2. Southasian Children’s Cinema Forum
in association with
18th International Film Festival of Kerala
presents
THE SECOND ROUND TABLE
on
SOUTHASIAN CHILDREN’S FILMS
Exploring Policy, Practice and Participation to promote
Indigenous Independent Cinema for Young Audiences
9-10 December 2013, Thiruvananthapuram

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CONTENTS
Profile........................................................................................................03
Programs..................................................................................................04
Report Of First Round Table..................................................................06
Participants And Partners........................................................................11
Schedule of Second Round Table..........................................................30
SOUTHASIAN CHILDREN’S CINEMA FORUM
Promoting quality indigenous cinema for children and young people
Southasian Children’s Cinema Forum (SACCF) is a network of film industry, film festival
and film education professionals from Southasian countries, committed to promoting the
making and viewing of locally produced high quality cinema for children and young people.
With representation of 21 partners in 8 countries it is a growing network of organizations
across borders, dedicated towards nurturing a commercially viable and socially relevant
children’s film industry in the region.
SACCF aims to support the production & development of indigenous children’s films and
film-making talent; facilitate strong distribution and exhibition avenues through local,
regional and transnational collaborations; create platforms for exchange of information,
ideas and skills; and influence government policy and industry practice to enable a viable
and dynamic children’s film culture in South Asia.
SACCF activities include
• Networking between all stake holders in children’s cinema
• Development of children’s film projects and filmmaking talent
• Production of relevant and high quality children’s cinema
• Fostering international co-production networks beyond Southasia
• Marketing and Distribution of locally produced children’s cinema
• Screening of children’s films in Southasia
• Inclusion of cinema in education
• National and Regional Policy Reform
• Researching on content for young audiences
• Nurturing and strengthening a Southasian identity
SACCF promotes Indigenous Children’s Cinema through Regional Co-operation in Southasia
Children: children and adolescents up to the age of 18.
Cinema: live action, animation and documentaries; features and shorts; digital and celluloid;
films made for theatrical, television and internet release.
Children’s Cinema: films that can engage children and their families including films made
for children, films from children’s perspective, films about children.
Indigenous: films that reflect the reality and imagination, needs and aspirations of children
living in Southasian countries; that encourage curiosity, creativity, compassion and critical
thinking and empathy towards diverse communities and cultures.
Regional Cooperation: opportunities for Govt., NGO, Private agencies & independent
professionals from 9 Southasian countries to collaborate with each other domestically,
bilaterally & collectively within South Asia & beyond.
SouthAsian:Afghanistan,Bangladesh,Bhutan,Inadia,Maldives,Myanmar,Nepal,Pakistan,SriLanka

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SACCF ACTIVITIES
Southasian Children’s Cinema Forum has been able to take wings with the seed
support provided by Puneet Malhi Trust/ iPartner India, allowing SACCF to envision
and execute the following activities for 2013-14:
• Establishing the Southasian Executive of SACCF
The ‘Executive’ is being incubated by Community-The Youth Collective (CYC), an
organisation that uses the twin tools of media and education to promote participation,
development and leadership among young people. The SACCF Executive is housed in
CYC’s Delhi office, from where it envisages and executes activities of the network in
co-ordination with existing and relevant partners across South Asia and beyond.
• Building the largest database of Southasian children’s films, professionals & activities
Data collation across 9 Southasian countries and beyond: child centric films from
South Asia and from outside South Asia; Children’s film festivals in South Asia and
prominent children’s film festivals and markets outside South Asia; Films distribution
and world sales agencies; Cinema based curriculums & film appreciation courses; Film-
making and film related workshops for both children and adults; script labs, pitching
labs and development funds, All children’s film producing, distributing and exhibiting
organizations in South Asia and those prominent outside South Asia.
• Activating a Virtual Networking Platform to promote Southasian Children’s films
Create a portal that hosts the largest database of children’s films & children’s films
related activities in South Asia and facilitates exchange of information, ideas, resources
and skills. By featuring and connecting Southasianchildren’s films and film-makers to
festivals and markets, the portal will facilitate the promotion and sales of Southasian
children’s cinema across the region & the globe.
• Creating a Regional and Domestic Policy Paper framework for Children’s films
Produce a comprehensive policy paper based on in-depth research on the various
national and regional policies in each Southasian country for production, distribution
and exhibition of films with a special focus on independent and children’s films.
The research will be conducted by Catherine Masud, Film-maker and cultural policy
advocate from Bangladesh. The research will result in first ever comprehensive
advocacy framework document towards promotion of independent indigenous children’s
films in the region.
• Creating a Southasian Children’s Cinema Package
Curateapackageofchildren’sfeatures,shorts,liveaction,animationfromallSouthasian
countries, accompanied by a ‘Discussion Guide’ to be screened across South Asia, and
presented in film festivals within the region and globally by existing and prospective
SACCF partners.
• Conducting the 2nd SACCF Round Table at 18th International Film Festival Kerala
Organise a 2 day meeting of core partners and hold various relevant discussions and
symposia to exchange knowledge and ideas and build further strategies to take forward
SACCF network, in collaboration with Kerala Chalchitra Academy, Govt. of Kerala.
• Raising resources and gaining further partnerships for SACCF
Work towards generating further financial support and collaborations to run SACCF
executive for the next three years and conduct envisaged activities including the
proposed Southasian Children’s Film Script Lab: a two-week residential script
development lab followed by 3 month mentoring for 10 exceptionally talented writers
from Southasian countries, one of whom will receive a production grant award for the
best script developed at the lab and an opportunity to pitch at an international
co-production Market.
NOTE:
To maintain the spirit and mandate of the regional network - all activities that SACCF
directly undertakes, will be activities that have impact on most or all 9 Southasian
countries. SACCF will not directly execute any activity that is accessible to/ benefits
only one or two countries in the region.
However besides activities directly executed by SACCF collectively, for all Southasian
countries, SACCF will also wholeheartedly encourage and facilitate partners to
collaborate bilaterally/ trilaterally with each other for children’s cinema related
activities in their countries.

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Southasian Children’s Cinema Forum
Report OF FIRST ROUND TABLE
To gain an understanding and consensus for the creation of a Southasian Children’s
Cinema Forum, a Round Table was organised on 9th-10th December 2012 in
Trivandrum, Kerala with support from Performing Arts Labs & Eleeanaora Images and
in collaboration with the 17th International Film Festival of Kerala. The 18 participants at
this first round table included producers, directors, distributors, film festival organisers
and film education professionals from Afghanistan, Australia, Bangladesh, India, Nepal,
Pakistan, Sri Lanka & United Kingdom.
