20/08/2024
This Thursday, join us at ALF for a workshop and film screening on a very important and exciting subject. This event, curated by and hosted by will begin sharp at 5 PM! 👯
We are the Hers is Ours Collective using art to raise awareness on the issue of Violence Against Women. Our first documentary 'Our Odyssey is Red' is on-going.
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"It takes two flints to make a fire." – Louisa May Alcott
The story of this project is about women from different cultures and backgrounds coming together. It all started when I met Robin Chaurasiya, the co-founder of Kranti, an NGO based in Mumbai empowering girls from the red light district. Having left my home country (France) and just arrived in India to work on Human Rights reports in some organization, my plans took quickly another direction. Robin awakened that longing to do something concrete, something meaningful to me. It is then that the first glimpse of this project was born and which since, grew as much as I did. The urge for denouncing gender-based violence and the need to remain hopeful for change, led me to choose film-making to touch people and their perspective. Plus, stirred and inspired by the path of women such as those from Kranti, it is this that I wanted to share.
This was only the beginning of a very enriching journey. Other activists came across, and this is how I met the artist Neha Chaturvedi who believed in this project which therefore, took a drastic turn. In May 2019, a series of documentaries was decided of which the first subject would be Kranti, who was back then performing in Europe. Neha introduced me to another artist working on the place of women, Ayushi Shriramwar. Together, we acted on a driven impulse and went to follow Kranti in Europe.
This is how Ayushi, I as well as the cinematographer Nina Defontaine (who got to hear about our last minute shooting trip, and willing to be in charge of filming), all met in Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port, France, to walk with Kranti on the way to Santiago de Compostela, Spain.