DOCUFICTION - MALABAR RITUAL FORM

Docufiction - Malabar ritual form - Teaser
Client : kannur

JANUARY 25, 2015

FEATURE FILM - SHADOWS

For long the visually challenged have been left in the dark, especially when it comes to the movies. Now young techie Sivaprasad Kashimankulam, a mobility specialist who develops iPhone apps at Applexus Technology in Technopark, is all set to bring about a change and make cinema accessible to the visually challenged. He has come out with a 100-minute feature film titled Shadows, which he says is “one of the first ‘blind accessible cinemas’ in the country”. The audio release of the film is set for March 18 at Karikkakom temple.

“Shadows is perhaps Malayalam’s first complete ‘blind accessible cinema’. These days with the advancement in technology, the trend of blind accessible formats for commercial cinemas is picking up in the West. It is still rare in India. One of the only commercial cinemas in such a format is Sanjay Leela Bansali’s Black,” says Sivaprasad. How then does such cinema play out? “Nowadays most theatres, especially in the West, are equipped with descriptive audio features that ‘narrate’ the action as it happens on the screen, through specially designed headphones worn by the visually challenged person. Here in Kerala we do not have access to such facilities. So we have used DAISY – Digital Accessible Information System, a digital talking book format, which offers many additional advantages over traditional audio books on regular CDs. To put it simply, it’s like a podcast with audio description. Prior to a scene, the visually challenged will get a full description of the make up and situation of the particular scene, complete with sound effects,”

Client : Own Production