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Dreaming of Words
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Wikipedia article
'Dreaming of Words' is a 2021 Indian documentary film directed and produced by Nandan. 'Dreaming of Words' has received numerous accolades, including National Film Award for Best Educational/Motivational/Instructional Film (2020) awarded to Nandan as both director and producer at the 68th National Film Awards. The documentary traces the life and work of Njattyela Sreedharan, a fourth standard drop-out, who compiles a dictionary connecting four major Dravidian languages.
Synopsis
Njattyela Sreedharan, a fourth standard drop-out, compiles a dictionary connecting four major Dravidian languages. Travelling across four states and doing extensive research, he spent twenty five years making the multilingual dictionary. This unique dictionary offers a comparative study of Malayalam, Kannada, Tamil and Telugu. 'Dreaming of Words' traces Sreedharan's life, work, love for languages and the struggles to get the dictionary published. The film also explores the linguistic and cultural diversity in India.
People featured
The documentary follows Njattyela Sreedharan's unparalleled determination to complete his 'Dictionary of Four Dravidian Languages'.The film also features P. K. Pokker, former director of Kerala Bhasha Institute, who decided to publish Sreedharan's Tamil - Malayalam dictionary in 2012 and K. P. Mohanan, the secretary of Kerala Sahitya Akademi.
Also featured in the documentary are Seetharam Master, N. P. Usha and K. K. Ramesh.
Release
'Dreaming of Words' had its world premiere at the International Mother Language Day Celebrations 2021 organised by the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts and the Ministry of Education (India) in partnership with UNESCO. This was followed by an international premiere as part of Kultura Con at the Brazilian Cultural Center in Angola.
'Dreaming of Words' had its American premiere at the Micheaux Film Festival on 26 April 2021.
The documentary was screened at the annual convention of the Modern Language Association and the annual conference of the Linguistic Society of America in January 2022.
The film was released as video on demand on Amazon Prime Video (USA and UK), Gumroad, Cave, ABC Talkies and MovieSaints in May 2022.https://indiawest.com/2022/06/23/inspirational-documentary-dreaming-of-words-is-on-amazon/?fbclid=IwAR0ejt0r9ta7krPkJ6pFl3bUsjro2xtpLjxPi9VLDT4E0IsQF7eaPafy31o
Official selections and screenings
Film festivals
* Central Florida Film Festival - 2022* Black Bear Film Festival - USA 2021
* Kultura Con Angola 2 March 2021
* RapidLion: The South African International Film Festival South Africa 9 April 2021
* Micheaux Film festival USA 26 April 2021 (American premiere)
* 61st Krakw Film Festival Video Library Poland - 30 May 2021
* Chicago South Asian Film Festival - 2021
* Washington DC South Asian Film Festival USA - 2021
* Agora Doc Market Thessaloniki Documentary Festivalhttps://www.filmfestival.gr/el/professionals-tdf-gr/agora-docs/video-library/movie/1177/13560 Greece - 24 June 2021
* Festival International du Film de Bretagne France (European premiere) 8 July 2021
* Festival Nits de cinema oriental de Vic (Asian Summer Film Festival) Spain 20 July 2021
* Florida South Asian Film Festival 2021
* Guangzhou International Documentary Film Festival China - 2022
* Atlanta Urban Mediamakers Festival 2021
* Fiorenzo Serra Film festival Italy 2021
* Vizantrop Engaged Ethnographic Film Festival Serbia 2021
* 17th Festival Transterritorial de Cine Underground Argentina 2021
* Jaffna International Cinema Festival Sri Lanka 2021
* Madurai International Documentary and Short Film Festival India 2021
* SiGNS Film Festival - Kerala - 3 April 2022
Academic conferences
* Annual Convention of the Modern Language Association 7 January 2022* Annual Conference of the Linguistics Society of America 9 January 2022
* 28th annual Midwestern Conference on Literature, Language and Media (MCLLM) at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, Illinois USA - 2 April 2021
* 14th International Conference of the Asian Association for Lexicography (ASIALEX 2021) Indonesia June 2021
* 12th International Indology Graduate Research Symposium (IIGRS 12) organised by the University of Vienna in collaboration with the Austrian Academy of Sciences - Austria July 2021
* Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Society's conference (IACSS 2021) organised by the Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Society in collaboration with the Cultural Research Centre at National University of Singapore - July 2021
* World Congress of Applied Linguistics 2021 organised by the International Association of Applied Linguistics at University of Groningen, Netherlands.
* Annual colloquium of La Socit dHistoire et dEpistmologie des Sciences du Langage (SHESL) 2022 at Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales, Paris - 26 January 2022
* XI Ethnology days and the VIII Finnish Conference on Cultural Policy Research at the University of Jyvskyl, Finland - March 2022
* 3rd Asian Conference on Language (ACL2022) organised by The International Academic Forum - Tokyo - 26 March 2022
Other events
* International Mother Language Day Celebrations organised by The Centre for Linguistics, SLL&CS, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi - 21 February 2022Awards
* National Film Award for Best Educational/Motivational/Instructional Film (2020)
* Kerala State Television Award (2020) for Best Educational Programme
* Festival Prize for Best International Documentary Film at Festival International du Film de Bretagne (2021)
* Audience Award for Best Documentary at the Washington DC South Asian Film Festival (2021)https://dcsaaci.org
* Festival Prize for Best Poster at the Buenos Aires International Film Festival (2021)
See also
* Multilingualism
* Dravidian Languages
* Lexicography
* Njattyela Sreedharan
References
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