#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.
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Anoshka MatthewsDirector
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Paranjoy Guha ThakurtaDirector
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Mohit BhallaDirector
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Wenceslaus MendesDirector
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Wenceslaus MendesWriter
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Un-Fair WebWriter
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Rajiv MehrotraProducer
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Public Service Broadcast TrustProducer
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Tulika SrivastavaExecutive Producer
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Ridhima MehraExecutive Producer
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Natasha NarwalCinematography
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Nitasha KapahiCinematography
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Priyanka SinghCinematography
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Wenceslaus MendesCinematography
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Anoushka MatthewsAdditional Camera
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Aravind RamachandranAdditional Camera
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Brijesh BiruaAdditional Camera
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Mehul BhantiAdditional Camera
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Milann Tress JohnAdditional Camera
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Phoebe Marisa PereiraAdditional Camera
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SahilAdditional Camera
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Tabish ShaikhAdditional Camera
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Nitant KumarDrone Videography
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Kunal ChauhanDrone Videography
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Wenceslaus MendesEditor
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Paranjoy Guha ThakurtaAssociate Producers
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Wenceslaus MendesAssociate Producers
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Aldrin RodriguesSound Design and Audio
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Wenceslaus MendesSound Design and Audio
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Aldrin RodriguesSound Mixing
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Avdesh JhaSound Mixing
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Anoushka MatthewsLocation Sound and Interview Recording
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Mohit BhallaLocation Sound and Interview Recording
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Milann Tress JohnLocation Sound and Interview Recording
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Wenceslaus MendesLocation Sound and Interview Recording
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Hemant SreekumarMusic
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Wenceslaus MendesMusic
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Arjun SenMusic
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Rinosh GeorgeMusic
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Delhi SultanateMusic
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Diffused BeatsMusic
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Farooq UmarMusic
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NeerjaMusic
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Sushmit Sen ChroniclesMusic
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Dima SunMusic
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Trusha SawantGraphic Design and Animation
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Yogesh DesaiGraphic Design and Animation
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Diwan SinghColour Grading
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Wenceslaus MendesColour Grading
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Anoushka MatthewsResearch
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Anupam ChakravarttyResearch
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Paranjoy Guha ThakurtaResearch
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Srinanda GangulyResearch
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Vikhar Ahmed SayeedResearch
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Wenceslaus MendesResearch
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Alisha ChatterjeeProduction Assistants
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Nidhi KolProduction Assistants
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Phoebe Marisa PereiraProduction Assistants
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Project Type:Documentary
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Runtime:55 minutes 5 seconds
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Completion Date:January 18, 2019
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Production Budget:35,000 USD
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Country of Origin:India
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Country of Filming:India
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Language:English
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Shooting Format:Digital
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Aspect Ratio:16:9
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Film Color:Color
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First-time Filmmaker:No
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Student Project:No
Wenceslaus Mendes is a film-maker: cinematographer, editor by profession; practicing and working with multimedia and mediums
#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