Films made by students of Auroville/bioregion
All screened on the 21st and 22nd from 10:00 to 11:45 at Cinema Paradiso
Aikiyam School
EARTH DAY 2012
2012, Workshop Film, Documentary, English with English subtitles, 8 min
Aikiyam school students look at the different ways we can reduce, re-use and recycle our waste.
Director, Script, Camera, Sound, Editing: Aikiyam School 7th Grade
Producer: AVFF-EOP, Tom Mo, Ezekiel
Crew: Ajeeth Kumar, Arun Prasath, Arun Kumar, Arunkumar, Lokeswaran, Kalaivanan, Manimaran, Meenakshisundharam, Parasuraman, Rithish, Sadhish Kumar, Siva, Vignesh, Kanimozhi, Priyanka, Saraswathi, Vaideki
Collaboration: OnePeople Productions
Contact: Aikiyam School, Auroville, TN 605101, India
THE HARD-WORKING FARMER
2013, Workshop Film, Animation, English, 2 min
A farmer whose hard work enriches not only himself.
Director, Script, Camera, Sound, Editing: Aikiyam School 7th Grade
Producer: AVFF-EOP, Tom Mo
Crew: Arasan, Veerapan, Nirmalraj, Yugavarman, Rajesh Kumar, Pachayappan
Contact: Aikiyam School, Auroville, TN 605101, India
THE MAGIC FRUIT BUSH
2013, Workshop Film, Animation, English, 2 min
Being able to read can be a matter of life and death…
Director, Script, Camera, Sound, Editing: Aikiyam School 7th Grade
Producer: AVFF-EOP, Tom Mo
Crew: Vinitha, Sivaranjani, Abirami, Kavishma
Contact: Aikiyam School, Auroville, TN 605101, India
Deepanam School
FREEDOM
2013, Workshop Film, Animation, English, 2 min
What happens when the school bus narrowly misses a cow during a school trip?
Director, Script, Camera, Sound, Editing: Deepanam School 5th Grade
Producer: AVFF-EOP, Tom Mo
Crew: Chandana, Hannah, Swathi, Julia, Sarah, Leela
Contact: Deepanam School, Auroville, TN 605101, India
GROUNDED
2013, Workshop Film, Animation, English, 3 min
Experiments in stop-motion
Director, Script, Camera, Sound, Editing: Deepanam School 5th Grade
Producer: AVFF-EOP, Tom Mo
Crew: Arun, Florian, Raul, Aron, Bouthan
Contact: Deepanam School, Auroville, TN 605101, India
MUMMY LOVE
2013, Workshop Film, Animation, English, 3 min
An explorer visiting Egypt leaves open the secret door of a pyramid.
Director, Script, Camera, Sound, Editing: Deepanam School 5th Grade
Producer: AVFF-EOP, Tom Mo
Crew: Leela, Satyamayi, Arun
Contact: Deepanam School, Auroville, TN 605101, India
Future School
ASPIRATION
2013, Workshop Film, Fiction, Tamil with English subtitles, 4 min
A young girl in the village wants to go to school and study, but faces a lot of hurdles.
She is helped by one of her brothers to achieve her dream.
Director: Londen; Script, Editing: Thupten Penpa
Producer: AVFF-EOP, Sasi
Camera: Ayanar; Sound: Pavithra Sowmya
Crew: Sasi, Aravind, Dinegar
Cast: Anu, Dinegar, Aravind, Aisvarja
Contact: Londen (Future School), Auroville, TN 605101, India
JOB INTERVIEW
2013, Workshop Film, Fiction, English, 4 min
A guy goes for a job interview which turns into a comedy.
Director, Script, Editing: Ayanar
Producer: AVFF-EOP, Sasi
Camera: Pavithra Sowmya; Sound: Thupten Penpa
Crew: Sasi, Dinegar
Cast: Dinegar, Nivetha, Sasi, Thupten
Contact: Ayanar (Future School), Auroville, TN 605101, India
PIZZA
2013, Workshop Film, Fiction, Tamil with English subtitles, 10 min
A pizza delivery boy runs into a lot of unexpected trouble when he comes to deliver a pizza. It later turns into a huge surprise, but he is too shaken up by events to enjoy the surprise.
