Suma Josson
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Suma Josson is an
Life
She was born in Kerala, India and graduated in English Literature from the University of Minnesota, United States. She began her career as a journalist at Press Trust of India, and in 1992 switched over to the visual media.[4] She has made a number of documentary films. She has published three books: Poems and Plays, A Harvest of Light (a collection of plays), and Circumferences (a novel).[5]
Her debut film was Janmadhinam which won three state awards, and was screened at various international film festivals including the 1999 Berlin Festival.[citation needed] She was one of the five women filmmakers commissioned to make a documentary Trading Images on the subject 'women's space' in a German international coproduction.[citation needed] Saree is her second feature film.[citation needed]
Films
1998 – Janmadinam (The Birthday) - Malayalam
Sarasu has come to the hospital to deliver her baby. Amma, her mother, is with her, to assist her. The actual time-span of the film is a single night which the mother and the daughter spend at the hospital. Sarasu, a TV-reporter working in Bombay, keeps a diary into which she pours her inner-most feelings. We find out that Sarasu was forced by her father to marry Raghu, although she was in love with Ajay, a cameraman. A few months after her marriage, she passes through Bombay to join her husband. On the way, she meets Ajay in his flat. This is during the '1993
- Direction & Screenplay: Suma Josson
- Cast: Nandita Das, Surekha Sikhri
- Cinematography: Hari Nair
- Music: Narayana Mani
1999 – Saree - Malayalam
Two children, Gita and Radha, are stranded in the no man's land between two worlds that dominate contemporary childhood: school and home. This in-between land is one of myriad dreams, fears, and fantasies all yearning to take the shape of a free fluid space where children can summon whichever spirit they like. The two young friends are on their way back from the school as they recount their dreams in this subliminal space available only to childhood.
Saree was selected for the 1999 Berlin Festival, and in 2000 it was the inaugural film at the Mumbai International Film Festival in Mumbai.
- Direction & Screenplay: Suma Josson
- Cast: : Remya, Krishna, Nedumudi Venu, Sreelatha, Priyanka
- Cinematography: M J Radhakrishnan, K G Jayan
- Editing: Bina
- Music: Chandran Veyattumal
Gujarat: A Laboratory Of Hindu Rastra, Fascism
Set in the post-Godhra violence which was unleashed in Gujarat during February 2002, this film examines the extent to which the fascist ideologies of the communal forces have infiltrated into the sub-conscious of an ordinary Gujarati Hindu.
2003 / documentary / 50 min / English subtitles
See also
- Women's Cinema
References
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- ^ Mallya, Vijay (1 December 2010). ""Niyamgiri You Are Still Alive," "Kaippad" share award". The Hindu. Archived from the original on 4 December 2010. Retrieved 14 December 2010.
- ^ Dhara, Tushar (3 December 2007). "Cameras don't lie". ExpressIndia.com. Archived from the original on 11 October 2012. Retrieved 14 December 2010.
- ISBN 978-81-269-0435-8. Retrieved 14 December 2010.