"Freedom At the Edge...with Aneisha Sharma

"Freedom At the Edge...with Aneisha Sharma
by Shahnaz Siganporia

"PLATFORM"-creative lifestyle( May-June'08)

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Starry Salve For Riot Victimes-Rashmi Sarmah

Starry Salve For Riot Victimes-Rashmi Sarmah/TNN,Times Of India,21 Oct'2008


"I was almost in tears when an old Garo lady hugged me and cried her heart
out while her daughter-in-law stood there,her eyes reflecting the pain.The lady's
son was slaughtered right in fornt of her during the violence"

Distributed relief materials by filmmaker & actress Aneisha Sharma, Singer Sadanada Gogoi and Actress Akashi Tora to the riot victim people at Bhakatpara,Udalguri camp (19/10/08) with the message of Love,Peace and Unity among the indigenous people of Assam.

Choti Mooh Bari Baat

"Freedom at the edge" was also screened at the film festival "Choti Mooh Bari Baat" (a Humlog Film festival in collabration with Tourism Department , Chandigarh) on Sunday 3rd August 2008 ,Chandigarh,India

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Short Film Corner,Festival De Cannes

Short Film Corner,Festival De Cannes
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61e De Cannes Festival,2008

61e De Cannes Festival,2008

Mumbai International Film Festival (MIFF-2008).

at Mumbai International Film Festival (MIFF-2008)

Assam at the Cannes edge - Two filmmakers make it to French film extravaganza

The Telegraph,Guwahati, May 14: The agony of Machang Lalung’s unjust confinement will fill the screen at Cannes Film Festival this year, as will a story of caste conflict, thanks to the efforts of two young filmmakers from Assam.

Aneisha Sharma’s Freedom at the Edge, which deals with the unlawful detention of Machang Lalung for 54 years in a Tezpur asylum, and Sadananda Gogoi’s Darkness of Century, a story about superstition, will be screened at the short film corner of the Cannes Film Festival, beginning today.

Sharma and Gogoi, of course, cannot hide their glee, with both looking forward to a great learning experience and also the fact that it will motivate young filmmakers to explore the “new world”.

Freedom had won the best docu-drama award at the Boston Film Festival while Darkness had won Gogoi the best international directorial debut at the New York Festival.

“It’s a big honour because despite the talent we have, not much is known outside. We have some proposals, which we will take up with producers, directors, distributors, critics. It’s such a big platform,” Sharma said.

Gogoi, a noted music director before this film happened, said: “This has given people like us a chance to showcase our talent. Format is not a problem nowadays. Last year they screened a 90-minute film made on the mobile phone. I am looking forward to the experience.”

Both filmmakers left for Cannes today from Delhi.

The stills of the two films have been uploaded on the official website of Festival De Cannes, which says the Short Film Corner was set up in 2004 to help find “new talents, who benefit from exceptional conditions to promote their movie, to sell it or be under the spotlight”.

The website states that the corner will showcase over 1,780 short films from around 80 countries this year. “All these films are digitised and will be permanently viewable by the festival attendees on 40 or so interactive screens,” it stated.

Altaf Mazid, a filmmaker and a member of the jury of films critics at Cannes in 2006, said this is first time that two short films by Assamese directors are being screened at the festival.

Let’s rain down, a 2007 short film on the plight of a girl-child whose parents died of AIDS by Bhaskarjyoti Das and The Passage by the London-based Sanchayita Sharma Goswami in 2005 were the other films to make the cut.

“Filmmakers from the state are going to Cannes, which is not a cakewalk given the running around one needs to do and the financial involvement, something which was missing so far. Screening of the films will arouse curiosity in the films as well as the region. It is a welcome development and needs to be lauded.”

“What Cannes will do is expose them to new styles of making and marketing their products that will reach a global audience, besides attracting attention to Assamese films which have not got their due,” Mazid said.

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MIFF 2008

MIFF 2008: India tops the list of woman directors
Mumbai, February 07, 2008,Hindustantimes
Aneisha Sharma from Guwahati had started her career as child artiste in Assamese films in 1982 and has produced and directed 30 documentaries so far.
One of them, "Freedom at the Edge" was adjudged as the Special Best Documentary at the Boston International Film Festival in 2007. She has entered this documentary in the national documentary category at the MIFF 2008.
It is about a tribal youth from Assam, Machang Lalung, who was sentenced to prison for an unknown offence in 1951.
He was later shifted to the Tezpur Mental Hospital, where he remained confined for 54 years without trial until the Indian Human Rights Commission rescued him. The documentary had also received the Kerala State Award for Best Documentary in 2007.

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Freedom film

Freedom film
Guwahati-based feature and documentary filmmaker Aneisha Sharma’s short film, Freedom at the Edge, is bagging honours in the country and abroad. The short film was adjudged the best film at the Chennai International Short Film Festival, among 90 others selected from 15 countries.
It depicts the life of Machal Lalung, the man who spent 54 years in the Tezpur mental asylum before he was reunited with his family after the intervention of the National Human Rights organisation.
After winning rave reviews at the Boston Film Festival, Freedom at the Edge also won accolades at the recently concluded Mumbai Film Festival.
The Singapore International Film Festival, to be held in April, is next. “I am happy that the film has been well received wherever it was screened, because of its touching theme,” said Sharma.
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