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DISCLAIMER
Although every precaution has been taken in compiling the Audio-visual Directory,
CMS assumes no responsibility for errors or omissions, which might have crept in
due to third party information. Neither is there any liability assumed for damage
resulting from use of such information.
© CMS ENVIS CENTRE
First Edition 2005-2006
Published By
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CMS ENVIS Centre
The CMS ENVIS Centre is a premiere centre designated by the Union Ministry
of Environment and Forests, Government of India, to facilitate information
dissemination and further the cause of environmental awareness and
sensitization. Since its inception, it has come a long way to establish itself as
a key resource center, coordinating body and platform for information
dissemination on environmental communication, strategies and media related
activities.
Today, the Centre reaches out to a large number of people through its various
activities. The ENVIS quarterly newsletter, Green Voice – the gateway of
information on environment and media — is received by more than 1,000
readers, while its daily e-newsletter, Green Media (on environmental issues in
print media) has a circulation of over 3,000. From time to time, the Centre also
undertakes focused studies of ‘green space’ in print and electronic media, and
issues coverage analysis on different contemporary issues. The Clemenceau is
one such highly acclaimed publication.
CMS ENVIS also collates for its readers impressive databases of more than
12000 ‘green’ news from national and regional dailies, 800 advertising agencies
and 2000 audio-visual programmes, thereby facilitating easy access to prominent
and relevant media information. The Centre has been an active and dynamic
channel for reaching out to people through different communication tools such
as newsletters, publications, research studies, case studies and websites, and
has striven to build public consensus on and a network for environment
conservation.
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Realizing the importance of environmental information and its dissemination,
the Government of India, in December 1982, established an Environmental
Information System (ENVIS) as a plan programme. The focus of ENVIS since
inception has been on providing environmental information to decision-makers,
policy planners, scientists, engineers and research workers all over the country.
Since environment is a broad-ranging, multi-disciplinary subject, a comprehensive
information system on environment would necessarily involve effective
participation of the institutions/organizations in the country that are actively
engaged in work relating to different areas of environment. ENVIS has, therefore,
devoted itself to networking with such institutions/organizations. A large number
of nodes, known as ENVIS Centres, have been established in the network to
cover the broad subject areas of environment, under a Focal Point in the Union
Ministry of Environment and Forests.
The Focal Point as well as the ENVIS Centres has been assigned various
responsibilities to achieve the long-term and short-term objectives. For this
purpose, various services have also been introduced by the Focal Point.
ENVIS, due to its comprehensive network, has been designed as the National
Focal Point (NFP) for INFOTERRA, a global environmental information network
of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). In order to strengthen
the information activities of the NFP, ENVIS was designated as the Regional
Service Centre (RSC) of INFOTERRA in 1985 for the South Asia Sub-Region
countries.
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Foreword
The CMS ENVIS — short for Environmental Information System — Centre was
set up with support from the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests. The
aim of the Centre was to function as a state-of-the-art information disseminator
on issues of environment and media.
Through the past years, the Centre has been singularly focused on this vision,
and this Green Films Directory is another expression of its commitment to the
cause. Films are a strong tool for encouraging awareness on environment and
development: with this belief, the CMS ENVIS Centre is delighted to introduce
this first edition of the Directory – a complete repository of audio-visual resources
in India on environment and wildlife. The Centre firmly believes that this seminal
work will be a catalyst for promoting environmental concerns in the country.
The Directory features 2000 entries, distributed over eleven major subjects.
The films are categorised with appropriate cross-references. Subject-wise and
title-wise indexes have been included to facilitate search for required information.
We are thankful to all the concerned organizations and individuals for their
prompt responses to our questionnaires. It would have been impossible to
publish the Directory without their support.
We are also thankful to the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests for its
continued support and guidance.
It has been an effort to compile and bring together this unique and
comprehensive Directory. We hope that it will be an impetus to the environmental
education movement in our country.
P. N. Vasanti
Director, CMS
Directory of Green Films
Films on environment and wildlife are not only relevant as works of art, but
are also important as historical and scientific documentation and as instruments
for bringing about change. This is the philosophy behind this Directory of
Green Films.
This Directory is the first-ever comprehensive compilation of audio-visual
resources on environment and wildlife. A virtual treasure-trove of ‘green’ films,
it is designed to satisfy the information requirements of academicians, civil
society groups, government organizations, environmentalists, researchers, media
professionals, conservationists, activists, filmmakers, public and private sector
organizations, educational institutions, teachers and students.
Thematically classified, the Directory provides details of documentaries, public
service messages, animation films and feature presentations, along with contact
details of the filmmakers and concerned organizations. The 2000 entries in
the Directory have been categorized into eleven segments — arranged
alphabetically — according to the availability of the films. These categories
are Agriculture and Pesticides, Biodiversity and Forestry, Eco-tourism, Energy,
Environmental Education, Industry and Environment, Livelihood, Solid Waste
Management, Toxics and Climate Change, Water and Wildlife. Subject-wise
and title-wise index have been included to facilitate search for required
information.
