Movie / Film
alan.warner@acadiau.ca
This film showing includes the follow up discussion with Dr. Simron Singh, whose work and research served as the foundation for the film...
AFTERMATH is the story of young people from an ancient tribe on remote islands who are suddenly driven into a new world by the Tsunami. Overwhelmed by history ́s biggest wave of aid and development soon after, they are searching with humour and pride for their own, self- determined life in a globalized world. Instead of surrendering, the Nicobarese face the challenges. They travel to the unknown world to meet with researchers and allies.
The film offers unique insights into the lost culture of the Nicobar Islands. In never before seen images, scientist Simron Jit Singh takes us onto an emotional journey with his early film recordings of this mysterious ancient culture, dating from long before the Tsunami.
Together with his friends, Nicobari Prince Rasheed Yusuf and journalist Denis Giles, he is soon confronted with the suffocating pressure of aid and development. They decide to help in a different way: They raise their own money, they start their own NGO and they train their own activists from within the Nicobar Islands. On their way, the three friends risk all they have. But they find new concepts, how sustainable humanitarian aid and development could look like in the future.
This event is sponsored by Acadia University community Development & Environmental & Sustainability Studies.
alan.warner@acadiau.ca
This film showing includes the follow up discussion with Dr. Simron Singh, whose work and research served as the foundation for the film...
AFTERMATH is the story of young people from an ancient tribe on remote islands who are suddenly driven into a new world by the Tsunami. Overwhelmed by history ́s biggest wave of aid and development soon after, they are searching with humour and pride for their own, self- determined life in a globalized world. Instead of surrendering, the Nicobarese face the challenges. They travel to the unknown world to meet with researchers and allies.
The film offers unique insights into the lost culture of the Nicobar Islands. In never before seen images, scientist Simron Jit Singh takes us onto an emotional journey with his early film recordings of this mysterious ancient culture, dating from long before the Tsunami.
Together with his friends, Nicobari Prince Rasheed Yusuf and journalist Denis Giles, he is soon confronted with the suffocating pressure of aid and development. They decide to help in a different way: They raise their own money, they start their own NGO and they train their own activists from within the Nicobar Islands. On their way, the three friends risk all they have. But they find new concepts, how sustainable humanitarian aid and development could look like in the future.
This event is sponsored by Acadia University community Development & Environmental & Sustainability Studies.
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Pricing: Free
32 University Avenue
Wolfville, Nova Scotia
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902-585-5242
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