Acclaimed Kashmir based green filmmaker Jalal Ud Din Baba’s two films Mind Mightier Than Mightand #TullaDozingTheBull@Zojilaon disability have been selected as finalists in the NOVA Employment 2018 Focus On Ability Short Film Awards. Focus on Ability (FOA) is designed to encourage filmmakers to focus on the ability of people with disability. This year they’re celebrating ten years of doing just that! Based in Australia, this year’s FOA competition hit a record number of 297 entries, including 131 school entries and 63 international films. Following successful screenings last year in New Zealand, New York, Zimbabwe and Malawi this year the competition received entries from a record number of countries 26, including, for the first time, one film from Pakistan, Iran, Hong Kong and Tunisia.
Three Indian documentary films have made to the finalist selection, amazingly two films are from Valley based Green Filmmaker Jalal Ud Din Baba. A rare foot for a Kashmir based filmmaker.
- Mind Mightier Than Might (Story)
Inspiring, Instinctive, Unparalleled, Aamir, is an elegantand determined world-class cricketer without arms; brain propels the body to overcome the physical constraints. Aamir fares far better than many of his four-limbed peers. Aamir noticed a duck in stream preening his whole body with his head. That is where he got his motivation. He adopted the swimming style of the duck and practiced to hold the cricket bat with his head to hit the ball harder.
Aamir not only managed to make his feet double as his hands.He uses his legs as his hands, for bowling, eating, swimming, shaving and writing with his first two toes on his right foot. It was his amazing capacity to adapt and learn things without his arms. Cricket is his life.
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- #TullaDozingTheBull@Zojils (Story)
Zojila Pass, world’s second most inhospitable difficult road terrain to cross, shivers the spine with toughness, danger and unpredictability. Such is the terrain and 12000 feet depth that afterthought is nightmarish experience. But for Tulla bulldozing the Zojila boulders, fifty feet high snow avalanches, cutting mountain patches, under the shooting stones and watery snow slides is just like a moon of the hand. Tulla is born special to a shepherd family at Sonamarg, came to the planet earth with two basic absences, as a deaf and dumb child. Brought up under the circumstances where life and its necessities teach you a harder lesson in practice, sweat and blood. Mountains and rocks make you strong inside out. Poverty may be profanity but it also makes you change, adept and apt. The stiff heights become the essence, grasping breaths turn into strength, and exhaustion but Tulla changes those hardships into accomplishment.
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https://www.focusonability.com.au/FOA/films/TullaDozingTheBull@Zojilla_1615.html
