An environmental video documentary
Directed by Siobhan Wall
London Guildhall University
in association with Environment Support Group, Bangalore
The Documentary:Fly Ash Over India assesses the socio-economic and environmental impacts of the ongoing massive industrialisation and infrastructure development in the environmentally sensitive Dakshina Kannada District. Developing its theme based on interviews with a cross section of people representing a range of opinion, including those actively involved in proposing or opposing, the documentary focusses on the environmental catastrophe awaiting the district, should the proposed Cogentrix thermal power plant go through. Such concerns are raised in the context of the existing experiences from the district due to location of the mega MRPL refinery, which has caused serious environmental impacts within a year of its commissioning. This is the first of a series of planned video productions that will highlight the threats facing the coastal Karnataka and Western Ghats region given the present proposal to develop Dakshina Kannada as the "Industrial Capital" of Karnataka. This documentary is of 30 minutes duration.
About the Director:Ms. Siobhan Wall has been teaching Communication Studies at the London Guildhall University. A graduate of the Central St. Martin's College of Art and Design in 1991, she has previously worked at Oxford Film and Video Makers in adult education and on campaign videos. Until recently her main interest has been in producing films informed by critical fine art discourse. She has directed Listening to the body which projects 8 films composed of illustrations from old medical text books onto a clothed woman's body and it was screened at the Southampton Film Festival. She has also shot, edited and directed the video documentary Nagano Story which evaluates the impacts of the Winter Olympics held recently in Nagano Japan from the view point of project affected communities. Almost all her productions have been self-financed or subsidised by local voluntary support, in keeping with her avowed principle of participatoriness in video productions.
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