A Flaming Forest: Film Screening and Panel Discussion
Welcome to an exclusive screening & discussion of the NMBU-supported film A Flaming Forest. The film explores the losses and resistance of an Indigenous community in India as a result of exclusionary conservation practices. Public event, refreshments served.
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Vitenparken, NMBU campus, Høgskoleveien 1, 1433 Ås
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Welcome to an exclusive, pre-launch screening of the film A Flaming Forest, directed by Salman Javeed, Satya Ambasta, and Vivek Singh Sangwan.
Premiering later this year at the All Living Things Environmental Film Festival in India, the film explores the intimate relationships between an Indigenous tribal community in India called the Soliga adivasis and the forest in which they live.
The film highlights the Soliga peoples' displacement-induced loss and their resistance to exclusionary conservation practices in the Biligiri Rangaswamy Temple Tiger Reserve. The film is a culmination of a two-decade long collaboration between researchers and filmmakers. Through a long-term engagement, the film documents the story of contestation and loss - both social and ecological - and calls for an alternative vision for conservation.
The film was financially supported by the research project Greenmentality at NMBU's Faculty of Landscape and Society.
The screening will be followed by a panel discussion moderated by Ian Bryceson (Professor Emeritus at NMBU's Faculty of Landscape and Society).
You are welcome to join all or part of the event, and to share this invitation to your networks.
Program:
- 09:00: Doors open
- 09:15 – 09:25: Opening words from Tor A. Benjaminsen on behalf NMBU's Political Ecology Forum and Simon Schowanek representing NMBU's Interdisciplinary Conservation Network
- 09:25 – 09:55: Introduction to the film by Nitin D. Rai
- 09:55 – 10:45: Film screening (48 mins)
- 10:45 – 11:00: Break
- 11:00 – 11:40: Panel discussion (panelists listed below)
- 11:40 – 11:55: Questions from the audience
- 11:55 – 12:00: Close
Panel:
- Nitin D. Rai (Research Director of the film and independent scholar)
- Aida Cuní-Sanchez (Tropical forest expert and Associate Professor at NMBU's Faculty of Landscape and Society)
- Meley Mekonen Rannestad (Climate and natural resource governance expert at NMBU's Faculty of Environmental Sciences and Natural Resource Management)
The event is hosted by NMBU's Political Ecology Forum (POLLEN) and Interdisciplinary Conservation Network (ICN)