---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Chitrangada Choudhury <[email protected]> Date: Fri, 31 Jan, 2025, 9:31 am Subject: [feminist_agroecology_network] Seed Stories documentary film screenings To: [email protected] < [email protected]> Dear All My documentary film 'Seed Stories' will screen at the Delhi School of Economics on 31st January at 2.30 pm - free public screening, open to all (poster attached). And at the 'Give Peace A Screen' film festival (with Italian subtitles) on 2nd Feb at 4.30 pm https://www.givepeaceascreen.org/dettagli-e-registrazioni/gpas-off-edizione-... A brief synopsis of the film and a review in the American Anthropologist below *Seed Stories (2024). Documentary Film. 42 min, Odiya, Kui, English with English subtitles* Director & Cinematography: Chitrangada Choudhury; Associate Director: Aniket Aga; Editor: Ajay TG; Sound: Asheesh Pandya; Colourist: Srikanth Kabothu *Synopsis: *In a village in the Niyamgiri mountains of Odisha's Eastern Ghats, a heroic effort is underway: barefoot ecologist Dr. Debal Deb and his 3 member-team are conserving in-situ over 1000 endangered heirloom varieties of rice. Odisha’s Eastern Ghats region is one of the world’s surviving biodiversity hotspots, with Adivasi (Indigenous) communities like the Kondhs possessing the knowledge of growing multiple crops with their folk seeds, evolved over centuries. At the same time, the village and the wider region is irreversibly changing with the coming of genetically modified cotton seeds and associated chemicals. 'Seed Stories' takes a worm’s eye view of how this is reshaping a geography and a people steeped in agro-ecological knowledge, and altering their attitudes towards farming, food and ecology. It invites audiences to reflect on the question, 'What is sustainability?' https://www.americananthropologist.org/online-content/review-of-seed-stories... Regards Chitrangada --- To unsubscribe: <mailto: [email protected]> List help: <https://riseup.net/lists>