Contents
Foreword
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vi
Agriculture and Pesticides
1
Biodiversity and Forests
29
Eco-tourism
109
Energy
115
Environmental Education
147
Industry and Environment
183
Livelihood
201
Solid Waste Management
235
Toxics and Climate Change
259
Water
315
Wildlife
377
Title Index
463
Agriculture
and
Pesticides
English Title: A New Bullock Cart
Original Title: Ek Nai Baelgadi
Date/Month/Year of Production: 2003
Languages: Hindi, English, Bangla, Gujarati, Kannada,
Malayalam, Marathi and Oriya
Duration: 30 min
Format: Betacam
English Title: Agro Biodiversity – Key to Food,
Health and Livelihood Security
Original Title: Agro Biodiversity – Key to Food, Health
and Livelihood Security
Date/Month/Year of Production: March 2005
Language: English (with English subtitles)
Duration: 10 min 6 sec
Format: Betacam SP
Subject Focus: A modified animal-friendly bullock cart.
Subject Focus: Agro-biodiversity; community gene banks
Synopsis: The film showcases the efforts of a Bangalorebased organization to re-model the existing bullock cart
and make it more efficient and benign to the animals
pulling it. By introducing simple and low-cost modifications,
it has managed to prolong the life spans of bullocks and
saved cart-owners from buying a new pair every threefive years. The film attempts to encourage cart-owners
and artisans making carts to switch over to the new design.
Directors: Amar Sharma/Rima Chibb
Producers: Amar Sharma/Rima Chibb
Production Company: Collage Teleimages Pvt. Ltd.
Commissioning Agency: Collage Teleimages Pvt. Ltd.
Contact Details:
Rima Chibb/Amar Sharma
Collage Teleimages Pvt. Ltd., D-31 Oakwood Estate
DLF City 2, Gurgaon, Haryana
P: 0124-2564304/4582; M: 9810073369, 9868104762
E: [email protected], [email protected]
W: www.collage.in
Synopsis: The film records the importance of agrobiodiversity and community gene banks in preserving
traditional crop varieties. In 1994, a community gene bank
was established by the M S Swaminathan Research
Foundation (MSSRF) and work in community biodiversity
management was begun in the Kolli hills, Wayanad and
Jeypore.
Director: Dr. K. Bhanumathi
Production Company: The Hindu Media Resource Centre
Contact Details:
M S Swaminathan Research Foundation
III Cross Street, Taramani Institutional Area, Chennai 600 013
Tamil Nadu
P: 044-25541229, 22542698; M: 09444018532
F: 044-22541319
E: [email protected]
W: http://www.mssrf.org/
English Title: Amla
English Title: Aangan ke Vriksh
Language: Hindi
Duration: 29 min
Format: 16 mm
Language: Hindi
Subject Focus: The amla fruit
Subject Focus: Trees
Synopsis: This is a programme on various trees, the
climatic and soil requirements for their optimum growth,
and their usefulness to mankind.
Production Company: Central Institute of Educational
Technology (CIET)
Contact Details:
Central Institute of Educational Technology (CIET)
Chacha Nehru Bhawan, National Council of Education
Research and Training (NCERT)
Sri Aurobindo Marg, New Delhi 110 016
P: 011-26864801, 26864802, 26864803; F: 011-26864141
W: www.ciet.nic.in
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Synopsis: The programme highlights the nutrients present
in amla, and the various uses of the fruit and other parts
of the amla tree. The effort is to create an awareness and
sensitivity towards plants.
Producer: Usha Narula
Contact Details:
P: 011-26864801, 26864802, 26864803; F: 011-26864141
W: www.ciet.nic.in
English Title: Arajeevinthangalkoru Swargam
English Title: Assault on the Land
Original Title: A Paradise for the Dying
Language: Malayalam (with English subtitles)
Duration: 60 min
Format: Mini DV
Language: English
Duration: 33 min
Format: VHS
Subject Focus: The problem of land salinity.
Subject Focus: Effect of spraying Endosulfan on cashew
plantations.
Synopsis: This is a documentary on a burning
environmental issue in Kasaragod, the northern-most
district of Kerala. Endosulfan, a lethal pesticide, has
regularly been aerially sprayed over 5,000 hectares of
cashewnut plantations in this area. The documentary
explores the impact that this spraying has had over the
district and its people, and the political undercurrents of
this issue.
Director: M. A. Rahman
Producer: K. M. K. Kunhabdulla
Production Company: Green Folks
Synopsis: The film examines the potentially devastating
problem of salinity and how it affects not only farmers, but
all of us. Interviews in several locations highlight the
causes and possible solutions.
Production Company: Centre for Science and
Environment (CSE)
Contact Details:
Centre for Science and Environment (CSE)
41, Tughlakabad Institutional Area, New Delhi 110 062
P: 011-29955124, 29956110, 29956394; F: 011-29955879
W: www.cseindia.org
Contact Details:
M. A. Rahman
Lecturer, Malayalam Government College, Kasaragod, Kerala
M: 09387402412
English Title: Bees, Beekeeping and Ecological
Agriculture
English Title: Artificial Insemination
Original Title: Bees, Beekeeping and Ecological
Agriculture
Language: English
Duration: 22 min
Format: VHS/VCD & DVD
Date/Month/Year of Production: December 1991
Language: English
Format: U Matic
Subject Focus: Artificial insemination of livestock and its
benefits.
