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Films on natural disasters

Staff Reporter

BANGALORE: Members of indiadisasters.org and tsunami response watch have organised the screening of a series of films on natural disasters and the response after as part of a documentary film festival travelling South India till October 30.

The screenings, coming in the context of tsunami and now Katrina, are on October 8 and 9 at the Indian Social Institute, Benson Road, Benson Town, 5.30 p.m. onwards on both days.

Max Martin, who coordinates the website with four of his friends, and is into ecology and development reporting, says the impact of one of the documentary films, `Living on the Edge,' persuaded them to organise a film festival. "That film by Magimai Prakasham represented the impossibility of living under tin-sheds that were built for people hit by tsunami in Nagapattinam district. The film reached the district collector who went on record to say that relief was a shame.

"The film also reached the U.N. and a German meet. We and so many other journalists had reported fairly extensively on tsunami, but the impact the film made was enormous. We realised a visual could do a lot ."

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