BEHIND INDIA, A LOOK THROUGH THEIR SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
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Country of Production: SPAIN
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Year of Production: 2018
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Running Time: 77′
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Format: HD
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Screen Ratio: 16/9
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Color: COLOR
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Gender: DOCUMENTARY
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Shooting Place: INDIA and SPAIN
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Original Version: ENGLISH, BENGALI & HINDI
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Subtitles: ENGLISH, HINDI, BENGALI, KANNADA, ORIYA & TELEGU
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Production company: CALCUTA ONDOAN
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Production: IÑIGO EGUREN VARELA
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Director: FERNANDO VERA MORENO
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Screenplay: IÑIGO EGUREN VARELA & FERNANDO VERA MORENO
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Cinematography: FERNANDO VERA MORENO
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Camera Assistant: DIONISIO LÓPEZ
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Art Director: FERNANDO VERA MORENO
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Music: JUANJO JAVIERRE
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Sound: JAVIER ALONSO
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Editing: AMENIC & PRODUCCIONES LA BURLA
SYNOPSIS
This film shows us the struggles, often invisible, of activists and anonymous women like our protagonist Santoshi, who are not satisfied with being silent witnesses of the violation of their rights and the deterioration of the environment
TRAILER
TECHNICAL DATA
Fernando Vera Moreno
Formed in the Bigas Luna Film Workshop, the New York Film Academy and different courses in script, direction and production.
Fernando Vera Moreno
Director, Co-writer & Editor
Formed in the Bigas Luna Film Workshop, the New York Film Academy and different courses in script, direction and production. Diploma in Teaching by the University of Zaragoza. Audiovisual producer with more than 15 years of experience in management and production teams. Experience for more than 4 years in the preparation and implementation of educational programs that take the cinema as a pedagogical tool in different schools, both in primary and secondary. Responsible for award-winning short films inside and outside of Spain, launch campaigns for brands nationwide, and a number of institutional documentaries.
Iñigo Eguren Varela
n 1999, after staying as a volunteer for three years in Calcutta, he founded with his wife the development NGO Calcutta Ondoan.
Iñigo Eguren Varela
Productor & Co-writer
Since his first experience in India in 1991, he has lived and traveled throughout the country. In 1999, after staying as a volunteer for three years in Calcutta, he founded with his wife Izaskun Andonegi Goikoetxea the development NGO Calcutta Ondoan. For more than 25 years she has worked with various NGOs, feminist, environmental and human rights movements in India. He declares himself fascinated by the strength of his social movements, and by the essence and the search for the simple.
Juanjo Javierre
He began his musical career as the founder of the pop group Mestizos. He is considered one of the pioneers of modern dance music in Spain.
Juanjo Javierre
Music Composer
He began his musical career as the founder of the pop group Mestizos. He is considered one of the pioneers of modern dance music in Spain with his projects Soul Mondo and Nu Tempo. His first soundtrack was for Nacho García Velilla’s debut Fuera de Carta, with which he repeats in Que se mueran los feos Biznaga for the best soundtrack at the Malaga Film Festival. In 2007 he writes and directs with Marta Javierre the documentary España Baila co-produced by ARTE, TV3 and TVE. Currently working on the soundtrack of No Manches Frida 2 produced by the American company Lionsgate.
Javi Alonso
He trained at the School of Performing Arts Sarobe in Urnieta (Guipuzcoa) taking courses in Script, Photography, Direction and Direction of Actors.
Javi Alonso Mezcla
Sound editing and color grading
Originally from Irún and born in 1967, Javi Alonso has trained at the School of Performing Arts Sarobe in Urnieta (Guipuzcoa) taking courses in Script, Photography, Direction and Direction of Actors. He is currently a scriptwriter and stage director. He has developed projects both in the theater and in the audiovisual field, writing and directing several plays and making six short films with which he has won several awards.
ARTISTIC DATA
Anuradha Talwar
Social activist and defender of rural labor rights.
BA in Economics (Honours) from Lady Shri Ram College for Women, Delhi University,
Advisor for West Bengal to the Commissioners of the Supreme Court in the Right to Food and Work cases.
Elected State Committee member.
Elected member of the state committee of Samity, a mass organisation in rural areas.
Working women in West Bengal.
National Secretary of the New Trade Union Initiative (NTUI), a national federation formed in 2006 of independent trade unions.
