Activities at ViBGYOR 2012
1. Film Screenings
Around 100 films will be screened in three venues. Documentaries, short-fiction films, animations, music videos, spots and student films, shot on film or video, which uphold or discuss the issues of the ViBGYOR Spectrum, will be selected for screening. There will be various packages like Focus of the Year, Retrospectives, Country Focus, Focus-Children, and the 7-Themes ViBGYOR Packages. Even though the special focus is on South Asia, films from other parts of the world will also be screened. The festival ensures that most of the filmmakers of these films will attend the screenings and interact with the audiences.
2. Meet the Directors
These are venues for the filmmakers and activists to interact with the audience, which includes likeminded people as well as those who need to be initiated. When the filmmakers can get a response to their films from the audience, the activists can make sure that their voices are heard.
3. Mini Conferences and South Asian Conference
Selected topics related to the ViBGYOR spectrum will be addressed and discussed by academicians and learned men and women in these sessions.
An eminent personality from India or abroad will present C. Saratchandran Memorial Lecture on a topic in tune with the focus theme of the year, South Asia: Lives & Livelihoods.
4. Exhibitions
Exhibitions of Painting, Photographs, and other art/handicraft objects related to the ViBGYOR themes and concerns will be an important part of the festival. Here the various Partner Organizations of ViBGYOR also get an opportunity to showcase their services and products so that people attending the festival get an idea of the present social movement scenario.
5. Food & Craft Fair
A Food and Craft Fairis organized each year at ViBGYOR in order to foster the idea of indigenous production and consumption. Many local produces get new avenues of marketing at the fair.
6. Music Time & Cultural Evening
Every evening during the festival a group of artists (mostly local) will perform music recitals which will lead to the Cultural Night on the eve of the Closing day, with a dusk to-dawn celebration of dance, music and cinema.
7. Local Social Movements
Movements at the Festival
Various social movements, campaigns and agitations happening/ being organized in and around Thrissur will be given a platform to interact with the audience.
Festival at the movements
Selected guests, filmmakers and delegates who attend ViBGYOR festival, will be introduced to local struggles (face-to-face at each location) in view of interacting with and encouraging the local activists and movements.
