Story of the filmmaker's journey with Uma, a certified scuba diver, exploring the underwater world and the threat to coral reefs of Gulf of Mannar, India. Born in a traditional family in Tamil Nadu, 53 year old Uma, a homemaker, has been trying to bring attention to this alarming environmental issue through her paintings. It is, in fact, these corals that inspired Uma to learn how to swim, dive and paint in her 50s.
Fulcrum Tilt and Goa Water Stories in association with ALT EFF and Greenstories present Waterlines - a series of films that together engage with water as a dynamic entity, one that is fractured, continuous and contested.
The films foreground practices of care and resistance as they hold uncertainty, revealing the changing and therefore unpredictable rhythms of water and the precarity of all life that depends on it.
Get RSVPs for any kind of film screening on Fillum (hosted in any physical space - from your living room to a big auditorium.) Ticketing available now.
As part of MAMI Independent. Free entry on first come first served basis. Post-screening Q&A with the film team. There will also be screening of short film - The Unknown Filmmaker (Hemant Gaba).
1. City of Lanes (Modak KS, Ragini Rao Munjuluri)
2. See me, when you leave (Dipin Chenayil)
3. No Space to Pray (Raunaq Singh Chopra, Devanshi Yadav)
4. We the puffcorns of India (Aditya Mung.. more