Synopsis: India possesses one-fourth of the population
of the world. However milk production in the country in
inadequate. Due to rapid increase in population, the
supply of milk & meat products does not meet the demand.
Bio-technology has paved the way towards genetic
improvement of livestock through artificial insemination.
Artificial insemination is the introduction of semen into
the female reproductive tract by artificial methods.
Production Company: EAHM
Contact Details:
Consortium for Educational Communication (CEC)
NSC Campus, Aruna Asaf Ali Marg, New Delhi 110 067
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
CMS ENVIS Centre
Subject Focus: Beekeeping and sustainable agriculture.
Synopsis: Bees, Beekeeping and Ecological Agriculture
is an introduction to the fascinating world of bees and the
benefits they can bring to farmers. Hive bees are the only
pollinating insects that can be kept in artificial enclosures
and managed by man. Honey is the obvious reason for
beekeeping, and this educational film explains the basics
of how to start and maintain a colony of bees. But
pollination is a greater benefit, especially where pesticide
use has reduced the population of pollinating insects.
Director: V. P. Satheesh
Producer: Television Trust for the Environment (TVE)
Contact Details:
P: 011-29955124, 29956110, 29956394; F: 011-29955879
W: www.cseindia.org
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English Title: Bel
English Title: Bitter Harvest
Language: Hindi
Language: English
Duration: 24 min
Format: DVD
Subject Focus: The bel fruit
Subject Focus: Soil erosion and desertification.
Synopsis: The bel or the wood apple, a common tree of
India, has many medicinal values — and this is what this
film, meant for secondary level students, highlights. It also
shows the various uses of bel pulp, seeds, leaves and
bark.
Synopsis: Desertification and soil degradation are
destroying all life in third world countries. In Ethiopia,
deforestation, population explosion and mismanagement
of land has resulted in famines. The film looks at how aid
programmes and multimillion-dollar projects have failed
in countries like India and Africa because of a lack of
understanding of the ecological relationship between the
land and man. It also highlights some promising solutions
and efforts by local people to fight the menace of soil
erosion and desertification.
Contact Details:
P: 011-26864801, 26864802, 26864803; F: 011-26864141
W: www.ciet.nic.in
English Title: Biological Paradise of Andhra
Pradesh
Original Title: Biological Paradise of Andhra Pradesh
Date/Month/Year of Production: February 2004
Format: Betacam SP
Subject Focus: Community participation in mangrove
conservation.
Producers: Bruno Sorrentino and Robert Lamb
Production Company: TVE & Jordan Radio and TV Corp.
Contact Details:
Development Alternatives
111/9-Z, Kishangarh, Vasant Kunj, New Delhi 110 070
P: 011-26134103, 26890380; F: 011-26130817
W: www.devalt.org
English Title: Broken Bread
Original Title: Broken Bread
Language: English
Duration: 23 min
Subject Focus: The politics of food and agriculture.
Synopsis: The film is on the mangrove forests in the
Krishna and Godavari delta regions of Andhra Pradesh.
Mangroves enhance fish productivity by acting as
nurseries for marine and freshwater life forms. They serve
as a rich source of raw materials, medicines, shelter and
fodder to local communities, and reduce coastal erosion,
natural storms and cyclones. But rampant use is
decimating this valuable resource. The film also depicts
some scientific mangrove restoration techniques.
Director: Dr. K. Bhanumathi
Production Company: The Hindu Media Resource Centre
Contact Details:
Dr. K. Bhanumathi
M. S. Swaminathan Research Foundation, III Cross Street
Taramani Institutional Area, Chennai 600 013
P: 044-25541229, M: 09444018532; F: 044-22541319
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Synopsis: This is a documentary on food security.
Director: Krishnendu Bose
Producer: Krishnendu Bose
Production Company: Earthcare Films
Commissioning Agency: Action Aid
Contact Details:
Krishnendu Bose
Director, Earthcare Films, B-91, Defence Colony
New Delhi 110 024
P: 011-24625896, 24654221; F: 011-24647310
W: www.earthcarefilms.com
English Title: Bt Cotton in Andhra Pradesh: A
Three Year Fraud
Original Title: Bt Cotton in Andhra Pradesh: A Three Year
Fraud
Date/Month/Year of Production: April 2005
Language: English
Duration: 30 min
Format: Digital Video (Mini DV)
Subject Focus: Introduction of Bt cotton in Andhra
Pradesh and its impacts
Synopsis: Bt cotton was introduced in 2002 in Warangal
district of Andhra Pradesh — and has been followed by
tales of misery, destruction and deaths of farming families.
This film brings out the stories of loss, pain and anger.
Being small and marginal farmers themselves, the women
of the Community Media Trust have sensitively captured
the images and voices of the Bt farmers in crisis.
