GoCreat: June 2008

Day 4 and 5 were intense with each participant working at a feverish pace, learning the ropes, and producing their very own stories.

Over the past 5 days at the workshop, they polished their scripts, visualised possibilities, created storyboards and finally put it all together today (May 30) as their first Digital stories.

GoCreat was privileged to have 5 distinguished persons join us at the end of the workshop to preview and comment on the work. We had Jonnathan Josenhans (Film animation), Apurva Kulkarni (Artist, Art historian and critique), Rahul Srivastave (Writer and free lance researcher), Anita Haladi (Economics lecturer, film buff and organiser of training for students in film) and Isabel Vaz (English lecturer, Director of drama and film and as she called herself a ‘story teller’). We had an enlightening discussion on the possibilities and limitations of the DST.

For the facilitators Gasper and Alito it was an encouraging and learning experience. As one of the participants put it: "We gained so much... a voice... a craft... and a path."

A more detailed evaluation of the workshop and its process will follow.

But now, without ado, here are the films...

Sanvad (Dialogue) | Milan
(Marathi | Playing time: 4.11)