After two days of learning and sharing and intense deliberations at the first round
table, participants from eight countries including six Southasian countries resolved
to lend their support to the formation of the Southasian Children’s Cinema Forum
(SACCF). This was announced at a Press Conference on 10th December 2012 .
MISSION OF THE NEW REGIONAL NETWORK
Southasian Children’s Cinema Forum will support the production & development
of indigenous children’s films and film-making talent; facilitate stronger distribution
and exhibition avenues through local, regional and transnational collaborations; create
platforms for exchange of information, ideas and skills; and influence government
policy and industry practice to enable a viable and dynamic children’s film culture in
South Asia. Working for and between film industry, film festival and film education
professionals in all the countries in the Southasian region, it will represent the interests
of everyone creating, distributing and screening high quality locally produced content
for child and family audiences.
Key Points of the discussions that emerged from the First SACCF Round Table are
listed in the following pages.
REGIONAL GOALS & STRATEGIES
I. NETWORKING & EXCHANGE OF INFORMATION, IDEAS & SKILLS
Through Virtual and On Ground platforms
a. Collate & create virtual Database: Collate, provide and update all existing data
related to Films, Festivals, Markets, Distribution, Workshops on the web portal
- data of child centric films from Southasia along with their synopsis, age wise
categorisation, information about rights holder and where to access the films; data
of children’s film festivals in Southasia and prominent children’s film festivals and
markets outside Southasia with deadlines for submissions; data on children’s films
distribution and world sales agencies; data on film education, cinema based modules
and curriculums; data on film-making and film related workshops for both children and
grown-ups; script labs, pitching labs eligible for Southasians; data of film societies for
children in Southasian countries; children’s film producing, distributing and exhibiting
organizations in Southasia and those prominent outside Southasia; Customized access:
Connecting film projects/ work in progress/ film-makers to prospective financiers/
festivals/ distribution & world sales agencies; linking schools/ educationists/ parents to
archive of children’s films/ children’s film societies and organizations; News & E-Journal
postingimmediatenewsonnewfilmsandfilmrelatedactivitiesande-journalgenerating
discussions on children’s films; Sharing applications: storing and creating access to new
and relevant applications and software related to film-making on a linked cloud for film-
makers, students, teachers to engage with film-making.
b. Create on ground opportunities for film industry, film festival and film education
professionals to interact at regular regional meetings to share experiences &
envision collaborations.
II. DEVELOPMENT & PRODUCTION
Through training and development funds and programs
a. Development of Content and Talent: Script Development through Southasian
Script Labs open to new and established film writers and directors from across
all countries of Southasia; Development of a Story bank that includes published
relevant children’s literature as well as comics
b. Filmmakinggrantandinvestmentfunds:MobilisingforFilmFundsthatcanproduce/
co-produce projects from Southasia; approach public and private national, regional
and international sources for development/ production grant and/or investment
funds – including state & national govts; transnational non-profit organizations;
corporate & high net-worth individuals & Crowd Funding.
c. Co - Production: Build alliances with international financing & production agencies
forco-production&buildco-productionopportunitiesbetweenSouthasianCountries.

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III. MARKETING & DISTRIBUTION
Through traditional and alternative models within the region and outside
a. Marketing Collective: Create branding and visibility for Southasian Children’s Films
by making a Southasian Children’s Film Marketing Collective that will represent
works from all countries of Southasia in prestigious international festivals & markets
b. Catalogue: Create a catalogue of all available children’s films from South Asia, while
categorizingthemaccordingtogenresandagesandlabelingsomeas‘recommended’
based on decided criteria and judgments of an independent committee of children’s
film & education experts.
c. Networking: Building relationships with old and new production houses and
distribution agencies for theatrical, television, satellite, internet and other platforms
for distribution across South Asia.
d. School Distribution: Creating an alternative & commercially sustainable distribution
network within schools through facilitated DVD screenings of Southasian children’s films.
IV. CREATING A CULTURAL APPETITE FOR GOOD CHILDREN’s CONTENT
Through Film Education, Film Festivals & use of relevant technology
a. Engaging with Film Institutes: Working with film institutes in the region and
mentoring film-making students to make child centred films as their thesis/ diploma
films; persuading film making institutes to develop & teach modules and sessions
dedicated to children’s cinema.
b. Film Education in Curriculum: Include visual & media literacy in school curricula;
develop cinema based modules for both students & teachers; Training teachers to
develop and ‘teach’ film based curriculum.
c. Children’s Film Festivals: Pursue the creation of Children’s Film Sections/ packages
at existing festivals; Establish Touring Southasian children’s film festivals & packages
along with visits of children from each Southasian county to other countries in the
region; Exchange of festival expertise.
d. Establishing Children’s Film Clubs within schools & outside.
e. Film making Workshops for children: Support, facilitate and promote film
appreciation, film-making, script-writing, animation workshops for children.
f. Development and popularizing new interactive technology: software and
applications to engage children with films and film-making.
g. Public Campaign through Media: Use social & other media to create awareness and
value for locally produced high quality children’s cinema.
V. IMPACTING POLICY & PRACTICE
Through engaging with Govt, Film Industry, Civil Society, Schools and the public
a. ResearchPolicyPaperforanalysisofdomesticandregionalpoliciesonproduction,
distribution and exhibition of films with an emphasis on independent and
children’s films: This includes collecting and collating information in collaboration
with resource persons in each country and in case of India, each state; collecting
and collating information on present status of industry policies with a historical
view; comparative study between countries within the region and examples from
other regions like Europe, Australia, Middle East, South East Asia etc.
b. Public Campaign: Building consensus and support; writing articles/ organising
seminars and events using print/ electronic/ internet and other media outlets
to create empathy & visibility for children’s films and policy reforms amongst lay
audiences, schools, industry, donors, govts.
c. Making Alliances: Horizontally with domestic, regional and transnational networks,
associations and institutions working in same and overlapping sectors to establish
pressure groups; Vertically with key people and groups with influence at the decision
making level.
d. Advocacy: Identify key areas of reform, create strategic pressure groups to hold
meetings, present position papers & list of recommendations and guidelines to
concerned agencies: Government Bureaucrats, Politicians, Corporate and Film
Industry Leaders, Donors etc.

