The Ebb Tide
Director: Renu Savant | Duration: 60 minutes | Language Marathi, English
The first film to be featured at the Soak Film Festival was ‘The Ebb Tide’ by film-maker Renu Savant. A Marathi documentary film, ‘The Ebb Tide’ follows the monsoon in the creek of Mirya village. The film is a documentation of its fisherfolk, recording their unfolding presence and fishing work. It brings out their working rhythms, dreams and desires, generational legacies of hard labour and their relationships to the sea and the fish as a sacred natural resource.
This was followed by a discussion between director Renu Savant and academic Arul Mani.
About the Director
Renu Savant is a film-maker. She holds an MA in English Literature and worked as a journalist with Indian Express, a Lecturer in Royal College and assisted senior artists and practitioners. She joined the Film and Television Institute of India, Pune as a student of film direction and won two National awards – Special Mention in 2012 and Golden Lotus for Best Direction in 2015 for her short films made in FTII. After graduating she got the Early Career Fellowship from the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, SMCS. Through this fellowship Savant completed her first long duration film, a 4-hour video chronicle – Many Months In Mirya. Currently she works in and around Mumbai and Ratnagiri, on western coastal Maharashtra.
About the Discussant
Arul Mani is a Professor of English at the St. Joseph’s College, Bengaluru. With a teaching experience of 25 years, his interests include curriculum design, examination reform, world literature, stylistics, the graphic novel, long-form journalism, and Latin American literature. He received his Ph.D from Bangalore University in 2008.
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