Look what these beautiful people are saying about our film
“A gift to parents, teachers and children alike!”
The film explores a difficult subject with sensitivity and humour and models a way to have uncomfortable conversations with kids. The way Poorva talks about unsafe touch with her children—with gentle persistence, a willingness to listen, and while giving them agency—is inspiring to watch.
— Shuchi Talati, Filmmaker
“Cuts the Clutter”
The film puts out a powerful message on the safety of children. Brilliantly made. Cuts the clutter, straight to the subject.
— Anbwesh Roy Choudhury, Journalist
“The film should reach the largest audience possible”
The film is a sincere window of observation while a mother opens the path for discomforting conversations with her children on intimacy, emotional connection, consent. All of this with a playful style that allows us viewers to reflect along.
— Antigoni Papantoni, Film Programmer
Our film is traveling around the world
What is “What’s The Film About?” actually about?
During a camping weekend, our mother, who is a filmmaker, tries to find the right way to discuss safe and unsafe touch with us. She wants to film the conversation for her film. But we don’t want to be part of this awkward conversation. And why should we? It’s not like she is listening to what we have to say about a few things that bother us. We are not going to let her have her way. Plus, “the conversation” is a very awkward and difficult one to have…
The awesome people who worked on this film
Poorva Bhat
Our mum Poorva wrote this film, directed, produced and edited it!
Which basically means she was spending time with us on-screen and not off-screen.
Prataya Saha
Prataya did all the thinking when our mother got tired of thinking. And he took over the thinking when our mother just wasn’t thinking straight. He calls himself the Creative Producer.
Venice De Atienza
We loved Venice filming us. Not only was she patient with us, but she filmed without letting the camera bother us. She is what they call a cinematographer.
Omkar Divekar
Don’t tell anyone, but Omkar sometimes filmed without wearing the seatbelt. And none of the adults thought it was wrong! He also shot for the film.
Emiliano Battista
Emiliano doesn’t put up pictures of himself online. And oh! He gave great editing feedback to our mother.
Vinay Kaushik
We wanted electronic music, but Vinay had to listen to our mum, and wrote some minimalistic music instead, which actually sounds very cool!
Fibin Mohammad
We hated wearing mics, and we’d remove them and give them to Fibin who was in-charge of recording us. Don’t ever let anyone mic you!
Mark Reddy
From the crackle of the bonfire, to the splash of water, and the blaring horns of other cars…you name it and Mark was behind those sounds.
Shumais Nazar
Shumais walked around collecting sounds all day long. He makes a sound recordist’s job look so much fun and cool!
Himanshu Kamble
Himanshu made the film look like a film. He made the lake look blue, the sky look gray…he basically used a “tech-crayon” to color everything. Which makes him a colorist.
Mahak Gupta
And because it’s not so easy to use “tech crayon”, Mahak supervised Himanshu’s work and made sure the film looks as gorgeous as it does.
Anoop Deshpande
Our film is not the kind where you’ll read the subtitles and cringe. No. no. We got on board a subtitling genius – Anoop Deshpande.
Himanshu Kamble
Himanshu made the film look like a film. He made the lake look blue, the sky look gray…he basically used a “tech-crayon” to color everything. Which makes him a colorist.
Mahak Gupta
And because it’s not so easy to use “tech crayon”, Mahak supervised Himanshu’s work and made sure the film looks as gorgeous as it does.
Note from our mum – the Director of the film
I have been dealing with difficult subjects from the beginning of my career as a filmmaker. Despite all the training I have had, when it was time to have this conversation with my children, it was very tough and awkward to say the least. And this shocked me – because I thought I was the cool mom capable of having a conversation on anything and everything with my children.
Making this film made me realize these are difficult conversations to have for everyone involved. They bring out fear, insecurity, and unpleasant memories from the past for most of us. But, the truth is the more we talk, the less awkward it gets, and the safer our children are.
I must add that “What’s The Film About?” isn’t just about safe and unsafe touch. It is also giving our children agency to think for themselves, and for us to listen to what they have to say.
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If you are a film club, school, a bookstore or a venue that wants to screen our film, please please reach out. We are beginning with our public screenings from January 2025. Yeah, it’s kinda a long wait, we know…But film festival rules you see. We gotta follow them.
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