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ProfessionalsandOrganisationsthatendorsedtheformationofthenewregionalnetwork
1. AFGHANISTAN
• Latif Ahmadi - Academy Cinema Afghanistan
2. BANGLADESH
• Catherine Masud - Tareque Masud Memorial Trust, Bangladesh International
Children’s Film Festival
3. INDIA
• Priyadarshan,BinaPaulVenugopal,JoshyMathew-InternationalFilmFestivalofKerala
• Virender Kundu - Films Division (Ministry of Information and Broadcasting)
• K. Hariharan - L.V. Prasad Film & Television Academy
• Chandita Mukherjee- Comet Media Foundation
• M. K. Raina - Safdar Hashmi Memorial Trust, South Asia Foundation
• Nila Madhab Panda - Eleeanora Images
• Monica Wahi (Convener) - Southasian Children’s Cinema Forum
4. NEPAL
• Kanak Mani Dixit - The Southasia Trust, Film Southasia
5. PAKISTAN
• Usmaan & Samina Peerzada - Rafi Peer Theatre Workshop
• Shoaib Iqbal - Lahore International Children’s Film Festival, The Little Art
6. SRI LANKA
• Dr. Somaratne Dissanayake - Film Makers Guild of Sri Lanka
7. AUSTRALIA
• Anne-Demy Geroe - Asia Pacific Screen Awards, Network for the Promotion
of Asian Cinema
8. UNITED KINGDOM
• Susan Benn - Performing Arts Labs
• Jenny Thompson - Small World Cinema
THE SOUTHASIAN COMMITMENT PARTNERS AND PARTICIPANTS
AFGHANISTAN
Latif Ahmadi
Latif Ahmadi has 35 years of experience as a script writer and director. He has made 30
feature films, short fiction films documentary films and advertisements.
For 25 years, he has held the position of President of Afghan film, a Government
institution for producing films. He also served briefly as the Cultural Attache to
Tajikistan from 1992-94.
Currently he holds the position of General Director of the newly instituted Academy
Cinema Afghanistan, a training school for film and media in Kabul.
Siddiq Barmak
Siddiq Barmak is a director and producer from Panjshir, Afghanistan. He received
an M.A degree in cinema direction from the Moscow Film Institute in 1987. His film
‘Osama’ that follows a pre-teen girl who disguises herself as a boy to support her family
during the Taliban regime, won many prestigious awards including The Golden Globe
for Best Foreign Language Film; Golden Camera (Special Mention) and Cannes Junior
Award; PSB Audience and New Currents Award at Busan Film Festival and UNESCO’s
‘Fellini Silver Medal’.
His 2008 film ‘Opium War’ was also very warmly received in Afghanistan and around the
world. Barmak is also director of the Afghan Children Education Movement (ACEM),
an association that promotes literacy, culture and the arts, which was co-founded by
Iranian Auteur Mohsen Makhmalbaf. The school trains actors and directors for newly
emerging Afghan cinema, and lots of children have made their first short films at this
school.
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Australia
Anne Démy-Geroe
Anne Démy-Geroe is Co-Director of the Iranian Film Festival Australian and was
the inaugural Artistic Director and thereafter the Executive Director of the Brisbane
International Film Festival till 2009. Anne is a curator and teaches Asia Pacific cinema
at Griffith Film School. She is a founding Nominations Council member of the Asia
Pacific Screen Awards and has been a panellist on the APSA Children’s Film Fund for
the last two years.
Her film interests include Asian cinema, indigenous cinema and children’s cinema.
Anne is a NETPAC board member. Her commitment to Asian cinema led to a strength
in the area at the Brisbane International Film Festival and the establishment of the
sole Australian NETPAC jury and a FIPRESCI jury for Asia-Pacific cinema. She was
instrumental in the establishment of CineSparks, the Festival for Young People, in
Brisbane, which she directed for six years and which had a strong emphasis on Asian
cinema and was a CIFEJ member.
Anne has worked on Queensland regional film festivals, silent film festivals and short
film festivals for twenty years and served on several International and NETPAC juries.
In 2003, Anne was awarded an Australian Centenary Medal for services to the film industry.
BANGLADESH
Catherine Masud
Catherine Masud is an American-born filmmaker, residing in Bangladesh since 1995.
Together with her husband & filmmaking partner Tareque Masud, she has made
numerous shorts, documentaries and features, many of which have been nationally/
internationally awarded and shown around the world. Since Tareque’s untimely death
in August 2011, Catherine has devoted herself to the archiving and preservation of his
work, and the completion of their unfinished oeuvre.
A graduate of Brown University, she also studied fine arts at the Art Institute of Chicago,
and film production at Parsons School of Design in New York. Among many other films,
she produced and co-wrote the acclaimed feature “Matir Moina” (The Clay Bird), directed
by Tareque, which won the International Critics’ Prize at Cannes. Thematically many of
their films address the relationship between religious and cultural identity in the Southasian
context. She edits all of her films and has taught numerous courses and workshops on
various aspects of cinema at universities and training institutes. More recently she has
served as an adviser to the Bangladesh National Film Archives and the National Film and
Television Institute (under development). Her writing and advocacy work on Bangladesh
film policy led to a series of major reforms aimed at reviving the declining film industry.
Shahidul Alam
Shahidul Alam is a Bangladeshi photographer, curator, activist, writer, teacher with a special
interest in education and New Media. His over two decades commitment to address
social injustice through the use of visual media gave birth to one of the most significant
movements in contemporary photography, transforming his country, Bangladesh into a
centre of excellence in contemporary photography. He obtained a PhD in chemistry before
taking up photography, concentrating on issues of social justice.
Honorary fellow of the Royal Photographic Society and visiting professor at Sunderland
University, Alam has chaired the World Press Photo jury. Alam is also a new media pioneer
andintroducedemailtoBangladesh.Hisbook“MyJourneyasaWitness”hasbeendescribed
as “the most important book ever written by a photographer” by John Morris the legendary
picture editor of Life Magazine. In 1989 he set up the award winning multimedia company
DrikPLC,followedbythelaunchofthePathshalaSouthasian MediaInstitute-aphotography
and multimedia training institute in Bangladesh whose graduate photographers have
become internationally renowned. In addition he founded the DrikNews Photo agency;
Banglarights, the Bangladesh Human Rights portal, DrikICT; ChobiMela International
Festival of Photography and the Majority World Photo Agency.

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Bhutan
Tsering Choden
Tsering Choden is an Executive Producer with the Bhutan Broadcasting Service
Corporation, Bhutan’s national television service and radio station. She is also a Board
member of the Lhoman Society, founded by Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche.
