MARGAO: A short film has been released about the fishing community of the Zuari River.
The short five-minute video film, “Kharvi – Fishers,” provides a glimpse into the changing dynamics of Goa’s Zuari River.
The film by Loretti Pinto explores the depth of the fishers of Nauxim (referred to as Nauxe in the film) village with a sweeping historical narrative, featuring fishermen from the 1950s to the present times in 2023 as first-hand narrators of personal life stories.
What sets this film apart is its unique approach—no experts provide insights about fishing communities. Instead, the fishers themselves serve as storytellers, sharing their personal life stories. With English subtitles, the film aims to reach a broader audience worldwide.
The film was first screened recently at an international workshop organized at Sancoale, Goa, by BITS Pilani Goa campus and the University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, as one part of a presentation of the paper titled “From Livelihoods to Sustainability: Navigating Small-Scale Fishers’ Journey from Victim to Catalyst of Change in Goa,” jointly authored by Sebastiao Anthony Rodrigues, Lorette Joyce Pinto, and Glenis Maria Mendonça.
The presentation was done in the presence of four fishers of the Zuari River in Goa, India, namely Sanjay Faterpekar, Laximan Mangueshkar, Sanjay Kankonkar, and Shekar Kuttikar, who also participated in this international workshop. This film has now been made available online to the public for pedagogical reasons so that further ideas may flow from the collective intellectual engagement with fishing communities in Goa.
