Environment film festival
Centre for Media Studies (CMS), New Delhi, is organizing Bangalore CMS Vatavaran 2006 — an Environment and Wildlife Travelling Film Festival from October 6 to 8 at the Alliance Francaise de Bangalore, Vasanth Nagar.
The Film Festival will include screenings of the best of environment and wildlife films, symposiums, talks by experts, photography exhibition, film bazaar, a felicitation ceremony and more. The Festival brings a platter of 31 films, with a special focus on children.
Premiering in the festival will be Nina Subramani's film Healing the Coast, which explores the environmental restoration along Tamil Nadu's coastline in the post-tsunami context. Also to be screened will be the CMS Fellowship film by Prayas Abhinav and Manjushree Leaving No Trace... Cyclist in the City.
A symposium titled "Managing Electronic Waste" will be held on October 6. Day two of the festival will have a symposium on "Wildlife-Human Conflicts: What Is The Way Forward?". "Walk with Nature" a photography exhibition by Thakur Dalip Singh, eminent wildlife photographer, will be a part of the festival.
The three-day festival will reach out to approximately 2000 people including filmmakers, NGOs, government organizations, environmentalists, researchers, conservationists, policy makers, activists, public and private sector organisations, and students of all ages.
A.K. Varma, Principal Chief Conservator of Forest and Chief Wildlife Warden of Karnataka will be the Guest of Honour for the inaugural ceremony on October 6. Mike Pandey' s Panda Award and Green Oscar-winning film Shores of Silence - Whale Sharks in India, Shekar Dattatri's The Ridley's Last Stand, Ajay and Vijay Bedi's The Policing Langur on monkey menace, Amar Kanwar's Many Faces of Madness on ecological destruction, Dhimant Vyas's Cute Bunny on keeping the environment clean are among the films to be screened at the festival.
For details contact: kapithra@yahoo.co.in, or call 0-98990-46592 or log on to: www.cmsvatavaran.org
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