Director, Script, Editing: Dinegar Savarigiri
Producer: AVFF-EOP, Sasi
Camera: Pavithra Sowmya; Sound: Sasi Somu
Crew: Thupten, Ayanar
Cast: Parthiban, Selvi, Ayanar, Londen
Contact: Dinegar Savarigiri (Future School), Auroville, TN 605101, India
SUSPENSE
2013, Workshop Film, Fiction, English, 2 min
A girl runs home when she is stalked.
Director, Script, Editing: Pavithra Sowmya
Producer: AVFF-EOP, Sasi
Camera: Dinegar Savarigiri; Sound: Ayanar
Crew: Thupten
Cast: Selvi, Thupten
Contact: Pavithra Sowmya (Future School), Auroville, TN 605101, India
Last School
THREE SHOTS FOR AN INITIATION
2012, Workshop Film, Fiction, English, 24 min
Eight students of Last School have been initiated to video through the making of a three shot clip. Each one has been director, cameraperson, sound person and assistant. We are presenting their eight small movies.
Films: The Secret Source, The Magical Book, The Haunted School, Slide Like an Indian, The Fight Between Superman and Rakshassa, No Graffiti, A Bad Day in School, Unbearable News
Director, Script, Camera, Sound: Kamakshi (Kamu), Arun, Symeon, Sean, Usha, Mitia, Ara, Dyuman
Editing: Tom Mo, Sasi; Producer: AVFF-EOP, Rakhal
Contact: Last School, Auroville, TN 605101, India
NATURE IS BEAUTY
2013, Workshop Film, Experimental, English, 4 min
Nature is Beauty was the concept-structure given to the students of the video/editing class of Last School. Here is the result of their artistic experiment.
Director, Script, Camera, Sound, Editing: Masha, Antonio
Producer: Claire Mussier
Contact: Last School, Auroville, Tamilnadu 605101, India
The Learning Community
DO NOT DIG!!!
2013, Workshop Film, Animation, English, 4 min
A band of ruthless pirates discover a mysterious island.
Director, Script, Camera, Sound, Editing: TLC
Producer: AVFF-EOP, Tom Mo
Crew: Yam, Abhay, Jasmine, Veerle, Surya, Jalin, Edén, Zohar
Contact: The Learning Community, Auroville, TN 605101, India
FIRST WEEK IN BASECAMP
2013, Workshop Film, Experimental, English, 8 min
An entertaining look at The Learning Community’s first week at their new school in Auroville.
Director, Script, Camera, Sound, Editing: TLC
Producer: AVFF-EOP, Tom Mo
Crew: Yam, Abhay, Jasmine, Veerle, Surya, Jalin, Edén, Zohar
Contact: The Learning Community, Auroville, TN 605101, India
THE FRUIT OF TECHNOLOGY
2013, Animation, English, 1 min
Unexpected consequence when Adam and Eve eat an apple.
Director, Script, Camera, Sound, Editing: Yam Yardeni
Producer: Yardeni Productions
Contact: Yam Yardeni, Grace, Auroville, TN 605101, India
THE OTHER HALF
2013, Workshop Film, Animation, English, 5 min
A variety of objects find their way back to their owners.
Director, Script, Camera, Sound, Editing: TLC
Producer: AVFF-EOP, Tom Mo
Crew: Yam, Edén, Jalin, Abhay, Veerle, Jasmine, Zohar, Surya
Contact: The Learning Community, Auroville, TN 605101, India
Transition School
A BRIEF HISTORY OF AUROVILLE
2012, Workshop film, Animation, English, 3 min
Two hundred years ago, the forests surrounding Pondicherry were lush and vast and also contained fierce tigers that would sometimes come into the city looking for food. The citizens of Pondicherry reacted to this intrusion by cutting down all the trees. Flash-forward to 1968 when a bus arrives and some mysterious strangers disembark…
Director, Script, Camera: Transition School 5th Grade
Producer: AVFF-EOP, Tom Mo
Cast: Kilan, Swaranapoorani, Auropradeepa, Arjunan, Mathan, Madhan
Sound, Editing: Tom Mo
Contact: Transition School, Auroville, TN 605101, India
AN UNEXPECTED VISIT
2013, Workshop Film, Animation, English, 3 min
An alien spaceship lands on Earth with unexpected results.
Director, Script, Camera, Sound, Editing: Transition School 5th Grade
Producer: AVFF-EOP, Tom Mo
Crew: Shankar, Ganga, Akash, Motilal, Ludivine, Irwin, Santhan
Contact: Transition School, Auroville, TN 605101, India
PRACTICE WHAT YOU PREACH
2013, Workshop Film, Fiction, English, 5 min
A man’s peaceful picnic is disturbed by some rowdy teenagers.
