Tuesday Nov 14, 2017
6pm
Loft Cinema/Loft Film Festival
Tent Village Trailer 2.5 Min from Nilima Abrams on Vimeo.
India’s roadside tent dwellers, through the eyes of their teenaged children
The Tent Village is a participatory project Nilima created in collaboration with four Indian teenagers. After learning basic filmmaking, the students decided to film at roadside hovels where garbage workers and hair-collectors live. The filmmakers’ unique perspectives (being themselves from the community they film) guide the viewer through life in the “tent village”, bringing a compassionate yet unsentimental peek into the lives of people who are often barely seen as people at all.
The Tent Village has been screened at the Alhambra Theatre Festival, the Society for Visual Anthropology (SVA) Film and Media Festival, the Vermont International Film Festival, the Austin Asian American Film Festival, as well as nationally on PBS through the To the Contrary Festival.