Short Abstract:

Title: Crimes Against Children Director: Hugh Brody 2019 | 12 mins Title: The Laboratory Project Directors: Sankaraaa & Rajan 2023 | 15 mins.

Long Abstract:

Title: Crimes Against Children

Director: Hugh Brody

2019 | 12 mins

Produced by Survival International this short film was made as a ‘global alert’: we were learning that residential schools for tribal and indigenous children around the world were on the increase. Especially in India. Survival International’s campaign against ‘Factory Schools' had resulted in anthropologists and activists working in India to record interviews with children and parents of children who were suffering the impacts of such schools. At the centre of the Indian schools was KISS - which at the time was little known for its mass ‘education; of Adivasi children. Using archival footage from Canada and footage shot in India along with KISS’s own promotional material, this short film was made as part of a long-term need to raise awareness of these crimes against children.

Title: The Laboratory Project

Directors: Sankaraaa & Rajan

2023 | 15 mins.

The policy of assimilation or de-indigenising communities by placing their children in residential/boarding schools has been increasingly disproved and abandoned, most publicly throughout North America, Australia and Canada since the 1980s. The film explores the same policy in Odisha, India. This history and its dangers are little known, with relatively little awareness of how they are being replicated among many of India’s Adivasi/Indigenous communities. Extraction education has evolved more slowly in India but has now reached a larger scale than in any other country. Schools like KISS in Odisha, India not only receive large amounts of funds from companies which wrest control over tribal lands, but have emerged as nodal agencies for extractive corporations and Hindu nationalist organisations to socially engineer and organise indigenous identities to suit and justify India's fastest growing 'development story' and not a means for achieving social justice for marginalised communities.

Accepted papers:

Session 1 Friday 28 June, 2024, 11:30-13:00

Crimes Against Children  

2019 | 12'

Film Short Abstract:

Produced by Survival International this short film was made as a ‘global alert’: we were learning that residential schools for tribal and indigenous children around the world were on the increase. Especially in India.

Abstract:

Survival International’s campaign against ‘Factory Schools' had resulted in anthropologists and activists working in India to record interviews with children and parents of children who were suffering the impacts of such schools. At the centre of the Indian schools was KISS - which at the time was little known for its mass ‘education; of Adivasi children. Using archival footage from Canada and footage shot in India along with KISS’s own promotional material, this short film was made as part of a long-term need to raise awareness of these crimes against children.

Directors:

Hugh Brody

The Laboratory Project  

2023 | 15'

Film Short Abstract:

The policy of assimilation or de-indigenising communities by placing their children in residential/boarding schools has been increasingly disproved and abandoned, most publicly throughout North America, Australia and Canada since the 1980s.

Abstract:

The film explores the same policy in Odisha, India. This history and its dangers are little known, with relatively little awareness of how they are being replicated among many of India’s Adivasi/Indigenous communities. Extraction education has evolved more slowly in India but has now reached a larger scale than in any other country. Schools like KISS in Odisha, India not only receive large amounts of funds from companies which wrest control over tribal lands, but have emerged as nodal agencies for extractive corporations and Hindu nationalist organisations to socially engineer and organise indigenous identities to suit and justify India's fastest growing 'development story' and not a means for achieving social justice for marginalised communities.

Directors:

Sankaraaa & Rajan