Rising Gardens Film Festival: Showcasing girls’s ties to nature, agriculture and setting
3 min read Express News Service
Sangat and Kriti Film Club are collectively internet hosting the Rising Gardens Film Festival, with 47 movies from 10 international locations, unfold throughout 4 months, which began in January.
It is a part of the annual One Billion Rising (OBR) international marketing campaign, based by Eve Ensler in 2012 to finish sexual violence in opposition to girls.
It might be held on-line for the primary time, curated by Reena Mohan and co-organised by Aanchal Kapur from Kriti Film Club. The pageant explores girls’s ties to nature, agriculture and the setting.
While the January screenings had been themed round Cosmic Connections, the February screenings titled Fields of Sorrow, Fields of Hope, will start on February 12.
Part of the organising committee is Kamla Bhasin, South Asia Coordinator, One Billion Rising, actively engaged with growth, gender, training, media and different points since 1970.
Bhasin works with the feminist community Sangat and is an lively member with Jagori, a Women’s Resource and Training Centre and Jagori Rural Charitable Trust.
What is that this pageant about?
It is to encourage conversations and discussions on how we select to reside and to find out about different individuals’s adventures. Through this, individuals can discover a distinct, higher, greener and extra equitable world. We have divided it over 4 months as we didn’t simply need to maintain a pageant, display screen some movies and go away it there. We may have conversations which can dive into the problems offered within the movies.
The programme is split into 4 themes. What do these convey?
These had been chosen rigorously by the curator to classify the movies and to the touch upon many intersections of ladies and the setting. While Cosmic Connections portrayed girls and nature; Fields of Sorrow, Fields of Hope will showcase movies on girls and agriculture; the Community and Sustenance theme will see films in relation to girls and meals; and Moving Mountains is about girls and solidarities.
How is that this yr’s marketing campaign totally different?
Valentine’s Day, is widely known as OBR Day and our key slogan can also be Not Love of Power, Power of Love, as our central perception is that solely love can finish violence. Every yr, we have fun it as a public cultural occasion, reaching out to the uninitiated to curiosity them in problems with gender justice. This yr, we are going to try this by the movie pageant. The theme of the February screenings hyperlinks to a different marketing campaign, Property for Her by Sangat, on girls’s possession of land. There might be 10 movies and 9 neighborhood movies.
What’s the function of Reena Mohan and Kriti Film Club in organising the pageant?
Curator Reena Mohan has handpicked the 48 movies from 11 international locations, conceptualised the themes, and categorised the movies. And Kriti Film Club is a longtime OBR Delhi associate, and founder Aanchal Kapur and her group have introduced the pageant on-line at doculive.in. They will conceptualise conversations on the pageant.
How lengthy have you ever been related to the OBR marketing campaign?
Around once we started, i.e. 2012, World Health Organisation reported that out of each three girls on this planet, one experiences violence. OBR is neither the primary nor the final marketing campaign in opposition to Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG). Since the start, OBR has used creativity to mobilise with our slogan, Strike Dance Rise. We sing and dance as survivors, not as victims.
Do you suppose the pageant will assist curb home violence?
The marketing campaign is a push in opposition to capitalist patriarchy as a result of it’s a system that works on infinite exploitation of nature and makes violence in opposition to girls and ladies crucial for its perpetuation.
Upcoming screeningsFields of Sorrow, Fields ofHope – February 12-14Community and Sustenance – March 12-14Moving Mountains April-16-18
