Cinema of Resistance West Bengal : July-August Newsletter

Over the past two months, Cinema of Resistance held three film screenings and solidarity meets 

- 11th July | MUKTI CHAI - an evening of film screenings, protest songs and speeches, in Muktangan Rangalaya, demanding unconditional freedom of all prisoners of conscience. To see photos and videos of speeches and songs, please visit: http://corkolkata.wordpress.com/past-screenings/mukti-chai/
The evening also raised funds for the legal defense committee of Chhatradhar Mahato and five other Lalgarh activists. The funds were handed over to APDR.
  

- 22nd August | TALES OF OCCUPATION FROM GAZA & ELSEWHERE - 

Film Screening - Where Should the Birds Fly? By Palestinian filmmaker Fida Qishta. Discussions by Kalpana Wilson and Kunal Chattopadhyay.

To see details & pictures, please visit: http://corkolkata.wordpress.com/past-screenings/tales-from-occupation-gaza-and-elsewhere/

We will soon upload videos of the talks.

Cinema of Resistance's call for a countrywide protest screening of the documentary met with an overwhelming response, with 85+ screenings till date, and an estimated ten thousand people watching the film on 25-26th. In West Bengal protest screenings took place in Kolkata (multiple locations), Howrah, Shantiniketan (even after being stopped by Police), Bishnupur, Belgharia, Barasat. More protest screenings are being organised in West Bengal & India at this time,

For more details about the Kolkata screening organized by CoR, pan-India screenings organized by CoR and like-minded groups, and press reports, please visit: http://corkolkata.wordpress.com/country-wide-protest-screening-muzaffarngar-baaqi-hai/

Our pamphlet from the day's event is attached below.

We appeal to all of you to generously contribute to our collective's fund so that we may carry out with our monthly screenings, festivals and cultural activities. We also seek your generous contributions for an ongoing documentary, being made by a collaboration of our activists, researchers and comrades on martyr Saroj Dutta, to mark his birth centenary year. To know more about the film, and its progress so far, including stills, information and clips, please check this page:SD: A documentary on Saroj Dutta

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ABOUT US: Cinema of Resistance (Kolkata Chapter) organizes an annual film festival, called the Kolkata People's Film Festival, in the third week of January. Throughout the year, we organize monthly film screenings in Kolkata and also travel in Kolkata and its neighbouring districts (such as North and South 24 Pargnas, Hooghly, Howrah, Birbhum, Nadia etc.) to screen films and hold discussions/dialogues on invitation from non-funded like-minded groups, unions and organizations. We are particularly interested in screening among workers, women, children and young adults, civil society groups and folks in general who are allies of people's movements.

To organize a show in your locality please write tocor.kolkata@gmail.com, or call us at 9163736863. We will get back to you.

To join our initiative as an activist, please contact us in the manner above, or simply turn up at one of our screenings for a face-to-face chat!