A film by Teenaa Kaur

The Woods are Calling

The Woods are Calling

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About the film

This is a documentary film based on the life and transformational journey of Metha, along with other tribal hunters in the village of Nagaland called Khonoma, as he gives up hunting to save the forest where they have been hunting for food for centuries and also to conserve an endangered bird called “Blyth’s Tragopan”. Broadcast on Doordarshan Produced by PSBT. Dhaka International Film Festival, Bangladesh, 2017International Environmental Festival, Yerevan

NPS International Children’s Film Festival, Guwahati, 2018Marin County Intl. Festival of Short Film and Video,2018

Quotes from the Earth film festival, New Delhi 201People’s Film Collective, Kolkata, 2017

Director

Teenaa Kaur

Teenaa Kaur

Writer, Director

Teenaa has been involved in the world of storytelling since 2005. Based in Mumbai, she worked with Zee TV as a Promo Director. However, following her urge and dream of storytelling she started doing documentary films since 2010. She studied Film Appreciation from Film and Television Institute India, Pune 2012. She is a Post Graduate in Mass Communications and a Production and Industrial Engineering Graduate.

“When the Sun didn’t rise” has received the “AND” Fund from BUSAN International Film Festival. It was also selected for DOCEDGE Kolkata, 2011-12and then in DOC WOK, 2014. Doc Wok is a part of DOK Leipzig, the International Festival for Documentary and Animated Films.

In 2013 she was awarded a fellowship by Time Warner foundation supported Asia Society, New York for her first feature film screenplay “The Red Autumn”.

She has received a Fellowship grant from Public Service Broadcasting Trust, (PSBT) for a documentary titled “The Woods are calling”. Khonoma a village in Nagaland, in North east of India where tribal Naga hunters have banned hunting of wild animals and logging of trees for conserving the biodiversity of the forest and reviving the survival of a rare endangered pheasant bird called “Tragopan”.

“In Symphony with Earth!” is a documentary based on the people in India growing natural fibre and living sustainable lives in tune with nature was broadcast on National Geographic and Fox History (2012-13).

 “The deer, tree and me” is a short documentary film based on the relationship of a chinkara and a lady who adopts him. It has premiered at SIGNS film festival Cochin, Kerala 2015 and in Kolkata International film festival 2015.

Her debut documentary film on a martial art form celebration named as “Hola! The Mighty Colors” was a part of Sikh International Film Festival in Asia Society and Museum, New York, 2012.

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