SR 50(3) (Report)

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NAVNEET KUMAR GUPTA
URING the 100th Indian
Science Congress held
at Kolkata during 3-7 January
2013, Vigyan Prasar organised
the third Rashtriya Vigyan
Chalchitra Mela or the National
Science Film Festival at Science
D
eminent film personality and
also Jury Chairman. Mr. G.S.
Rautela,
Director
General,
National Council of Science
Museums gave the opening
remarks and welcomed the
participants. Dr Saroj Ghose, Mr
Subhash R. Joshi, Mr Vivekanand
City, Kolkata. The festival was
held from 4-7 January 2013. It
was organised to felicitate, and
encourage outstanding Indian
science film producers.
The Science Film Festival
was inaugurated on 4 January
2011 by Mr Amol Palekar,
Apte, and Dr Arvind C. Ranade
were the other members of
the jury. The festival was well
attended
by
enthusiastic
film
makers,
producers,
delegates
at
the
Indian
Science Congress, and science
communicators.
National Science Film Festival: The Award Winners
Category: Popular Science Films
‘Golden Beaver Award’: ‘The Night Warriors’ by S. Balamurgan, Producer, Centre for Electronics Media (Pondicherry
University)
‘Silver Beaver Award’: ‘You Can Prevent Cancer of the Cervix’ by Dr Parvez Imam
‘Bronze Beaver Award’: ‘The Voice of Life: Acharya J C Bose Part 1’ by Matiur Rahman, Television Programme Company,
Produced by Vigyan Prasar
Category: Short Films on S&T
‘Golden Beaver Award’: ‘Ladakh’s Artificial Glaciers’ by Rajendra Kondapalli, Pulse Media Pvt Ltd
‘Silver Beaver Award’: ‘Sparrows/Gorraiya’ by K Prabhakar Iyyar and ‘Magic of 110: Daytime Astronomy’ by Seema
Muralidhara and H. Muralidhara, produced for Vigyan Prasar
‘Bronze Beaver Award’: ‘Captive breeding & Cage Farming of Karimeen’ by Antony N. Felix, Producer, Monsoon Productions
Category: Animation/Graphics/Special Effect Film on S&T
‘Bronze Beaver Award’: ‘Nisarg Runa (Nature’s Loan)’ by Shrikant Agawane, Producer, Stree Mukti Sanghatan
Note: There were no winners for the Golden and Silver Beaver awards in this category
Category: S&T Film made by Student(s)
‘Golden Beaver Award’: ‘An Apple’ by Satish Narayanan and John Benedict Julias, Producer, Big Aims (Reliance Animation)
Note: There were no winners for the Silver and Bronze Beaver awards in this category
Special Jury Award
1. ‘Tiger Dynasty’ by S. Nallamuthu/Grey Films India for BBC Natural World
2. ‘The Green Wish’ by Satish Pande, Comfed Productions Pvt Ltd
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Opening Remarks by Dr R.
Gopichandran, Director, Vigyan Prasar
during the opening ceremony. Also
seen are Prof. S.K. Brahmachari,
DG-CSIR and Mr Amol Palekar
The competition was held
in four categories: (a) Popular
science films (duration more
than 20 minutes), (b) Short films
on science and technology
(duration less than 20 minutes),
(c) Animation/Graphics/Special
Effect Film on Science and
Technology, and (d) Science
& Technology Film made by
Student/(s). The competition
attracted outstanding science
and technology video film
producers
from
around
the country and set new
benchmarks for excellence.
Eighty-three
entries
were received in different
categories. Of these, nine
entries in the ‘Popular science
films’ category; eleven in the
‘Short film on science and
technology’ category; two
in the ‘Animation/Graphics/
Special Effect Film on Science
and Technology category;
and three in the ‘Science &
Technology Film made by
Student/(s) category’ were
shortlisted.
Alongside the Science
Film Festival, Vigyan Prasar,
in collaboration with Open
Source Drug Discovery (OSDD),
of the Council of Scientific
and Industrial Research (CSIR)
also organised a Short Film
Competition on the theme
“The need for New Drugs for
Tuberculosis (TB)”. This event was
also held at the Science City,
Kolkata.
The
Short
Film
Competition-2013
was
inaugurated on 6 January 2011
by Mr Amol Palekar who was
once again the Jury Chairman
for this event also. While Dr Saroj
Ghose, Mr Subhash R. Joshi,
Mr Vivekanand Apte, and Dr
Arvind C. Ranade were the
other members of the jury. Prof.
Samir K. Brahmachari, Director
General, CSIR gave the opening
remarks and welcomed the
participants.
Dr Arvind Ranade briefing about the RVCM at the opening ceremony (left);
Prof. S.K. Brahmachari, DG-CSIR and Mr Zakir Thomas, OSDD announcing the awards for the Short Film Competition-2013 on the theme “The need for New Drugs for Tuberculosis (TB)” (right)
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Short Film Competition:
The Award Winners
First Prize: ‘Kshaya Rog:
Nayee
Davayen
Nayee
Chunatiyan Nayee Aashayen’
by Dr Jayanti Dutta
Second Prize (Three): ‘We
Need This!’ by A.R. Srigiresh
Rasiappan; ‘Journey’ by A.R.
Srigiresh Rasiappan; and
‘The loss’ by Mr Surya Venu
Third Prize (Two): ‘TB – The
Global Burden’ by Sameer
Javid Wani and ‘The need, by
the need’ by Karman Khana
Special Jury Award: ‘The
Need of New drugs for TB’ by
Matiur Rahman
The Science Film Festival was
inaugurated on 4 January 2013 by
Mr Amol Palekar, eminent film
personality and also Jury Chairman.
Mr. G.S. Rautela, Director General,
National Council of Science Museums
gave the opening remarks.
The
competition
was
organised to create awareness
regarding the urgent need
for new drugs for tuberculosis.
Science City, Kolkata and
the Indian Science Congress
Association provided technical
and event support respectively.
For the purpose of the
competition, all participants
were supposed to upload their
short films on YouTube. There
were 175 entries, of which 23
were shortlisted.
On 6 January 2013 all
the 23 shortlisted films were
screened for public viewing and
saw enthusiastic participation.
The award presentation
ceremony for both the events
was held at the Mini Auditorium
within the campus of Science
City, Kolkata. While the Guest of
Honour was Mr Amol Palekar, the
Chief Guest was Prof. Samir K.
Brahmachari. The awards were
presented by Prof. Brahmachari,
Dr Zakir Thomas, OSDD-CSIR,
Dr R. Gopichandran, DirectorVigyan Prasar and Mr Amol
Palekar, Chairman of the
national Jury.
Left from top:
Popular Science Golden Beaver Award;
Golden Beaver Award in short film category;
Silver Beaver Award in short film category
Bronze Beaver Award in animations/special effects
Mr Navneet Kumar Gupta is Project
Officer (EduSat), Vigyan Prasar,
C-24, Qutub Institutional Area, New
Delhi-110016; Email: ngupta@
vigyanprasar.gov.in
From top: Bronze Beaver Award in popular science films category; The special
jury award; Mr Amol Palekar and Prof. S.K. Brahmachari giving away the first
prize in the Short Film Competition-2013
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