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Forum: Globalization, Outsourcing, and South Asia
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Nalini by Day, Nancy by Night explores the complexity of globalization in off-shoring and out-sourcing jobs and questions the politics of identity from the first-person perspective of an Indian filmmaker living in the United States.
This film has made its journey from being a document of an event to becoming an impression of a worldwide movement for economic, political and cultural justice and a travelogue of ideas for change.
The World Social Forum began in Brazil in the year 2000 as a space for defining alternatives to globalization, economic imperialism, war and discrimination. In 2004, it's fourth year, it came to Bombay and widened its horizons to include issues of gender, indigenous people's rights, alternative sexuality, women and war, caste and racism. For 5 days people protested and analyzed existing economic, political and social injustice; celebrated alternatives and resistance through speeches, processions, music, debate, performance, conversation; and sharpened their imagination of a better world with diversity and justice at its heart, under a common slogan -- Another World Is Possible.
This film has been created from video material gathered by student crews to document this five day event.
Post-Film Discussion with Speakers:
Sonali Gulati teaches film production and experimental filmmaking at Virginia Commonwealth University's School
of the Arts. She has an MFA in Film & Media Arts from Temple University and a BA in Critical Social Thought from Mount Holyoke College. Her films have screened at
nearly a hundred film festivals worldwide including the San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival
and Women in the Director's Chair Film Festival. Her filmography includes Sum Total, Barefeet, Name I Call
Myself, and Where is there Room? Ms. Gulati has won awards and grants from the Third Wave Foundation and
World Studio Foundation. |
