Water Docs 2015 | Narmada: A Valley Rises

Please join us for the following program, which is part of the annual Water Docs Film Festival:

Program

Screening of Narmada: A Valley Rises
Since it’s premiere in 1994 at Hot Docs, where it won three awards, Narmada: A Valley Rises has become a classic film about the grassroots struggle against large dams. Documenting the longest and most sustained mass action mounted by the group Save Narmada, the film offers a compelling and intimate portrait of the movement while raising critical and universal issues of human rights, social justice, and development within a democracy.  Cameron Bailey, then writing for Now Magazine in 1994, wrote “this film stands in the best tradition of committed film-making. For anyone worn down or cynical about social struggle, Narmada shows how it can be both effective and inspiring“.
Narmada: A Valley Rises was nominated for the 1996 Genie Award for Best Feature Length Documentary.

Discussion with the director/producer Ali Kazimi, with reflections on other water issues.
During the course of a career spanning nearly three decades, Ali Kazimi’s films have been screened in festivals around the world, and broadcast nationally and internationally, including on CBC, TVO, PBS (US) and Channel 4 (UK). His films have won over thirty national and international awards and honours – including The Gemini/The Donald Brittain Award for Best Social/Political Documentary for Runaway Grooms (2005). – and his work has been honoured in four retrospectives in India, Canada and the United States.   Ali Kazimi is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Film, School of Arts, Media, Performance and Design at York University

Date: Thursday March 26, 2015
Time: 7 pm
Location: Auditorium, Noor Cultural Centre
Admission: $5