“Filming works together” is a talk by filmmakers Pinky Brahma Choudhury and Shobhit Jain from the Samaj Pragati Sahayog Community Media on the interactive and participatory approach that the collective takes to make films towards social change. Working in a remote impoverished area with a large population of unlettered men, women and children, films have enhanced SPS’s communication of new ideas and possibilities to the people. The talk shall be centered on their journey in the making of these films.

About Samaj Pragati Sahayog:

Samaj Pragati Sahayog (SPS) is grassroots initiatives for water and livelihood security, working across 72 of India’s backward districts in the central adivasi belt.

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About Samaj Pragati Sahayog Community Media:

Based out of a remote tribal village in Madhya Pradesh, SPS Community Media engages in articulating stories of people pushed in the periphery, weaving them into films, print media  and audio stories in a dynamic, interactive process, in partnership with the local community. The core team comprises local people of the area who have been initiated into creating media contents. The guiding principle has been to bring out the voices of the people reflecting lived-in experiences of the region.

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