Dear friends, Greetings from Other Media Communications!
NDTV is screening our film 'There was a Queen' on women, conflict and peace in Kashmir on following days: In two parts on 17th (Wednesday)and 18th (Thursday) of December at 9.30 PM. And the entire film on 21st Sunday at 1.00PM Please inform friends and interested. Please watch the film and write to us your opinion Visit us:www.othermediacommunications.com Santhosh Synopsis of the film "Yi As Akh Padshah Bai" (There was a Queen…) "Give us guns and we'll play our role!" - These are not the words of a hardened criminal; these are the words of a teenaged girl in Kashmir less than a week after her sister was buried. Farha's sister Shahnaza, and her friend, Ulfat, victims of 'crossfire' would have been adult women today - they were barely seventeen when they died, as old as the *tehreek*, the movement, that exploded into existence in 1989, shattering forever the peace of the Valley, and turning it into one of the most critical conflict zones in the world. Over these eighteen years, flashes of intensified conflict and bouts of negotiations have followed one another with monotonous regularity in Kashmir. Newspapers and television channels manufacture predictable binary images of conflict – angry men and weeping women, peace loving Kashmiris and terrorist Kashmiris, misguided innocents and fundamentalist separatists, victims and aggressors. Over and above these is the image that erases all differences – the Kashmiri as terrorist. The film discusses how women's engagement with everyday violence has led them to think of issues of security, peace, conflict management and transformation in the unique situation of conflict in the area. It is also an exploration of the relationship between the construction of identity of the community/nation and women's identity and the need for women to be aware of how and by whom these identity constructs are forged which are usually not favorable to women's autonomy in the particular culture and nation. When the directors set out to make a film, they felt strange to speak to women, only women, ignoring the other half. So they spoke to a few men – one a former militant, another who had sent his son for training across the border with his blessings, a third who had lost his son and then realized he was a militant, a fourth whose brother was killed in crossfire – they spoke to men and realized that while every story had the power to shock and move, the women's stories were compelling in their honesty, in their rage, in their helplessness, in their grief, in their contempt, in their fierce refusal to forget, in their determination to survive, to nurture. It is through these women – proud, strong, with an undying zest for life – that the film examines what peace means and how it can come about in Kashmir. (For DVD copy of the film contact:www.othermediacommunications.com) --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Green Youth Movement" group. To post to this group, send email to greenyouth@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to greenyouth+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/greenyouth?hl=en-GB -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---