'In God's Land' a film by Pankaj Rishi Kumar at Shruti Office, Q1, First floor,Opp. Chor Minar, Hauz Khas Enclave > 7pm on 31st January 2014


Time : 7:00 pm

Duration : 70 min.

Entry : Free (Seating on First-Come First-Served basis)

Place : Shruti Office, Q1, First floor,Opp. Chor Minar, Hauz Khas Enclave, Delhi - 110067
Area : Hauz Khas

Event Description : 'In God's Land' a film by Pankaj Rishi Kumar Supported by AND fund, Korea.
After taming a former wasteland through hard work and sweat and creating a community, the settlers start living there. The mythical birth of their village God Sudalai Swami unfolds the village’s unique journey to fight the oppression of the ‘big’ Vanamamalai Temple. Now that the clergy owns the land, the settlers are reduced to being tenant farmers and must make way for redevelopment after the land is sold off for a Special Economic Zone (SEZ). A dispute over god’s land begins.
In God’ Land is not simply about the fight between the priests and the farmers. Using animation, it recounts the history of the land and satirizes the exploitation perpetuated by religion and caste distinction. The film looks at land within the larger issue of development, forcing us to recognize the totalitarian attitude of the ideals of development, ostensibly to bring economic prosperity but rarely a benefit to real users. But the film’s most interesting element is the people living on this god’s land. Instead of fighting the temple or government, they accept this dire reality and try to find comfort in god’s will, perhaps because for them it is still the land of god. (CHO Young-jung, Busan Film Festival)
Reviews
World premiere @ Busan Film Festival,
Official Selection Competition --Wide Angle Section.
Official Selection--0110 International Digital Film Festival
Official Selection--Chennai Documentary Film Festival
Official Selection Competition--Signs Film Festival, Trivandrum
Official Selection Competition--Zanzibar International Film Festival
Official Selection Competition--CMS Vatavaran Festival


Other screenings: (Chennai --- Periyar Thidal, MIDS, Madras University, Prasad Film Academy), (Bangalore --Alternate Law Forum, St Josephs College, Indian Institute of Science, Shristi School of Design), (Delhi -- Kriti Film Club),


Pankaj Rishi Kumar Graduated from Pune's Film and Television Institute in 1992, and specialised in Film Editing. He was assistant editor on Shekhar Kapur's Bandit Queen. After editing documentaries and TV serials, he made his first film ‘Kumar Talkies’. Subsequently, Pankaj has become a one-man-crew producing, directing, shooting and editing his own feature length documentaries. (Pather Chujaeri, The Vote, Gharat, 3 Men and a Bulb, Punches n Ponytails, and Seeds of Dissent). Pankaj’s films have won many awards and been screened at festivals all over the world. (Berlin, Rotterdam, IDFA, Gothenburg, Margaret Mead, Munich, Yamagata, Busan, Visions du Reel etc.) He was a TA at the first Asian Film Academy (Busan). He has won grants from Hubert Bals, IFA, Jan Vrijman, Gotoberg, Banff, Majlis, Sarai and Pad.ma.  Pankaj was awarded an Asia Society fellowship at Harvard Asia Centre (2003).
Pankaj also curates and teaches.  (http://kumartalkies.blogspot.in)

Director, Camera, Sound Design & Editing : Pankaj R Kumar

Animation : Aditi Chitre

Location Sound : Pankaj R Kumar, Aravind Kumar, T Madhavi

Sound Mix : Pritam das

Produced : PSBT
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'In God's Land' a film by Pankaj Rishi Kumar at Shruti Office, Q1, First floor,Opp. Chor Minar, Hauz Khas Enclave > 7pm on 31st January 2014 'In God's Land' a film by Pankaj Rishi Kumar at Shruti Office, Q1, First floor,Opp. Chor Minar, Hauz Khas Enclave > 7pm on 31st January 2014 Reviewed by Delhi Events on Friday, January 31, 2014 Rating: 5

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