Lhoman Society promotes sustainable development in the Kingdom of Bhutan and
the surrounding subtropical regions of Assam and Burma, through grassroots, holistic
education and training initiatives. Samdrup Jongkhar Initiative (SJI), a program under
Lhoman Society is running a Youth and Media project, establishing media clubs in
select schools with the aim of providing young people with basic media production
skills and creating a system for country-wide transmission of the produced content.
This media engagement stems directly from the interest of the organisation’s founder,
Khyentse Norbu Rinpoche, who besides being a Lama is also a filmmaker, and writer.
He assisted Bernardo Bertolucci on Little Budha, after which he studied filmmaking
and directed three major films The Cup (1999), Travellers and Magicians (2003) and
Vara: A Blessing (2013).
Tsering works actively in Lhoman Society in close coordination with Rinpoche to
promote equitable economic development, environmental conservation, cultural
promotion, authentic education, and good governance in Bhutan.
INDIA
Amole Gupte
Amole Gupte is an Indian screenwriter, actor, and director. He directed Stanley Ka Dabba,
probably the only theatrically successful Indian children’s film without a star. He also
worked on Taare Zameen Par (Like Stars on Earth) as creative director and screenwriter.
In2013,hebecametheChairpersonofChildren’sFilmSocietyIndia(CFSI),anautonomous
body under the Ministry of Information & Broadcasting, Government of India that
produces, distributes and exhibits children’s films. With a catalogue of over 250 films in 15
different languages, CFSI is the prime producer of children’s films in South Asia.
CFSI shows its films annually to over four million children through regional film festivals
and reaches millions of other audiences through television networks. Every two years
it conducts the world renowned International Children’s Film Festival India (ICFFI) also
popularly known as the Golden Elephant, to enable children in India to view the best of
international cinema.
In the last few years CFSI has also supported various initiatives that encourage the
creation and appreciation of children’s films. Successful projects they have supported
include Filmi Chashma Program as well as The Green Screen Script Lab (2012).
Onir
Anirban Dhar (Onir) was born in Samchi, a small town in Bhutan. He graduated as a
student of Comparative Literature from Jadavpur University, having learned German,
Russian , Bengali, and Tamil, and studied Film in Chitrabani, Kolkatta winning a
Scholarship for an advanced editing course with SFB/TTC Berlin. In 1999, as film
editor, song designer, and song director of the film “Daman” he met Sanjay Suri who
encouraged him to develop his first script ‘My brother Nikhil’ that Yash Raj Films finally
released in 2005 - the first main stream Indian film about homosexuality. A second
feature ‘Bas Ek Pal’, was released in 2006. In 2009 Anticlock Films developed a unique
citizen funded film project called I AM with four stories focusing on issues that had
never been addressed by mainstream Hindi cinema. I AM is probably the first and
largest film funded through through social network crowd Sourcing in India. Over 400
people from 47 cities across the world came together to make this film which received
wide critical acclaim and awards including Best Hindi Feature film and Best Lyrics. Onir’s
current projects include ‘Chauranga’, directed by Bikas Mishra set in rural India dealing
with cast politics and ‘Veda’, an adaptation of Hamlet, followed by ‘Shab’ the story of a
male prostitute set in Delhi.

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Prof. Arun Gupta
Prof. Arun Gupta is HOD and Senior Faculty in the Dept. of Film & Video at the National
InstituteofDesign(NID),Ahmedabad,India.HehastaughtScriptwriting,DirectionandFilm
Appreciation at NID for 17 years. He organized the much-acclaimed Alpavirama Southasian
Short and Documentary Film Festival in 2011, and is currently working on its next edition,
to be held in September, 2014. He is also finishing writing a book on Bollywood Villains.
In 2007 he was in Doha, Qatar, as a member of the International Jury at the Al Jazeera
International Documentary Film Festival. In September this year he was Chairperson of the
International Jury at the Beskop Tshechu 2013: Bhutan Film Festival, in Thimphu, Bhutan.
He held a Masterclass and presented a curated package from Alpavirama at Film South
Asia Documentary Film Festival, in Kathmandu, Nepal, this October. Before joining NID,
Prof. Gupta worked in the Indian television industry for ten years, for TV channels like Zee
TV and Home TV. He has a B.A. in English Literature from the University of Delhi and a PG
Diploma in Cinema (Direction) from the Film & Television Institute of India, Pune.
Ashraf Patel
Ashraf Patel is the Convener of Commutiny- The Youth Collective (CYC), an organisation
thatusesthetwintoolsofmediaandeducationtopromoteparticipation,developmentand
leadership among young people. CYC is incubating Southasian Children’s Cinema Forum.
Ashraf is also the co-founder of Pravah and headed the organization for the first nine
years before stepping down in 2002. She is currently responsible for the design and
implementation of organization development within Pravah’s partner organizations and
establishing Pravah Learning Voyages as a premier institution for building the capacity of
the development sector in the area of youth development.
Ashraf is a post graduate in Human Resources from XLRI, an Ashoka Fellow and has also
been a working group member of several panels appointed by the Ministry of Human
ResourceDevelopmentandMinistryofYouthAffairsandSportstomakerecommendations
for planning processes.
Batul Mukhtiar
Batul Mukhtiar is a filmmaker, an alumnus of the Film & Television Institute of India, Pune.
She lives in Mumbai. She writes her own scripts. Apart from several documentary shorts,
she has directed a documentary feature 150 SECONDS AGO which travelled to many
prestigious festivals across the world. In 2007, she directed a children’s feature film, ‘LILKEE’
for the Children’s Film Society, India. She has recently completed another children’s feature
for CFSI, ‘KAPHAL-Wild Berries’ in September 2013. The film has been screened at the
MAMI festival in Mumbai, and the ICFFI, Hyderabad where it won the Golden Elephant for
Best Director this year. She writes shorts stories, and blogs regularly on life and the movies.
Bina Paul
BinaPaulgraduatedfromtheFilm&TelevisionInstituteofIndiain1983withaspecialization
in editing. Since then she has edited more than 50 features and documentaries. She
was Senior Editor at Centre for Development of Imaging Technology (CDIT) which is
involved in the making of Developmental Documentaries. Bina is also Course Director
for the Post Graduate Diploma program in Development Communication and Science
Communication conducted by CDIT.
For the last ten years, Bina has been the Artistic Director of the International Film Festival
of Kerala (IFFK) which involves both programming and organizational skills. She has also
participated as Jury member at various film festivals around the world. She is a recipient
of two National Awards and numerous State Awards for editing.
Chandita Mukherjee
Chandita Mukherjee is a documentary film maker, associated with Comet Media
Foundation a Mumbai-based organisation that works in the area of educational media.
