IFA's "Reframing Gender: Women in Cinema Collective" On September 5 (image:instagram.com/wcc_cinema)

A presentation titled “Reframing Gender: Women in Cinema Collective” by Miriam Chandy Menacherry and the WCC will be held online on September 5, Thursday at 6.30 PM. Women in Cinema Collective or WCC is an organisation for women working in the Malayalam cinema industry.

Organised by the India Foundation for the Arts (IFA) under the banner of Project Showcase @IFA, the talk will be held in view of the recent developments in the Malayalam film industry after the release of the Justice Hema Committee Report.

The Hema committee was formulated after the WCC members met Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan in the wake of the 2017 actress assault incident. Helmed by retired Justice K Hema, veteran actor Sarada and former IAS officer KB Valsala Kumari were other two members of the commission.

Miriam, who has received a grant from IFA, is working on an arts research project based on Collective. It is primarily inspired by the personal stories of the collective’s strong women film professionals, extending to a larger history of Malayalam cinema to recover the contributions of the women and “the ripple effects their work has caused in Mollywood and other film industries.”

These women deserve dedicated chapters for overcoming great challenges to claim their space in cinema ‘history’, or more appropriately, ‘herstory’, Miriam  states.