One World Student Film Bursaries

One World Student Bursaries 2006

The recipients of the One World Student Film Bursaries for 2006 are shown below. Altogether there were eight recipients at UK film schools, plus one recipient from overseas. Some of these films were also screened at the SEE festival in Brighton - read more details here.

UK Bursaries:
 

Gustavo Gama Rodrigues

Goldsmiths College, London University

 ‘It’s not easy’ is the story of Cuba’s current political, social and economic paradoxes as told through the eyes of two Cuban mothers whose sons and daughters have left the country to seek their future abroad.

 

Gopi Shastri

Goldsmiths College, London University

 ‘Feel Good Factory’ is a touching and at times humorous romp through the burgeoning world of Indian male grooming obsession.

 

Sarah Thomas

Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology, University of Manchester

'After the Rains Came' - The Samburu of Northern Kenya are a semi-nomadic pastoralist people with a vibrant oral tradition, and a form of memory making that is strongly associated with objects, bodily adornment, storytelling and song. This film, structured through stages in a life cycle, attempts to explore the tension between the fleeting nature of memories and the materiality and permanence of the objects that embody and inspire them.

 

Salome Jashi

Royal Holloway College, London University

'Their Helicopter' - The Ardoteli family uncovered one piece of civilization only. A Chechen military helicopter which crashed in Upper Khevsureti, Georgia, ten years ago. As it turned out to be useless for a library, cows found a shelter and children set up their private playground in it. In a land free from electric cables and modern buildings the ruined helicopter turned out to be unique and precious. In this isolated village trees might be dangerous and the sun might go to its mum. Through the wrecked ‘eyes’ of the helicopter this observational documentary tells a story of the eldest, middle and youngest members of the Ardoteli family.

 

Gabriella Kessler

Goldsmiths College, London University

'Sebastián' - Cotita’s siblings are among the 30 000 who went missing during Argentina’s bloodiest dictatorship in the late 70s. Her brother (along with his partner who was pregnant) and her sister (also pregnant) were seized and killed by the military junta in power. Their bodies have never been recovered. Cotita has spent the last twenty years trying to locate her siblings’ children, born in captivity. In February of 2006, she finally found her brother’s son, Sebastián.

 

Cleopatra A. Mukula

Brunel University

‘Umoja - independent women' explores the lives of women in the Samburu region of Kenya who reported being raped by British soldiers on military exercises over a period spanning 1965-2002.  The documentary provides an intimate portrayal of these women and their children, and how they have endured decades of stigma throughout their quest for justice.

 

Recha Hosseinnia

Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology, University of Manchester

'A Shameful Art' asks why Egyptian society judges belly dancers so harshly.  They are professional entertainers, central to the celebration of special occasions such as births, engagements and weddings and yet despite their importance, these women are often seen as dishonourable.

 

Julia Mills

University College Falmouth

‘The Saiga Story’ explores the lives of rural families in Kazakhstan who have endured severe economic hardship following the collapse of the USSR.  Poverty and unemployment have forced many to resort to the illegal poaching of the endangered saiga deer.  The experience of these people has been the polar opposite to the wealth and opportunity that capitalism has brought to cities such as Moscow.

 

Overseas bursary:

Dipti Gogna

Film and Television Institute, Pune, India

'A Call too Far' looks at the impact on local call centre staff in India of the flood of financial services and call centre operations from the UK.