Director: DDS Community Media Trust
Production Company: DDS Community Media Trust
Contact Details:
P. V. Satheesh, Vijendra Patil
DDS Community Media Trust, Pastapur Village, Zaheerabad,
Medak, Andhra Pradesh
P: 08451-282271; F: 08451-281785
CMS ENVIS Centre
English Title: Bullock-drawn Tractor
Original Title: Bullock-drawn Tractor
Languages: Hindi, English, Bangla, Gujarati, Kannada,
Malayalam, Marathi and Oriya
Duration: 30 min
Format: Betacam
Subject Focus: A new invention — an environmentfriendly tractor.
Synopsis: Aimed at spreading awareness among farmers,
this film introduces an invention by a Jabalpur-based
institute. Christened BDT — Bullock-drawn Tractor — this
is a low-cost farm implement which does everything that
a mechanized tractor can do; but unlike its mechanized
counterpart, it does not burn precious diesel and pollute
the environment — it is drawn by a pair of bullocks.
Directors: Amar Sharma/Rima Chibb
Producers: Amar Sharma/Rima Chibb
Production Company: Collage Teleimages Pvt. Ltd.
Commissioning Agency: Collage Teleimages Pvt. Ltd.
Contact Details:
Rima Chibb/Amar Sharma
Collage Teleimages Pvt. Ltd., D-31 Oakwood Estate,
DLF City 2, Gurgaon, Haryana
P: 0124-2564304/4582, M: 9810073369, 9868104762
W: www.collage.in
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English Title: Daughters of the Soil
English Title: Deleting the Dirty Dozen
Original Title: Daughters of the Soil
Languages: English and Hindi
Duration: 22 min
Format: DVCAM
Original Title: Deleting the Dirty Dozen
Language: English
Duration: 24 min
Subject Focus: Women in agriculture
Synopsis: Women in India form a large workforce in
agriculture, often surpassing men in toiling in the field.
Yet, women have always been seen as incidental to the
entire business of agriculture. Daughters of the Soil raises
a long-standing issue — women who are farmers should
be seen as farmers, not as agricultural laborers.
Awards Received by the Film: Nominated in CMS
VATAVARAN Film Festival
Director: Richa Arora
Producer: The Energy Resource Institute (TERI)
Production Company: The Energy Resource Institute
Commissioning Agency: Swiss Agency for Development
& Cooperation
Contact Details:
The Energy Resource Institute (TERI)
Darbari Seth Block, IHC Complex, Lodhi Road
New Delhi 110 003 India
P: 011-24682100, 41504900; F: 011-24682144, 24682145
W: www.teriin.org
Subject Focus: Hazardous products and pesticides
Synopsis: Close to the 40th anniversary of the publication
of Silent Spring — generally acknowledged to be the
starting point for modern environmental movement —
more than 120 governments convened in South Africa to
finalise a painstakingly negotiated treaty to ban DDT and
other persistent organic pollutants. The film travels across
the world to document the long-term harm of these
substances and explores the long-term hope heralded by
this treaty.
Director: Ashley Bruce
Contact Details:
P: 011-29955124, 29956110, 29956394; F: 011-29955879
W: www.cseindia.org
English Title: Desi Beej, Videshi Kabza
English Title: Deconstructing Supper
Original Title: Deconstructing Supper
Language: English
Duration: 47 min
Subject Focus: Food production and the food product
industry.
Synopsis: Deconstructing Supper follows restaurateur/
chef John Bishop on a worldwide odyssey to find the
answer to a simple question: in a brave new world of
genetically modified products, what really are our food
choices? The film is a journey into a multi-billion dollar
battle to control global food production, and looks at what’s
in our food and how it is grown.
Director: Marianne Kaplan
Producers: Leonard Terhoch and Marianne Kaplan
Contact Details:
Gautam Hooja
Indo-Canadian Films International, 4500 Blvd de Maisonneuve
West, Suite 21, Montreal H3Z 1L7, Canada
P: 001-514-9356888
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Original Title: Earth Report VIII: Seeds of Conflict
Language: Hindi
Duration: 26 min
Subject Focus: Land, agriculture, animal care and the
global patents regime.
Synopsis: Environmental campaigners accuse a Texas
rice firm and a Swiss university of stealing traditional
varieties and know-how from Indian farmers and African
healers. We find that under international patent law and
WTO rules, they are not acting illegally — a test case for
the international community to practise what it preaches?
Contact Details:
P: 011-29955124, 29956110, 29956394; F: 011-29955879
W: www.cseindia.org
English Title: Drop by Drop
English Title: Earth Report V: Toxic Trail Part 2
Languages: English and Hindi
Duration: 15 min
Format: VHS
Original Title: Earth Report V: Toxic Trail Part 2
Language: English
Duration: 26 min
Subject Focus: Drip irrigation
Subject Focus: Hazardous products and pesticides
Synopsis: The film describes the technology of drip
irrigation and its popularity with the small land-holding
farmers of Kerala.
