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Meera Dewan
1996. 43min.
Karnataka, India.
With insightful interviews and rare footage
from India's agricultural industry, this keenly observed film
depicts Indian women's struggle to use traditional farming
practices instead of chemically-based agriculture. Comparing
the practices of women who consider seeds sacred with multinational
companies' use of sterilized hybrids, this evocative analysis
celebrates the scientific basis of women's native traditions
in a provocative look at the evolving meanings of healthy
land use.
Indian National Film Festival, Best Environmental Film
Okomedia Film Festival, Germany, Grand Prize
Bombay International Film Festival, Non-Fiction Film Award,
Second Place
Margaret Mead Film Festival
"With biting satire and a brutally truthful camera, Eternal
Seed debunks popular misconceptions about technology and tradition,
men and women, growth and decay."
Nikhat Kazmi Sunday Times of India
About the Director ...
After Graduation and 6 years experience
with advertising films in Bombay, Meera Dewan moved to Documentary
filmmaking in 1982.
Her first Documentary, an anti-dowry for Films Division "Gift
of Love" won 11 International awards at leading film festivals
worldwide. She has produced over 30 documentaries for "Doordarshan"
and various Ministries of Govt. of India - Ministry of Information
& Broadcasting, Ministry of Social Welfare, Ministry of Rural
Development, Department of Women & Child Development, as well
as state Governments. As a Film Director of "Southview Productions"
she collaborates with TV stations around the world, to produce
films on human rights and themes of alternate visions, particularly
around issues relating to Indian women and the women's movement.
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