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Dear Friends,

Greetings from VIBGYOR Collective and welcome to the 6th Edition of ViBGYOR

International Film Festival for short and documentary films at Thrissur, Kerala,

from January 12-16 to be held in the Sangeet Nataka Academy Campus!

This Edition is dedicated to the memory of late C.Saratchandran, our friend,

filmmaker and media activist, who apart from having produced many landmark

political documentary films, has been championing the Touring Film Festival

movement, `Nottam' in Kerala and elsewhere.

He was also the co-founder of the ViBGYOR Film Festival. In this context, we

have chosen `Political Filmmaking and Media Activism in South Asia' as the

special focus theme for ViBGYOR-2011.

Anand Patwardhan has agreed to be the Festival Director for this 6th Edition.

This Homage Festival is special for all of us…and for Sarat! This is our first

attempt to reach out to all friends of Sarat and invite all of you personally

for the 5-day Festival. Please mark your calendars, January 12-16, and also

please circulate this info in your e-groups and blogs, so that everyone who

would want to attend this festival get this invite and information well in

advance. You will get more details and updates on www.vibgyorfilm.org.

The uniqueness of ViBGYOR is that it is not a film festival with screening of a

set of films for elite urban audiences, but is a meeting space for people's

movements, filmmakers, and students from different campuses in Kerala and

outside and also ordinary people from different panchayats in Thrissur District.

At the annual festival venue, apart from the screening of around 100 short and

documentary films from across the globe, we are planning a South Asia Conference

/ Sarat memorial Lecture on the Focus Theme, Mini Conferences on relevant

topics, Campaigns, Workshops for young people, Cultural Night, a Farm & Food

Fair and a Media Exhibition.

Various networks and groups, representing Indigenous People, Dalits, Youth,

South Asian Relations, Human Rights, Environment and Development, Women's

Issues, Globalization, Labor, Culture and Media etc. at National and South Asian

level have always actively participated at the VIBGYOR Festivals.

We hope to strengthen such collaboration during the forthcoming festival. You

may log on to www.vibgyorfilm.org and take a look at our previous festivals. For

any assistance contact our office: 9809477058

We hope to meet you all at the 6th Edition of the ViBGYOR Film Festival!

For ViBGYOR Film Collective:

K.P.Sasi Fr. Benny Benedict Mustafa

Desamangalam

President Secretary

Executive Director

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With Best Regards

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Sarath Cheloor

Programme Coordinator,

ViBGYOR Film Collective, Thrissur

Contact us: vibgyorfilmfest@...

Mobile: 9809477058, http://vibgyorfilm.org

For More Details : http://mazhavilmela.blogspot.com

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