Ongoing ILACI Projects

• Ser un Ser Humano / To Be a Human Being : This is a  documentary feature coproduction involving six major film schools in six different continents. Through this documentary, we are trying to explore what it means to be a human being in the 21st century across cultures and civilizations that are apparently distinct and diverse. While ILACI is one of the production guides and coproducers, the project is being led by EICTV (Cuba). Among the other partners are CUNY, Red Sea  Institute of Cinematic Arts in Jordan, NIC in Spain, etc. The Indian segment is being directed by Ms. Sreya Chatterjee, a current student of editing at FTII (Film & TV Institute of India, Pune) and is being financed by FTII. The 3-hour long film will be ready by the end of 2011. 

• 'India From The Inside': This is a series of six in-depth documentaries  by different Indian filmmakers about India for Western audiences, produced by the Dutch filmmaker Wiek Lenssen and financed by a network of European TV channels. This project is now in development.  ILACI is the producer from India. 

• Chiapas Media Project in India: ILACI has entered into an agreement to disseminate the videos of the Chiapas Media Project in India on non-commercial basis. CMP/ Promedios is an award winning, bi-national partnership that provides video equipment, computers and training enabling marginalized indigenous communities in Southern Mexico (specifically, the Zapatista communities in Chiapas) to create their own media.  Alexandra Halkin is the Founding Director/International Coordinator of the project. 
  
  These videos, made since 1998, deal with agricultural collectives, fair trade coffee, women’s collectives, autonomous education, traditional healing and the history of their struggle for land. These 6000 indigenously produced videos have been screened at universities, museums, and film and video festivals worldwide.
  According to Ms. Halkin, the idea of the CMP came from an Indian video on micro-credits and empowerment of women and now these CMP videos carry a lot of resonance for India. Any request for screening of these videos in India can be sent to Indranil Chakravarty. 
  
  

Forthcoming ILACI Projects

• A major cultural event on the occasion of the Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore's 150th anniversary, bringing together all the cultural manifestations in Spain around Tagore on one common platform over a period of two days in the weekend around the poet’s death anniversary (August 6 & 7, 2011). This will happen in at least two major cities - Madrid and Barcelona. The event will include Latin Americans living in Spain. It will be a two/three-day event filled with discussions, debates, poetry readings, music and dance, celebrating and rejuvenating the memory of Tagore in the Spanish-speaking world where he is still loved and cherished. 

• Starting from December 2011, ILACI will be organising a bi-annual travelling festival of Indian cinema in Latin America and a similar travelling festival of Latin American cinema in Indian cities. This festival would be called 'LAMINAS' and will be supported by a major Iberian film production company.

• A documentary film exploring the years of the Mexican Nobel Laureate poet and essayist, Octavio Paz's years in India and the impact of Indian culture on his work. This film will be produced by a Mexican producer. 

• As an extension of the UNESCO seminar with Asian documentary filmmakers, ILACI is in the fundraising stage for a series of eight documentaries on the UN's Millennium Development Goals. This would be made by filmmakers across Asia with ILACI and a Dutch producer who has made several of his films in Latin America. This project is currently seeking funding support. 

• In the long run, ILACI intends to create a House of Iberian Culture in Goa which is an ex-Portuguese colony in the western coast of India and still maintains a charming Latin character. It can thus be considered as a cultural bridge between India and the Latin/Iberian world.