She is associated with children’s films in a project called Filmi Chashma. Chandita is a
close observer of material culture and cultural change in South Asia. She hopes to make
history accessible to children by working on contemporary issues and to sensitise children
to the possibilities for change in the present.
Joshy Mathew
JoshyMathewstartedhiscareerbyassistingrenowneddirectorandwriterP.Padmarajan.
His first independent directorial feature “Nakshathrakoodaram” bagged the ‘Film Critics
award’ for the best Children’s Feature Film. This was followed by “Oru Kadankatha Pole”
“Rajadhani” and “Man of the Match”. “Patham Nilayile Theevandi” won the FIPRESCI
International Jury Award and Kerala State Film Award for best sound mixing and 3 awards
from Kerala Film Critics Association. His most recent children’s film “Black Forest” was
the Opening Film at Moscow International Film Festival and won the National Award
for Best Film on Environment Conservation. It also received Kerala Film Critics Award
for Best Environmental and Best Children’s Film.
Joshy Mathew was a board member of the Kerala State Film Development Corporation,
a jury member of Television Award Committee of Chalachithra Academy and jury
member of Kerela State Sangeetha Natak Academy Drama Festival. Currently he holds
the prestigious positions of Vice Chairman, K. R. Narayanan National Institute of Visual
Science & Arts (Film Institute); Executive Committee Member, Kerala State Chalachithra
Academy and Executive Director, Navyug Children’s Theatre & Movie Village.

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K Hariharan
K Hariharan is an award winning film-maker and alumnus of Film & TV Institute of
India. He has made 7 features films including Ghashiram Kotwal, which received world
wide acclaim, Ezhavathu Manithan, which got the National Award and the Afro-Asian
Solidarity Award at the Moscow International Film Festival; Current which got the Best
Critics Award. He has also made many documentaries and educational films.
Hariharan has always been excited about Children’s Cinema. He has directed three
films for Children’s Film Society of India; Wanted Thangaraj, Crocodile Boy, Dubhashi.
He is also the Director of the prestigious LV Prasad Film & TV Academy where
students receive training in Filmmaking and Television production with a holistic vision
of Cinema and as an extension of the study of Liberal Arts.
M K Raina
M K Raina is an actor, director and cultural activist. A graduate of National School
of Drama he has been working in theatre, cinema and television for the last 35 years.
Having taught direction in several Southasian countries he has also had the opportunity
to direct plays written by their writers in their native languages. He has worked with
with some of the most celebrated film makers in India like Mrinal Sen, Budhadeb
Dasgupta, Mani Kaul, Kumar Shahani to name a few. For years he has also been making
Documentaries for various institutions dealing with heritage themes.
Over the last decade and a half he has worked extensively in the state of Jammu and
Kashmir, focusing on empowering the youth and children by associating them with
their rich traditions and cultural heritage. For several years he has been working closely
with the Bhand community. The key aspect of all his theatrical work is to bridge the gap
between tradition and contemporary sensibility. He has conducted theatre workshops
with under privileged in various parts of south Asia.
He is a recipient of various prestigious awards like Sanskriti Award, B V Karanth award
a life time achievement award and The Sangeet Natak Award.
Mahamaya Navlakha
MahamayaNavlakha,ProgramsManageratSACCF,isasocialdevelopmentprofessional
with nine years experience working with children and young people and six years
experience in creative content writing.
Besides working with SACCF, she is currently involved in various projects which include
leading a social media campaign against Gender Based Violence and contributing
essays to a ‘Youth Anthology’ with Commutiny - The Youth Collective (CYC).
Prior to this she worked at Going To School (GTS), a non profit organisation that
creates inspiring films, books and radio to change young people’s lives. She developed
and produced short films and books for the multi-media series ‘Be! an Entrepreneur’.
Be! films aired on national television networks including Doordarshan and Star TV and
Be! books were included in Govt. school curriculum in the state of Bihar.
With a Masters in Social Development from the University of Sussex (UK) she began
her career working for an international funding organisation called ChildFund India
that works with children and youth on issues of health, education, skills and livelihood.
She also spent six months in Gujarat working for rehabilitation of the riot victims, post
the 2002 communal carnage.
Michael Joseph
Michael Joseph has a Postgraduate Diploma in Cinema, specializing in Film Direction,
from the Film & Television Institute of India, Pune. He has recently returned to FTII
to work as Consultant (Academics). He is in the process of re-visioning the academic
curriculum of both the Film and Television Wings.
He also consults with the Quality Education and Skills Training (QUEST) Alliance,
Bangalore who work with disadvantaged youth within the context of improving
education quality through the use of effective educational technology. As Lead-Visual
Narratives he designs and develops media tools which can be embedded into these
learning environments.
Previously he worked at the Srishti School Of Art, Design and Technology, Bangalore as
the Head of the Department of Independent Media. Over the years the department has
produced some inventive and imaginative student works in the fiction, documentary and
experimental genres.
Early in his career, he coordinated the Video Unit at the Scheffelin Leprosy Research
and Training, Karigiri, Tamil Nadu where he worked extensively in the field of education
films. It was here that he began his media experiments using small format video in a
participatory approach with health workers and school children. He has also directed
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Monica Wahi
Monica Wahi, Director SACCF, is a content developer, creative producer and curator
of children’s films. She has been associated with many award winning productions
like Gattu, Goopi Gawaiyya Bagha Bajaiyya, Kaphal and UNICEF supported Girl Stars
series. She convened the First SACCF Round Table in 2012 and has since shouldered
the responsibility of activating the regional network and executing its activities.
Monica is currently consulting with Lennep Media, an Indian initiative of a Dutch
production company. Previously she was the Creative Head of Children’s Film Society
India, a govt. body that produces & distributes children’s films. She was the Curator
of the 18th International Children’s film festival India (ICFFI) and the Creative Head
of the 17th ICFFI - attended by 175,000 children. Till 2009, she was Creative Director
at Going to School, a non-profit media trust that creates inspirational films, books
and radio series for young people focusing upon education, empowerment and equal
opportunities for all.
Monica started her career as assistant to Anand Patwardhan, on the award winning
documentary War and Peace and has since been actively involved with the Indo-
Pak peace movement. She is also the founder of Himmat, a woman’s collective in
Ahmedabad formed by those widowed in the Gujarat carnage of 2002.
Nila Madhab Panda
Nila Madhab Panda is a director and producer best known for his children’s films ‘I
am Kalam’ and ‘Jalpari’ – both of which have received wide acclaim, numerous global
awards and international distribution. He has produced and directed over 70 shorts,
documentaries, television drama and films. In 1998, he founded Eleeanora Images, a
multimedia production house producing diverse and cutting edge films from India.
