Stage Buzz: Film Fest: IAWRT - WAYS OF SEEING : RHETORIC AND REALITY

The International Association of Women in Radio and Television (India Chapter) will hold the 7th Asian Women’s Film Festival in New Delhi on March 7-8, 2011.

The festival will showcase the works of women film makers of Asian origin in a range of genres – fiction, non-fiction, animation, and television features – representing a diversity in country, content and form.

Though not mandatory, we prefer to screen films made in the last two years so that the selection reflects contemporary concerns and fresh energies.

The theme of the 7th Asian Women’s Film Festival, March 2010, is WAYS OF SEEING : RHETORIC AND REALITY. The selection of films will reflect how women (as filmmakers and/or as protagonists) go beyond the appearances of things, continue a process of questioning through new forms and content, ask critical questions about the society in which we operate and look beyond middle-class issues and concerns in reconstructing civil society. The theme of the 7th Asian Women’s Film Festival, March 2010, is WAYS OF SEEING: RHETORIC AND REALITY. The theme expects to articulate through multiple lenses the lives, events and concerns of our multi-layered society and reflect how women (as filmmakers and/or as protagonists) go beyond manifestation ,question and express through new forms and content. “Ways of Seeing” aims to create a language of understanding of ideas flux and explore hierarchies and contradictions in our realities and rhetoric.

The IAWRT Asian Women's Film Festival is held every year around International Women's Day and is proving to be an increasingly popular event in the city's calendar. It provides an intimate atmosphere for interaction enriched with dialogues on gender concerns and changing approaches to documentaries. Past editions have travelled to various Indian cities – Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Kolkata, Pune, Madurai, Mumbai, Hyderabad and Thiruvananthapuram.

The six film festivals held so far have been:

2005 EXPRESSIONS IN FREEDOM

2006 WOMEN, MEDIA AND SOCIETY : TRANSFORMATIONS

2007 REFLECTIONS : WOMEN IMAGING REALITIES

2008 INSIGHTS & ASPIRATIONS

2009 DIALOGUES IN DIVERSITY

2010 BREAKING BOUNDARIES : SHARED SPACES

We take this opportunity to invite you to participate in the event.

See the call for entries for further details