Sadho@Goa: Sun, Sand, Sea & Sadho

Jitendra Ramprakash, the curator of Sadho Poetry Film Fest is on a road-trip of the Indian peninsula. He was to cross Goa on his way to the South. The pieces of the jigsaw were beginning to fall in place.

On the 24th of March, as Jitendra and Shrikant discussed Poetry and Chess, their respective passions, while polishing oover dinner on a moonlit beach at Calangute, the warp and weft of the workshop took shape. A viewer had just turned into an organiser for another screening.

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animation alternatives

While making short films using animation, quality comes at a cost. Most such ventures do not receive financial backing and many good scripts languish at the hurdle of finance. However, imagination and innovation can provide interesting alternatives which can be cost effective as well.
One such creative option can be checked out at http://www.sandfantasy.com/videoclips.htm
The skill of sand art on an illuminated glass top triggered off some more alternatives in my mind:

As a trainer, I have used an OHP (Over Head Projector) to project an animation sequence created on the glass top of the OHP and the same would be projected on screen. The background scenes, characters, props were all created on cutouts of OHP transparency sheets. One can take colour prinouts on matt-finish transparency sheets and then cut out required characters and props.

Shadow-play, puppetry, miming can combine with basic animation, too.
(this article was sent by Pravin Sabnis. check his poetry n films at http://poems-pravinsabnis.blogspot.com/)

Poetry Films : A unique cinematic genre

Film lovers and poetry enthusiasts gathered on Thursday evening (26 March 2009) at the International Centre to experience an unique screening of “Poetry Films".

Jitendra Ramprakash, curator of Sadho explained the concept of poetry films and led the viewers on a journey across eight poetry films made by various filmmakers all over the world. Two poetry films made by Goan film maker, Dnyanesh Moghe, based on the poetry of Amrita Pritam were also screened.

The screening was followed by a discussion initiated by noted Goan poet, Vishnu Wagh and cinema-connossieur, Daulat Havaldar. Dr Meenacshi Martins introduced the event. Arjun Halarnkar, Shrikant Barve, Adv Satish Sonak, filmaker Dharmanand Vernekar, Isabel Vas, Pravin Sabnis, Satish Gawas, Augusto Pinto, Rajashree Karapurkar, Dnyanesh Moghe, Harshada Kerkar, Uday Chari, Shweta Narvekar and other poets, film makers and lovers of poetry and cinema were present on the occassion.

The event was organised by the International Centre Goa, Dona Pula and Taleigao Chess Academy.