Laya Project
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Laya Project is a world music
documentary
produced by EarthSync
, a world music audio-visual production company based in South India
. The project is a "personal and collective musical tribute to the resilience of the human spirit", and is dedicated to the survivors of the December 26 2004 Asian tsunami
.
A team of sound engineers and camera men took a two-year journey through six countries, including India
, Indonesia
, Sri Lanka
, Thailand
, Maldives
and Myanmar
, and recorded film footage and music with the local musicians. The material was mastered at the Clementine studio in Chennai
. The film was directed by Harold Monfils. The music was produced by Patrick Sebag.
Laya Project won various awards (Founder's Choice Award at the New York International Independent Film and Video Festival
, Best Film Award at the Byron Bay Film Festival
, Special Juror's Choice Award at Zanzibar International Film Festival
in Tanzania
and the Audience Award at Imaginaria Film Festival in Italy
) and is being screened at international film festivals in places such as Los Angeles
, St. Petersburg, Tel Aviv
, Mumbai
and Kuala Lumpur
. It has also been broadcast worldwide on the National Geographic Channel
.
* Executive Producer - Sastry Karra
* Producers - Sonya Mazumdar and Joanne de Rozario
* Film Director - Harold Monfils
* Music Director - Patrick Sebag
* Sound Design, Music & Recording - Yotam Agam
* Editing and Post-Production - Arturo Calvete, Henrik Sikstrom, Jose Garrido
* Line Producer & Research - Ernest Hariyanto
* Still Photography - Timur Angin
* Stage and Light Design - Jackie Shemesh
* Director of Photography - Cheong Yuk Hoy, Agung Dewantoro
* Mixed & Mastered at Clementine Studios, India
World music
World music is a term with widely varying definitions, often encompassing music which is primarily identified as another genre. This is evidenced by world music definitions such as "all of the music in the world" or "somebody else's local music"...
documentary
Documentary film
Documentary films constitute a broad category of nonfictional motion pictures intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction or maintaining a historical record...
produced by EarthSync
EarthSync
EarthSync is a record label and audio-visual production company in Chennai, South India. As a world music record label, EarthSync works with "roots music through which cultures express themselves across time". The EarthSync CDs and DVDs feature traditional music recorded across Asia, often fused...
, a world music audio-visual production company based in South India
South India
South India is the area encompassing India's states of Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala and Tamil Nadu as well as the union territories of Lakshadweep and Pondicherry, occupying 19.31% of India's area...
. The project is a "personal and collective musical tribute to the resilience of the human spirit", and is dedicated to the survivors of the December 26 2004 Asian tsunami
2004 Indian Ocean earthquake
The 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake was an undersea megathrust earthquake that occurred at 00:58:53 UTC on Sunday, December 26, 2004, with an epicentre off the west coast of Sumatra, Indonesia. The quake itself is known by the scientific community as the Sumatra-Andaman earthquake...
.
A team of sound engineers and camera men took a two-year journey through six countries, including India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
, Indonesia
Indonesia
Indonesia , officially the Republic of Indonesia , is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania. Indonesia is an archipelago comprising approximately 13,000 islands. It has 33 provinces with over 238 million people, and is the world's fourth most populous country. Indonesia is a republic, with an...
, Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka, officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka is a country off the southern coast of the Indian subcontinent. Known until 1972 as Ceylon , Sri Lanka is an island surrounded by the Indian Ocean, the Gulf of Mannar and the Palk Strait, and lies in the vicinity of India and the...
, Thailand
Thailand
Thailand , officially the Kingdom of Thailand , formerly known as Siam , is a country located at the centre of the Indochina peninsula and Southeast Asia. It is bordered to the north by Burma and Laos, to the east by Laos and Cambodia, to the south by the Gulf of Thailand and Malaysia, and to the...
