Aug 02 2024 to Aug 02 2024 6:30 p.m.

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Where

Bangalore International Centre

7 4th Main Rd, Stage 2, Domlur 560071

Event Description

2024 | 42 minutes | Odiya, Kui, English with English subtitles | India In a village in the Niyamgiri mountains of Odisha’s Eastern Ghats, a heroic effort is underway.

Barefoot ecologist Dr. Debal Deb and his 3 member team are conserving in-situ over 1000 endangered heirloom varieties of rice. Odisha’s Eastern Ghats region is one of the world’s surviving biodiversity hotspots, with Adivasi (Indigenous) communities like the Kondhs possessing the knowledge of growing multiple crops with their folk seeds, evolved over centuries. At the same time, the village and the wider region is irreversibly changing with the coming of genetically modified cotton seeds and associated chemicals. Seed Stories takes a worm’s eye view of how this is reshaping a geography and a people steeped in agro-ecological knowledge, and altering their attitudes towards farming, food and ecology. It invites audiences to reflect on the question, ‘What is sustainability?’

Credits

Director & Camera: Chitrangada Choudhury

Associate Director: Aniket Aga

Editor: Ajay TG

Sound: Asheesh Pandya

Colourist: Srikanth Kabothu