From ‘Occupied’, directed by Pranav Pingle Reddy | Photo Credit:
Mirage Media
Hyderabad-based filmmaker Pranav Pingle Reddy’s five-part documentary ‘Occupied’ that focuses on young Palestinians using art as tools of resistance, will première later this year at the Athens International Film and Video Festival
You can’t change the world with a song, but you can resist through a song, exclaims Shadi Zaqtan, a songwriter, singer and composer who lives in the old city of Ramallah, Palestine, in the documentary series
Occupied. The five-part series is the only Indian film to be selected for the Athens International Film and Video Festival, and will have its global première on October 24. Directed by Hyderabad-based filmmaker, Pranav Pingle Reddy,
Uma Magal
Uma Magals’ film Other Kohinoors highlights the need to preserve the pre-historic rocks of Hyderabad that define the Deccan Plateau’s landscape Ee nallani raalalo, ye kannulu dhaageno, Ee bandala maatuna, ye gundelu mrogeno… (In these black stones, whose eyes are hiding, on these slabs, whose heart is ringing…) are lines incorporated into the short film
Other Kohinoors – The Rocks of Hyderabad. The lyrics from a soulful song rendered by Ghantasala for the 1964 Telugu film
Amara Silpi Jakkanna, resonates in the pleas of rock activists who have been on a mission to protect the rock treasure of Hyderabad.