About this Event
"Every evening Sikh women from the "Widows Colony" share their lives. They are nestled away from the so-called developed 'metropolis' of New Delhi to a rehabilitated colony as their men and family members, who were daily wage earners, were killed in the massacre of 1984. Three decades later, filmmaker Teenaa Kaur, who has witnessed the impact of violence in her home and had grown up listening to these stories, wants to know the truth about the incident and how it influences her identity. She connects with women and children in the Colony to learn about their journey and the impact of violence after so many years. One evening, the women question what happened to the dead bodies of their men who were killed in the massacre? This brings a turn around in their lives as they set on a journey to reconcile the truth".
About Teenaa:
Teenaa Kaur Pasricha is a National award-winning filmmaker, a Screenwriter fellow from Asia Society NY and a TEDX Speaker. She wrote “MAUJJ” which has gotten in NFDC script lab 2022. She was selected as an International Leader on Films for social change fellowship granted by the US Dept. of Cultural Affairs in Jan. 2020. Her popular film “1984, When the Sun Didn’t Rise”, won the National Film Award in the Best Investigative Film category.
She was awarded a fellowship in Screenplay writing from Time Warner Foundation, Asia Society, New York for her debutfeature film script "The Red Autumn".
This film screening is organised as part of the symposium organised by Global Diversity and Inequality Research Centre, South Asian Studies Research Group and Centre for Life Writing and Oral History (CLiOH) at London Metropolitan University, an co-hosted by the Institute of Asian and Transcultural Studies, Vilnius University.
It is funded by the European Association for South Asian Studies (EASAS).
If you have any questions about this event, please contact:
Dr Clelia Clini at [email protected]
Dr. Deimantas Valančiūnas at [email protected]
If you reserve a ticket but later on find out you can’t attend, please contact organisers and/or release your ticket to allow people in the waiting list to join.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
TM3-03, Roding Building, London Metropolitan University, London, United Kingdom
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