Documentary Film Resources

Media & Culture, Politics

Reflections on Media and Community
30 min, DVD
Director: Joydeep Ghosh
An film on Father Gaston Roberge, a French-Canadian priest who started producing community radio programmes for villages in West Bengal in the 1980s.
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Work in Progress
DVD, English subtitles, 2005
Director: Paromita Vohra
Produced by WSF India
Year: 2005
A documentary film about the World Social Forum 2004. Work in Progress captures the momentum of the Mumbai meet as well as the history of the Forum, the issues that it seeks to address and the reasons why those issues need attention.

Supersize Me
96 mins, DVD, English, 2004
Director: Morgan Spurlock
Produced by: Hart Sharp
An irreverent look at obesity in America and one of its sources - fast food corporations.
Review link: http://infochangeindia.org/documentary33.jsp

The Great Indian School Show
53 mins, DVD, English, 2005
Director: Avinash Deshpande
The documentary questions the impact of surveillance on students, focusing on the 185 TV cameras that keep close watch on every movement of students at a Nagpur school.
Review link: http://infochangeindia.org/documentary34.jsp
Contact: avinashdesh@gmail.com

Ek Minute Ka Maun
62 mins, VCD, Hindi with English subtitles, 2005
Director: Ajay Bharadwaj
The story of the killing of Chandrashekhar, a young leader caught in the criminal - political nexus, and the resulting student agitation.

In Search of an Urban Balled
30 min, DVD
Director: Joydeep Ghosh
Chronicles the evolution of urban music in three Indian cities - Kolkata, Delhi and Mumbai - and examines its transformation with changing times and the socio-political concerns they reflect.
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From the Fishing Net to the Internet
45 min, DVD
Director: Sonali Dutta
The film goes to a small village in South India to examine how the Internet is changing the lives of people under the Information Village Project of renowned scientist M.S. Swaminathan.
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Dove Days
47 mins, DVD, English, 2002, Canada
Director: Barri Cohen
The film takes a critical view of the role of western media in selling war and blood, especially after 9/11
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Out of the Shadow
56 mins, DVD, English (subtitled), Hindi, 2000
Director: Gargi Sen
A film on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
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