Reframing Gender: A Presentation by Miriam Chandy Menacherry and the Women in Cinema Collective | Project Showcase@IFA | September 05, 2024

Join us for our next Project Showcase@IFA with Miriam Chandy Menacherry and members of the Women in Cinema Collective (WCC). In this session, Miriam will share from her interactions with WCC as part of her project under the Arts Research programme at IFA. The project focused on the founding members of the WCC (2017–present), the only organised body that challenges the discrimination and hierarchies in the Malayalam film industry. Drawing from the personal journeys of the collective’s tenacious women film professionals—screenplay writers, directors, producers and technicians—the project expands to a larger history of Malayalam cinema to retrieve the contributions of women, the evolution of feminist standpoints, and to capture the ripple effect the movement has caused in Mollywood and other regional and national film industries in India.

According to Miriam, these women deserve dedicated chapters for overcoming great odds to claim their space in cinema ‘history’, or more appropriately, ‘herstory’.

Reframing Gender: Women in Cinema Collective 
Thursday, September 05, 2024 | 06:30 PM IST onwards

Register on Zoom or join us on Facebook Live. 

Miriam Chandy Menacherry is an award-winning documentary filmmaker and the Founder Director of Filament Pictures that is dedicated to creating a brand of social documentaries that have won acclaim in India and internationally. 

Women in Cinema Collective works towards building a safe, non-discriminatory and professional workspace for women in cinema through advocacy and policy change. Some of the participants in this session are:

Bina Paul is an award-winning editor, festival director and curator. She has edited over 50 films and directed four documentaries.

Revathi, aka Asha Kelunni, is a highly acclaimed national award winning actor-director with a career of over 125 films.

Dhanya Rajendran is a journalist and the co-founder and Editor-in-Chief of The News Minute. She is the winner of the Chameli Devi Jain Award for Outstanding Woman Mediaperson 2022. 

Anjali Menon is a film director, screenwriter and producer. Her directorial debut Manjadikuru won the 2008 FIPRESCI award for Best Malayalam Film and Best Indian Debut.

This session is organised as part of Project Showcase@IFA, a series of presentations to showcase, discuss and engage audiences with the diverse projects we support and implement across programmes.

Image courtesy: Bina Paul and KSCA

Miriam Chandy Menacherry received a grant from India Foundation for the Arts (IFA) under the Arts Research programme.