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ELEMENTS IN THE CITY
The workshop was aimed at exposing the process of short film making and the participant made films about elements in our city, which were showcased on our closing day (11 September 2019). The workshop was initiated by Mike Paterson and led by T. Jayashree.
About the Filmmakers
Mike Paterson, the director of the 94 Elements project. He has a background in film andbroadcast fiction production before leaving TV to work as a teacher and journalist.Returning to documentary production, he established PFILM to explore new opportunitiesfor documentary on the web and across different platforms. His previous project, CollidingParticles, follows a team of physicists hunting for the Higgs particle at the Large HadronCollider at CERN in Switzerland. Mike is based in London in the UK.
T. Jayashree has written, produced and edited documentary, television and radio programmes on issues including women's empowerment, rural development, health, ethnic violence and prostitution. Some of her films include 'A Human Question' (2006), 'Many People Many Desires' (2004). She has also worked on a number of other productions, such as 'New Americans' (2003) on which she was Associate Producer for PBS, 'Agni Varsha' (2002) for which she wrote the screenplay and served as first Assistant Director, 'A Woman's Place' (1998) which she produced for PBS and 'Annapurna' (1995) which she co-directed. She is currently based in Bangalore.