Director, Script: Victoria Cortés
Camera: Monica; Sound, Editing: Rajeev
Producer: AVFF-EOP, Tom Mo
Collaboration: OnePeople Productions
Cast: Sebastian Cortés, Chandru, Rajeev, Karthikeyan
Contact: Victoria Cortés (Transition School), Auroville, TN 605101, India
SHOWDOWN IN SWEETWATER VALLEY
2013, Workshop Film, Animation, English, 3 min
Can a peaceful solution be found when water is diverted to create a water mill?
Director, Script, Camera, Sound, Editing: Transition School 5th Grade
Producer: AVFF-EOP, Tom Mo
Crew: Anandhi, Mahana, Noémie, Ilengo, Santhan, Kishore
Contact: Transition School, Auroville, TN 605101, India
STRENGTH IN DIVERSITY
2013, Workshop Film, Fiction, English, 6 min
A television news report about three siblings who overcome their differences to collaborate together and turn a piece of land into a vibrant business.
Director: Zidane Tait
Producer: AVFF-EOP, Leela Baldwin
Script: Transition School 8th Grade; Camera: Nikita Plotnikov; Sound: L. Jayashri
Editing: Aditya King; Cast: A. Nila, Aaron Imhoff, Chandra Zurmuhl, Felix Barandard
Collaboration: OnePeople Productions
Contact: Transition School, Auroville, TN 605101, India
Udavi School:
TACKLING DEFORESTATION IN AUROVILLE
2013, Workshop Film, Documentary, English, 6 min
A look at the innovative ways that different people are dealing with the problem of deforestation in and around Auroville.
Director: Subash
Sound: Satiswari
Camera: Seema
Producer: Tamizharasi, AVFF-EOP, Tom Mo
Collaboration: OnePeople Productions
Contact: Udavi School, Auroville, TN 605101, India
ONEPEOPLE PRODUCTIONS
ANIMAL RIGHTS
2013, Workshop Film, Animation, English, Belgium, 3 min
Humans are given the same treatment that they give animals.
Director, Script, Camera, Sound, Editing: Koninklijk Atheneum Anderlecht Audiovisuele Vorming
Producer: Koninklijk Atheneum Anderlecht, Stefan Tarvernier
Contact: Koninklijk Atheneum Anderlecht Audiovisuele Vorming, Sint-Guidostraat 73, Anderlecht, Brussels 1070, Belgium
DIVERSITY
2013, Workshop Film, Documentary, Kannada with English subtitles, 5 min
A look at the various expressions of diversity in our society.
Director, Script, Camera, Sound, Editing: Deenabandhu Trust
Producer: Deenabandhu Children`s Home
Cast & Crew: Sanjivini Group – Durga, Vedavathi, Naveen, Gurudath, Shamala
Contact: Deenabandhu Trust, PWD Colony, Behind Forest Nursery, Chamarajnagara, Karnataka 571313, India
ENVIRONMENT AND POPULATION
2013, Workshop Film, Documentary, Kannada with English subtitles, 5 min
A look at the effects of the growth of human population on the environment.
Director, Script, Camera, Sound, Editing: Deenabandhu Trust
Producer: Deenabandhu Children`s Home
Cast & Crew: Kushi Team – Shyamla, Ramya, Usha, Surya, Manoj, Naveen, Maike
Contact: Deenabandhu Trust, PWD Colony, Behind Forest Nursery, Chamarajnagara, Karnataka 571313, India
GENDER EQUALITY
2013, Workshop Film, 3 min
A film that touches the problem of female foeticides in India.
Director, Script, Camera, Sound, Editing: Deenabandhu Trust
Producer: Deenabandhu Children`s Home
Crew: Chandan, Sachin, Tulasi, Vinutha
Contact: Deenabandhu Trust, PWD Colony, Behind Forest Nursery, Chamarajnagara, Karnataka 571313, India
MONEY
2013, Workshop Film, 7 min
A story of a man that looses his happiness when money came to his life
Director, Script, Camera, Sound, Editing: Deenabandhu Trust
Producer: Deenabandhu Children`s Home
Crew: Little Stars Group – Girish, Vivek, Yogesh, Megha
Contact: Deenabandhu Trust, PWD Colony, Behind Forest Nursery, Chamarajnagara, Karnataka 571313, India
