May 18 2025 to May 18 2025 6:30 p.m.

Price: Rs 100 Book/Buy

Where

Courtyard Koota

Ground floor, Good Earth Tarana Good Earth Malhar, near Rajarajeswari medical college Kambipura, Bengaluru, Karnataka 560074

Event Description

About the talk:

“Filming works together” is a talk by filmmakers Pinky Brahma Choudhury and Shobhit Jain from the Samaj Pragati Sahayog Media Collective on the interactive and participatory approach that the collective takes to make films towards social change. Working in a remote impoverished area with a large population of unlettered men, women and children, films have enhanced SPS’s communication of new ideas and possibilities to the people. The talk shall be centered on their journey in the making of these films.

About Samaj Pragati Sahayog:

Samaj Pragati Sahayog (SPS) is grassroots initiatives for water and livelihood security, working across 72 of India’s backward districts in the central adivasi belt.

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About Samaj Pragati Sahayog Media Collective:

Based out of a remote tribal village in Madhya Pradesh, SPS Community Media engages in articulating stories of people pushed in the periphery, weaving them into films and audio stories in a dynamic, interactive process, in partnership with the local community. The core team comprises local people of the area who have been initiated into creating media contents. The guiding principle has been to bring out the voices of the people reflecting lived-in experiences of the region.

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About the speakers:

Pinky Brahma Choudhury and Shobhit Jain are both graduates from the Film and Television Institute of India. They are the Directors of SPS Media Division and are responsible for producing training films used by the Baba Amte Centre for People’s Empowerment. They also provide continuous video documentation of all SPS work and help spread wider awareness and understanding about it. Under their leadership, the SPS Media Division has made 5 training films (in both Hindi and English) on watershed development.

One of the films “Earthen Dams” won the Magna Mater Award at the 25th International Agrofilm Festival in Slovakia in October 2008. This is the highest award given to the best film of the festival across all categories. In addition, the film “Earthen Dams” was also nominated in the competitive section of Eko Films (34th International Film Festival on the Environment and Natural and Cultural Heritage of the Czech Republic), the film “Ridge Area Treatment” was nominated in the competitive section of CineEco (14th International Environmental Film Festival, Portugal) and the film “On Farm Interventions” was nominated in the competitive section of Wildlife Vaasa 2008 (International Nature Film Festival, Finland).