Films of Desire: Sexuality & the Cinematic Imagination
Neemrana Fort Palace, Rajasthan, India, March 7 - 10, 2007

Do you work on issues related to sexuality?
Do images and representations challenge you?
Would you like to be in a space where all of this comes together?

The Event:

Films of Desire: Sexuality and the Cinematic Imagination is a four day event, featuring:

• Screenings of features, short films, documentaries, animation, music videos and experimental films that engage with ideas of sexuality in South and Southeast Asia;


• Panel discussions around the different ways in which desires get articulated, normative and non-normative representations of sexualities and how filmmakers' intentions may be displaced by multiple readings by the audience.

• To foster a more complex understanding of representation, sexuality, gender and rights;


• To strengthen advocacy strategies that might include visual representations;


• To expand resource pool of people who work on issues of sexuality, rights and representation in South and Southeast Asia.

• Activists, visual media creators (film, digital or animation), academics, students, advocates, journalists and media practitioners who are interested in sexuality and representation.


• Preference will be given to participants at an early stage of their career who currently live and work in South and Southeast Asia.


• The event will be conducted in English. Participants must be fluent in English.

• Sent to us as a DVD with subtitles in English;


• Less than twenty (20) minutes in duration.

• Individuals from South and Southeast Asia: Rs.4500 or USD100


• Institutions from South and Southeast Asia: Rs.6500 or USD150


• All others: Rs.11,000 or USD250

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