He is also the Founder and Executive Director of the India Screenwriting Lab, which
focuses on creating quality scripts for low budget but high quality independent films.
He is also the Indian Creative Associate for the UK Arts Council funded ‘Moti Roti 360
Degrees’. Apart from his films and numerous awards, he has also received a UK Film
Fellowship and United Nations Media Fellowship, and has been awarded by the British
Council’s Creative Futures Programme in 2007.
Prashant Varma
Prashant Varma is the Founding Director of Deer Park Institute, a centre for study of
Indian Philosophy, Arts and Culture in Kangra Valley, Himalayas. Prashant experience
ranges from studies in Politics, Philosophy, and Cinema along with experience with
Engaged Buddhist communities (INEB, Thailand) in South East Asia. Since 2006, he
has been working with Deer Park Institute, under the guidance of Dzongsar Khyentse
Rinpoche, Buddhist Teacher and Film Maker.
The Deer Park Institute is committed to re-create the spirit of Nalanda, a great
university of ancient India in which all traditions of Buddhism were studied and
practiced, alongside other schools of classical Indian philosophy, arts and sciences. The
institute organises workshops and conferences on environmental issues, preserving
local culture and sustainable livelihood.
Deer Park Institute is also noted for its Zero Waste Project and the Himalayan
Film School which aspires to train young people from the valley in filmmaking and
create a platform for indigenous films that spring from the Himalayan culture and its
communities.
Rustam Vania
Rustam Vania is Dean of Projects at Srishti School of Art, Design and Technology. He
is interested in communication design with emphasis on environmental and social
contexts. As a graphic designer, illustrator and cartoonist, his focus is in the interface
between educational needs and creative communication solutions. He coordinates
and conceptualises interdisciplinary courses where the primary pedagogical method is
place-based learning (space, place and people) through real life contexts and/or projects.
Subjects range from heritage conservation to habitat studies to design in education
and ecological design. He has over a decades experience in developing popular creative
communication strategies for science, environment and development education.
He was the founder editor and designer of Gobar Times, a monthly magazine supplement
to Down To Earth, the science and environment fortnightly published by the Centre for
Science and Environment (CSE).

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Santosh Sivan
Santosh Sivan began his career as a cinematographer and has become the most sought
after in his field. Completing 45 features and 41 documentaries, he was awarded the
National Award for best Cinematographer for Perumthachan, Kaalapani, Mohiniyattam,
Iruvar, Dil Se. He was recently the first Asia- Pacific member of the American Society of
Cinematographers. He is an alumnus of the Film and Television Institute of India and has
served on its governing board.
As a director he won his first National Award in 1988 for the film The Story of Tiblu. He
has since directed many features and shorts, both fiction and documentary in Hindi, Tamil,
Malayalam,KannadaandEnglish,includingthemuchacclaimedandawardedTheTerrorist.
Subsequent directorial ventures Asoka, Navarasa, Anandabhadram, Before The Rains, and
Urumi also received rave reviews and many awards nationally and internationally.
As a director he has from the beginning shown deep commitment and interest in
children’s films. All the children’s films he has directed, from Halo to Malli to Tahaan,
have all received national and international acclaim. His short film Prarambha created for
the Bill and Melinda Gates AIDS Foundation won the National Awards for Best Producer
and Best Director in the Educational and Motivational Film category.
Sunny Joseph
Sunny Joseph is an acclaimed cinematographer with 30 years experience who has
worked in eleven Indian languages, filming more than 50 feature films and numerous
short films and documentaries. He has directed 10 short films and two television serials
totaling 100 episodes. Sunny Joseph has won many awards for cinematography and
direction, is a respected teacher across India and a jury member of Kerala State Film
Awards and National Film Awards.
He is also an ex-member of boards of Kerala State Film Development Corporation and
Kerala Chalachitra Academy. Currently he is a Creative Consultant at LV Prasad Film
& TV Academy, Chennai. His published papers include ‘Cinema is Love 24 Times per
Second’, ‘The Theme of Darkness in Cinematography’, and ‘Eye and the Infinite Image’.
He is the President of Cinematographer’s Union of Malayalam Cinema (CUMAC) and
Managing Trustee of Indian Society of Cinematographers (ISC).
As a cinematographer his major works include Piravi [dir. Shaji N Karun], Vasthuhara
[dir. G Aravindan], Nizalkuthu [dir. Adoor Gopalakrishnan], Sanabi [dir. Aribam Shyam
Sharma], Janala [dir. Buddhadeb Dasgupta], Train to Pakistan [dir. Pamela Rooks],
Kahini [dir. Malaya Bhattacharya], Mangamma[dir. TV Chandran], Godesses [dir. Leena
Manimekalai], Oru Cheru Punchiri [dir. MT Vasudevan Nair], Daya [dir. Venu].
Nepal
Kanak Mani Dixit
Kanak Mani Dixit is publisher of the Himal Khabarpatrika fortnightly and editor of Himal
Southasian. He attended college in Kathmandu, law in Delhi, and masters degree in
New York. He taught law briefly at Tribhuvan University, and worked at the United
Nations Secretariat in New York between 1982 and 1990, returning to Kathmandu,
to pioneer Southasian journalism immersing himself in Nepali-language media. Since
1997, Dixit has chaired the Film South Asia Festival of documentaries.
As a children’s author, his most popular work is the much-translated Adventures of
a Nepali Frog. Dixit is also translator of the statesman Bisweshwor Prasad Koirala’s
Atmabrittanta: Late Life Recollections.
Over the course of the late 1990s and early 2000s, Dixit became involved in civil rights
movements. He is author of Dekheko Muluk (The Country Witnessed), 2009, which
addresses political violence and social upheavals of the previous 15 years. His latest
book is Peace Politics of Nepal: An Opinion from Within, 2011. He has been involved in
a campaign to roll back violence and work to ensure the promulgation of a democratic
constitution. He also promotes architectural and environmental preservation. After a
trekking accident in 2001, he helped found the Spinal Injury Rehabilitation Centre.
Mallika Aryal
Mallika Aryal is a print, multimedia and video journalist. She is a graduate of New York
University, where she trained as a documentary filmmaker. Aryal started her career as
a print journalist and has written for Nepali and international publications.
Aryal also teaches non-fiction storytelling to undergraduate film students. She is
also the former director of Film Southasia (FSA) the biennial festival of Southasian
documentaries that aims to popularise documentary films so that they entertain,
inform and change lives.
