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DOCUMENTARY FILMS -CREATING NARRATIVES OF SOCIAL CHANGE THROUGH FACTUAL STORYTELLING
International Journal of Communication and Media Studies (IJCMS) ISSN (P):2250-0014; ISSN (E): Applied Vol. 9, Issue 4, Aug 2019, 1-8 © TJPRC Pvt. Ltd. DOCUMENTARY FILMS - CREATING NARRATIVES OF SOCIAL CHANGE THROUGH FACTUAL STORYTELLING SHIV SHANKAR DAS Research Scholar, Department of Journalism & Mass Communication, Utkal University, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India ABSTRACT Documentary films have become an important channel for audiences to process and decipher information today. Having an inherent power to critically address contemporary issues in a threadbare manner, they have a cornucopia of new insights for tackling different problems plaguing our society. Higher perceptions of reality and factuality positively affect learning and engagement among the public. The genre with its claim to indexicality and veridicality has an important social function of setting the agenda by penetrating public consciousness, which in turn amplifies the sphere of civic discourse on various social issues. Good storytelling in documentary films can ignite powerful emotions and evoke empathy among its audiences. Such an impact facilitates major change in viewpoints and fuels social change. This paper Stories A
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4th Indian Documentary Film Festival, Bhubaneshwar (IDFFB) 2023 continues to attract film-lovers in a quaint Indian city
With input from Subrat Beura
Several film enthusiasts in the city of Bhubaneshwar, Odisha warmly embraced several independent films screened between 22 – 24 September 2023 during the fourth Indian documentary festival, in its second edition in a post-pandemic world. Just like its previous edition, this year, the Film Society Bhubaneswar (FSB) brought together filmmakers, artists, cinephiles and academics who volunteer and organise independent film festivals and screenings throughout the year.
In the welcome note for the festival, Subrata Beura the festival coordinator remarked:
We have been thinking about contemporary documentary practices that we wanted to bring to our audience – specially to the question, what is happening in [the] Indian Documentary scene? Who after Anand Patwardhan? Where are our Guzmans, our Moores? Most of the films in our festival are by young filmmakers, they have a journey to make, but the promise is there. The questions of farmers, women, Muslims, sexual minorities, repressed histories, folk beliefs are explored in many of the films at our festival.
The festival showcased 25 films across multiple languages includ
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Art Direction Vrinda Narang
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