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Amrit beeja = The eternal seed / SouthView Productions presents ; a film by Meera Dewan ; script inspired by Vandana Shiva's writings ... [and others].
LIBRA VHS HD2072 .A67 1996
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Undetermined
- Subjects (All):
- Green revolution--India.
- Green revolution.
- Green Revolution.
- Grain trade.
- India.
- Grain trade--India.
- Peasants--India.
- Peasants.
- Agriculture--India.
- Agriculture.
- Genre:
- Documentary films.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videocassette (43 min.) : sound, color ; 1/2 in.
- 1/2 in.
- polychrome
- Other Title:
- Eternal seed
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Women Make Movies, 1996.
- Language Note:
- In English, peasants speak in local dialects with English subtitles.
- System Details:
- VHS - NTSC.
- analog
- magnetic
- VHS
- NTSC
- Summary:
- Rural peasants protest Green Revolution, preferring the traditional methods of farming. The film is comparing the practices of woman who consider seeds sacred with multinational companies' use of sterilized hybrids.
- Credits:
- Camera, Sunny Joseph ; editing, M. Subramani, Sameera Jain ; music director and singer Shubha Mudgal.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.
- OCLC:
- 39508851
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