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#unfair

Indian society conflates different forms of prejudices and discriminations relating to skin, colour, race, caste and class, and their interrelationship with each other. Consequently, frequent acts and events of individual and collective violence against the ‘other’, across the country, lead to public humiliation, shame and torture. We seek to bring under the lens – ‘blackness’ in ‘brown’ spaces.

Through this film we engage in dialogue with the “African” diaspora here in India, as well as diverse individuals from various backgrounds, to understand what constructs - the images, thoughts and ideas; one associates with the concerns of prejudice and discrimination.

  • Anoshka Matthews
    Director
  • Paranjoy Guha Thakurta
    Director
  • Mohit Bhalla
    Director
  • Wenceslaus Mendes
    Director
  • Wenceslaus Mendes
    Writer
  • Un-Fair Web
    Writer
  • Rajiv Mehrotra
    Producer
  • Public Service Broadcast Trust
    Producer
  • Tulika Srivastava
    Executive Producer
  • Ridhima Mehra
    Executive Producer
  • Natasha Narwal
    Cinematography
  • Nitasha Kapahi
    Cinematography
  • Priyanka Singh
    Cinematography
  • Wenceslaus Mendes
    Cinematography
  • Anoushka Matthews
    Additional Camera
  • Aravind Ramachandran
    Additional Camera
  • Brijesh Birua
    Additional Camera
  • Mehul Bhanti
    Additional Camera
  • Milann Tress John
    Additional Camera
  • Phoebe Marisa Pereira
    Additional Camera
  • Sahil
    Additional Camera
  • Tabish Shaikh
    Additional Camera
  • Nitant Kumar
    Drone Videography
  • Kunal Chauhan
    Drone Videography
  • Wenceslaus Mendes
    Editor
  • Paranjoy Guha Thakurta
    Associate Producers
  • Wenceslaus Mendes
    Associate Producers
  • Aldrin Rodrigues
    Sound Design and Audio
  • Wenceslaus Mendes
    Sound Design and Audio
  • Aldrin Rodrigues
    Sound Mixing
  • Avdesh Jha
    Sound Mixing
  • Anoushka Matthews
    Location Sound and Interview Recording
  • Mohit Bhalla
    Location Sound and Interview Recording
  • Milann Tress John
    Location Sound and Interview Recording
  • Wenceslaus Mendes
    Location Sound and Interview Recording
  • Hemant Sreekumar
    Music
  • Wenceslaus Mendes
    Music
  • Arjun Sen
    Music
  • Rinosh George
    Music
  • Delhi Sultanate
    Music
  • Diffused Beats
    Music
  • Farooq Umar
    Music
  • Neerja
    Music
  • Sushmit Sen Chronicles
    Music
  • Dima Sun
    Music
  • Trusha Sawant
    Graphic Design and Animation
  • Yogesh Desai
    Graphic Design and Animation
  • Diwan Singh
    Colour Grading
  • Wenceslaus Mendes
    Colour Grading
  • Anoushka Matthews
    Research
  • Anupam Chakravartty
    Research
  • Paranjoy Guha Thakurta
    Research
  • Srinanda Ganguly
    Research
  • Vikhar Ahmed Sayeed
    Research
  • Wenceslaus Mendes
    Research
  • Alisha Chatterjee
    Production Assistants
  • Nidhi Kol
    Production Assistants
  • Phoebe Marisa Pereira
    Production Assistants
  • Project Type:
    Documentary
  • Runtime:
    55 minutes 5 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    January 18, 2019
  • Production Budget:
    35,000 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    India
  • Country of Filming:
    India
  • Language:
    English
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
Director Biography - Anoshka Matthews , Paranjoy Guha Thakurta, Mohit Bhalla, Wenceslaus Mendes

Wenceslaus Mendes is a film-maker: cinematographer, editor by profession; practicing and working with multimedia and mediums

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Director Statement

#UNFAIR is an articulation, a ‘proposition’, a ‘subjectile’ of skin, colour, race and caste; constructed through a process of ‘co-labour-ableing’.

This is a process of meaning creation and generation, through a call for action, addressing a shared concern through various stakeholders, communities and partners, constructing multiple alternatives through an evaluative process, building a collective knowing - ‘knowledge’.

A rendering that we propose is, working with each other in cooperation (bringing into action/contact), against the constructed norm. Discourse, which makes things explicit, relies on a background of tacit or practical knowing. The co-construction of shared knowing in discourse involves the negotiation of tacit meanings, for instance of the affordances of artifacts. The network of these meanings constitutes the social world in which we live and which we come to understand by building collaborative knowing. Epistemology asks how knowledge is possible; social epistemology shows how knowing is interactively constructed within communities

Processes of selecting visual sequences and each on-camera interviewee; entailed correspondence, meetings and discussions over numerous instances. Processes of cinematic rendering, content and locations for an interview have all been a constant shared decision by both the interviewee and production crew across timelines of over months. All the interviewees share personal accounts, narratives, research and data that they choose to bring to and co-labor with this film.

- Wenceslaus Mendes for #UNFAIR