A very special note about a very special film - by our dear Revathy, award-winning film director, acclaimed actress and social change agent. Last week I got a message from a person I respect and admire, Director Singeetham Srinivasa Rao – “Talk of the day. Magalir Mattum is THE film to be released now. We …
#MeToo & the media
Pat Mitchell is known for her leadership in the media industry as a CEO, and international producer and curator. Her career has focused on using media as a force for social change, with a special emphasis on the representation of women’s voices and stories. We are sharing an extract of her latest article where she …
Role inversion
Extract from a wonderful article published at http://www.theconversation.com Role inversion highlights men acting “out of script” to improvise a new way of assuming inherited, highly codified familial roles. In these ads, Indian men, like their western counterparts, appear to have grown weary of the limiting script and role that’s been passed down to them. The Ariel detergent …
Like a girl!
Our medium has such fantastic potential to convey ideas... Here is an example where people are asked about what it really means when someone says do something "like a girl" Click HERE to see the video LIKE A GIRL In less than 4 minutes, an age-long bias is cracked open and broken down. Shouldn't we …
The Many Misogynies of Malayalam Cinema
Meena T Pillai (meenatpillai@gmail.com) is Director, Centre for Cultural Studies, and Professor, Institute of English, University of Kerala, Thiruvananthapuram. This article was published in EPW- https://www.epw.in/journal/2017/33/perspectives/many-misogynies-malayalam-cinema.html In the context of the recent sexual molestation of an actor in a public space in Kerala, this article analyses Malayalam cinema’s language of neo-liberal governmentality that seeks …
“മൂന്നോ നാലോ നടിമാരും”… ഒറ്റ പെൺഫ്രെയിമും
Priya A. S. is a Malayalam-language writer from Kerala state, India. Her oeuvre consists of short stories, children's literature and memoirs.[1] ഞാൻ എഴുതുമ്പോൾ, അതിലെന്റെ മാത്രം വിരലുകൾ ഉണ്ടായാൽ മതി. എന്നിട്ടും "എഴുതുന്ന പെൺ വിരലുകൾ", പേനയടച്ച ജീവിതമടച്ച പ്രാണനടച്ച എത്രയോ ഒത്തുതീർപ്പുദാഹരണങ്ങൾ...! പക്ഷേ,എനിക്കൊരു സിനിമയെടുക്കണമെങ്കിൽ, എന്റെ വിരൽക്കഴിവ് മാത്രം പോര. സിനിമ, പലരുടെ കഴിവുകളുടെ വിരൽക്കൂട്ടായ്മയാണ്. എന്നിട്ടും, പുരുഷന്മാർ കൂടുതലായ ഒരാൾക്കൂട്ടത്തിലൂടെ പലതുകളെയും അതിജീവിച്ച് ഒറ്റയ്ക്ക് നടക്കാനുള്ള സിദ്ധി ശേഖരിക്കുക എന്ന വൻകിട …
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Women in Cinema Collective and the Malayalam Film Industry
Written by Dr. Tara S. Nair MPhil, Ph.D., Gujarat Institute of Development Research (GIDR). This article was first published in Economic & Political Weekly in 2017 In May 2017, in a pioneering move, a group of women creative workers from the Malayalam film industry formed the Women in Cinema Collective to address gender issues in the …
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The Journey Begins
We are a collective of creative women working in Malayalam cinema, swimming against the tide. Wanting to claim our spaces and our opportunities with the willingness to work for it, we have come together to be the change. Equality is cool. Equality is normal. And that's how we'll have it please. 🙂 Now we understand that …
Women In Cinema Collective | WCC Blog 