Production Company: Council for Advancement of
Prople’s Action & Rural Technology (CAPART)
Contact Details:
Council for Advancement of People’s Action and Rural
Technology (CAPART)
Zone-V-A, 2nd Floor, India Habitat Centre, Lodhi Road
New Delhi 110 003
P: 011-2464239, 24642393, 24642395
F: 011-24648607, 24625822
W: www.capart.nic.in
English Title: Earth Report V: Toxic Trail Part 1
Original Title: Earth Report V: Toxic Trail Part 1
Language: English
Duration: 26 min
Subject Focus: Hazardous products and pesticides —
pesticide poisoning cases in Thailand.
Synopsis: The pesticide industry is big business. The
industry claims that it works hard to encourage responsible
usage. But there are an estimated 25 million cases of
pesticide poisoning each year and nearly all the victims
are in the developing countries. Earth Report goes on a
‘toxic trail’ to Thailand, where pesticides banned elsewhere
can be produced legally; and to Cambodia, where farmers
apply pesticides completely unaware of the dangers.
Contact Details:
P: 011-29955124, 29956110, 29956394; F: 011-29955879
W: www.cseindia.org
CMS ENVIS Centre
Synopsis: Part 1 of this Report uncovered evidence of
widespread pesticide poisoning amongst farmers in
Cambodia. In Part 2, the camera returns to Bangkok, one
of the centres of pesticide production, to get a view from
the manufacturer of the most popular pesticide and to
question what ‘product stewardship’ really means. The
film finds that in Thailand, farmers and vegetable-sellers
are beginning to side-step the pesticide issue by reducing
chemical usage or eliminating it altogether. The film travels
to Indonesia where farmers have created an ecological
approach to agriculture called ‘integrated pest
management’, where pestcides are only used as a last
resort and natural insect predators, along with traditional
methods, are used to keep crops healthy.
Contact Details:
P: 011-29955124, 29956110, 29956394; F: 011-29955879
W: www.cseindia.org
English Title: Earth Report VI: High-tech Harvest
Original Title: Earth Report VI: High-tech Harvest
Language: English
Duration: 27 min
Subject Focus: Biotechnology and its impact on Africa
Synopsis: World-wide food production has to double by
2020 to feed an estimated global population of up to eight
billion. Nowhere is the pressure felt more keenly than in
Africa, a continent where famine stalks inspite of four out
of every five people being farmers. It’s not surprising
therefore that the benefits offered by biotechnology —
improved quality and yield from genetically-modified crops
— are viewed with more favour in Africa. The film examines
the arguments in support of biotechnology set against the
concerns of those who claim it’s too early to know what its
impact will be on Africa’s environment.
Contact Details:
P: 011-29955124, 29956110, 29956394; F: 011-29955879
W: www.cseindia.org
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English Title: Earth Report VI: Prickly Profit
English Title: Fallout of Green Revolution
Original Title: Earth Report VI: Prickly Profit
Language: English
Duration: 26 min
Language: English
Duration: 30 min
Subject Focus: Sustainable agriculture — containing
desertification
Synopsis: Land salinity and desertification has been an
age-old problem in the arid and semi-arid regions of the
world. But countries in these areas still grow water-intensive
crops; some of them are forced to pump water from their
scarce underground reserves. Now, in a radical re-think,
farmers in Israel are being encouraged to abandon waterguzzling crops and plant species that are adapted to drier
conditions. Prickly Profit looks at alternative efforts to nurture
cactus plants which grow well in arid areas and produce a
variety of fruits for the export market.
Contact Details:
P: 011-29955124, 29956110, 29956394; F: 011-29955879
W: www.cseindia.org
Subject Focus: Impact of the Green Revolution
Synopsis: The Green Revolution in Punjab, Haryana and
western Uttar Pradesh, introduced in the mid-sixties, has
had far-reaching environmental fallouts. Extensive use of
water has reduced the water table; overuse of fertilisers
has left the soil micronutrient-deficient; and pesticides
have poisoned our soil and food chain.
Producer: Development Alternatives
Production Company: Doordarshan
Contact Details:
P: 011-26134103, 26890380; F: 011-26130817
W: www.devalt.org
English Title: Fields of Trees
Original Title: Fields of Trees
Language: English
Duration: 50 min
English Title: Earth Report VIII: Seeds of Conflict
Subject Focus: Agro-forestry
Original Title: Earth Report VIII: Seeds of Conflict
Language: English
Duration: 26 min
Synopsis: A quiet revolution in agro-forestry techniques
is aiming to combine the best of age-old practices with
scientific know-how. The film looks at a host of stories —
in Uganda, Callendra bushes planted along the edges of
fields prevent soil erosion; in Zambia, trees grown on farms
revive tired land and provide firewood; in Peru, settlers
learn about forest harvesting techniques in low-land
jungles; and in Indonesia, bureaucrats argue over whether
a Sumatran farmer’s intricate ‘forest garden’ is a forest or
a farm. A more technical 15-min version of the film is
designed to help agro-forestry extension workers.
Subject Focus: Land, agriculture, animal care and the
global patents regime
Synopsis: Environmental campaigners accuse a Texas
rice firm and a Swiss university of stealing traditional
varieties and know-how from Indian farmers and African
healers. We find that under international patent law and
WTO rules, they are not acting illegally — a test case for
the international community to practise what it preaches?