, Maldives
Maldives
The Maldives , , officially Republic of Maldives , also referred to as the Maldive Islands, is an island nation in the Indian Ocean formed by a double chain of twenty-six atolls oriented north-south off India's Lakshadweep islands, between Minicoy Island and...
and Myanmar
Myanmar
Burma , officially the Republic of the Union of Myanmar , is a country in Southeast Asia. Burma is bordered by China on the northeast, Laos on the east, Thailand on the southeast, Bangladesh on the west, India on the northwest, the Bay of Bengal to the southwest, and the Andaman Sea on the south....
, and recorded film footage and music with the local musicians. The material was mastered at the Clementine studio in Chennai
Chennai
Chennai , formerly known as Madras or Madarasapatinam , is the capital city of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, located on the Coromandel Coast off the Bay of Bengal. Chennai is the fourth most populous metropolitan area and the sixth most populous city in India...
. The film was directed by Harold Monfils. The music was produced by Patrick Sebag.
Laya Project won various awards (Founder's Choice Award at the New York International Independent Film and Video Festival
New York International Independent Film and Video Festival
New York International Independent Film and Video Festival is a film screening event in various American cities. It was founded in 1993, and its website claims it has been recognized by the film and entertainment industry as one of the leading film events on the independent festival circuit...
, Best Film Award at the Byron Bay Film Festival
Byron Bay Film Festival
The Byron Bay Film Festival is an awards-based film event usually held in the late Australian Summer at the Byron Community & Cultural Centre, in the coastal town of Byron Bay....
, Special Juror's Choice Award at Zanzibar International Film Festival
Zanzibar International Film Festival
The Zanzibar International Film Festival , also known as Festival of the Dhow Countries, is an annual film festival held in Zanzibar, Tanzania. It has been described as the largest cultural event in East Africa. During the festival, films are shown in Stone Town in Zanzibar City, as well as rural...
in Tanzania
Tanzania
The United Republic of Tanzania is a country in East Africa bordered by Kenya and Uganda to the north, Rwanda, Burundi, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the west, and Zambia, Malawi, and Mozambique to the south. The country's eastern borders lie on the Indian Ocean.Tanzania is a state...
and the Audience Award at Imaginaria Film Festival in Italy
Italy
Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...
) and is being screened at international film festivals in places such as Los Angeles
Los Ángeles
Los Ángeles is the capital of the province of Biobío, in the commune of the same name, in Region VIII , in the center-south of Chile. It is located between the Laja and Biobío rivers. The population is 123,445 inhabitants...
, St. Petersburg, Tel Aviv
Tel Aviv
Tel Aviv , officially Tel Aviv-Yafo , is the second most populous city in Israel, with a population of 404,400 on a land area of . The city is located on the Israeli Mediterranean coastline in west-central Israel. It is the largest and most populous city in the metropolitan area of Gush Dan, with...
, Mumbai
Mumbai
Mumbai , formerly known as Bombay in English, is the capital of the Indian state of Maharashtra. It is the most populous city in India, and the fourth most populous city in the world, with a total metropolitan area population of approximately 20.5 million...
and Kuala Lumpur
Kuala Lumpur
Kuala Lumpur is the capital and the second largest city in Malaysia by population. The city proper, making up an area of , has a population of 1.4 million as of 2010. Greater Kuala Lumpur, also known as the Klang Valley, is an urban agglomeration of 7.2 million...
. It has also been broadcast worldwide on the National Geographic Channel
National Geographic Channel
National Geographic Channel, also commercially abbreviated and trademarked as Nat Geo, is a subscription television channel that airs non-fiction television programs produced by the National Geographic Society. Like History and the Discovery Channel, the channel features documentaries with factual...
.
* Executive Producer - Sastry Karra
* Producers - Sonya Mazumdar and Joanne de Rozario
* Film Director - Harold Monfils
* Music Director - Patrick Sebag
* Sound Design, Music & Recording - Yotam Agam
* Editing and Post-Production - Arturo Calvete, Henrik Sikstrom, Jose Garrido
* Line Producer & Research - Ernest Hariyanto
* Still Photography - Timur Angin
* Stage and Light Design - Jackie Shemesh
* Director of Photography - Cheong Yuk Hoy, Agung Dewantoro
* Mixed & Mastered at Clementine Studios, India