Friday, November 12, 2010

our film screened at PVR, Juhu as part of Mumbai Film Festival 2010










Our documentaries, Entertaining Tibet and What Lies Ahead, have been screened in various national and international film festivals.
Entertaining Tibet- Directed, edited, written by Sumiran Preet Kaur, Sheeba Naaz
What Lies Ahead- Directed, edited, written by Sumiran Preet Kaur, Sheeba Naaz
check out
http://mumbai.burrp.com/events/pvr-cinemas_forget-me-not-other-films---12th-mumbai-film-festival-mami_juhu_mumbai/1983698811
http://mumbai.localtiger.com/india/mumbai-events/movies---film/what-lies-ahead-film-11872.html
http://www.buzzintown.com/mumbai/events/category--special-screening/day--pastevents/order--desc/sort-by--title/id--82/page--9.html

Wednesday, August 11, 2010

NEWSLETTER BY WESPRAWL

We Sprawl conducted theatre, dance, photography and journalism workshop for students of Father Agnel School, New Delhi. We Sprawl came out with a newsletter that has articles by students of our journalism workshop, photographs by photography students and columns by the Vice Principal of the school and French journalists who gave feedback for stories and photographs. Read articles at www.wesprawl.wordpress.com.
We would like to thank Mr Christophe Randy, Ms Sujatha Samy, Mr Isreal Ayala from Paris and Mr Sartaj Singh, Ms Natalia Ningthoujam, Ms Aqsa Anjum for their efforts and contributions.

Sunday, July 4, 2010

Final show, in collaboration with NGO Kutumb











We Sprawl conducted theatre, dance, journalism, photo workshop for children of Father Agnel School, New Delhi. A final show was held on 26th June at Khan Market, New Delhi in collaboration with NGO Kutumb.
Children of Kutumb and students of We Sprawl workshop gave fabulous performances of dance and theatre. NGO kutumb works for the underpriviledged children.
The audience comprised of children the NGO works for and parents of children of Father Agnel School (New Delhi), who had enrolled for We Sprawl workshop.
For journalism stories by students, photographs and feedback by French journalists,
visit
www.wesprawl.wordpress.com
www.facebook.com/we-sprawl

Photography workshop

on an outdoor photography assignment

Journalism workshops


The students were taught basics of writing a good news story, conducting interviews, importance of photographs and blogging. They went on regular outdoor assignments to collect potential stories and their articles were given regular feedback by French journalists- Mr Israel Ayala and Ms Sujatha Samy.

The students of journalism and photography are coming out with a newsletter.

In photo-Interaction with journalist from The Times of India,
(Ms Rakhi)

Journalism Instructors- Ms Natalia Ningthoujam, Ms Sumiran Preet Kaur.
Journalism Course Coordinator- Ms Aqsa Anjum, Ms Natalia

Theatre in the workshops


The students were trained for a stage production.

With necessary voice training, improvisations and a great team effort, they came out with a spectacular play named "Jaadu Waadu Kuch Nahi".

Theatre Instructor and scriptwriter- Mr Apoorv Bhardwaj
Assistant Director- Mr Sartaj Singh

Monday, April 26, 2010

Summer Workshops in schools by We Sprawl

parents enrolling in one of our workshops

COMING SOON IN SCHOOLS
SUMMER TALENT WORKSHOPS (Project by WE SPRAWL)
IN
THEATRE
ART
DANCE
FILM
PHOTOGRAPHY
JOURNALISM


starting 3rd June
enrollments still going on
HURRY!!!
register at - wesprawl@gmail.com

Our posters at school
Tentative Time table
dance classes begin at 8:30 (begin from 3rd june, Thursday)
theatre classes begin at 10:30 (begin from 4th June, Friday)
Film/ photo/ journalism at 11:30 (begin from 4th June,Friday)


all applicants are requested to email their contact numbers at wesprawl@gmail.com

IMPORTANT
We attempt to have twenty classes.

Workshop held in schools and NGOs



Art workshop held by us in Sahitya Kala Academy in New Delhi.

We have held numerous workshops in various schools like St. Xavier's School, Starex International school, Sahitya Kala Acedemy, Guru Harkrishan Public School and for various NGOs like Rotary, Kutumb, Pravah and so on.

Saturday, April 24, 2010

Experience in direction and production



WE have directed two documentaries and have assisted in direction and production of films by NTPC, Ministry of Panchayati Raj, Doordarshan, Austrian NGO - Women Without Borders.
The films that we have directed were screened at various film festivals across India.
The films can be seen at

Concerns of the elderly in India
http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=1368067970436&saved

and

On Tibetan Music and Movie Industry
http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=1029362583013&saved

The following video is a compressed and edited version of one of our documentaries . This was shot in Dharamsala and talks about movies and music industries of Tibet.

Photography

















We are a group of trained photographers with photography assignments in Paris, Delhi, Dharamsala, Jaipur, Jaiselmer, Amritsar and various other cities of India.


You can see samples of our photographs at
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=735075384&v=wall&story_fbid=116051618416856#!/album.php?aid=2001259&id=1493791991

Our photos were also selected by international website for viewing.
http://www.upiu.com/articles/a-quack-in-old-delhi

Friday, April 23, 2010

theater performance



We have held workshops for children of various age groups in numerous schools and also directed plays for NGOs like Rotary, Kutumb and We for Yamuna.

We have directed , scripted and performed street and stage plays.

We have performed in various colleges of Delhi University, IIT Delhi, IIT Mumbai, BITS Pilani and NLS Bangalore.

Women Without Borders - Austrian NGO



Workshop held by Autrian NGO Women Without Borders and Sisters against Violent Extremism in Mumbai in various colleges. We organized the workshop and were involved in assisting of documentary shot on Mumbai Terror attacks by the same NGO.

We have had the opportunity of managing various events and also have been in communications team of various organizations. This includes Austria based Women Without Borders, USA based MDP foundation, NGOs like Anhad, Pravah, Kutumb and We for Yamuna.

African Workshop and Journalism



We were the assistant producers of the workshop held for training of African journalists.(workshop conducted by Ministry of External Affairs)

We are trained journalists and have worked with Hardnews, India Today, Star News and so on.
We have also worked in production with Doordarshan, AIR, Radio One and have been trained from Sciences Po University, Paris . We got the enriching opportunity of being trained in workshops conducted by journalists from BBC (UK), Missouri School of Journalism, USA and journalist from Romania.

OUR BACKGROUND-

S. P Kaur
An alumni of Sciences Po University in Paris, Delhi University, and Jamia Mass Communication Center, she has worked with organizations like HT Media, Hardnews as reporter, news agency-Women's Feature Service (a UNICEF initiative), Doordarshan, India Today, Radio One, All India Radio and NGOs like Kutumb, We for Yamuna, Rotary and Austrian NGO- Women Without Borders. Has also directed two documentaries , What Lies Ahead and Entertaining Tibet that were screened at various film festivals.
She has experience in theater and photography.

A. Anjum
She is an alumni of Delhi College of Arts and Commerce, Mass Communication Center.
She has worked with organizations like Star News, Genesis Production house, All India Radio and NGOs like Anhad. She has worked as assistant director and assistant producer in documentaries by NTPC, Doordarshan, Ministry of Panchayati Raj.She worked with NGO Anhad. Currently is an assistant professor.
Other members

Prabh Kaur, N Rajeev Roy, Sartaj Singh, Adnan Anjum, Shruti Chaudhury.
Our members have experience in copy writing, teaching, radio jockeying, event management, reporting, painting, photography, theatre, teaching, film making and dance.