Mallika is based in Kathmandu where she lives with her dog Makai.

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PAKISTAN
Ammar Aziz
Ammar Aziz is an independent documentary filmmaker and activist, based in Lahore.
Featured in the Christian Science Monitor’s ‘30 under 30’ people from all over the world
for his art and activism, he was the only Pakistani filmmaker to be selected for the Talent
Campus of the Berlin International Film Festival in 2012. He has worked widely on labour-
issues and his films have been shown at various international film and human-rights events
including the Solidar Silver Rose Award in Brussels and ABF’s 100 years Jubilee in Stockholm
along with several labour conferences in Europe and Asia. In 2012, he represented Pakistan
in a series of film-related events in various American states for his documentary ‘Daughters
of a Lesser God’, an official selection at four international film festivals.
Ammar is the founding director of SAMAAJ [Social Awareness Media and Art Junction], a
non-government, non-profit, organization committed to using media for creating rights
awareness among the marginalized communities of the conflict-ridden areas in Pakistan.
He also teaches film theory with an emphasis on the influence of Marxism on world cinema
and history of the early Soviet cinema at the National College of Arts, Lahore.
Noman Amjad Qureshi
Noman Amjad Qureshi is the Festival Coordinator of Lahore International Children’s
Film Festival.
A Clinical Psychologist by profession, he is also the Creative Arts Therapist at The Little
Art organization. Qureshi, aims to bring positive change in the lives of in-school and
out of school children and young people through the integration of arts and psychology
and has and has introduced drama therapy extensively to facilitate psycho-social well-
being of marginalized children in Pakistan.
His work with children spans from Child Protection Unit at Children’s Hospital Lahore,
to several other community arts organizations and projects. He has worked with
FountainHousefocusingonpsychologicalinterventionmethodsandpsychotherapeutic
treatment in the rehabilitation of mentally disturbed individuals. He has also served in
the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Services Hospital Lahore.
Shoaib Iqbal
Shoaib Iqbal has 13 years of experience as a teacher, theater director, workshop trainer,
festival director, youth performance facilitator and inter-disciplinary artist. He has
developed numerous Arts Education integration workshops which are unique in Pakistan.
He is the creator and director of Lahore International Children’s Film Festival, the
first and largest children’s film festival in Pakistan. Since its inception in 2008, the
Festival has reached approximately 100,000 children and has expanded to 6 more
cities. Shoaib has received Kennedy Center Fellowship at Devos Institute of Arts
Management as well as Endeavour Executive Award from Australian government and
is a Commonwealth Fellow. He has worked as consultant on projects with national and
international organizations including UNICEF.
Usmaan and Samina Peerzada
Usmaan and Samina Peerzada are renowned Pakistani theatre, television and film
actors-directors-producers. Both have received wide acclaim and numerous awards for
their artistic work and initiatives.
Usmaan is also the Chairperson of Rafi Peer Theatre Workshop (RPTW). RPTW is a
non-governmental, non-profit organization founded by the Peerzada family in 1974. It
has grown since then to include a host of other art forms including film and television,
and has become Pakistan’s largest arts & culture organization. RPTW hosts four major
festivals: World Performing Arts Festival (film, music, puppetry, dance and theatre)
with representation from 76 countries; International Youth Performing Arts Festival;
National Folk Puppet Festival; and International Mystic Music Sufi Festival which is
now touring the world. RPTW has also created Art Village to promote indigenous arts
and crafts and Pakistan’s first Museum of Puppetry which attracts 200,000 children
annually. With a special focus on children, RPTW has produced 265 plays; numerous
curricula for teacher training and two T.V. productions: Fun Time & Sim Sim Hamara
(Sesame Street).
Usmaan has recently been appointed the Honorary Consul General of Romania in
Lahore in lieu of his contribution to the cultural and economic ties between Romania
and Pakistan.

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Sri Lanka
Dhammika Dissanayaka
Dhammika Dissanayaka is a film historian, researcher and senior lecturer in the
Department of Applied Music and Mass Communication at the University of Visual
& Performing Arts, Sri Lanka and specializes in mass communication and audio visual
media studies.
Dhammika has received multiple degrees from universities in Sri Lanka including one
in Writership and Communication, one in Mass Communication, another in Philosophy
and yet another in Hindi Language from Bhopal University India. He is widely published
on issues related to Print Media, Mass Media, Sociology and Archaeology.
Dhammika trained in Cinematography, Editing, Sound Recording and Laboratory
works at the Government Film Unit Sri Lanka and the Film and Television Institute
of India. His credits include ‘Tomorrow Belongs to Me’ (1980), ‘Nindagama’ (1986),
‘Sandagiri Pawwa’ (1993), ‘Sancranthi Samaya’ (1996) ‘Wil Bendi Danawwa’ (1997) ‘Wehi
Mandarama’ (2005) and ‘Diriya Abiman’ (2013). Today he has extended his activities in
broadcasting, presenting research programs like Bollywood Cinema & Indian Cinema.
Dr. Somaratne Dissanayake
Dr. Somaratne Dissanayake studied science in school, obtaining a first degree from
London University in Medical Radiography. He migrated to Australia and while
practicing in the medical field, did post-graduate studies in performing arts, obtaining
an M.A.degree (performance directing) from Sydney University and a PhD in cinema
from the University of Arts, Colombo.
He gave up permanent residency and citizenship in Australia, with a highly lucrative
medical profession, to make films in Sri Lanka. All his films have won many international
awards and achieve high commercial success. He breaks his own box office records
with each new film. He holds the record of the most popular film, Suriya Arana, in the
history of Sri Lankan cinema and the “Peoples Award” as the best artist of the country
for the last four consecutive years. He has written and directed Saroja (8 international
awards),PunchiSuranganavi(4internationalawards),SuriyaArana(3internationalawards),
Samanala Thatu (6 international awards); Siri Raja Siri (7 international awards), Bindu (2
international awards) and produced Sankara (5 international awards) and Kusa Paba.
Dr. Somaratne Dissanayake is the President of the Film Makers Guild of Sri Lanka
(FMG), representing all the film producers and film directors of the country.
The Netherlands
Sannette Naeye
Sannette Naeye is the director of the Cinekid Foundation and the Cinekid Festival.
Director of Cinekid Foundation and the Cinekid Festival. The festival is seen by the
industry as the largest of its kind in the world, presenting the best and latest Film,
TV and New Media productions for young audiences and an innovative participatory
programme. It hosts a variety of seminars, expert meetings, coproduction markets and
a programme market for professionals.
