Ready to listen to making movies from a woman’s point of view ? Sneak peak of upcoming Sonia Nepram’s podcast about making of the Manipuri documentary movie Gun and a God.
A “Gun and a God” is the journey a woman, whose will was forged by the structural violence of her existence, who finally finds her voice in a Gun and justice in a God.
This podcast (in Meitei-Lon/Manipuri language) details the making of Manipuri animated movie Keibu-kei-oiba (The man who turns into a tiger) which is based on a popular Manipuri folktale by Bhumenjoy Konsam. I watched the movie with my kids. We enjoyed it and loved it. I was amazed that they sat through the whole movies and now they are running all over playing “Thong Handok-o, Thong Handok-o”
This episode is all about the making of the movie Keibu-kei-oiba , Bhumenjoy shares the challenges in making the story as an animated movie, developing, building, designing up each character, each scene creating from a blank frame to creating everything from scratch making the 84 minutes movie. It is amazing to hear about the voice over details for each of the characters.
The whole team put a lot of effort in making this movie, consulting and researching so that it is presented very authentic in terms of music, even the musical instrument and script used. Hats off to the whole team. Thanks for this wonderful gift to the Manipuri community.
In the previous Episode 36 Bhumenjoy Konsam, shared about himself, about how his career shaped from studying from Chemistry to Multimedia, choosing career between a low paying Multimedia job of Rs 2500 versus a Govt. Job as Army officer of Rs 8000. Even though it was a tough path to follow and choose his passion, despite raising eyebrows from people in leaving the traditional path, Bhumenjoy followed his passion.
I am proud to present the voice of Bhumenjoy Konsam, Director of Manipuri animated movie Keibu-kei-oiba (The man who turns into a tiger). This is a podcast (in Meitei-Lon/Manipuri language) and in this episode Bhumenjoy shares about himself, about how his career shaped from studying from Chemistry to Multimedia, choosing career between a low paying Multimedia job versus a Govt. Job in the Indian Army. Even though it was a difficult path to follow, choosing his passion, despite raising eyebrows from friends and relatives in leaving the traditional path, Bhumenjoy followed his passion with his Father’s support.
Bhumenjoy shares interesting details about the multimedia course, his experience in his work and his thought process on choosing his passion or doing a JOB !! He left his job in between to pursue what he wants which lead him to making the movie Keibu-kei-oiba with his friends. He shares details about career prospect in Multimedia.
This is a very inspiring story to follow your dream career path, despite all odds, a path which you are passionate about and which you like rather than being pressured into following the expected traditional path which you don’t like.
Please continue to tune in to listen to Episode 037 FindingTheVoices : Bhumenjoy Konsam sharing about making of the Manipuri animated movie Keibu-kei-oiba which covers very interesting details of behind the scene in making the Manipuri animated movie Keibu-kei-oiba.
Special Mother’s Day Podcast with Karina Duchastel, French-Canadian currently in United States sharing her journey about “Being a Mom” as part of the special series of podcast for Mother’s Day. I really enjoyed having her in our talk show, she brought very interesting perspective and it was a great learning experience. Please tune in to listen about Karina’s wonderful journey of being a Mom for her 3 wonderful kids.
Karina shares a very interesting and important point to take time to reconnect with your husband. Also she shared her wonderful perspective that Children needs to be congratulated for listening & behaving well and it is their decision to take the advice parents provide 🙂
Little bit about Karina in her own words:
My name is Karina Duchastel and I am a mom of 3 kids. I am a French-Canadian from Quebec City and have been living in the USA since 2000. I have been raising my kids in 3 different states: California, Maryland and currently living in the a suburb of Seattle, Washington. My journey as a mother so far has been filled with challenges of raising kids in unfamiliar environments and language and a hard choice of being apart from our extended family. I certainly never thought I would immigrate to a country other than Canada. My shared experience with other foreign families living in the USA have not only opened my mind about new cultures but enabled me to build strong friendships that I can call family. Before being a mom, I had a career as an electrical and software engineer. I actually met my husband Nicolas at an engineering school called Ecole Polytechnique of Montreal. I have been working part-time for the past 5 years as a Quality assurance and Test Engineer for a small software company in Bellevue Washington. I also enjoyed volunteering at my kids school and I am very passionate about passing on my French-Canadian culture to my kids and their friends.