Contact Details:
P: 011-29955124, 29956110, 29956394; F: 011-29955879
W: www.cseindia.org
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Director: Bruno Sorrentino
Contact Details:
P: 011-29955124, 29956110, 29956394; F: 011-29955879
W: www.cseindia.org
English Title: First Harvest and Valleys in Transition
Original Title: First Harvest and Valleys in Transition
Language: English
Duration: 57 min
Subject Focus: Rural development and the role of village
organisations.
Synopsis: The inhospitable mountain terrain in the far
north of Pakistan is home to villages that have remained
isolated for centuries. The pressure of growing populations
in this region has led to severe environmental degradation.
A scheme initiated by the Aga Khan Rural Support
Programme is now helping local organizations in more
than 800 villages in the region. The film shows how village
organisations can become the driving force for economic
and social change.
Contact Details:
P: 011-29955124, 29956110, 29956394; F: 011-29955879
W: www.cseindia.org
English Title: Flight of Fancy
Original Title: Flight of Fancy
Language: No spoken language
Duration: 1 min
Subject Focus: The process of seed dispersal
Synopsis: This film sketches the process of seed dispersal
from an entirely new perspective. It depicts the
interdependence between a flying seed and Terra, the mud
blob, where the seed becomes the medium for Terra to
discover the world beyond his little habitat, while he gives
himself away for the seed to grow into a seedling and into
a full grown plant.
Director: Ramneek Kaur Majithia
Producer: Ramneek Kaur Majithia
English Title: Gokshur
Language: Hindi
Subject Focus: Gokshur, the thorny scrub
Synopsis: Gokshur, a common thorny shrub, is found
almost everywhere in India. It has many medicinal uses
in Ayurveda. This programme is a part of a series on
medicinal plants, and aims at helping the viewer identify
Gokshur and its medicinal properties.
Contact Details:
P: 011-26864801, 26864802, 26864803; F: 011-26864141
W: www.ciet.nic.in
English Title: Green Belt around the Plants — The
Odukkam Experience
Language: English
Duration: 30 min
Format: VHS
Subject Focus: An initiative to stem soil erosion and
reinvigorate the soil.
Synopsis: The film reflects the efforts of the Palni Hills
Conservation Council to solve the problems of soil erosion,
siltation and biomedicine shortage caused by
deforestation.
Environment (CSE)
Contact Details:
P: 011-29955124, 29956110, 29956394; F: 011-29955879
W: www.cseindia.org
Contact Details:
Ramneek Kaur Majithia
31/23, Old Rajinder Nagar, New Delhi 110 060
P: 011-52433316; M: 98102 05072
W: www.coroflot.com/ramneek
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English Title: Grizzlies, Government and the
Greens
Original Title: Grizzlies, Government and the Greens
Language: English
Duration: 26 min
English Title: Hands On 5 — From the Farm
Original Title: Hands On 5 — From the Farm
Language: English
Duration: 24 min
Subject Focus: Organic farming
Subject Focus: Exploitation of forest resources in Canada
Synopsis: Canada’s forests are a vast resource, and
Canada is the world’s largest exporter of wood products.
But there is concern at home and abroad that this resource
is not being managed sustainably. In recent years, new
forest laws have been passed, and logging companies
claim they now harvest timber in an environmentally
sensitive way. But scientists speculate that thousands of
species — many yet undiscovered — could be lost through
logging. ‘Earth Report’ travels across Canada to
investigate.
Synopsis: Huge increases in global food production since
the 1960s have depended on chemicals and industrialstyle intensive farming. In the wake of cancer scares and
Mad Cow disease, consumers are going organic. And so
does this Hands On programme. In Malawi, the ‘Freedom
Farm’ draws on traditional and new chemical-free methods
to boost production, and in India the demand for cotton
grown without pesticides creates new challenges — while
in Spain and the UK, the film focuses on the successful
marketing of organic products.
Director: Luke Gawin
Contact Details:
P: 011-29955124, 29956110, 29956394; F: 011-29955879
W: www.cseindia.org
Contact Details:
P: 011-29955124, 29956110, 29956394; F: 011-29955879
W: www.cseindia.org
English Title: Hands On Omnibus-Part One
Original Title: Hands On Omnibus-Part One
Language: English
Duration: 84 min
Subject Focus: Initiatives to save the environment
Synopsis: Part One of the omnibus edition of Hands On
includes 16 inspiring stories from Nepal, Zimbabwe,
Denmark, Mexico, Jamaica and the UK — covering
technologies like transformation of sewage into a fertilizer
known as biograin; using wind pumps to stem water
shortage; using safety caps to reduce deaths among small
children; and using rubber tyres to stop landslides.
Director: Janet Boston
Contact Details:
P: 011-29955124, 29956110, 29956394; F: 011-29955879
W: www.cseindia.org
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English Title: Hands On: Grow it Yourself
English Title: Harvest the Rain
Original Title: Hands On: Grow it Yourself
Language: English
Duration: 26 min
Language: English
Duration: 17 min
Format: DVD
Subject Focus: Food security
Synopsis: The film demonstrates how to make the most
of rainwater for agricultural development.
