We are proud to inform you that two of our filmmakers were awarded at the 57th National Awards for the year 2009.
Bilal
Directed by: Sourav Sarangi
- Best Non – Feature Film (Sharing)
Synopsis:
Bilal can see but his parents cannot. He is only three years old and hardly understands what blindness is. Bilal also has a little brother, Hamza. And inside a tiny dark and dank room together they live in a curious game of seeing and not seeing. Neighbors and relatives surround them. The film tells this unusual story by observing the little boy over a year by capturing rare moments of sharing love, fun, cruelty and hope… the wonder world of Bilal.
.In For Motion
Directed by: Anirban Datta
- Best Environment Film Including Agriculture
Synopsis:
.in for motion is a visual essay about the dramatic change that the world’s largest democracy is going through for the past two decades. Economic liberalization, and the IT revolution took place simultaneously in a country where the real industrial revolution hasn’t happened.
The cities expanded vertically and horizontally, the consumables changed in variety and choice. The citizen realized his power as consumer, democracy’s fundamental unit assumed a new identity. Underneath, the country witnessed an ever-increasing drain of inhabitants to the cities, fields of traditional crops gave way to industries, hillocks to IT towers. The population, once considered a burden, today coupled with education and professional exposure appears to become world’s largest contributor to the ever-growing IT industry.
One development erases memory of the previous. The fact that India was amongst the earliest in Asia to develop digital computers indigenously is a forgotten story today.
To order these films, visit the following link:
http://www.ucfilms.in/subject/citizenship/bilal/
http://www.ucfilms.in/subject/citizenship/in-for-motion/