Kungyee selected for World Premiere at Australia's Aperture Festival
Source: Hueiyen News Service
Imphal, October 04 2013 :
Kungyee, a documentary film produced by Pamreiso Shimray and directed by Chaoba Thiyam, has been selected for World Premiere at Aperture Festival at Melbourne, Australia slated for November 22 to 23.
Pamreiso Shimray also works as the Ukhrul correspondent of Hueiyen Lanpao.
In an official selection of films declared on Friday, the organisers of Asia Pacific International Ethnographic Documentary Festival 2013 announced the selection of Kungyee among 13 films for Experiential Ethnographic Films Program and 17 films for Cinematic Program.
Kungyee is selected under Experiential Ethnographic Films Program at Aperture Festival and will be screened along with other selected documentaries in the Yasuko Hiraoka Myer room, Sidney Myer Asia Centre, the University of Melbourne.
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Kungyee is a debut production of Pamreiso Shimray.
It is set in Ningthi village under Kamjong Sub-division, Ukhrul district, Manipur.
The film documents the dying rituals of rain invocation among the Tangkhul Nagas.
The film, produced with the support of Tribal Research Institute Manipur, has also been screened at "A film Fest on Tangkhul Culture" in Ukhrul 2012 and Shillong 2013 .
The film was produced by Pamreiso Shimray this year with Saikhom Ratan and Chaoba Thiyam as directors of photography, Sunil Loitongbam as sound recordist and was edited by Chaoba Thiyam.