Synopsis: Feeding the growing numbers of the world’s
population is proving to be one of the most important
challenges. Yet for many people, growing enough food
simply to survive is the greatest challenge. Grow it Yourself
introduces innovative ways of improving self-sufficiency,
by combining tradition and science.
Subject Focus: Rainwater harvesting for agriculture
Contact Details:
P: 011-26134103, 26890380; F: 011-26130817
W: www.devalt.org
Contact Details:
P: 011-29955124, 29956110, 29956394; F: 011-29955879
W: www.cseindia.org
English Title: Harvesting Hunger
Date/Month/Year of Production: June 2000
Language: English
Duration: 53 min
Subject Focus: Food security in India
English Title: Harvest the Hunger
Language: English
Subject Focus: Food security and seasonal migration
Synopsis: Shot in Orissa and Andhra Pradesh, this
documentary depicts the struggles of marginal farmers
and landless labourers to beat hunger on a day-to-day
basis, while high-level committees try to investigate
allegations of starvation deaths and child sales. Millions
of people and generations of families are condemned to
a life of persistent hunger not because there is not enough
food or because they are not trying, but because the
prevailing socio-economic and political dispensation is
overwhelmingly against them.
Director: Rupashree Nanda
Contact Details:
Centre for Civil Society
K-36, Hauz Khas Enclave, New Delhi
P: 011-26537456/26521882; F: 011-26512347
W: www.ccsindia.org, blog.ccsindia.org
Synopsis: There are over 300 million people in India who
do not have enough food to meet their basic nutritional
requirements. With increasing intrusion of market
economy and corporatisation of Indian agriculture, it is
apprehended that millions more will go hungry. Harvesting
Hunger is a journey into this impending world of hunger
and famine, an exploration of the deepening crisis in food
security in the country. The film has four case studies:
Punjab for a study of the yellowing of the Green Revolution,
Kalahandi for an investigation into the structural reasons
of famine and impoverishment, Warangal for an
examination of the debilitating effects of money-lending
resulting in suicides and Bellary for an understanding of
the role of giant seed and food processing companies in
destroying the very base of Indian agriculture.
Awards Received by the Film: Selected for competition
at Toronto Film and Video Festival for Environment and
Wildlife, 2000; EarthVision, Tokyo, 2001; Awarded a
special Jury’s Award at Okomedia Environment Film
Festival (Freiburg, Germany), 2000
Director: Krishendu Bose
Contact Details:
Krishendu Bose
Director, EarthCare Films, B-91, Defence Colony
New Delhi 110 024
P: 24334171, 24332005; M: 9811843111
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English Title: Honey Bee — Architect of Green &
Sweet Revolution
Original Title: Honey Bee — Architect of Green & Sweet
Revolution
Date/Month/Year of Production: January 1996
Language: English
Duration: 18 min
Format: VHS
Subject Focus: Conservation and natural resource
management through honey bees
Synopsis: Collection of honey from the wild severely
damages honey bee colonies. More than 80% of these
colonies are damaged to harvest only 30-35% honey. The
film underlines the importance of honey bees for the
sustenance of nature and wildlife, and calls for more
scientific methods of harvesting honey from the
environment.
Producer: Prashant Shashikant Kulkarni
Contact Details:
Prashant Shashikant Kulkarni
Producer/Director, Audio Visual Centre, Yashwantrao Chauhan
Maharashtra Open University, Dhyan Gangotri, Near Gangapur
Dam, Nashik, Maharashtra
P: 2231481/2231714/15
English Title: Hunger in the Time of Plenty
Original Title: Hunger in the Time of Plenty
Date/month/year of Production: 2003
Language: Hindi, Oriya, Rajasthani (with English subtitles
and voiceover)
Duration: 30 min
Subject Focus: Hunger and food security
Synopsis: The film is a personal journey to find out
whether there actually are starvation deaths in the time of
surplus food stocks in the country. The film travels to the
interiors of Rajasthan, through drought-stricken areas and
construction sites to Orissa where despite the lush
environment, people are drinking boiling water instead of
food and where despite the availability of rice at Below
Poverty Line (BPL) rates, no one can actually buy food.
Director: Sagari Chhabra
Producers: Sagari Chhabra & Action Aid India
Contact Details:
Ms. Sagari Chhabra
B-5/19, Safdarjung Enclave, New Delhi 110029
P: 011-26160279; M: 9810004519
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English Title: In God’s Own Country
Original Title: In God’s Own Country
Date/Month/Year of Production: July 2002
Language: English (subtitled)
Duration: 28 min
Format: Digital
Subject Focus: Pesticide contamination and its effects
on environment and health
Synopsis: This is the story of Kasaragod in Kerala, which is
in the grip of endosulfan poisoning. The film narrates the
tale of a community that, instead of leaving its ancestral home,
chooses to stay on and fight for its right to pure air and water.
