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A film fest of reality check on tsunami relief
Indo-Asian News Service
Chennai, Sep 30 (IANS) A unique month-long film festival that aims to do a reality check on the tsunami disaster by moving across five cities of South India opens in Tamil Nadu Saturday.
Named "Deconstructing Disasters," the festival features 10 films and starts at the seashore of Keechankuppam in Nagapattinam, one of the villages worst hit by the Dec 26 tsunami.
Films will be taken to the disaster survivors and shown in their communities in villages like Nagapattinam and Kanyakumari.
A website, indiadisaster.org is organizing the festival which will show films like "From Chaos to Creativity", "Voices from a Disaster", "Our Life, Our Film", "River Taming Mantras", "Waves after Waves", "Tsunami", "Harvest of Hunger" and "Outside Mercy".
Half of these films are on tsunami and the village and beach shows would focus on rehabilitation.
They feature stories of people coping with disasters and address the economics, politics and ecology of disasters.
They will also show the humanitarian agencies' response to disasters and probe their efficacy and challenges they face.
A jury chaired by the national award-winning director Rajeev Nath in Thiruvananthapuram selected the films.
"This is a much needed and timely move. It's time to make a reality check and see what is going on in the relief and rehab front," Action Aid International's coordinator for the Asia region T.V. Unnikrishnan said.
"Relief efforts in most tsunami-hit countries are not visible although many groups are doing good work," Unnikrishnan, who has been monitoring tsunami relief in India as well as in Maldives, Sri Lanka and Thailand, said.
"There is a lot of confusion and lack of clarity on the rehab process, especially empowerment of the survivors.
"The documentaries amplify the voices of the survivors.
The organising website is a venture by independent media professionals, humanitarian workers and software industry.
The team had brought out 'The India Disasters Report (OUP: 2000)'.
Their latest initiative is the "Tsunami Response Watch," a website, and includes a weekly e-newsletter and media inserts in Tamil.
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