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Description
Presented at Globians Film Festival 2005: Thatta Kedona is a remarkable
village in rural Pakistan. 36 volunteers from Western countries have
visited and coached the village people in a help to self help project
since 1991. Dolls and tin toys reflecting regional cultures of Pakistan
are products which generate cash income for the farming families
through the local cooperative-like NGO. But those volunteers from
Western countries are also having fun by working creatively in a remote
village of Islamic society with strong overlays by the traditional
culture of Indus Valley (Harappa 3.000 B.C.), the Mogul period,
influences from the colonial British-India period and the Punjab
country culture. Hence the playfulness of a "toy village" is on both
sides: for the villagers by manufacturing hand-craft toys for cash in a
not-yet industrialized region avoiding rural exodus to the big cites
(poverty slums that are generated in cities by migration). -- And on
the other side one can notice the joy of Western volunteers being
confronted at work by their own history framework but in present time
and with a very foreign and sometimes strange context. Director:
Joachim Polzer
Producer:
Joachim Polzer
Production Company:
Polzer Media Group GmbH & Globians Media Project
Audio/Visual:
sound,
color
Language:
German and English
Contact Information:
All
rights reserved for commercial use of this work. Please contact Polzer
Media Group GmbH (Potsdam, Germany) for licensing (www.polzer.org).
Music used in this work is subject to licensing at www.magnatune.com.
"Globians" is a registered trade and service mark. The documentary "Thatta Kedona - The Toy Village of Pakistan" has a
total running time of 183 minutes and is split in to two parts of 91
and 92 min. each. - A version with English subtitles of both parts is
also available at http://www.archive.org/details/globiansfilmfestival
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