ABHISHEK
ANUPAM

Documentary Short | Direction, DoP

As part of the MacArthur Foundation supported project on Just Transition, TERI initiated a pilot implementation project to showcase the creation of sustainable livelihoods aimed at empowering women in India’s coal mining regions. This video documentary titled 'As She Changes' takes one through the journey of the women across the four villages of Giridih, Jharkhand (Karharbari, Kongdi, Chilga and Tikodih) where TERI had conducted the pilot project focusing on fostering self-reliance through entrepreneurship. Recognizing that 90% of targeted communities depend on coal mines for their livelihood, the project sought to mitigate this dependency by equipping women with alternative skills and setting up of business enterprises.

Client: TERI
Direction: Abhishek Anupam, Swaja Saransh
Editor: Swaja Saransh
DP: Abhishek Anupam
Production: In Vaarta Communications

India is the second largest producer of rice in the world, the problem of waste generated (rice-stubble/parali) after cutting the yield is a problem that has taken news spotlight in many parts of the country in the form air pollution.

As part of this project, we spent 5 day in Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh in an attempt to understand the challenges faced by rice farmers, and potential intervention that EU’s Resource Efficiency Initiative (EU-REI) could provide in the implementation of the United Nations global sustainable consumption and production.

This short film promotes and builds awareness on ECOR Global's material value chain, a Netherlands-based enterprise that uses secondary raw materials for making products. Leftover rice stalks, a waste generated in the processing of rice could become a secondary raw material used to make an array of products.

Client: GIZ
Director/Editor/Concept: Saransh Sugandh
DoP: Abhishek Anupam
Production: In Vaarta Communications
The project was funded by European Union.