Indian filmmaker awarded UNDP fellowship
By IANSThursday, January 13, 2011
NEW DELHI - Delhi-based independent filmmaker Naghma Iman is one among the four awardees of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) fellowship for their work on women’s status in their regions and climate change.
The UNDP Asia-Pacific Human Development fellowship has been awarded to two media people from Bhutan and India and two researchers from Vietnam and Indonesia to “deepen their analytical capacity for cutting edge research on human development and to strengthen policy advocacy”, a statement said Thursday.
Iman, for the last 12 years, has been making documentaries covering gender issues in India.
According to the statement, under the fellowship she will produce a short film on girl slum dwellers in Jogeshwari in Mumbai.
“Through the eyes of one resident woman, ‘The Shifting Line’ will analyze issues of education, hunger and the aspiration to learn among girl slum dwellers,” the statement said.
Anuradha Rajivan, team leader for the Asia-Pacific Human Development reports, said: “The true spirit of the fellowships lies in their ability to engage and promote change from within and to push the boundaries of human development thinking and advocacy.”
The other recipients of the fellowship are Kesang Dorjee, a journalist from Bhutan, and researchers Abidah Billah Setyowati from Indonesia and Ngoc Ho Son from Vietnam.
Like Iman, Dorjee - an independent journalist and film maker - has been awarded for her work for women in her country for the past 13 years.
The researchers have been awarded for their research in assisting their countries’ policy makers to address the human impacts of climate change.
