It had been easy to imagine working with the Wanchos to create a short animated film when I wrote the proposal for The Stories of Our Ancestors project. Now the covid pandemic was raging across the world and bringing extended lockdowns in India. Besides, a foreign person requires a Protected Area Permit to visit Longding District, a remote corner of Arunachal Pradesh…
Category: The Stories of Our Ancestors
The Stories of Our Ancestors is a research and media project based on the tribal folklore of India
The Stories of Our Ancestors Blog
The project is to record, document, translate and study the folklore of selected tribal communities in India. These stories are the indigenous myths and remembered histories: the tales of origination, migration, territorial conflict and community belonging. It is vital to record and preserve the stories that are at the root of community identities, and to make the material accessible to readers in…
Wancho Animation Workshop
The Wancho Animation Workshop was the place to discuss and develop a short animated film based on a Wancho folktale
The Wancho Story of the Gourd
The Wancho Story of the Gourd is a short film project based on the Wancho oral traditions from Arunachal Pradesh
TSO TAWO
Tso Tawo is an animated film based on a story from Khezhakeno village in South Nagaland