:20 / 2011 / Tamil Nadu / Pravin Mishra
10	Whispers in the Night English / 15:50 / 2011 / Delhi NCR, Kolkata / Sushmit Ghosh & Rintu Thomas

Student Category
Sl.No	Documentary
1	A Dream called America Hindi & English / 00:24 / 2011 / Ahmedabad / Anoop Sathyan
2	Budhan Diaries Hindi / 24:17 / 2011 / Ahmedabad / K Harish Singh
3	Defying Gravity English / 00:25 / 2011 / Delhi / Akanksha Saxena & Chandrika Deb
4	Dekha Andekhi Hindi / 00:25 / 2011 / Jaipur / Akash Kamthan

CCS Obituary: Rukma Bai

CCS Obituary: Rukma Bai was an amazing folk singer from Barmer, Rajasthan. The first woman from the Mahangniyar community to sing in public. She died on 21 July.

Mallika Sarabhai & Yadavan Chandran captured her life through a documentary ‘Soul Voice, Solo Voice’ which was screened at Jeevika: Asia Documentary Festival 2010.

Rukma Bai, history-making folk singer, dies by tvnportal

Jeevika 2011 Documentaries for Evaluation

The following documentaries have been received till date:

Sl	PROFESSIONAL Category	Director(s)
1	Living with Clay	Robin De
2	Mukti	Prashant Tarandalekar
3	Something is Changing	Gopi Desai
4	Platform No. 5	Vanaja C
5	Vertical City	Avijit Mukul Kishore
6	A Dam Old Story	Tarini Manchanda
7	Oranges and Mangoes	Priyanka Chhabra
8	The Incredible Story of the Red Lion	Yask Desai
9	A Pestering Story	K. R. Manoj
10	Me & My World – An Adivasi Story	Tess Joseph
11	Divine Drums	Viplab Majumder
12	Trade of Flesh	Paresh Hazra
13	King of Romance	Ashok Kumar
14	Point Zero	Shyamalendu Biswas
15	Whispers in the Night	Sushmit Ghosh
16	Hopes of a Spring	Tarun Bhartiya
17	The Darjeeling Himalayan Railway	Tarun Bhartiya
18	The Garland Maker	Asif Khan
19	Communities in Conservation – Odisha Diary	Vijendra P, Patil
20	Partners in Crime	Paromita Vohra
21	Qaid	Utsav Chatterjee
22	Travelling with Words	Violet Barman
23	Heroes of Today	C Vanaja
24	Charakia – The Devotee of God	R Chitrakar
25	Before Dark	Ajay T.G
26	Annadata – Food for Thought	Umesh Aggarwal
27	Kiran – Joy of Giving	Umesh Aggarwal
28	Sab Tughse Hai	Vishal Vardhan
29	Starvation Deaths – The Taste of Hunger	Ajay Saklani
30	A Drop of Sunshine	Aparna Sanyal
31	One Cube	Pramod Dev
32	Cotton for My Shourd	Nandan Saxena
33	Kilakku Asthamam	Kovai Nagu
34	The Silent Souls	Hridaynath Gharekhan
35	Whose Loss Whose Gain	Deba Ranjan Sarangi
36	Made in India	Rebecca Haimowitz
37	Jharu Katha – Broom Stories	Navrose Contractor
38	Bahadur – The Accidental Brave	Aditya Seth
39	Far from the Main Stream…	Patdeep Chaudhuri
40	The Green Army – Savior of the Sylvan	Merajur Rahman Baruah
41	Koh-I-Noor	Saikat Mallick
42	Tales of Development	Soumitra Ghosh
43	Nestless Birds	Vineesh Mathew
44	Chitrakar – Livelihood of an Artisan Community in Rural India	Samir Karmakar, Kanchan Chatteree, Sounetra Chatterjee
45	Life Style of Shailung	Govinda Nepal
46	Sumangali	Pravin Mishra
47	Adding Beauty To Lives…Work	Vipul Acharya
48	Learning in Exile	Aprajita Sarcar
49	The Silent Souls	Hridaynath Gharekhan
50	Love Song Of The World	Ishani K. Dutta
51	The Voiceless Journey	Ishani K. Dutta
52	Faith Revisited	Ishani K. Dutta
53	Jyoti	Pravin Mishra
54	Dreamers, Achievers and Winners	Saurav Das
55	Ankuran – Dharmarajupally Celebrating Self Reliance	Rajyashree Singh
56	Brave New Medium	Subasri Krishnan
57	Wadi	Umesh Vinayak kulkarni
58	My Father’s House
59	Defying Gravity	Akanksha Saxena & Chandrika Deb
60	Amar	Andrew Hinton

Sl.	STUDENT Category	Director(s)
1	A Dream called America	Anoop Sathyan
2	7th Sense	Farooq Mohamed
3	Budhan Diaries	K. Harish Singh
4	Denizens of the Divine Market	Rajdeep Paul
5	The Quest	Ejazith Kadavan
6	Painted Emotions	Vidhya Malik
7	Basic Needs	Patrick Shepherd
8	Seen Unseen	Akash Kamthan
9	My Identity	Abhijit Kondhalkar, Aditya Pathak, Arvind Kumar, Julie Marie George, Mitasha Chatterjee
10	Enchanting Assam	Indrani Patgiri
11	City Hawked	Shreekant
12	This Ability	Seeratt Dhilon
13	Ghumantu Theatre	Sanjay Kr. Verma

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Asia Livelihood Documentary Festival 2011

26-28 August 2011

Taking place in the heartland of India, New Delhi, the 8^th JEEVIKA: Asia Livelihood Documentary Festival is a non-profit film showcase promoting films that put livelihood on the live wire!

Organised by the 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.

Not only filmmakers, but also artists from various other fields such as photography, theatre, music, painting and dance are encouraged to participate and showcase their work.

In addition to great networking opportunities for upcoming and veteran film-makers alike, the festival also offers fabulous prize packages worth INR 2 lakh!

Previous years have seen remarkable participation from film-makers throughout Asia, livelihood professionals & activities as well as film and media students. Notable guests in the past have included actors like Shabana Azmi, Nandita Das, and Rahul Bose as well as dignitaries like P. Chidambaram, Hon’ble Minister of Home Affairs, Mr Sharad Yadav, (MP) Chairman, Committee for Urban Development, and Mr S M Khan Director, Film Festivals under the Ministry of Information & Broadcasting.

The objective of the documentary festival is to:

Encourage filmmakers to actively engage with livelihood issues
Provide a platform for filmmakers to maximize the reach and impact of their documentaries
Create awareness about the livelihood challenges faced by individuals and communities in rural and urban Asia
Advocate with policy makers for changes in livelihood policies and regulations
Engage with social leaders to bring about changes in practices, mindsets and attitudes to expand livelihood freedom
Act as a resource centre for documentaries focused on livelihood issues

SUBMIT YOUR FILM NOW!

Deadline for Submission: 11 July 2011

For more information, contact:

Centre for Civil Society

A-69 Hauz Khas

New Delhi 110 016

India

Phone: +91 11 26537456

Fax: +91 11 26512347

Mobile: +91 9650598113

Email: jeevika@ccs.in

Featured Jeevika Documentaries


Children of the Pyre	In Search of My Home

Thodi Si Zameen, Thoda Sa Aasman	The Holy Wives

Banking on Change	The Wild Meat Trail

Dhananjay Kulkarni ‘Chandragupt’	Soul Voice Solo Voice