Dam/age : a film with Arundhati Roy / producer & director, Aradhana Seth ; a Diverse production for BBC.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Roy, Arundhati, on-screen participant.

Seth, Aradhana, film director, film producer.

Sengupta, Shuddhabrata, interviewer.

British Broadcasting Corporation, production company.

Diverse Production (Firm), production company.

Icarus Films, distributor.

Language:

English

Undetermined

Subjects (All):

Roy, Arundhati--Trials, litigation, etc.

Roy, Arundhati.

Sardar Sarovar (Narmada) Project.

Economic development projects--Social aspects--India--Gujarat.

Economic development projects.

Water resources development--Social aspects--India--Gujarat.

Water resources development.

Water resources development--Social aspects.

Economic development projects--Social aspects.

India--Gujarat.

Genre:

Documentary television programs.

Nonfiction television programs.

Video recordings.

Physical Description:

1 streaming video file (50 min.) : digital, sound, color

polychrome

Other Title:

Damage

Place of Publication:

[Brooklyn, New York] : [Distributed by] Icarus Films, [2018]

Language Note:

In English and unidentified Indic languages with English subtitles.

System Details:

System requirements: Firefox 4 and up; Safari 5.0 and up; Chrome version 21 and up; Internet Explorer 8 and up; Flash or HTML5 player.

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

video file

Summary:

Traces writer Arundhati Roy's bold and controversial campaign against the Narmada Valley dam project in India, a massive undertaking that would drown fertile farmlands and displace over a million people. Follows the events that led to her arrest for contempt of court.

Participant:

Arundhati Roy, interviewer, Shuddhabrata Sengupta.

Credits:

Camera, Ranjan Palit, Satyajit Pande ; additional music, Fratelli Brothers ; film editor, Peter Spenceley.

Notes:

Title from title frames.

Originally produced by: Diverse Production/BBC, ©2002; previously released in 2003.

Description based on online resource; title from title frames (Docuseek2, viewed December 11, 2018).

Publisher Number:

if-dam Docuseek2

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.