Vancouver
Award-wining Film on Indian Farmer Crisis Screens in Vancouver
Screening and Discussion of "Nero's Guests"
3:00pm
Sunday August 14 2011
SOUTH ASIAN FILM EDUCATION SOCIETY (SAFES)
And
SOUTH ASIAN NETWORK FOR SECULARISM AND DEMOCRACY (SANSAD)
Present
A film on the farm crisis and growing inequality in India
By Deepa Bhatia
Screening and discussion of NERO'S GUESTS
August 14, 2011 from 3.00 pm -- 5.00 pm
Room 1800 Terasen Cinema
SFU Harbour**Centre, 515 W. Hastings
FILM TRAILER: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MD88P1c6h38
Deepa Bhatia follows activist and journalist P Sainath, the Rural Affairs Editor of *The Hindu*, as he investigates and speaks about the farm crisis in India. "Nero's Guests" are the elite enjoying their splendid feast as every thirty minutes a farmer kills himself.P. Sainath’s energy and sense of outrage are contagious. As he visits the affected families and works every media angle at his disposal to get politicians to act, we see a society in denial, a lack of social justice for the poor and gaping wealth disparities in the country.
“Is it a sin to be a farmer? No one cares about us. No one notices. No one hears our cries.” – Vidarbha farmer
Admission to the film is open to the public and free.
Donations welcome.
Information: Chin 604-421-6752
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