Title of film : An Unfairy Tale
Director Name : Leena Manimekalai
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Producer : Leena Manimekalai
Editor : Thangaraj Palanivel
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Synopsis : India is a land of Subaltern deities. Each deity has an unique legend and these legends are often interwoven with socio-historic tropes of India. Puthirai vannaar is an 'unseeable' Dalit caste group, in southern India. Their forced-occupation is to wash clothes of other Dalits, the dead and the menstruating women. This film is a tale about a young girl who grew up in the slave caste group and how she came to be immortalised as their local deity, Maadathy.
Director Bio : Leena Manimekalai is a published Poet and her narrative documentaries that counts to a dozen on the dynamics of caste, gender, globalization, art therapy, student politics, eco-feminism, indigenous people's rights and LGBTQ lives have been internationally acclaimed and have won several awards in prestigious international film festivals. Her debutant fiction ‘Sengadal/the Deadsea’ won her NAWFF Award at Tokyo for the Best Asian Woman Cinema and also was recognized with prestigious Indian Panorama selections after the initial ban by the Censor Board which got cleared through several months of legal battle. One of her documentary ‘Goddesses’ has won her Golden Conch at Mumbai International Film Festival and Nominations for Horizon Award in Munich and Asia Pacific Screen Award in Melbourne. ‘White Van Stories’ an exclusive doc-feature on enforced disappearances on SriLanka was shot by her and won her accolades in platforms like Channel 4, UK. Her recent documentary co-produced with NHK Japan is currently doing festival rounds and has already won Best Documentary Award at Singapore International Documentary Festival and Jury Mention at the prestigious Film South Asia, Nepal. Additionally, Leena has received the Charles Wallace Art Award, the EU Fellowship and the Commonwealth Fellowship for her work in Cinema and Gender. She has published five poetry collections and is currently editing her non-fiction feature ‘Rape Nation’ that traces the lives and struggles of rape survivors across the Indian Subcontinent. ‘Maadathy- An Unfairy Tale’ is her second feature fiction.To read more about her work, visit http://leenamanimekalai.com
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