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WORLD PREMIERE
Meet a transgender sex-ed teacher, a knife-fighting mafioso and India’s top gossip blogger. Go fishing in the Arabian Sea, rub noses with Bollywood elite and question dubious election results. Step into a collapsed building rescue effort, and dance on the streets to celebrate another year of survival. Jugaad is an immersive mosaic of stories about people from different communities in Mumbai, one of the most disparate, diverse and densely populated cities on Earth.
Behind the camera, the outsider-filmmaker makes her way through India’s Promised Land, exploring the highs, lows and in-between moments of everyday life. Through a series of striking observations and cinematic stories, JUGAAD non-judgmentally captures the emotional essence of an important and complex urban centre while reflecting how we all survive our paradoxical world. Survival means different things to different people, whether it’s struggling to keep a roof over our family’s heads, fighting to change society or finding one’s purpose.
The word “jugaad” is a colloquial Hindi and Punjabi word that means creative problem solving. It’s the connective tissue of the city, is essential for artists to master, and is at the crux of survival in our world today.
76 min / Canada / 2017
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Susannah Heath-Eves, Director/ Producer
Susannah Heath-Eves is a documentary filmmaker based in Montreal and Mumbai. JUGAAD is her debut feature. Susannah was Line Producer and Co-Editor on two large projects at the documentary production company EyeSteelFilm: The Fruit Hunters, directed by Yung Chang, a feature film and two-episode TV series for CBC’s The Nature of Things, in collaboration with the National Film Board of Canada; and the Blue Water Project, a web series on freshwater conservation in collaboration with CloudRaker. She grew up in Calgary and has a Masters in Broadcast Journalism and a BA in English Literature, both from Carleton University in Ottawa. She has worked as a reporter and current affairs associate producer for CBC Radio and Television