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Vasudha Joshi
Vasudha Joshi
After studying sociology, Vasudha worked for an organisation to monitor racism and police atrocities in Southhall, UK. In 1985, she joined Bandung Productions as a researcher/reporter for Channel 4 News, which focused on people of colour in the UK. Voices of Baliapal, which she co-directed with Ranjan Palit, explores the non-violent resistance by 70,000 fishermen and farmers to attempts to displace them for a missile testing range. It was screened at the Indian Panorama in 1989. In 1991, she also co-directed Follow The Rainbow with Ranjan Palit. For Maya is set in the Himalayan districts of Kumaon and Garhwal. It explores the lives ...
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Filmography
- Voices of Baliapal (1988)
- Follow The Rainbow (1991)
- For Maya (1997)
- Almoriana (2000)
- Girl Song (2003)
- Moustaches Unlimited (2005)
- To Catch the Wind (2008)
- Songlines (2010)
- Cancer Katha (2012)
Awards
- Voices of Baliapal won the Best Film on Social Issues at the 36th National Awards in 1988 for "the meticulousness of its investigation and the clarity and conviction with which it carries the story of the non-violent resistance of the people of Baliapal against the establishing of a missile testing range of their rich and fertile lands".
- Her Cancer Katha won the Special Jury award at the 60th National Awards in 2012.
Did You Know?
In Cancer Katha, Vasudha looked back at her own life and how she fought the ailment. Vasudha was diagnosed with Stage II of breast cancer in 2008. The documentary is about her fight and musings on love, death and memory.