Previously she has worked for two Dutch television companies: IKON (head Film
department) and VARA (Editor-in-chief Art and Cultural programming). She was
member of several public and private Foundations, boards and international juries, a
script-doctor and renowned speaker.
Sannette was a visiting expert at the Green Screen Lab in Orissa in 2012, taking part
in discussions about the future development of collaborations between European co-
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United Kingdom
Jenny Thompson
Jenny Thompson is the Founder Director of Small World Cinema. She has worked for
morethan15yearsinthefieldofmediaforchildrenandyoungpeopleataninternationallevel.
From 2000-2010 she was Lab Director for Performing Arts Labs (PAL) of PYGMALION
PLUS, the MEDIA funded European script development programme for Family Film,
TV and Interactive Media, and worked with PAL and Nila Madhab Panda and Eleeanora
Images on the development of the Indian Children’s Film Labs in 2009 and 2012.
She was a consultant to the UK’s Filmclub, advising on world cinema for children.
She also initiated the first workshops in Pakistan on writing and producing TV drama
for children (in association with PTV) and worked with programme-makers and
broadcasters developing production initiatives for children in Brazil, Ghana and Kenya,
as well as with UNICEF’s broadcast department.
Kathy Loizou
Kathy Loizou is Director and co-founder of The Children’s Media Conference, with
over 900 delegates attending the annual conference in July in Sheffield, UK.
She is a Board Member of the European Children’s Film Association (ECFA), the
international organisation which represents professionals working in children’s media
and includes festival directors, educationalists, distributors, sales agents, cinema
directors, producers amongst its members.
KathybecameDirectoroftheSheffieldDoc/Festin1996andDirectorofShowcomotion
Young People’s Film Festival in 2002, where she advocated the rights of children to be
able to experience high quality media content. Showcomotion had a fully diverse
programme which included film screenings from around the world, Master Classes and
workshops for pre-school ages up to 20 year-olds. In 2009 she set up with colleagues
a not-for-profit company to organise The Children’s Media Conference. The CMC
supports people making content for children, to help build their businesses and inspire
their creativity, to produce the very best quality media for children. She is a Trustee of
SHIFT a charity training disadvantaged young people in media; a member of BAFTA
(British Academy of Film & Television Arts); and Treasurer of a boys’ football team.
Susan Benn
Susan Benn, International Advisor to SACCF, left a career in publishing high quality
children books in London and New York 25 years ago, to create Performing Arts Labs,
an experimental residential laboratory, based in England, for exceptionally talented
writers, musicians, artists and performers to make brave new work in theatre, film and opera.
Since 1987, under Susan’s direction, PAL’s annual residential Labs have attracted
exceptional talent working across disciplines, borders and cultures. Lab participants
push the limits of their creative practice at PAL Labs to win critical acclaim and
commercial success in international markets. In 1995-2000, a pioneering series of
annual European Multimedia Labs, funded by the European Commission, developed
original on-line and off-line products, many of which were for children. In 1996-
2001 PAL developed six annual Playwrights Labs for New Writing for Young People
resulting in 40 new plays. In 2000 Susan was awarded over £1m by the UK’s National
Endowment of Science Technology and the Arts (NESTA) to bring together scientists,
computer scientists, artist programmers, animators and science educators into the mix
of talents at PAL Labs. With European partners in that same year, PAL began a decade
of Pygmalion Labs developing high quality cross platform projects in Children’s Film,
TV and Interactive Media.
PAL’s first Screenwriter Lab in India, led by Nila Madhab Panda in Matheran in 2009,
was followed by their Green Screen Lab for 19 screenwriters in Orissa in August 2012.
The idea for the Southasian Children’s Film Forum grew out of this 2012 Screenwriters
Lab experience.
Susan Benn has been to India many times over 30 years, as a professional photographer,
publisher and editor.

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SCHEDULE
The Second Round Table on Southasian Children’s Films
9th - 10th December 2013, Hotel Hycinth, Thiruvananthapuram
Day 1: 9th December, 2013
10:00 am to 11 am: Opening of the Second Round Table
Welcome by Chalachitra Academy and Overview of SACCF by Monica Wahi
11:15 am to 1:00 pm: Introductions of Participants
1: 30 pm to 3:00 pm: Session 1- Policy Intervention to promote Children’s Cinema
What role can the state play in boosting the children’s film industry? What are the
experience in EU countries and specifically Scandinavian countries? What is the nature of
State Intervention and has this increased or decreased in the last few decades? How has
state support impacted the children’s film industry in Europe? What are the relevant state
policies towards distribution, exhibition and production of films in Southasian countries?
How can children’s film movement ally with independent cinema movement?
3:15 pm to 4:45 pm: Session 2- Role of Film Institutes and Film training
What role does film training play in promoting children’s films? Is there a specific training
for children’s screen writing? What is the possibility of such training within institutes and
outside? What role can film institutes play in developing and producing children’s films
and in building audiences for children’s films? What are the various possibilities, of cross
border collaborations with film institutes/ departments across Southasia?
11:00 am to 11:15 am: Tea Break
1:00 pm to 1:30 pm: Lunch
3:00 pm to 3:15 pm: Tea Break
Day 2: 10th December, 2013
10:00 am to 11:30 am: Session 3: Exploring Collaborations with Existing Networks
What role have film networks played in promoting independent/ children’s films? How can
we collaborate with and mutually promote existing regional and children’s film networks
across the world? What are the existing resources we can utilize to build an audience for
children’s films within and outside the theatre circuit? What are the possibilities of creating
audience across Southasian borders for children’s films?
11:30 am to 11:45 am: Tea Break
3:15 pm to 3:30 pm : Tea Break
11:45 am to 1:15 pm: Session 4: Identifying key areas for Policy Intervention
Catherine Masud will lay out the framework based on the policy research she has collated
and will guide participants to break into groups according to interest and expertise:
- Training, Development and Production
- Distribution
- Screenings and Festivals
1:45 pm to 3:15 pm: Session 5: Envisioning Policy
Groups will make presentations of viable policies based on information shared on
existing Southasian, European and other examples and new ideas generated at the
round table. Each presentation will be followed by responses of other delegates.
3:30 pm to 5:00 pm: Session 6: Going Forward
Discussion about the framework of SACCF: What does it mean to be a partner? What
do partners contribute and what do partners gain from this membership/ partnership?
Conclusion with broad organisational commitments by participants
1:15 pm to 1:45 pm: Lunch Break
SCHEDULE
The Second Round Table on Southasian Children’s Films
9th - 10th December 2013, Hotel Hycinth, Thiruvananthapuram

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