'Iron Ladies' bags best film award
Source: The Sangai Express

Imphal, January 11 2017: A short documentary titled 'Iron Ladies' which depicts the daily struggle of women in Manipur bagged the best film award in YES! i am the CHANGE 2016 .

Budding filmmaker Roshan Laishram, former student of the Department of Mass Communication, Manipur University, said documentary circles around the lives many women who are struggling in their own ways to meet their daily needs.

The film has been selected as the most deserving film which inspires social action and forms and invaluable communication resources for women empowerment.

YES! i am the CHANGE (YIAC) is the flagship program of YES Foundation.

Launched in 2013, YES! i am the CHANGE is a Nationwide mindset transformation program to inculcate the value of responsible citizenship amongst youth through the impactful medium of films.

'Iron Ladies' bags best film award

YIAC is the world's largest social film movement with participation of over 13 lakh individuals from 2,500 cities and towns across India.

Roshan Laishram's 'Iron Ladies' made it to the top list as the lone competitor from the State.

In a stint interaction with The Sangai Express, Roshan said that the film made it to the competition in August last year and results were declared some days back.

As part of YIAC's 101-Hour Social Filmmaking Challenge, participants made three-minute short films on social causes which form an open repository of invaluable communication resources for the use of NGOs.

Most importantly, the process of participation and exposure to various social causes leads to the inner transformation of the youth, builds association with causes and makes them agents of social change.

He said that the top filmmaking teams of the competition will be felicitated at the grand YES! i am the CHANGE 2016 awards ceremony on February 9, 2017 at Nehru Centre, Worli, Mumbai.

The documentary will also be screened at YES! i am the CHANGE Social Film Festival on February 11 and 12, 2017 at Nehru Centre, Worli, Mumbai and at DocEdge, Kolkata (Asian Forum for Documentary).

"The documentary has been also selected for the prestigious IDFA (International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam) in November 2017, he added.