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Nagari – Filming Urban Realities
A Bioscope for Indian Cities
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The Nagari Short Film Competition is an annual competition designed to guide and develop films that focus on urban issues, specific to Indian cities. Nagari intends to be a bioscope for the city and through this lens, they explore diverse conditions and engage with urban issues.
Since 2020 Charles Correa Foundation has organised 4 editions of short, 7-minute films on urban India. The aim is to serve as a platform for filmmakers, architects, urban designers, and planners to present their visions of, and for, the city, thereby using film as a medium to make the public aware of the issues.
The previous editions have looked at themes such as Water in Urban India, People and Livelihoods, the Housing Inadequacy in rapidly growing towns and cities across India, and Reclaiming the Urban Commons through the Lens of Waste Management. This event will present a selection of the films from across four years of the festival.
The screenings will be followed by a brief discussion with Deepa Dhanraj, Writer and Independent Documentary Filmmaker and Shruti Parthasarathy, Filmmaker. A Q&A with the audience will follow.
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Speakers
Deepa Dhanraj
Deepa Dhanraj is a researcher, writer, and independent documentary filmmaker. Her documentaries and writing that span a period of forty years, engage with questions related to women’s status, political participation, and resistance. She was one of the founding members of Yugantar, a feminist film collective that made a set of films on the political organizing of women domestic workers and women tobacco factory workers; and for The Oral History Association of India. She has a special interest in education and has worked extensively with government schools to create pedagogy suited for problems faced by first-generation learners who come from Dalit and Adivasi communities. She has co-authored the book Rupture, Loss and Living: Minority Women Speak about Post-conflict Life with K. Lalita published by Orient Black Swan. She has contributed papers on gender and development at national and international conferences. Her films have been screened and awarded at national and international film festivals, and she has also served on the Jury at National and International film festivals.
Shruti Parthasarathy
Shruti Parthasarathy (she/her) is a writer, photographer, filmmaker, and low waste practitioner, from Bangalore, India. Her passion for stories rooted in reality compels her to create powerful narratives. As a writer she has helmed projects like ‘Liquid State of Matters’, ‘Apaar’, ‘Hello Guyzzz’, ‘Yellow’, and ‘Chori Waali Kahaani’ that amplify narratives of women, children, the LGBTQIA+ community, environment and elderly persons in films. Her eyes shine at the mention of documentaries. She is currently directing a personal documentary ‘Appa & Anmol’, commissioned by Public Service Broadcasting Trust, on her father and brother that observes and raises questions about masculinity in modern day India. Her documentary ‘Samayada Harivu’ (Flow of Time) on the reclamation of the Begur Lake, in Bangalore was awarded at the Mumbai Festivals’ Earth Film Contest.