Thanks to Priya Ramachandran for sharing her journey of “Being a Mom” for our special Mother’s Day podcast series.
Priya is mother of 2 beautiful girls, working in United States. I really enjoyed learning many things from her experience. How many of us have to take breaks from career to strike a balance with family ? It is true that women change, tweak the career path to strike a balance between work and family, taking breaks, changing roles and responsibility and even choosing jobs to get flexibility even if that means changing your line of work.
She spoke about support from her husband, networking and setting up extended family with your friends plays a very important role.
I really enjoyed listening to her story and learning a different perspective of life as a Mother. Please listen to this podcast to listen to the story of Priya’s journey of being a Mom.
Thanks to Priyadarshini Koijam, mother of 2 for sharing her journey and experience of being a MOM.
We spoke about many topics on raising kids and my favorite is talking about pros and cons of having children with less or more age gap.
Listen to the podcast to hear about Priyadarshini’s journey of being a Mom raising her daughter and son, being a GoogleMom 🙂 wearing multiple Hats all the time raising her kids.
Should the age gap between kids be more or less ? Challenges of raising a teenager ? How different is raising a boy and a girl ?How do we go about teaching and balancing Indian values raising a teenage girl in America ? Is shouting to kids productive ? Reasoning and explanation of why children should listen to parents …
Thanks to Jenifer Sharma for sharing her journey of “Being a Mom” for our special Mother’s Day podcast series.
Jenifer is mother of 2 wonderful children 4 years old son and 5 months old daughter, working part time in England. I really enjoyed learning many things from her experience.
We spoke about the excellent Maternity benefits in England, how important your husband’s support is in getting a balance with kids and work and many other topics. I love her 24 hour rule to make up with her husband 🙂 Also she shared about the wonderful relationship between grandchildren and grandparents.
I really enjoyed listening to her story and learning a different perspective of life as a Mother. Please listen to this podcast to listen to the story of Jenifer’s journey of being a Mom.
Shanti Thokchom has been so kind to let us know that she will be providing a surprise gift for 2 of our listeners for all the support and response we have received. Congratulations to our listener Valentina Laitonjam from Ludhiana, India and Sapam Shyamananda from Cincinnati, Ohio for agreeing to accept the complimentary gift.
It is always really tough to select only 2 listeners !! But we will have more …
Please continue sharing and promoting FindingTheVoices. And Yes we love all your feedback, comments, message and suggestions for Guest Speakers. This is your show !!We appreciate your support for FindingTheVoices.
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And the surprise gifts are 2 THADOU – KUKI SHAWL called “MANG VOM”, Congratulations to Valentina Laitonjam and Sapam Shyamananda. Thanks for sharing the pictures. Thanks Shanti Thokchom !!
Congratulations to our listener Budhachandra Kh located in Quebec, Canada and Maisnam Arnapal based in Delhi, India for winning the complimentary gift of Mali’s book “A Million Fireflies”. We appreciate your support for FindingTheVoices. Thanks ! Please continue tuning in at https://findingthevoices.com/ and sharing with friends and family.
A Million Fireflies, all the way from USA to India ! It was a great pleasure to personally hand over the book and meet our special listeners of FindingTheVoices. Congratulations to our listener Maisnam Arnapal based in Delhi, India for winning the complimentary gift of Mali’s book “A Million Fireflies”. Thanks to Arnapal and Lilyma for taking your time to come and meet me at Delhi, India.
Great to see that Budhachandra Kh received his complimentary copy of “A Million Fireflies”, all the way to Canada, Thanks Mali Phonpadith. Thanks for sharing the picture.
Congratulations once again !!! Thanks for all your support for FindingTheVoices.
If you haven’t heard Mali’s podcast, here is the link …
Mali Phonpadith, a poet, author and entrepreneur all the way from Laos to America
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