D O C U M E N T A R I E S
T I N Y S P E C K
In this moment of chaos, fighting through and hanging in there - finding light is something that we are all struggling to deal with. There’s always this silver line of hope. Appreciating the place that we all call ‘Home’ - a bit more has become possible - not just as a single community, not just as a single country, but for our entire planet in a way and of a scale that we would have never thought would happen.
Once we are back to walk the Earth and explore - we all will have a new found love, care a little more, be a bit more appreciative of what we have been missing for a while.
Tiny Speck is just about it. A dose of positivity. A bright scene. A cup of tea on a rainy day. A gentle reminder in your day to look around and appreciate what we have and not take anything for granted. A tiny speck of hope.
In this short doc - we wanted to bring about the beautiful relationship of man and nature, interconnectedness, how our ways and lives are intertwined with nature - irrespective of whether we take notice of it or not.
It's not the best version or a scale to say the message but it's an honest effort and a tiny scale that’s possible for us to start with. “Let’s take good care of what we have - the place we all call Home”.
S C R E E N I N G S
Auroville - Cinema Paradiso
JAN 2020
Snapbrew - Chennai
MAR 2020
U P C O M I N G D O C U M E N T A R Y
Lifeline of a resilient future : T H E B R A H M A P U T R A
The Brahmaputra river is facing critical threats of extinction, and urgently requires the application of management strategies for their immediate protection and long-term conservation. Our project sheds light on the part of the Brahmaputra River that flows through India where there are three major interconnected extinctions that are about to foray in the next 20 years – extinction of indigenous rice landraces, drowning of riverine Islands like Majuli, and cultural genocide of indigenous communities.
We are studying to document the physical and cultural landscape of Ziro, Khonoma, Majuli and Dibang Valley, the lifestyle of the indigenous communities like ApaTani, Angami, Mishing and Idu Mishmi - settled along the river basin to establish how climate change influences geology, Agroforestry, biodiversity and ethnoecology.
Our story is here to say that one of the ways towards saving these crucial extinctions lie within indigenous knowledge, culture and we need to join hands with the scientific community to integrate it with cutting edge science for creating simple and complex solutions. We will address how and why the lives of 5% of the global population who help in protecting 80% of global biodiversity, matters.