Screening of ‘A Serious Wedding’ at SVA Film & Media Festival (AAA) 2024, Florida
Great news! Our film A Serious Wedding (@jcbravanva) has been selected to be screened at the Society for Visual Anthropology Film & Media Festival held as part of the American Anthropological Association (AAA) Annual Meeting 2024 in Tampa, Florida, USA November 20–23. https://svafilmandmediafestival.org/program-tampa
A Serious Wedding (जे सी बी रवनवा) – New Ethnofiction Film!
A radical love story between a young man and a tree. Can the community’s songs help him save his love from being cut down?
Blu-ray disks of ‘Kashi Labh’ at Swiss Anthropological Association (SAA)
Blu-ray disks of our film Kashi Labh have arrived at the Swiss Anthropological Association (SAA) in Neuchâtel, Switzerland!
Folklore 2.0 | Rural film screenings
It took us some years to realise that the we are not after sustainability of our film, but the sustainability of the folklore itself. This is a huge task and surely the conventional preservationist model does no good in that regard. We do not want to make films and put them in archives and museums, […]
Releasing our new ethnographic film, Janeu | Bhojpuri Initiation Rites & Folk Songs
Short Synopsis While rituals in India are majorly seen as men’s job, not many know that women hold an equally important role in the purification rituals – of expressing the emotions that develop during the ritual through songs. The film documents the folk songs sung during the initiation ritual (Janeu or Upanayana) in the Bhadwar […]
Janeu| Bhojpuri Initiation Rites & Folk Songs (Documentary Trailer)
Releasing the trailer for our next film “Upanayana Samskara | Bhojpuri Initiation Rites & Folk Songs”. The documentary film aesthetically documents the ritual and the associated folk songs that are sung by women in Bhadwar village of Bihar, India. Releases in April 2016. Upanayana is one of the traditional samskaras, or ‘purificatory rites’, that are […]
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