Watch out for our young movie makers in the making! Global Indian International School (GIIS) Ahmedabad students won the Best Documentary award for their short film ‘Anubhuti’ and Best Script for ‘Bukharo’ at FilmIt Festival – short film making competition held by INTACH (Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage).
The film ‘Anubhuti’ https://youtu.be/l7L4aBGT0EA made by students Drishti Gautam and Bhumika Pandey, talks about the less privileged girls and women who work in dyeing units while ‘Bukharo’ https://youtu.be/EUJGw3oC6ks made by Vedanti Patel, is based on a card game which a family can sit together and play.
Today as we stride into the future where life is digital and the world is more connected, we are also erasing the footsteps our ancestors left behind, forgetting our culture, our heritage and our traditions. FilmIT is an exciting initiative by INTACH which is taking a few steps back into our history and helping us stay rooted by training school students to make short films and bring to the fore their city’s heritage and culture.
FilmIT conducts workshops wherein students of various schools from INTACH’s Ahmedabad chapter participate and are trained in basics of filmmaking technicalities and content development. Team of 13 students from GIIS attended these filmmaking workshops and went on to create short films which were very well scripted, shot, documented, mixed and edited.
The project is funded by Helen Hamlyn Trust (United Kingdom) and is a part of Open Futures FilmIT program. And, so far over 2500 short films on heritage and culture of 2-3 minutes duration have been prepared by the students in India. These films are then also shown to students in schools across the UK.
Besides their academics, these students have put in tremendous effort to put across a strong social message through short films. Their naïve scripts and innocent short films make their way through the hearts and convey a strong social messages like preserving our tradition, languages, cultures, green city, caring for monuments, endangered art forms and traditional games.
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