The Centre for Civil Society organized Jeevika 2005, the annual South Asian Livelihood Documentary Festival from 20-28 January 2006, in New Delhi. This competitive festival is the first of its kind in South Asia. This was the first year that Jeevika expanded to a week-long festival reaching out to a record 1300 plus viewership!
Highlights of Jeevika Festival 2006 |
Festival premier at the India Habitat Centre on January 20-22 :
Over 1500 people participated in the Jeevika: South Asia Livelihood Documentary festival. It was premiered at India Habitat Centre with screening of Jeevika 21 films. The 21 shortlisted films were screened over a period of three days from January 20 to 22 at India Habitat centre. Each screening was interspersed with discussions with the film makers.
Apart from the 21 short-listed films, also screened during the festival were 'Till the Bamboo Bends' by Prasantanu Mohapatra, 'Jatra Jeevan, Jeevan Yatra' by Kapilas Bhuyan. The filmmakers had participated in Jeevika in the previous years and had been provided financial support for these films by Jeevika
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Screenings across various colleges, institutes and schools across Delhi from January 23-28
eevika festival covered more than 21 colleges and schools in Delhi . The objective of Jeevika was to expand its reach and initiate a debate among youth on the issue of livelihood.
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Workshop on Research & Documentary Making: January 27-28, 2006 :
A two-day Research & Documentary Making Workshop (Indian Institute of Mass Communication) exposed 50 young people who had keen interest in documentary-making to the basic skills of research and techniques of film making. It was conducted in collaboration with the Indian Institute of Mass Communication. The first module was designed to provide students with a conceptual roadmap to think systematically and objectively on public policy issues. The documentary-making module was provided by Sanjay Barnela, Moving Images provides a basic understanding of the main facets of documentary-making including lighting, camera work, storyboard, scripting and editing.
Seminar on "Poverty,Profit and Entrepreneurship" : February 4, 2006 : CCS and Faculty of Management studies organized a s eminar on "Poverty, Profits & Entrepreneurship" , to hear from corporate representatives who work extensively with local entrepreneurial networks to understand their perspective of the circumstances in which such networks are effective, the social change their bring about and the potential of applying these lessons to other unorganized sectors. The panels consisted of corporate managers from Pradeep Kashyap, (MART), Sharad Agarwal, (Hindustan Latex), Arjun Uppal, (ICICI) and William Bissell, FabIndia who are running rural and urban networks, representatives from group representing such entrepreneurs to talk about the impact of organization from their perspective and other stakeholders who are studying or documenting the phenomena.
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Inaugural Ceremony and Award Ceremony : J eevika 2005 was honored by the presence of very eminent personalities at its inaugural and award ceremonies. The panel for the inaugural ceremony on the Jan 20 started with the inaugural speech by eminent columnist Swaminathan Aiyar followed by noted Parliamentarian, Deependra Singh Hooda, Magsaysay Award winner: Rajendra Singh, President of Center for Civil Society, Dr. Parth J Shah. (PHOTO)
The panel for the award ceremony on January 22 was chaired by eminent columnist - Gurcharan Das. The others in the panel were Kuldip Nayar, Senior journalist, Rakesh Sharma, maker of 'Final Solution' and winner of Jeevika 2004, Tareque Masood, famous film-maker from Bangladesh. Kiran Bedi was the Chief Guest for the day.
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