"Outside Mercy" - A Pedestrian Pictures Production
"Date: Friday 8th April, 2005 Venue: SCM House (near Priyadarshini Handlooms), Mission Road Time: 6.00 pm Suggested contribution: Rs. 50/-
Dear Friends
We invite you to the screening of ¨Outside Mercy¨ a short documentary on the serious food crisis in the tsunami affected villages as also the loss of livelihoods.
A group of us have been actively involved in the relief and rehabilitation processes in the tsunami affected villages of TN and Pondicherry. While the mainstream media has been covering the sucess of the relief efforts, there are several issues that are being suppressed and need to be brought to the notice of the general public. These include issues of exclusion in the relief process and discrimnation of dalits.
While we tried to write articles/notes/observations and get them published this more or less failed. As a result we have made a short documentary film that documents the losses and struggle of those thousands of people who have been severly affected by the tsunami yet have received little or no relief. Further, there is no plan to rehabilitate them as is being done for the fisherpeople.
This short film is called ¨Outside Mercy¨ and is about 30 minutes long.
Warm regards Hari (98441 84512) On behalf of Pedestrian Pictures"