Ummeed - A Ray of Hope: Filmmaking as Autoethnography and Tracing Censorship in Narratives during Pedagogical Experiments with Adolescents in a School Setting

This paper narrates the key events and factors that contributed to the development of Ummeed- A Ray of Hope, a short film written, shot and produced by students from the ‘core sample’ as a part of an International Film Festival on films made by minors/teens. This paper is part of the researcher’s doctoral research project “The “Self” in Classrooms: Exploring Identities through Narratives from Teaching of Social Sciences”, which analyses narratives and discourse from unconstrained socio-political discussions.