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KRITI FILM CLUB is inviting for two new documentaries on Thursday, 16th August 2007,at 5.30 pm

RESISTING COASTAL INVASION in English by K.P. Sasi at the Conference Room (Ground Floor), Intach, 71 Lodi Estate, New Delhi Contact: 24631818/ 9810216440 (Acknowledgement: Sangat for venue and equipment support)

About the film

This documentary highlights the disastrous impact of the proposed changes in Coastal Laws in India. It points out how the proposed changes would open up the Indian coast to all kinds of invasion from hazardous industries, unregulated tourism and sand mining, including mining inside the sea. These changes, which are in keeping with the current trend of globalisation will ultimately lead to destruction of the coastal ecology and in the process take away the very source of livelihood of the fishing community and the coastal poor.

About the film maker K.P. Sasi is a Bangalore based activist filmmaker,who has been making documentaries since 1982 and runs Visual Search ( www.visualsearch.org).

The screening will be followed by a discussion with:

K.P. Sasi, Filmmaker; T. Peter, President, Kerala Independent Fishworkers Federation and Secretary, National Fishworkers Forum; Gilbert Rodrigo from the National Campaign Against Coastal Zone Management (CZM) and Tamil Nadu Pondy Fisher People's Federation. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Friday, 17th August, 5.45 pm Crossing the Line by Anita Barar 75 mins./ Hindi, Urdu, Punjabi (English sub-titles)/ 2007 at the KRITI TEAM WORKPLACE, S-35 Tara Apartments, Alaknanda New Delhi 110019 Phone: 26027845/ 26033088 About the film

This documentary is about the people who have seen the bloodshed of 1947's India-Pakistan divide. Barar gently explores their feelings when they meet their counterparts – i.e., when Indians meet Pakistanis or vice versa. She also seeks to bring out other emotional touchpoints – incidents where despite the widespread religious violence, individuals from either side risked their lives to protect members of the other community.

About the film maker

Writer, filmmaker, casual broadcaster and theatre personality Anita Barar's own family moved from Pakistan to India at the time of partition. Anita had been working on this subject for last 6 -7 years with few funding bodies and started production in July last year with the support of Information and Cultural Exchange, an arts and cultural development organisation working in the Greater Western Sydney region.