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INVISIBILI- ADIVASI DALIT E LA NARMADA
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Invisibles - Dalit Adivasi and Narmada
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Tommaso D'Elia, Alessandro Pesce
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| Sailing along the river Narmada, whose valleys
are populated by the Adivasi, natives of these territories for
millennia, we discover their villages, their work, their schools,
their struggle, and also the monsoon which submerges and devastates.
The river Narmada, 1800 Km, is one of the seven sacred rivers
of India, blocked by five huge dams and by three thousand small
dams on its minor tributaries, forms one of the biggest watersheds
of the planet. This project was subsidized until 1992 by the
World Bank, which then withdrew. Almost all of the dams have
been built, hundreds of thousands of people have been moved-deported:
they are called "rehabilitates". More than 100.000 families
have had their land and their identity taken away from them.
The aim of this work is to give an understanding of the Adivasi
and what we are losing in terms of our knowledge of the relationship
between territory and humans, sacrificed in the name of progress.
Some personalities guide us in this discovery journey: Sanjay
Mitra, engeneer and photographer for 25 years in Adivasi territories,
Medha Paktar, Ðthe Lady of Narmada', leader of NBA (non violent
resistence movement for the safeguard of Narmada), Madhuri Ben,
leader of ÐJagrit Adivasi Dali Sangathan', Munir Fasheh, founder
of Arab Education Forum, Payal Parek, climatologist of Boston
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Screenplay Alessandro Pesce, Tommaso D'Elia
Photography (colour) Pesce, D'Elia
Editing Luca Onorati
Production Pesce, D'Elia - Paneikon
Year of production 2005
Running time 52'
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Tommaso D'Elia
Born in Rome in 1952. He has worked as a journalist since 1976. In 1980 he started making freelance reportages in Afghanistan, Indonesia, USA. He has lived in Brazil since 1985 working as editor in chief for a weekly. In 1990 he shot his first documentary about Rigoberta Menchu's return in Guatemala. Among his other works: 500 anni dopo: L'eredità di Colombo (500 years later: Colombo's heritage) (1992), Il Quinto Sole : sul sentiero dei Maya (The Fifth Sun: on Mayas' path)(1995), a tv reportage in Jordania.
Alessandro Pesce
Architect, he has been living in Mexico for twelve years. He produced four documentaries with Tommaso D'Elia: Polveri di Giordania (Jordania's powders) (2003), Artigianato nel Trentino (Handicraft in Trentino) (2004), Rototom Sunsplash - NordEst Italia (2004) (co-director), e Invisibili (Invisibles) (co-author).
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