Jose Pinto Stephen

The poet and Filmmaker Jayan K Cherian’s new film ‘Papilio Budha’ is being selected to be screened in the upcoming ‘African Diaspora International Film Festival n New York City. There will be three screenings of this film in three venues and in three different times. The African Diaspora International Film Festival (ADIFF) presents an eclectic mix of urban, classic, independent and foreign films that depict the richness and diversity of the life experience of people of African descent and Indigenous people all over the world. Poet filmmaker Jayan K Cherian was born in India, Graduated with honors from Hunter College, BA in Film and Creative Writing and MFA from The City College of New York in Writing Directing Film, and Cinematography.

Jayan has published four collections of poetry in Malayalam and won many accolades. Papilio Buddha (2013) is Jayan's debut feature film. Before that he made several experimental documentaries and narrative shorts such as: Shape of the Shapeless (2010), Love in the Time of Foreclosure (2009), Hidden Things (2009), Soul of Solomon (2008), Capturing the Signs of God (2008), Holy Mass (2007), Tree of Life (2007), Simulacra the Reality of the Unreal (2007), The Inner Silence of the Tumult (2007), Hid-entity (2007), and Tandava the Dance of Dissolution (2006). Quotes about this film by a Film Critic and a Writer Originally banned in its native country, Jayan Cherian’s Papilio Buddha is a fierce attack on caste oppression, mainstream Gandhism and environmental degradation in the Western Ghats of India. Uncompromising in its critique of iconic Indian leaders and treatment of indigenous and landless Dalit peoples (known as ‘untouchables’ for their ostracised status), this is a radically anti-establishment piece of filmmaking, with a raw & accomplished naturalistic style." - Tom Cottey, Film Critic Papilio Buddha imaginatively recreates some of the politically significant real-life incidents that happened in Kerala during the last decade symptomatic of the society’s growing amnesia about its own past and the authorities’ callous conspiracy against the landless and the downtrodden. - Satchidanandan, Indian Writer TThehe synopsis S Y N O P S I S The synopsis of this film In a pristine village in the Western Ghats of India, a group of landless people squatted in the government land where they face opposition from the local entrenched political entities and upper caste landlords. These people known as “dalits”, who had been facing discrimination, displacement and physical oppression for centuries embrace Buddhism as a new form of cultural and religious identity, squat the government land and claim ownership.

Screening places and schedules On Friday December, 6,

@ 7:30 PM QUAD CINEMA 34 West 13th Street (212) 255-8800 or (212) 864-1760

Tickets http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/509599

ADDITIONAL SCREENINGS Sunday, December, 8 @ 6:30PM – Thalia SYMPHONY SPACE – THALIA THEATRE

2537 Broadway @ 95th St. (212) 864-5400 or (212) 864-1760 Tickets http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/509694

Thursday December, 12 @ 8PM – Chapel THE CHAPEL TEACHERS COLLEGE, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY

525 West 120th Street - 125 Zankel (212) 864-1760 Tickets http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/504450

Watch the trailer of this movie

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdb2UfHRv6Q