History
The Asian Centre for Entertainment Education (ACEE) was co-founded by Vinta Nanda and Augustine Veliath in 2012.
Our Work
The Asian Centre for Entertainment Education was co-founded in the year 2012 and the Third Eye program, a partnership between ACEE and Hollywood Health and Society (HH&S), was launched in March 2013 at FICCI Frames, the most prestigious annual conclave of the industry of entertainment in India. The Third Eye Program follows the HH&S model in India.
The Program partnered with content creators of popular entertainment in India and assisted creative teams by building platforms for discussions between them and experts from across various fields like social sciences, health and environment.
The Program has consulted on over 250 story-lines on mainstream entertainment and facilitated accuracy in the discourse on various issues like Family Planning, Reproductive Maternal and Child Health, Cancer, Mental Health and Environment/Climate Change.
We have organised various activities in the past which have enriched us as an organisation and have provided us with ample learning experiences to take the cause of entertainment education further. Some of those interesting happenings were;
The Third Eye screened films in media dark areas with the purpose of raising awareness on issues on Health, Gender, Legal, Health, Sustainable Development, Environment, Social etc. As a follow up, qualitative and quantitative data were collected before and after the screening to ascertain the changes in attitudes and practices. This data was mapped in order to engineer a holistic understanding of the dynamics related to these issues across various rural and semi-rural areas all around India. The research is evaluative and is able to tangibly quantify the impact the various interventions have made.
The Third Eye Program has consulted on two Medical Drama’s Hamari Sister Didi set in rural India on the Free-to-Air channel Sony Pal, and Roshni, a drama in an urban setting on the Digital Channel Life OK. The Program provided case studies to inspire the writing of the series, coordinated whetting of scripts with volunteer experts, and facilitated video referencing to bring realism to the narrative. The creative team at ACEE developed the Message Design and aligned with the team of writers to make the process of interventions seamless. In partnership with HH&S, the Program developed the research strategy and tools, and conducted a study in five cities in the State of Uttar Pradesh, to measure the impact of specific interventions made to the main story-line of the series.
Supernova – Free-to-Attend monthly briefings were held where experts from the field of medicine, social development and media addressed a wide variety of socially relevant issues. Giving different perspectives on an issue gives the writers a greater understanding of the issues that they are addressing in their content.
We facilitated experts from various fields to answer the queries of writers & content creators and offer them their perspective. They would share case examples and real stories from the fields of medicine, law, and social development, providing varied perspectives on the chosen topic, which served to enrich the storyline and add value to the content through the dialogue.
The Third Eye arranged excursions for creative leaderships such as networks and studios, as well as writers and content creators to remote rural regions in order to acquaint them with grassroot realities in order to enrich their work with accuracy and realism in their portrayal of various ethnicities.
Even as we continue to organise these activities, ACEE’s scope of work has evolved over a period of time. You can find the list of activities/ services we undertake currently in the SERVICES section.
