‘Movie-ing Ahead’ – the RFG Film Festival on Political Reforms’ was to portray the journey of an individual or a group of individuals, who have successfully charted a new way out to positively change the existing scheme of things around them. This festival showcased powerful films pertaining to the issue of politics from across the world, with an aim to raise awareness, particularly among the youth who are often disengaged from the democratic process. Movies screened at the festival were: a. Please vote for me: A democratic experiment in a school in the communist China b. Empowering the Yard (Film from the American Centre): An inspiring project at a women’s prison in Oklahoma c. Accounts and Accountability: Story of how the Right to Information Act (RTI), the greatest weapon to bring about accountability in our governance system, came into being d. Black Pamphlets: A film trying to find out the temper of youth and the mindset of student community towards politics and governance
Film Festival on Political Reforms (May 2010)
