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`Film and Female', a 60-day workshop for women on documentary and short filmmaking, promises to give Kerala a few women directors.
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`Film and Female', a two-month workshop for women on documentary and short filmmaking, draws to a close on Tuesday.
"The primary aim of the workshop was to de-mystify the whole process of film production, to empower the participants to produce their own vision of diversity and community," explained V. K. Joseph of the Visual Media Cooperative Society that organised the workshop.
Lectures, interactive and practical sessions were held as part of the workshop.
At the beginning of the programme, the interaction spread over a whole gamut of activities that fall under the head, `creativity'; the film is after all an amalgam of art, literature and technology. The topics of discussion included `History and evolution of mankind', `Image creation in poetry and cinema', `History and origin of film', `Elements of filmmaking', `History and evolution of humanity - the woman's perspective', `Images' and `Painting and cinema'.
O. N. V. Kurup, P. K. Nair, Sunny Joseph, Sara Joseph and R. Nandakumar enlightened the participants on various aspects of art and cinema.
Filmmakers such as Deepa Dhanraj, Madhushree Datta, Fareeda, Rada Sesic and Fauzia spent long hours with the 25 participants and ensured hand-on experience for each of the participants. The participants were guided into the different stages of filmmaking such as scripting, shooting and editing. The participants took little time to familiarise themselves with the camera. The hurry to bring all they could within the frame and the jerky movements soon paved way for some serious thinking before composing the frame.
Said P. K. Nair, former director of the National Film Archive of India, Pune: "Drawing women into filmmaking has been difficult in Kerala. This experiment should succeed in introducing new talent."
The participants were also enlightened on the role of group dynamics, democratic functioning, conflict management and team work in filmmaking.
On an average, 30 hours went into the making of a 15-minute film at this workshop, which was supported by the Jan Vrijman Fund.
The past week was spent on making five films (by five groups of participants). The groups chose `the lives of fisher folk', `children of sex workers', `the Amma cradle', `woman and consumerism', and `the woman who ventures out of the home searching for new spaces', as the themes for their films.
The films produced at the workshop would be screened here on Tuesday.
BHAWANI CHEERATH
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