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“We pooled in our money, borrowed a bit from other priests who were as excited as we were, and accepted donations from parishioners,” says Fr Thottiyil. This turned out to be easier than they’d thought. They would be happy to direct the film, the men said, but first they had to raise enough money to make it. Fr Thottiyil is a childhood friend Fr Koroth has a post-graduate degree in filmmaking. It was one of 10 selected, in August 2020, for initial funding of ₹50,000.Īt this point, Fr Puthussery reached out to Frs Thottiyil and Koroth, who work with the Angamaly Archdiocese’s media and communications division, Pilgrims Communications. When the Kerala State Chalachitra Academy, a non-profit that works to promote cinema, announced isolation and survival as the theme of a scriptwriting contest, Fr Puthussery drew on that story, and all that he was seeing around him in the pandemic, and wrote and submitted his script. He sold lottery tickets for a living and looked after his little sister, who tagged along with him everywhere,” says Fr Puthussery. A 10-year-old boy whose parents were rarely around did all the chores, balanced school and work.
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“The pandemic reminded me of when I was volunteering at a slum almost a decade ago. The story follows how the two look after each other and care for their speech-impaired mother by coming up with clever ways to maintain a distance from her in their little house by the sea. Frs James Thottiyil, 35, Jose Puthussery, 35, and Jacob Koroth, 44, of the Ernakulam-Angamaly Archdiocese got together and made a 14-minute short film inspired by how underprivileged children in Kerala were coping when their parents had to self-quarantine.ĭavid and Goliath (2021) is about two siblings named Thavi and Thanu, aged nine and five, being raised by a single mother who has to isolate after she comes in contact with a Covid-positive person.