Alternative Wednesdays presents: Film screening with Q & A with the director
“In Search of Our Lost Rice Seeds”, a video documentary by Ms. Suma Josson (from India); produced by Save Our Rice Campaign (c/o Thanal, Kerala, India), 40 Minutes
When: Wednesday 29th October 2014, 17:30 – 18:45 h
Where: ZEF, Walter-Flex-Str. 3, 53113, Bonn, in the downstairs right conference room
Q&A; session over Skype with Suma Josson will start at about 18h15
This documentary travels through the work of some of the traditional paddy seed savers in the three Indian states of Kerala, Tamilnadu and Karnataka. Through their voices, and the voices of scientists, farmers and environmentalists, the film traces the destruction of the agro-biodiversity as well as knowledge systems that has eventually led to the crisis faced by farmers in India. It ends with a warning, but also hope for the future. Suma Josson is a documentary filmmaker and writer. She lives in Mumbai, and of late has been focussing her lens on the plight as well as hope of farmers in India. Two of her latest films are I Want My Father Back and Raghuvanshi the Seed Man. Her documentary film Niyamgiri, You Are Still Alive, on the ecological and human damage done by bauxite mining won a first prize in the Short Film, Environment category at the 2010 International Film Festival of India. Earlier her two feature films Janmadinam and Saree won much accolades.Alternative Wednesdays presents: Film screening with Q & A with the director
“In Search of Our Lost Rice Seeds”, a video documentary by Ms. Suma Josson (from India); produced by Save Our Rice Campaign (c/o Thanal, Kerala, India), 40 Minutes
When: Wednesday 29th October 2014, 17:30 – 18:45 h
Where: ZEF, Walter-Flex-Str. 3, 53113, Bonn, in the downstairs right conference room
Q&A; session over Skype with Suma Josson will start at about 18h15
This documentary travels through the work of some of the traditional paddy seed savers in the three Indian states of Kerala, Tamilnadu and Karnataka. Through their voices, and the voices of scientists, farmers and environmentalists, the film traces the destruction of the agro-biodiversity as well as knowledge systems that has eventually led to the crisis faced by farmers in India. It ends with a warning, but also hope for the future. Suma Josson is a documentary filmmaker and writer. She lives in Mumbai, and of late has been focussing her lens on the plight as well as hope of farmers in India. Two of her latest films are I Want My Father Back and Raghuvanshi the Seed Man. Her documentary film Niyamgiri, You Are Still Alive, on the ecological and human damage done by bauxite mining won a first prize in the Short Film, Environment category at the 2010 International Film Festival of India. Earlier her two feature films Janmadinam and Saree won much accolades.