KP SASI
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14 March 1958 Thrissur, Trichur, Thrissur district, Kerala state |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Occupation | Film director and Cartoonist |
K.P.Sasi (Malayalam: കെ പി ശശി) (Karivannoor Puthanvettil Sasi) KP Sasi the son of K. Damodaran (25 February 1912 – 3 July 1976) was a Marxist theoretician and writer and one of the founder leaders of the Communist Party in Kerala, India. K.P.Sasi is an Indian film director and Cartoonist from Bengaluru K.P. Sasi started working as a cartoonist while being a student at JNU during the late seventies. He started experimenting with films on 8mm during the early eighties. His documentaries include "A Valley Refuses to Die", "We Who Make History", "Living in Fear", "In the Name of Medicine" and "Voices from a Disaster". His feature films include Ilayum Mullum, on the social and psychological violence on women in Kerala, Ek Alag Mausamand Ssh..Silence Please, a silent comedy film on development. His films have been screened and awarded at several national and international film festivals.
2009 A CLIMATE CALL FROM THE COAST This documentary film is a call from coastal communities in Kerala state of south India, who are beginning to see the impacts of global warming and climate change at close quarters. While scientists have yet to establish how exactly weather, wind and waves change, the fisher folk find an angrier sea carving out more and more of their land. They are concerned about the changing course of ocean currents and disappearance of small fish from the coastal waters. Pollution and construction along the shore make things even worse. Though their carbon footprint is very small, these local coastal communities bear the brunt of mounting emissions worldwide. They call for leaner, cleaner production processes and demand a place in the climate change debate.
2009 LIKE LEAVES IN A STORM A documentary on hardships and the effect of globalization on tea garden workers in India.
2009 TSUNAMI REHABILITATION: AN UNFINISHED BUSINESS Four years on, rehabilitation with an unprecedented level of humanitarian support has helped a large number of tsunami affected people get back their livelihoods. At the same time tsunami rehabilitation is also the story of failed promises and missed lessons. This scenario raises questions about humanitarian standards and the rights of the disaster-affected people. Besides, there is the challenge of ensuring safe life on the coasts. There is also the issue of dilution of coastal environmental norms to make way for business as part of the global neoliberal agenda. In the film humanitarian workers and local communities analyse these aspects of rehabilitation and seek answers.
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