Since its start, a few weeks ago, the IITD blog has been talking about Alumni activities and chapter stuff. But this blog is not intended to be an administrative diary only. We would like to use this blog as a unifying forum to bring the IITD Alumni of the SF Bay Area together and help them reach out to one another.
With that goal in mind, we have today our first guest post, from Anurag Wadehra, IITD class of '85. He expressed interest in using the IITD forum to spread the word about a movie he produced that has been critically acclaimed worldwide. We are happy that Anurag has chosen this forum as a voice to the IITD Alumni and hope that other alumni will also use this as a way to share information useful and relevant to our community.
Oh, and by the way, if you find this forum useful to you, please spread the word among the other alumni in the bay area and send them a link to the blog – iitdelhi.wordpress.com.
Thanks, yours truly,
Priyank Garg,
IITDEF Bay Area Team
"Borrowed Fire: The Shadow Puppets of Kerala"
http://www.kathanjali.com/BF_details.html
Shot in the remote villages of Kerala in southern India, this film documents the story of the last surviving scholar-puppeteer, Pulavar, and his lifelong struggle to practice and preserve this ancient performing art of Tolpava Koothu and its rendition of the Hindu epic, the Ramayana. Exquisitely capturing the art and its milieu, this is a rare and poignant glimpse of a flame on the verge of extinction.
Over the past few years, this film — with ironically minimal marketing support — has been doing the rounds of several film festivals, has been critically acclaimed, was picked up and distributed internationally by UC's media department. As a result it is now housed in the library collections of several leading universities and colleges all over the world! Check out the link above to see the appeal this film has generated.
It has now been picked up by Shadowlight Productions and they are going to show it in San Francisco at the Artists' Television Access next month. Shadowlight's mission is to bring the stories of the world to light. They hope to build a world community through cross cultural story telling and the magic of shadow theater.
In case you are interested in attending, the details are as follows:
DATE: FRIDAY APRIL 21st, 2006 POSTPONED
TIME: 8:00PM
TICKETS: $5 per person
INFO: Adults only
VENUE: The venue is ATA and seats around 75 people
Artists' Television Access
992 Valencia Street(at 21st)
San Francisco, CA 94110
(415)824-3890
The above showing has been
Anurag Wadehra
Producer & Director
IIT-Delhi, Class of '85
