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Memesys Culture Lab is a cinema and new media studio at the intersection of science, philosophy and culture. The studio will actively participate in cinema, literature, pedagogy, technology, ar Read More...
We are thrilled to unveil the new name of our flagship game! Presenting: Shasn - The Political Strategy Board Game Shasn (formerly known as Manifesto) is an exciting simulation of real-world politics, where every player is a politician in the middle of a heated election.
What is going on? While we understand that juries have responsibilities towards secrecy and they have the exclusive right to give or not give awards to films, the story regarding our film's fate at the national awards is slowly turning into an unpleasant Chinese torture for everyone associated with our film. Can we just clear the air here? We have tried to keep our distance from this issue but we have crowdfunding investors, supporting organisations, producers and crew members who are asking us questions regarding this situation and we have no answers for them. Can somebody from the National Awards jury kindly just step up and clarify if this happened or not?
Announcing our University Tour! If you'd like to screen An Insignificant Man in your university with the directors being present physically or on Skype, give us a shout! You can be based anywhere in the world.
We are now onto the most critical stretch of our run with this film - talking to students and teachers! Now is an important time to speak about, understand and engage in a meaningful dialogue with our politics instead of getting lost in the polemical chatter that exists around us. We'd like to talk to you individually and personally - share our journey and perspectives - in classrooms. If you'd like help us organise a screening, just put your name in the comments section or drop us a line at info@aimthemovie.com.
Want to know how An Insignificant Man was made? Watch the latest episode of "Vice Talks Film" feat. directors Khushboo Ranka & Vinay Shukla.
Full film released on YouTube! After running to packed houses for a month in theatres across India, the filmmakers have put the film online for free. Don't miss it!
An Insignificant Man chronicles Arvind Kejriwal and the Aam Aadmi Party, giving viewers an inside access into Kejriwal’s brand of politics which has split popular opinion like never before.
“A film like this will not get made in India again. This film offers different perspectives. How politics picks its issues, deliberates on them and how conveniently some of these are marginalised. You will walk out of the theatre a better voter after watching all of this.” - Ravish Kumar, NDTV
"Don't miss An Insignificant Man. It's a stirring film that shows how powerful journalism can be when it becomes art."
“Three-act saga of heroes, villains and casualties, told through handheld shots collected over a span of time and from different locations.” - Nandini Ramnath, The Scroll
“Yogendra Yadav is Eduardo Saverin to Kejriwal’s ruthless Mark Zuckerberg” - Uday Bhatia, Livemint
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inR_O_2Apm0&feature=youtu.be
Give ‘An Insignificant Man’ a clear-headed watch, and be surprised by the observations being made by young India — on itself, by itself.
And it is this humour — chancy, deadpan and oddly unsettling — that’s the biggest achievement of this film. We are made to witness (firsthand and not as some lazy mockery) the sheer absurdity of democratic reformation, and the media that observes it."
Tickets available on BookMyShow.Don't miss the groundbreaking non-fiction political thriller that's creating waves across India - An Insignificant Man! The nail-biting, entertainer with REAL footage has been getting standing ovations everywhere and critics love it too
“An Insignificant Man could well be one of Shakespeare’s political plays, only it’s all for real.”
- Namrata Joshi, The Hindu
“It's like the star-driven movies, man. An Insignificant Man is as good as mainstream, big screen entertainment!”
- Mayank Shekhar, Mid-day
Catch the film while its in theatres! Get your tickets at @BookMyShow: https://goo.gl/HfSL6a
Featuring: Arvind Kejriwal, Yogendra Yadav, Santosh Koli, Manish Sisodia
Directors: Khushboo Ranka, Vinay Shukla
Producer: Anand Gandhi
VICE presents: An Insignificant Man.
We are finally releasing in India! Watch it in theaters on 17th November.#Nov17AIM
A big update - we won! Thank you to everyone who has believed in this fight. We did it. We hope that this verdict reaffirms every other filmmaker out there who is looking to tackle hard political subjects in their films.
The support for our fight continues to grow everyday. The International Documentary Association has now kicked off a campaign against the censorship of An Insignificant Man. We are grateful to see this kind of a global coalition stitching itself together and standing shoulder to shoulder with us.
We spoke to CNN-News18 last night about the censorship being enforced on political films in India right now.
An Insignificant Man won the Best Documentary Prize at the Brooklyn Film Festival!
We are all deeply indebted to everyone who has stood up and spoken for us over the last few days. The EDN - European Documentary Network has launched a campaign in support of our film. Do help spread the word
Over the last few months, a lot of you have asked us about the film’s release in India. And you have been right to question why the film is showing everywhere but India. It's been humbling to get all the love and attention internationally but we made this film for our neighbours, friends, crowd funders and strangers who are thirsting for a ringside view of politics. Politicians and political parties impact so much of our lives everyday and we wanted to make a film which was steeped in their world. We applied for a CBFC certificate because it should be possible to screen this film legally in India. However, the last few months have been very difficult. The CBFC has treated us in an arbitrary manner, all the while leaking reports to the media about our film. At the end, they have given us a U/A certificate subject to us getting an NOC from the Prime Minister of India, the Chief Minister of Delhi and the ex-Chief Minister of Delhi. This is an impossible demand. There is no way we, or any other filmmaker in the future, will be able to fulfil this. But more importantly, this is also an unethical demand. Especially, if we expect artists to fearlessly tell meaningful stories. We cannot progress as a democracy if every statement on politics is regarded as a threat.
Our poster has been featured by Mint Lounge amongst "Film posters that break the visual clutter with graphic design treatments and provide an alternative to star-led photography". Read the full aritcle here: https://goo.gl/tekhL0
Special shoutout to our poster designers Svabhu Kohli & Viplov Singh. You can see more of their breathtaking art at:-
Svabhu - https://www.behance.net/svabhukohli
Viplov - https://www.behance.net/viplovsingh
We won the Best Documentary prize at the New York Indian Film Festival!
When Land Is Lost, Do We Eat Coal?
Korba, a small district in Central India is where a fourth of India's coal is mined, mostly for producing electricity. Mining over decades has left the land ravaged, the air and water severely contaminated and the lives of its people, disrupted. Through the story of a tribal woman who is set to lose her land and a local activist fighting for justice, the film seeks to make a comment on the present day development paradigm where those who pay the price for development seldom benefit from it.
Directed by: Faiza Khan For ElseVR
Right To Pray
A group of female activists combat the regressive patriarchy that bars their entry into the sanctum sanctorum of the temple of Trimbakeshwar, India. Challenging the notion of impurity of women, and an archaic 450 year old tradition, they seek to exercise their right to pray, against the will of the system and the people.
Directed by: Khushboo Ranka For ElseVR.
We are absolutely thrilled to announce that our film is ready.
The film is now called An Insignificant Man. Here's the new poster.
Our film is now backed by the Sundance Documentary Institute! Previously, Sundance has supported Academy Award winners and nominees like Citizenfour, Dirty Wars & How To Survive A Plague. This wouldn’t have been possible without our crowd funding backers and others who have supported the project in various ways. Thank you for being there for us, for sharing our posts, for sending us angry emails and for waiting. The edit is done and the final film will be ready soon.
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