Eternal Seed

Amrit Beeja

A film by Meera Dewan

India | 1996 | 43 minutes | Color | 16mm/DVD | Subtitled | Order No. 99566

SYNOPSIS

With insightful interviews and rare footage from India's agricultural industry, this keenly observed film depicts Indian women's struggles to use traditional farming practices instead of chemically-based agriculture. Comparing the practices of women who consider seeds sacred with multinational companies' use of sterilized hybrids, this evocative analysis celebrates the scientific basis of women's native traditions in a provocative look at the evolving meanings of healthy land use.

PRESS

"With biting satire and a brutally truthful camera, Eternal Seed debunks popular misconceptions about technology and tradition, men and women, growth and decay."

Nikhat Kazmi Sunday Times of India

SCREENING HIGHLIGHTS AND AWARDS

  • Margaret Mead Film Festival
  • Indian National Film Festival, Best Environmental Film
  • Okomedia Film Festival, Germany, Grand Prize
  • Bombay International Film Festiva, Non-Fiction Film Award, Second Place

ABOUT FILMMAKER(S)

Meera Dewan

After graduation and 6 years experience with advertising films in Bombay, Meera Dewan moved to documentary filmmaking in 1982.

Her first documentary, an anti-dowry for Films Division "GIFT OF LOVE" won 11 international awards at leading film festivals worldwide. She has produced over 30 documentaries for "Doordarshan" and various Ministries of Govt. of India - Ministry of Information & Broadcasting, Ministry of Social Welfare, Ministry of Rural Development, Department of Women & Child Development, as well as state governments. As a film director of Southview Productions she collaborates with TV stations around the world, to produce films on human rights and themes of alternate visions, particularly around issues relating to Indian women and the women's movement. (09/09)

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