Film & Virtual Conversation: Maadathy - an Unfairy Tale [DDHR SPRING WEBINAR!]
The Disasters, Displacement and Human Rights program presents a free screening of the award-winning Tamil language film (with English subtitles) Maadathy: An Unfairy Tale, and a virtual conversation with its director Leena Manimekalai. The screener link will be emailed to registrants on Tuesday, March 29, 2022. Join us on Friday, April 1st at 3 pm EST for a discussion and conversation with the filmmaker Leena Manimekalai via Zoom. Funding for this event was provided by the Council for Diversity and Inclusion and the Department of Religious Studies.
Leena Manimekalai is an acclaimed independent filmmaker and activist from Chennai, India. Her film Maadathy: An Unfairy Tale depicts the violence in rural Tamil Nadu against a caste group that is considered not only "untouchable" but also "unseeable." This violence continues to plague much of India today. Caste and gender are two of India's primary victim demographics of violence, particularly of a sexual nature.
Leena Manimekalai is an acclaimed independent filmmaker and activist from Chennai, India. Her film Maadathy: An Unfairy Tale depicts the violence in rural Tamil Nadu against a caste group that is considered not only "untouchable" but also "unseeable." This violence continues to plague much of India today. Caste and gender are two of India's primary victim demographics of violence, particularly of a sexual nature.
While gender-based violence is global, caste-based discrimination tends to be restricted to South Asia and its diasporas. The category of caste in South Asia is unlike any other in the United States. While similar to the concept of class, it is hereditary, sanctioned by religious text, and enforced by violence.
This film and the discussion with its director will provide attendees with a unique perspective into a system of contemporary apartheid that is not based on skin color or physical attributes but instead on more intangible categories of human classification.
FILM SCREENER LINK available to registrants from Tuesday, March 29, 2022
CONVERSATION WITH LEENA MANIMEKALAI on Friday, April 1, 2022 at 3:00 pm EST
Read more about Leena Manimekalai, poet, filmmaker, and social justice activist at https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3972347/
Please contact Dr. Kuganathan (pkuganat@utk.edu) or Dr. Swamy (rswamy1@utk.edu) if you have any questions.
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