Group of students from St. Xavier's College, Mapusa put together a video documentary produced by Sydel Mendes. Documentary was completed a year ago and flagged important issues connected to fishing in Goa - Marine, Inland and Fish markets. This video is very good capsule of information for anyone to start work on further advancements.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=4OSlUmcO8Uk
The short five minutes video film "Kharvi - Fishers" provides glimpse into changing dynamics of Goa's Zuari river.
https://youtu.be/ynaABJ5NZ7g?feature=shared
Film by Loretti Pinto explores depth of the fishers of Nauxim ( reffered as Nauxe in the film) village with sweeping historical narrative with fishermen from 1950s till present times in 2023 as first hand narrators of personal life stories.
This film is with a difference in a sense that no experts are speaking in the film about fishing communities. Fishers themselves are presented as story tellers of their lives. In this sense film scores an edge in just one second less than five minutes. The film has English sub-titles and is accessible to wider audience across the world.
The Film was first screened on December 08, 2023 at an International workshop organised at Sancoale, Goa by BITS Pilani Goa campus and University of Witwatersrand, Johanasberg, South Africa as one part of presentation of paper titled "From livelihoods to sustainability: navigating small scale fishers' journey from victim to catalyst of change in Goa" jointly authored by Sebastiao Anthony Rodrigues, Lorette Joyce Pinto and Glenis Maria Mendonça.
This presentation was done in the presence of four fishers of Zuari river in Goa, India namely Sanjay Faterpekar, Laximan Mangueshkar, Sanjay Kankonkar and Shekar Kuttikar who also participated in this international workshop.
This film is made available online from today December 25, 2023 for pedagogical reasons that further ideas may flow from the collective intellectual engagement with fishing communities in Goa. Below is link to "Kharvi - the fishers"
https://youtu.be/ynaABJ5NZ7g?feature=shared
Do watch and organised its public sharing and public discussions.
We place out gratitude to Loretti Pinto for her remarkable contribution. We wish her and her family blessed Christmas!