Asha Kowtal
Asha Kowtal is an activist and expert in the field of Dalit women’s rights.
She is currently the General Secretary of the Dalit Women’s Rights movement in India, called the All India Dalit Mahila Adhikar Manch (AIDMAM), which is part of the National Campaign on Dalit Human Rights.
She is also a convenor and part of the steering committee of WinG-India, a network advancing leadership of women from the north-eastern part of India, and involving Dalit and tribal communities in governance at all levels with the aim of challenging exploitative structures and enabling a society with gender equality.
Corinne Kumar
Philosopher, poet, human rights theoretician and activist.
She helped to establish and promote the World Courts of Women, and serves as International Coordinator. The aim is to hold their governments accountable under both international law and human ethics for crimes against women and crimes of war.
She is the Co-Founder of Vimochana Forum for Women’s Rights, in Bangalore, working on issues such as domestic violence, dowry-related deaths, and workplace sexual harassment.
Jean Drèze
Belgian-born Indian development economist and activist.
His work in India has been studying several developmental issues like hunger, famine, gender inequality, child health and education, and the NREGA.
He had conceptualized and drafted the first version of the NREGA. His co-authors include Nobel laureate in economics Amartya Sen, with whom he has written on famine, Nicholas Stern, with whom he has written on policy reform when market prices are distorted, and Nobel laureate in economics Angus Deaton.
He is an honorary Professor at the Delhi School of Economics, and Visiting Professor at the Department of Economics, Ranchi University.
Gauri Kumari
Perhaps the first Dalit woman lawyer from my community in Bihar.
I have worked with All India Dalit Mahila Adhikar Manch since 2008 and have been actively mobilising voices of dalit women in the state. I currently practise in Munger civil court as an advocate and was also appointed a Special Public Prosecutor.
I am a woman who has overcome several layers of oppression both from within and outside the community. My struggle continues everyday as I push my way into administrative and legal institutions of this country. I have also served for two years as elected representative in local governance, attempting to bring development schemes to my people. Jai Bhim!
Irudaya Jothi, SJ
Social activist
Has blended his passion for the interests of Dalit, Tribal and Women rights to uplift these vulnerable sections of the society.
He is presently the Director of Udayani Social Action Forum (USAF), the social outreach arm of the Calcutta province of the Society of Jesus, which mainly works for the empowerment of women through Rights Based Approachs. He is one of the convener of the Right to Food / Work Campaing in West Bengal and member of National Team!
He thinks out of Box and moves towards to creative intervention in transfroming the rural poor. The Next level of women Self Help Group(SHG) formed by him is to empower them in registering them as NGOs.
Manju Singh
Adivasi social activist associated with Udayani Social Action Forum.
Manju Singh, aged 33 years, resident of Mohonpur village of Jamalpur block, is an Adivasi social activist associated with Udayani Social Action Forum. Ever since, she has been involved in Right To Food movement and has been working for the people belonging to her community.
She has three children including two daughters and one son, she is educating her children!
For their daily living, Manju Singh and her husband work in the agricultural field as labourer!
She actively takes part in the protests and rallies to fight for the rights of the Adivasis through her SHG, Surjodipto.
Rajagopal P.V.
Gandhian activist, is former Vice Chairman of the Gandhi Peace Foundation and the president and founding member of Ekta Parishad
Ekta Parishad is an organisation which, through its mobilisation of indigenous people, women and young people, as well as its advocacy for land reform, is one of the most successful non-violent alternatives.
In 2014, he received the Indira Gandhi Award for National Integration.
In 2014 he was a candidate for the Nobel Peace Prize.
They are currently preparing the Jai Jagat International March in 2020 which will consist of a walking march from India to the UN headquarters in Geneva, including the mobilization of one million people in India and support actions around the world.
Rejitha G.
Woman activist involving in the women epowerment activities.
Rejitha is an activist who promotes women’s empowerment through various activities in the state of Kerala.
She is part of Sakhi Women’s Resource Centre for the last 17 years.
Sakhi is a feminist organisation based in Trivandrum, Kerala, with the aim of a Gender Just Society.
Sambari Tudu
Village Self Help Group member
Sambari Tudu, Aged 27, a single mother has been inspiring the lives of many women in her community in her own ways.
She is a Tribal women residing at Jamalpur. She was married at a very young age but her marriage did not last long. Thereafter, she began her journey with Jai Radhe SHG.
Presently she is involved in women’s movements relating to Maternity Entitlements and National Food Security.
She works as a Mid Day Meal helper and at the same time she sells garments at home. Right To Food movement has given her the strength and the passion to move on claiming for the rights that people of her community. She is a mother to two children.
Santoshi Tudu
Self Help Group member of Surjodipto SHG.
Santoshi Tudu, aged 40 years, resident of Mohonpur village of Jamalpur block in West Bengal, is a Self Help Group member of Surjodipto SHG.
Santoshi has been associated with Udayani Social Action Forum and has been evolved in the Right to Food movement. She has one daughter working in a private company and a son who is studying in school.
Santoshi and her husband are agricultural labourers but takes active part in all the rallies and protest movements for the Rights that Udayani coordinats. Santoshi has always stood up for the rights of people of her community and hopes to do the same in the future for the development of her village.
Satish Kumar
Indian activist and editor.
He has been a Jain monk, nuclear disarmament advocate, pacifist, and is the current editor of Resurgence & Ecologist magazine.
Now living in England, Kumar is founder and Director of Programmes of the Schumacher College international centre for ecological studies, and of The Small School.
His most notable accomplishment is a peace walk with a companion to the capitals of four of the nuclear-armed countries, Washington, London, Paris and Moscow, a trip of over 8,000 miles. He insists that reverence for nature should be at the heart of every political and social debate.
Vandana Shiva
Indian scholar, environmental activist, food sovereignty advocate, and alter-globalization author.
Shiva has authored more than twenty books. She is one of the leaders and board members of the International Forum on Globalization, and a figure of the global solidarity movement known as the alter-globalization movement.
She is a member of the scientific committee of the Fundacion IDEAS, Spain’s Socialist Party’s think tank. She received the Right Livelihood Award in 1993, an honor known as an “Alternative Nobel Prize“.
REVIEWS
It is committed and treats nuclear issues bravely, without circumventing the fundamental debate of inequality and the limitations of a failed, very failed democratic system. In the formal aspect, the images are taken care of and worked very professionally.
AWARDS
PREMIOS SIMÓN DEL CINE ARAGONÉS (Spain)
- Nominated for Best Original Soundtrack
- Nominated for Best Social Awareness Contribution
INDIAN WORLD FILM FESTIVAL (India)
- Special Jury Mention
FESTIVAL INTERNACIONAL DE CINE INVISIBLE FILM SOZIALAK (Spain)
- Audience Award
SELECTIONS
- FESTIVAL INTERNACIONAL DE CINE DE LOS DERECHOS HUMANOS DE BOLIVIA – EL SÉPTIMO OJO ES TUYO (Bolivia)
- INTERNATIONAL ETHNO FILM FESTIVAL THE HEART OF SLAVONIA (Croatia)
- FESTIVAL INTERNACIONAL DE CINE POR LOS DERECHOS HUMANOS COLOMBIA (Colombia)
- EKOZINEMALDIA (Spain)
- FESTIVAL DE CINE Y DERECHOS HUMANOS DE SAN SEBASTIÁN (Spain)
- KSFF – KOLKATA SHORT & FEATURE FILM FESTIVAL (India)
- FESTIVAL DE CINE DE ZARAGOZA (Spain)
- MUESTRA DE CINE Y DERECHOS HUMANOS DE ZARAGOZA (Spain)
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CALCUTA ONDOAN ONGD
Calcutta Ondoan, ONGD is an Association, Without Encouragement of Profit, declared of public utility, born in Donostia-San Sebastián in 1999. We support humanitarian and development projects for the integral promotion of individuals and groups in India, always respecting their identity as people and as a people, their religion and promoting human rights, gender equity and environmental protection.
We always work with local organizations: feminist, ecologist and human rights organizations, seeking that all the projects we support have a rights-based approach and an eco-feminist perspective. In addition, we bet on Education for Social Transformation, promoting in our environment a critical and committed conscience about the causes, consequences and co-responsibility in situations of exclusion, injustice and impoverishment in the countries of the South.
Calcutta Ondoan reinforces solidarity from a positive perspective, the richness of intercultural diversity and respect for what is different.
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