[EDIT: SOLD OUT!] some bts and reflections from “I Love the Land Back” + a special Toronto announcement 👀🌱 so excited to share this tender cinepoem with the world — come see it screened on April 10 if you’re in the city, or check it out on my website shortly after 💌 ticket 🔗 in b1o
Some stills and a snippet from I Love the Land Back, a cinematic love letter to and reckoning with the stolen ground beneath our feet. An intertwining of Indigenous and South Asian understandings of gratitude, art, and groundedness in land, this poem is a piece of reverence, of deep kinship, a prayer for forgiveness, and a promise to see this responsibility to the soil we live upon as a profound act of reciprocal love. always.
This project was made possible by Guild Festival Theatre's Youth Engagement Scarborough Initiative.
Caption: @illluminami
Producers: @anushaysheikh@illluminami
Director: @anushaysheikh
Director’s Shadow: @maheeshathiya
Written & Performed By: @illuminami
DP: @hayden._
Key Grip & 1st AC: @breitmcnally
Production Designer: @elafesque
Hair and Makeup Artist: @_kmwbeauty
Bharathanatyam Dancer: @illluminami
Bharathanatyam Consultant: @jeyolyn
Mridangam Player: @praanee.c
Editor: Liam Brownrigg B.
Colourist: @caroldigrado
Sound Mixer: @prd404
Animator: @nibinikwe
Tamil Translation: Abarna Selvarajah
Indigenous Consultant: @nibinikwe
Studio & Additional Gear: @makethefilmsstudio
the real new year is in the spring when we are reborn from the soil, damp from the rain; but seldom will u catch me passing up the opportunity to romanticize + reflect on a year of blessings 🪞🌿⌛️🍯☁️
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