I’m not an environmentalist,” Eriel Deranger explains in Gayatari Roshan and Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee’s Elemental. “I’m an indigenous rights activist.” Deranger—a thoughtful, fearless, tattooed young mother (with another baby on the way)—is the most charismatic among the doc’s globe-spanning subjects, although all are remarkable: a trio of boundary-pushers who share the belief that humankind’s survival rather urgently requires forging a more symbiotic relationship with the natural world.>> - Cheryl Eddy...
- 11/6/2014
- Fandor: Keyframe
I’m not an environmentalist,” Eriel Deranger explains in Gayatari Roshan and Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee’s Elemental. “I’m an indigenous rights activist.” Deranger—a thoughtful, fearless, tattooed young mother (with another baby on the way)—is the most charismatic among the doc’s globe-spanning subjects, although all are remarkable: a trio of boundary-pushers who share the belief that humankind’s survival rather urgently requires forging a more symbiotic relationship with the natural world.>> - Cheryl Eddy...
- 11/6/2014
- Keyframe
Film Southasia, Festival of South Asian Documentaries has announced its selection for 2013 edition. Fifteen Indian documentaries will be screened at the festival that will take place from 3-6 October in Kathmandu, Nepal. Film Southasia (Fsa) is a biennial festival that was set up in 1997 with the goal of popularizing the documentary.
Selected Indian films:
A Prayer For Aliyah by Zorawar Shukla
Algorithms by Ian McDonald
Big In Bollywood by Kenny Meehan and Bill Bowles
Celluloid Man by Shivendra Singh Dungarpur
Char…No Man’s Island by Sourav Sarangi
Elemental by Gayatri Roshan, Emmanuel Vaughn Lee
Fire In The Blood by Dylan Mohan Gray
Gaur in My Garden by Rita Banerji
Give Us This Day Our Daily Bread by Satchith Paulose
Immoral Daughters by Nakul Singh Sawhney
Invoking Justice by Deepa Dhanraj
Salma by Kim Longinotto
Sama by Shazia Khan
The Human Factor by Rudradeep Bhattacharjee
Voice of God by Bernd Lützeler...
Selected Indian films:
A Prayer For Aliyah by Zorawar Shukla
Algorithms by Ian McDonald
Big In Bollywood by Kenny Meehan and Bill Bowles
Celluloid Man by Shivendra Singh Dungarpur
Char…No Man’s Island by Sourav Sarangi
Elemental by Gayatri Roshan, Emmanuel Vaughn Lee
Fire In The Blood by Dylan Mohan Gray
Gaur in My Garden by Rita Banerji
Give Us This Day Our Daily Bread by Satchith Paulose
Immoral Daughters by Nakul Singh Sawhney
Invoking Justice by Deepa Dhanraj
Salma by Kim Longinotto
Sama by Shazia Khan
The Human Factor by Rudradeep Bhattacharjee
Voice of God by Bernd Lützeler...
- 8/17/2013
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
Fresh from garnering two Social Impact Media Awards (Special Jury Prize, Best Editing), Gayatri Roshan and Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee's Elemental opens May 17 in New York City with subsequent rollout to San Francisco, San Rafael, Washington D.C., Austin, Portland, Bellingham, and more to follow.The documentary profiles three environmental activists in different parts of the world: Rajendra Singh in India, trying to rehabilitate the Ganges river, Eriel Deranger, an indigenous activist to stop the tar sand pipeline project in her home province of Alberta, and Jay Harman, an inventor and naturalist trying to eradicate air pollution and reduce the energy consumption. Skillfully interweaving three timelines of these David vs. Goliath battles -- be them against pollution itself, non-responsive government, public perception, or lack of funding -- Elemental rises...
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- 5/16/2013
- Screen Anarchy
A new environmental documentary premiering this month targets the serious impacts humans have made on the planet.
"Elemental," directed and produced by Gayatri Roshan, combines narratives from three different environmental fights, including the controversy surrounding the proposed Keystone Xl pipeline, efforts to clean up the Ganges river in India and a man's battle against the rapidly warming climate.
In the clip below, an Indian government official faces severe opposition in his attempt to clean up the Ganges, which provides water for an estimated 500 million people.
You can see the film in theaters and on iTunes starting May 17. Take a look at the trailer here.
Nadir - Scene from "Elemental" from Go Project Films on Vimeo.
"Elemental," directed and produced by Gayatri Roshan, combines narratives from three different environmental fights, including the controversy surrounding the proposed Keystone Xl pipeline, efforts to clean up the Ganges river in India and a man's battle against the rapidly warming climate.
In the clip below, an Indian government official faces severe opposition in his attempt to clean up the Ganges, which provides water for an estimated 500 million people.
You can see the film in theaters and on iTunes starting May 17. Take a look at the trailer here.
Nadir - Scene from "Elemental" from Go Project Films on Vimeo.
- 5/16/2013
- by Nick Visser
- Huffington Post
Can a film be too beautiful? With its appreciative close-ups of bubbling, pearl-gray rivers and dramatic vistas of green-gray oil sands, the eco-doc Elemental is so stunningly shot it might well be pollution porn, if anyone wanted such a thing. Fighting to eliminate these gorgeous toxin-scapes are the film's heroes—Rajendra Singh, Eriel Deranger, and Jay Harman—three activists with vastly different personalities and backgrounds striving to repair their local environs with the imperfect tools available to them. The soft-spoken but impatient Singh, a water activist, tries to convince his fellow citizens to protect the sacred Ganges River from excessive damming and human waste. The earnestly indignant Deranger, a Native Canadian, has taken up the even more quixotic miss...
- 5/16/2013
- Village Voice
Sometimes all a revolution needs is the perseverance of one person to begin. Elemental follows three environmental crusaders aiming to drastically change the world around them. Directed by Emmanuel Vaughn-Lee and Gayatri Roshan, Elemental begins in India where millions of people rely on the Ganges River. The once pristine river, however, has been filled with pollutants and factory run-off for many years and as a result is dead or near death in many places. Yet, the Ganges continues to be used for bathing and clothes washing as well as a toxic dumping ground. Rajendra Singh is making it his mission to do something about the state of the Ganges after having successfully revived several smaller rivers.
- 10/23/2012
- by Caitlyn Collins
- SmellsLikeScreenSpirit
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