Documentor 2018

December

Tezpur, Assam
in association with Green Hub
Invited Filmmakers/tutors - Sourav Sarangi

November

Kathmandu, Nepal
in association with DokSchool
Filmmakers/tutors - Kesang Tseng, Kshitiz Adhiraj

September

Bombay, Maharashtra
in association with IIT Bombay
Invited Filmmakers/tutors - Miriam Chandy Menachary

June

Imphal, Manipur
in association with Manipur State Film Development Society and TC Foundation
Invited Filmmakers/tutors - Surabhi Sharma, Supriyo Sen, Nilanjan Bhattacharya

April

Jaipur, Rajasthan
in association with TOSS, Jaipur
Invited Filmmakers/tutors - Nilanjan Bhattacharya, Farida Pacha.

Documentor @TEZPUR

DRI has reached out to yet another region with the last Documentor workshop for the year 2017. This time the team went to the north east – to Tezpur in Assam.

This edition of Documentor happened in collaboration with a rather special platform - the Green Hub, a collaborative initiative of North East Network (NEN), Guwahati and Dusty Foot Production (DFP), New Delhi. The Green Hub is the first youth and community based video documentation centre for recording the environment, wildlife and people’s biodiversity in the north east and offers fellowships to youth from remote areas and marginalized communities as well as urban spaces, especially those who are interested in using the visual medium for conservation and other forms of social change.

The participants of Documentor@Tezpur were the fellows from the current batches of Green Hub as well as a number of their alumni including practicing filmmakers and researchers working in the social sector. The 3-day workshop was embedded with intense sessions of initiation into the world of reality storytelling with critical deliberations and analysis on films like ‘A Syrian Love Story’, ‘Twilight Of A Life’, ‘With Or Without You’, ‘People I Could Have Been’,‘ Vivan Les Antipodas’. There were two films with the filmmakers themselves present for interactive sessions – Haobam Paban Kumar with his film – ‘Phum Shang’, and Bishnu Dev Halder with his film – ‘I Was Born In Delhi’.

Here are some glimpses…

Documentor @ Jaipur

Day 1

Documentor has taken itself to yet another region, in its ongoing search for opening upfresh avenues for exploration and sensitisation of reality storytelling...
This time, we have arrived in the city of Jaipur.
Documentor@Jaipur is being undertaken in association with TOSS - The Open Space Society- an upcoming enterprise for studies in filmmaking, photography and creative writing.
The workshop was inaugurated with a very special film - 69 Minutes of 86 Days - a film thatis now being loved and acclaimed the world over. After the screening TOSS arranged for aperformance by the local band - Project Yugm.
Day 1 of the workshop started with a morning session on the meaning and implications ofthe creative treatment of reality. The participants were astounding in their enthusiasticresponses to the discussions and the clips from different films that were shown.
The afternoon session was given over to the screening of the award winning film PhumShang by Haobam Paban Kumar, followed by an interactive session with the filmmaker.Inthe evening we screened yet another beautiful film - Twilight of a Life.
For most of those in the audience, this turned out to be an extremely emotional experienceand many were brought to tears.
The workshop camaraderie continued late into the evening with impromptu jamming sessions...!

Day 2

Day 2 of the workshop continued the discussions on Twilight of a Life, as the film had touched deep chords within all. It then moved on to more detailed deconstructions of forms and styles of filmmaking and the diverse approaches of authors of reality storytelling with screenings of some more clips of landmark films.
In the afternoon, there was the screening of the film - I Was Born in Delhi - by Bishnu Dev Halder, of course followed by an intense spread of discussing the film with the filmmaker.
The evening screening was - The People I Could Have Been and Maybe Am.
As usual, the evening was rounded off on a musical note with the performance of yet another local band.

Day 3

Documentor@Jaipur in association with TOSS - The Open Space Society
Glimpses of the third and last day of the workshop.
Day 3 started with a morning session on the different aspects of international collaboration and co-productions in documentaries.
In the afternoon, there was an open for all session where everyone came out with all their reflections, observations and interpretations of the past two days. The films and clips shown were revisited time and again!
This evening`s finale was set with a soulful performance - poetry recitals and songs... followed by a spontaneous jamming session by all participants and guests.

Documentor @ Thrissur

The session of Documentor at Thrissur, in association with the Chetana Media and ViBGYORFilm Festival, saw a mixed batch of youthful participants from different media institutes andfilm studies. There were also a number of enthusiastic volunteers from amongst thestudents of Chetana itself, who kept up the spirit of the workshop with their dedicatedinterest for the entire three days.
The session was rather special for Thrissur, as it flagged off the start of the ViBGYOR aswell...
Here are some glimpses from the workshop..

Past programmes

more images...

Documentor @ Bhubaneswar

Another session of Documentor is currently under planning, to take place in Bhubaneswar, Orissa in the month of November.