ASHA and Association for India’s Development (AID)

present

Eye on India

A Film and Discussion Series 

April 10^th, 17^th, 24^th, May 1^st

2 pm – 4 pm, 1641 Humanities, UW-Madison

FILMS SUBTITLED IN ENGLISH AND ADMISSION FREE!

co-sponsored by Center for South Asia & IGSA
 
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April 10^th 2.00 – 4.00 PM: Pandemic: Facing AIDS

Pandemic: This documentary that follows the personal stories of people from five countries, including India, who are living with AIDS, cutting through the overwhelming statistics and putting a human face on the global epidemic. Award-winning filmmaker Rory Kennedy and her crew tell the stories of men and women from around the world coping with HIV and AIDS, and watch as they brave sickness, stigma, and even death with courage and strength.
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April 17^th 2.00 – 4.00 PM: Life and Debt

Utilizing excerpts from the award-winning non-fiction text "A Small Place" by Jamaica Kincaid, Life & Debt is a woven tapestry of sequences focusing on the stories of individual Jamaicans whose strategies for survival and parameters of day-to-day existence are determined by the U.S. and other foreign economic agendas. By combining traditional documentary telling with a stylized narrative framework, the complexity of international lending, structural adjustment policies and free trade will be understood in the context of the day-to-day realities of the people whose lives they impact.
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April 24^th 2.00 – 4.00 PM: Hunting Warren Anderson

In December 1984, a toxic cloud of gas from the Union Carbide plant in Bhopal, India, silently enveloped the surrounding city, leaving thousands dead. For almost 20 years, the survivors of the disaster have sought punishment for those they hold responsible, and they start at the top. They're targeting the American chief executive of the company, the now-retired 82-year-old Warren Anderson. So where does the buck stop when it comes to culpability for the world's worst industrial tragedy? Amos Cohen reports on the hunt for Warren Anderson.
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May 1^st 2.00 – 4.00 PM: Made in India

This powerful documentary is a portrait of SEWA, the famous women's organization in India that holds the simple yet radical belief that poor women need organizing, not welfare. Inspired by the political, economic and moral model advocated by Mahatma Gandhi, SEWA has grown to a membership of more than 217,000 members, assets of $4 million and customers who walk in each day to deposit a dollar or take out 60 cents. Following the lives of six women involved in the organization, including Ela R. Bhat, its visionary founder, Plattner's documentary is an important look at the power of grassroots global feminism.
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