Media Reviews

Media coverage on PROJECT KALKI


Times of India, Chennai 
3G MOVIES
A Group Of People Of The Third Gender Wield Handycams To Portray Lives Of The Lesser Privileged
Priya M Menon | TNN 
A group of people huddle around a laptop in a small room. As the rain drums steadily onto the asbestos roof, transgender (TG) rights activist Kalki Subramaniam takes them through the various stages involved in making a short film. Read more..

The Hindu

Thursday, Sep 02, 2010

Transgender tales

Akila Kannadasan

In a novel initiative, at the Kovai Rainbow Film Festival, seven transgenders screened documentaries they had filmed covering issues close to their heart..Read more..

Medindia Exclusive

Eunuch’ No More Theme of Transgender Documentaries

by Nancy Needhima on  November 18, 2010 at 5:28 PM

Transgender persons in India and other Asian countries are gradually surfacing from the social stigma. Read more..

Medindia Exclusive

Teenage Transgender Documentary on ‘Hope’

by Nancy Needhima on  November 18, 2010 at 6:21 PM

 
Transgender Kanchana’s life is very similar to the stuff nightmares are made of. Read more..

SifyNews

2010-11-20 15:10:00 ANI 
Chennai's transgender activist trains community members in film making

A transgender activist, Kalki Subramaniam, trains her community members in documentary film-making in Chennai.

Subramaniam said on Friday the Information Technology could play a tremendous role in the empowerment of marginalised, stigmatised transgender community. Read more..

Women's Feature Service
The Celluloid Dreams of Transgenders
by Hema Vijay, December 6, 2010
Chennai (Women's Feature Service) - They are seen as people who harass pedestrians on the streets, collect money by threatening people, kidnap kids, engage in sex work, and so on. But these stereotypes do little justice to transgenders. Like everybody else, they can be dynamic litterateurs, creative artists and, above all, socially committed individuals. Read more..

The Hindu
January 18, 2011

The correct picture

Akila Kannadasan

Tamil cinema has long degraded transgenders, often depicting them as prostitutes and hecklers. “This should change. Such movies give the audience a wrong notion about us,” says Kalki Subramanian, a transgender rights activist. Read more...

Indian Video Activist Puts Transgender in Focus

By Paromita Pain

WeNews correspondent

Sunday, February 20, 2011

Kalki Subramaniam's video project for transgender women in India began with her own scholarship in video making. Now she's assisting other transgender women to shoot their own video as a way of breaking out of poverty and abuse..... Read more..