Kishori Film Festival
Designed and facilitated 8-week long media-literacy classes for 11th grade young women from rural UP. Utilized reconfigured tools and devices, including Inshot for video-making and Aamne Samne Pi, a modular, open-source device, to facilitate digital storytelling.
Kishori Film Festival (KiFi) was an 8-week media literacy programme designed for 11th-grade young women from rural Uttar Pradesh. Working with Janastu, I designed and facilitated classes that used reconfigured tools and devices- including Inshot for video-making and the Aamne Samne Pi, a modular open-source device- to support digital storytelling. A companion project, Jingle Tales, explored another way of helping participants claim ownership over these devices by customising their boot-up sounds.
The programme aimed to go beyond teaching technical skills. It was about creating space for the participants to tell their own stories using tools they could take apart, understand, and reshape. The films produced were screened at a festival organised by and for the participants. The broader arc of this community work is reflected in Journeys, Dreams and Everything in Between.