Saracura, the film – is about protecting the indigenous communities who protect Amazon forest, the lungs of the Universe

Please click the gofundme link(in bio) – https://gofund.me/c7c1afb0 and make your contributions.

@karuvachyfilmscanada @karuvachyfilms Mathew Edassery Elango Raghupathy Thomman Tomjoseph

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Posted @withregram • @atriskartists Announcing the 2023 cohort for the The Center for Ethics and Writing!

PEN America’s Artists at Risk Connection is thrilled to announce the first cohort of Fellows for The Center for Ethics and Writing, an initiative with @BardCollege! This one-year virtual fellowship will support persecuted artists from around the world in their continued commitment to free expression. In addition to direct support, the program will network on their behalf, invite them to speak about their artistic practices in virtual courses, and provide opportunities to promote their works.

Congratulations to the 2023 inaugural Fellows:

Amaury Pacheco del Monte – Cuban poet, artist, and filmmaker

Aslı Erdoğan – Turkish novelist, journalist, and human rights activist

Leena Manimekalai – Tamil poet, filmmaker, and actor

Stella Nyanzi – Ugandan human rights advocate, poet, and medical anthropologist

Mahtab Yaghma – Iranian poet

Learn more about the cohort at the link in our bio under “2023 Center for Ethics and Writing Program Fellows” or here: http://artistsatriskconnection.org/…/2023-center-for…

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𝘒𝘢𝘢𝘭𝘪 (9:00, 2022) is a performance documentary film in which the female queer BIPOC filmmaker embodies Kaali, the termagant deity from Tamil and Telugu Folklore in Southern India, walks around the streets of Kensington Market and encounters the candid reactions of people across ethnicities, colour and cultures. It is a quintessential trip of being, becoming and belonging in the settler colonial land of Tkaronto.

𝗟𝗲𝗲𝗻𝗮 𝗠𝗮𝗻𝗶𝗺𝗲𝗸𝗮𝗹𝗮𝗶 is a published poet and an award-winning filmmaker from the Southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu whose works promote human rights, particularly those of marginalized people, such as the Dalit, Refugee, LGBTQI+ community. Her fifteen plus films across genres and lengths have covered subjects such as caste, gender, globalization, art therapy, student politics, Tamil’s right to self-determination, eco feminism, Indigenous and queer rights. Her films have been internationally acclaimed, and have also generated reprisal, censorship attempts, and death threats. She was selected as a 2022 BAFTA India Breakthrough talent, has recently completed an MFA in Film at York University and the 2023 Artist-in-Residence at the Centre for South Asian Critical Humanities – UTM, Jackman Humanities Institute – UoFT and South Asian Visual Arts Centre(SAVAC). She is currently developing a participatory climate film with the Afro Amazonian Quilombola community in Brasil.

Part of series of video works by contemporary artists installed in the CCT Coach House foyer, 𝘒𝘢𝘢𝘭𝘪 will be on view until January 31.

Immensely grateful to Prof Lucineide Pinheiro for hosting me.

Thanks to Journalist @cibele_pb for her brilliant translation.

So awed by the moderator and film critic @lorennmontenegro and all the amazing creators in the panel and the event.

What a wonderful community event bringing artists, activists, climate warriors together to lit the most urgent discourse on climate and cinema. Brigado Festival de Cinema Latino-Americano de Alter do Chão