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Artist Profile - Noor Zora | Short Documentary

Noor Zora arts group performs Giddha at weddings, and other functions. These are men who dress up as women to perform the quintessential Punjabi dance. In this film we get to know their reasons to perform the way they do.

Artist Profile | Eternal Musicians (Akaal Ke Rababiye) | Short Documentary

Presenting our first Documentary, Akal ke Rababiye (Musicians of the eternal), featuring Ranjodh Singh and Lovejot Singh. They make string instruments Rabab, Saranda and Taus. They play and teach Gurbani recital on these instruments as well. This film documents their work. Please watch and share. Support us to tell more such stories.

Kirrt Stories | Jagdeep Jawaharke | Poet 

As part of our project, 'Kirrt' we made short films on artists, writers and other creative individuals across Punjab. This is one of the films we made in collaboration with Androon films, featuring a young poet and brick kiln worker, Jagdeep Jawaharke.

Bagi Munda - Rap Scene of Chandigarh | Artist Profile 

Bagi Munda is a Hip-Hop/Rap artist in Chandigarh. He and his friends have been performing in the streets of Chandigarh since 2012. A genre of music that originated in New York in the seventies, consists of rhythmic music accompanied by rap verse. The young rap artists of Chandigarh talk about their matters of heart and skirmishes with the Police. We get introduced to the Chandigarh rap scene in this short film.

COTTON CRISES IN MANSA

Indigenous cotton is one of Punjab’s ancient crops. The British introduced a new variety of cotton, which was named Narma (softer cotton). The Bathinda, Muktsar, Fazilka, and Mansa districts of East Panjab are called Narma or Cotton Belt. After the green revolution cotton crop made farming sustainable in this region. But slowly the American Cotton Bollworm started to cause damage to crops. In 2002 BT Cotton was introduced, whose seeds contain toxicity to counter pest attacks. But farmers can’t farm these seeds themselves, they have to buy new seeds from the market every year. BT Cotton brought some relief to farmers in the Cotton belt, but these crops started getting damaged by bollworm attacks too. The sale of fake seeds in the market added to the farmers’ woes.

SONGS OF THE OPPRESSED

Discrimination against workers on the basis of their status and caste is a harsh reality. We talked to someone who has written songs about this oppression. In this video, he narrates incidents of the systematic violence his community endures and how access to farmlands can liberate them. He sings the songs of the oppressed. He sings to fight for the dignity of labour.

CONVERSATION BY THE SEA - SHORT FILM

Filmed on a train journey from Exeter to Plymouth, while cycling around England. It was three of us standing by the door of our train car, looking out at the sea. I had just finished my 40-day long cycling tour, the man had just come out of the prison after spending two months inside and the girl was visiting her home town as part of a break from her job in London.

 © 2020 by Gurdeep Dhaliwal | Writer | Documentary Photographer

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