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Reema Sengupta is a writer-director known for her award winning film Counterfeit Kunkoo which was featured at the Sundance film festival. Her films present the naked human condition with has characters that break the socio-cultural bounds of Indian films. She spoke to us about social divisions, and how coercive media make us more divisive. She asked us the question - do we create divisions because of real reasons or do we look for arbitrary reasons to justify social divisions? Divisions are made in the search of power, and as social animals, we're naturally prejudiced against those of other groups. She encouraged us to recognise propaganda and ask questions about representation - why is this protagonist male and not female? Why are villains mostly dark skinned? As a director, she recognised her responsibility and our ability to define 'us’ as all of us, rather than using media to feed into more divisions. Reema Sengupta is an international award-winning independent Writer-Director and the co-founder of CATNIP - a Mumbai-based production house that specializes in experimental and conceptual video content. Her recent passion project - Counterfeit Kunkoo - had it's world premiere at Sundance Film Festival 2018 and has been selected at 50+ International festivals including 10 Oscar qualifying festivals. In a short span, it's already bagged the following awards:
Grand Jury - Short Film Special Mention at IFFLA 2018 (Los Angeles, USA) Best Narrative Short at Brooklyn Film Festival 2018 (New York, USA) Best Female Director at New Renaissance Film Festival 2018 (Netherlands, Amsterdam) Best Actress at Short Shorts Film Festival 2018 (Tokyo, Japan) Honorable Mention (International Short Film Competition) at USA Film Festival 2018 This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx