Marupakkam Online Film Screening # 31From 6 pm, Friday; for 72 hours only!
Film : The Color of My HomeDir : Sanjay Barnela & Farah Naqvi; 48 min; Hindi with Eng subtitles;
Synopsis : Violent winds of hate carrying human beings like so much debris - this is what is called internal displacement. A reality for hundreds and thousands across the globe, and for many Indians. These are the people the world calls IDPs (Internally Displaced Persons) in dispassionate officialese.
What is lost when people attack you and your home, forcing you to flee? What is the human cost that violent displacement extracts for generations? When the media has left, and public attention gone, forgotten uprooted lives still need to be rebuilt. But can they? Be really rebuilt? What does ‘rehabilitation’ mean? A new roof over ones head? Or, monetary compensation given by the State? Is the home that was lost ever regained?
'The Colour of My Home' follows a group of people, violently displaced after ‘riots’ in the
North Indian town of Muzaffarnagar in 2013, seeking answers to these questions.
About the filmmakers :
Sanjay Barnela, based in India, is founder of Moving Images, a team of documentary filmmakers and academics, making a range of award winning films over the last twenty years, many in the niche area of conservation and livelihoods, at the political interface between the environment and local communities. His body of work was recognized by the CMS VATAVARAN Prithvi Ratna Award (2014). In 2012, Sanjay joined the Srishti Institute of Art, Design & Technology in Bangalore, where he heads Srishti Films, a center dedicated to teaching professional non-fiction film making.
Farah Naqvi, an alumnus of Columbia University, is a writer, feminist and activist from India. Her work has spanned a range of media (including the book Waves in the Hinterland about Dalit women journalists, 2007), and locations - from remote villages to public policy spaces (including the National Advisory Council, 2010-2014) – engaging with gender, caste, and minority identity, towards justice, democratic rights and freedom from violence. For nearly two decades, she has worked on the issue of hate-based communal violence and internal displacement in India.
Credits :
Directed by Sanjay Barnela and Farah Naqvi
Executive Producers- Madhavi Kuckreja, Geeta Narayanan, Sandeep Virmani
Music- Shantanu Moitra
Produced by: Srishti Films, Srishti Institute of Art, Design & Technology, Sadbhavana Trust,
Hunnarshala Foundation.
Project Partners: Moving Images, Vanangana
Associate Producer: Janvi Karwal
Camera: Sanjay Barnela, Janvi Karwal
Location sound: Janvi Karwal, Aisha Khatoon, Kahkashan Beg
Assistant Camera: Kahkashan Beg, Aisha Khatoon, Saira Khan (Santkada Film Studio)
Additional Camera: Hoshedhar Shroff, Vivek Sangwan, Savyasachi Anju Prabir
Editors: Janvi Karwak, Varun Kurtkoti, Debashish Nandi
Lyrics: Annu Rizvi
Voice: Turab Naqvi
Field Production: Vineet Goyal,Radhey Shyam, Mamta Verma
Festival Screenings:
2017: Kathmandu International Film Festival
2018: People Film Festival, Kolkatta
2018: Chennai International Doc Film Festival
2019: Artists United Event, New Delhi
2020: Vikalp @ Prithvi, Online screening
Interaction : We invite you to interaction with the filmmakers on Sunday @ 11 am via Zoom. Message to 9940642044 for ID and password.
Interaction will be moderated by Shreya M
Shreya M - born and brought up in Lucknow and graduated in journalism and mass communication. Awarded as the best student at Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, she specializes in Community Media. Since 2014 she has worked with several organizations as communication officer and documentary filmmaker. She worked as the Project Coordinator for the ChangeChitra program - a US Embassy funded program for young Indians to be trained in documentary filmmaking for social activism.
She also runs an online forum named Paaq Bandhu for people in India and Pakistan to engage in dialogue and work on issues which are common in both the nations.
She has recently become a part of the United People Global (UPG) - an international community of Changemakers, as the UPG Champion and also the Changelooms fellowship as a Mentor.
