Reality Check - Documentary Film Screenings

Documentary Film Screenings

The Reality Check film series promotes and encourages documentary filmmakers in India, whose work reflects life and culture in the country today in a thoughtful blend of creativity and integrity.

Hello Guyzz!

Hindi & Bengali with English Subtitles (24 mins)

Hello Guyzz is a reflection of modern day India where - cheap internet, longing to become the next big star, and high aspirations are a reality. But so are class, caste and gender differences. To Sumita, the subject (and also the star of the documentary) social media is a tool that provides her a space to have an alternate identity on tiktok ; an identity away from getting kids ready to school, away from being a homemaker, away from struggling to find means to lead a good life. Sumita straddles between her mundane domestic life, and life on social media in hopes of being able to make a successful career out of it and also maybe fulfill her long lost dream of becoming an actor.

With this film, we aim to document this at the intersectionality of gender, society and class. Sumita, is like any other modern Indian woman trying to navigate between her personal and public space dichotomy, all this while trying to find financial independence and identity.

Director & Producer: Samiksha Mathur

Director of Photography: Piyush Pal Singh

Editor: Ankit Prakash

Writer: Shruti Parthsarathy

Sound Recorder & Designer: Puneet Dwivedi

Produced by Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute, Kolkata

An Engineered Dream

Hindi & Gujarati with English Subtitles (72 mins)

Kota, a city in North-West India famous for its coaching institutions, attracts more than 200,000 teenaged students from all across the country to prepare for the undergraduate competitive exams. These students reside in cubicle sized hostel rooms and study more than 15 hours a day for two consecutive years to crack the entrance exams for prestigious colleges that has acceptance rate of less than one percent. These students face intense unsurmountable pressure from coaching institutes, peers and their families which not everyone is equipped to cope with, resulting in some students end up taking the extreme step of suicide.

Producer & Director: Hemant Gaba

Assoc Director: Vedant Sharma

Editor: Saba Rehman

Music: Avinash Baghel (Ragasur)

Camera: Nitish Kapoor, Shakti Pratap Singh, Shilpi Batra Adwani

Sound: Kapil Dev Singh

Executive Producer: Huang Weixian

An NCPA Presentation in collaboration with Cinema Collective

The film screenings will be followed by a Q&A.

Entry free on a first-come-first-served basis.

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