I Love the Land Back
Roles: Producer, Director
I Love the Land Back, a cinematic love letter to and reckoning with the stolen ground beneath our feet. An intertwining of Indigenous and South Asian understandings of gratitude, art, and groundedness in land, this poem is a piece of reverence, of deep kinship, a prayer for forgiveness, and a promise to see this responsibility to the soil we live upon as a profound act of reciprocal love. Always. This project was made possible by Guild Festival Theatre's Youth Engagement Scarborough Initiative.
Credits:
Description: Namitha Rathinappillai
Producers: Anushay Sheikh, Namitha Rathinappillai
Director: Anushay Sheikh
Director’s Shadow: Maheesha Thiyagarajah
Written & Performed By: Namitha Rathinappillai
Director of Photography: Hayden Salter
Key Grip & 1st AC: Aidan Breit-McNally
Production Designer: Elaf Khan
Hair and Makeup Artist: Kianté Williams
Bharathanatyam Dancer: Namitha Rathinappillai
Bharathanatyam Consultant: Jeyolyn Christi
Mridangam Player: Pranee Chandrasegaram
Editor: Liam Brownrigg B.
Colourist: Carolina Gama Di Grado
Sound Mixer: Pablo Rincon Diaz
Animator: Summer Harmony Twenish
Tamil Translation: Abarna Selvarajah
Indigenous Consultant: Summer Harmony Twenish
Studio & Additional Gear: Make The Films Studio