Congratulations to the Winners of Jeevika 2005!

The Centre for Civil Society is organizing 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.

Highlights of Jeevika Festival 2006: Register NOW!

  • Festival premier at the India Habitat Centre on January 20-22
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  • Screenings across various colleges, institutes and schools across Delhi from January 23-28
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  • Workshop on Research & Documentary Making: January 27-28, 2006

  • Seminar on "Poverty,Profit and Entrepreneurship"

  • Documentary Clearing House by Magic Lantern Foundation
  • Documentary-Donor Information Stall

  • Stalls by development sector organisations
  • Inaugural Ceremony and Award Ceremony



    • Jeevika is a search of documentaries that focus on legal and regulatory restrictions, bureaucratic processes as well as social and cultural norms and religious practices that prevent or constrain people from earning an honest living in the vocation of their choice.
    The response to request for entries for Jeevika 2005 has been overwhelming. As against 60 entries last year, this year saw over 85 entries from students and professional film makers from various countries including India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bangladesh and Serbia. 34 of these entries are student productions.

    The Screening Committee short-listed 11 films in student and 10 in general category. The Jury selected the top 3 winners and the Best Student Film of these 21 films.

    First Prize                 One Show Less by Nayantara. C. Kotian (Student Film, Institute:
                                   NID-Ahmedabad)
    Second Prize             Fight for Survival by Dakxin Nandlal Bajarange, (Ahmedabad)
    Third Prize                Treacling Down by Upali Gamlath (Sri Lanka)
    Best Student Film     Aamchi Kasauti by Rrivu Laha (FTII, Pune)
    Special Jury Mention  Pretty Dyana by Boris Mitic (Serbia)

     

    The Results of Screening Committee
    Evaluation Committee
    Synopses of Shortlisted Films
    Highlights of Jeevika Festival 2006: Register NOW!
    Screening schedule of Films
    The Awards
    Beyond Jeevika
    Resources
    Read Jeevika 2005 Report


    The Results of Screening Committee
    General Category

  • Pretty Dyana by Boris Mitic
  • In Search of a Job by Mrinal Talukdar

  • Gadia Lohar: a Life and Livelihood in Question? By Meenakshi Vinay Rai

  • Lakshmi and Vishwakarma by Vasudha Joshi

  • Of Hawks and Hawkers by Shankar S

  • Fight for Survival by Dakxin Nandlal Bajarange

  • Treacling Down by Upali Gamlath

  • Manhole Workers' Union by Rappai Poothokaren

  • Healers for all Reasons by Vijay S. Jodha

  • Sea City by Lalitha Krishna


    • Student Category
      
  • Mela - The Musical by Rakesh Bhajram Semwal

  • Life on Four Wheels by Anshuman Jha

  • Dawn to Dusk Further.. A story of horse-cart Pullers by Anshul A. Ojha

  • Aamchi Kasauti by Rrivu Laha

  • One Show Less by Nayantara. C. Kotian

  • Refugees of War by MW Geethani Senavirathna

  • The Real Pillars by Charmi Soni

  • Flight of Distress by Somdev Chatterjee

  • Kaagda Peeth 'The Crows's Back by Ipsit Patel

  • Virus in the Antidote by Sukriti Saha

  • A Page from the Red Data Book by Saurav Dey

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    Evaluation Committee
    Screening Committee
    Mohit Satyanand (Entreprenuer and film curator)
    Raza Haider (Filmmaker and working with SIKSHA)
    Pawan Preet Kaur, (Alumni, Madhubala Institute, Delhi)
    Anugyan Nag (MA Cinema student, Asian Academy of Film & Television Jury)
    Utsav Mukhopadhay (Alumni, Jadavpur University, Kolkata)

    Jury
    LS Tochhawng (India International Centre, Delhi)
    Gargi Sen (Magic Lantern Foundation, Delhi)
    Joy Singhal (Aga Khan Foundation, Delhi)
    Sutapa Deb (NDTV, Delhi)
    Biplab Golam (Director, International Film Festival, Dhaka)

      The Awards

    • Monetary prizes:
      First:       INR 45,000, Second: 30,000, Third: 20,000 & Best Student Film: 10,000

    • An art object exclusively designed and produced for Jeevika

    • Financial support to one or more of directors of the shortlisted entries for a future film project on a related issue of livelihood.  This will be based on strength of proposals submitted by the directors. 

    • CCS will also purchase multiple copies of the winning films for dissemination to educational institutions and development organisations. 

    The organizers of Jeevika: Livelihood Documentary Festival run the festival with the objective of documenting livelihood issues throughout the region and worldwide.  All the films entered here in the Festival will be part of Centre for Civil Society’s larger agenda called Law, Liberty and Livelihood Campaign.

     

    Beyond Jeevika

    • With the permission of the directors, CCS would like to screen select shortlisted films as part of the Law, Liberty and Livelihood Campaign in CCS seminars and at festivals in different parts of the country and South Asia. 

    • CCS may come in contract with the directors of shortlisted films for sale and distribution of their films.  CCS will help doing the same.

    • CCS would like to partner with other organizations to organize the Jeevika 2005 Festival in other States and cities of the region.  CCS would appreciate any such initiative by the directors and organizations.

    Resources

    The following can give you lots of new ideas and inspirations.  Do contact us if you need more information.  Also, feel free to ask us to view the 2003 and 2004 Jeevika entries. 

    Researching Reality Workshop

    We conduct an interactive workshop for students to explore tools of researching issues directed towards in-depth documentary making, policy analysis and journalism.  Check out our guidance paper on field research (pdf)  

    CCS Law, Liberty & Livelihood Centre

    CCS Policy Research

    Other Articles


    Links

    For more information, please write to Manali Shah at mana@ccsindia.org