Devashish Makhija LIVE - a shortSCAPE Special
Showcasing DEVASHISH MAKHIJA & his World of Shorts on moviesaints.com : For many filmmakers SHORTS are a means of crossing the threshold.. sending out the message that they are filmmakers now - that their thoughts and views have found cinematic expression. But there are some who go beyond this Stepping Stone approach - they are able to play & experiment with this form. They craft stories within it.. breaking rules and barriers .. evolving new formats and notions about what is the ‘correct’ frame in which a story might be told.
Devashish Makhija is one such upstart.
And while he plays with form, he finds new ways of disrupting our sensibilities - shocking us out of our privileged complacence to look at complex worlds and themes... at a politics that evokes a world view sharpened by its awareness of unequal opportunities & unequal distribution of rights... that plays out a scene with fascist undertones - questioning the relevance of a peoples or the subaltern in the face of the larger Dominant Discourse.
This Special Showcase has been curated as a fitting finale to Round 2 of shortSCAPE to open up conversations around the cinema of this highly provocative filmmaker and throw open possibilities that the work of a thinking, processing, constantly evolving artist can have.
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Join our guests fro the Studio - GO LIVE!
July 3, Friday In Conversation Lucius Barre (Publicist-Producer) & Devashish Makhija (Filmmaker-Author) LINK : https://www.moviesaints.com/dev-makhija-in-conversation-lucius-barre
July 5, Sunday : Screening of the Unveiled #13th film & post film QnA
with Rukmini Sen (Managing Editor, Media Vigil), Sushama Deshpande (Actor) & Devashish Makhija (Filmmaker-Author) LINK - https://www.moviesaints.com/dev-makhija-in-conversation-rukmini-sen-sushama-deshpande
ShortSCAPE - in which we release in Batches of #13 a selection of Shorts from across genres, languages, sensibilities.
The first Gang of#13 in our newly launched initiative shortSCAPE hosts some of the finest filmmakers of today in the subcontinent... including the unique voices of Mukul Haloi with the quietly disturbing Ghormua & Ankur Deka with his fun-filled angst Fade In! And of course the cheeky Wolf of Chawl Street by Pranav Bhasin!
The Second Gang of #13 has some discoveries... films that have been loved & applauded.. filmmakers who were at times enterprising & at times lazy with their outreach.. the result is a delightful mix of story tellers - those who quietly plod on & those who go to town with it!
However, what makes this Round 2 super exciting is the LIVE chats window that we have introduced via MovieSaints LIVE and its Simulcasting possibilities
We are a platform for curated indies. We take great pride in the eclectic mix that we have on our platform. Stay tuned... for a spate of fresh releases & new , indie voices!