Producers: Rajani Mani & Nina Subramani
Contact Details:
Nina Subramani / Rajani Mani
Elephant Corridor Films
022 Maria Mansions
Viviani Road, Richards Town, Bangalore 560005
P: 080-41526137, M: 9810331301, 9811007797, 9945241260
W: www.elephantcorridor.org
English Title: Jaiv Prodhyogiki: Vardan ya
Abhishap (Hindi version of High-tech Harvest)
Original Title: High-tech Harvest
Language: Hindi
Duration: 26 min
Subject Focus: Biotechnology and its impact on Africa
Synopsis: World-wide food production has to double by
2020 to feed an estimated global population of up to eight
billion. Nowhere is the pressure felt more keenly than in
Africa, a continent where famine stalks inspite of four out
of every five people being farmers. It’s not surprising
therefore that the benefits offered by biotechnology —
improved quality and yield from genetically-modified crops
— are viewed with more favour in Africa. The film examines
the arguments in support of biotechnology set against the
concerns of those who claim it’s too early to know what its
impact will be on Africa’s environment.
Contact Details:
P: 011-29955124, 29956110, 29956394; F: 011-29955879
W: www.cseindia.org
English Title: Land and Water
Language: English & Hindi
Duration: 17 min
Format: U-Matic and VHS
English Title: Maharashtra — Saving the Green
Gold
Date/Month/Year of Production: May 1997
Duration: 22 min
Format: Betacam
Subject Focus: Land and water management
Synopsis: The film shows the advantages of the right use
of appropriate technology for land and water management,
through which dry uncultivable land can be turned into a
green belt.
People’s Action & Rural Technology (CAPART)
Subject Focus: Destruction of forests and efforts for their
rejuvenation.
Synopsis: In the film, the subject of brutal destruction of
forests the world over is studied in its localized form in
Maharashtra. The film also looks at the official
programmes to save the remaining greens.
Production Company: EPUN
Contact Details:
Technology (CAPART)
New Delhi 110 003
P: 011-24642391, 24642393, 24642395
F: 011-24648607, 24625822
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
English Title: Maru Resham
English Title: Living with Drought
Original Title: Living with Drought
Language: English
Duration: 49 min
Subject Focus: Environmental crisis in Kenya
Synopsis: In Kenya, excessive deforestation is resulting
in soil erosion. Food is decreasing while the population is
increasing at an alarming rate. Farmers bound by the
ancient but decayed traditions refuse to use fertilizers.
The film documents the crisis as well as a few measures
to stem the rot, such as check-dams, bench trenches and
wind breaks.
Language: English
Duration: 16 min
Format: Betacam
Subject Focus: Sericulture
Synopsis: Tribals in Assam produce silk on castor plants.
The film explores the possibility of developing this
sericulture technology for the desert regions of Rajasthan.
Production Company: EJOD
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
Contact Details:
P: 011-29955124, 29956110, 29956394; F: 011-29955879
W: www.cseindia.org
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English Title: Marusthaliya Tiddi — Shatru Kisan
Ki-I
Date/Month/Year of Production: November 1994
Language: English
Format: Betacam
Subject Focus: The desert locust
Synopsis: The film explains the phenomenon of invasion
of cropfields by the desert locust and its seasonal migration
around the world. It also looks at the national and
international efforts in locust control.
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
English Title: Meals Ready
Original Title: Meals Ready
Language: English, Tamil and Hindi (with English subtitles
and vioceover)
Duration: 46 min
Subject Focus: How the market for rice functions in south
India.
Synopsis: In these days of liberalization and free market,
it is commonly assumed that markets work simply,
uniformly and with equal benefits to all. Yet the ground
reality is that markets are deeply embedded in the
societies they function within. The film examines the
market of south India’s most important foodgrain: rice. It
explores the town of Walajabad in Tamil Nadu and finds
that the unequal bargaining power of growers, financiers
and buyers of rice has a direct link with the divides of
power and privilege that cut across rural Tamil society.
Ignoring this link means threatening the very existence of
the symbol of the Indian countryside: the small farmer.
English Title: Marusthaliya Tiddi — Shatru Kisan
Ki-II
Directors: Surajit Sarkar & Vani Subramanian
Producers: Other Media, Surajit Sarkar
Language: English
Format: Betacam
Contact Details:
Surajit Sarkar & Vani Subramanian
359, SFS Flats, Hauz Khas, New Delhi 110 016
P: 011-26854504
Subject Focus: The desert locust
Synopsis: The second part of the preceding entry, this
film is on the menace of the locust in the Thar desert in
particular. It also explains the anatomy and life cycle of
the desert locust.
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
English Title: Mere Desh ki Dharti
Language: English
Subject Focus: Pesticides
Synopsis: This is an investigation into the harmful effects
of pesticides. The food we eat, the water and milk we
drink, everything is contaminated with chemicals resulting
in increasing incidence of diseases like cancer, kidney
failure, asthma, deformities, etc.
Director: Sumit Khanna
Contact Details:
Public Service Broadcasting Trust (PSBT)
A-86, Nizamuddin East, New Delhi 110 013
P: 011-24355941; F: 011-24353825
W: www.psbt.org
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English Title: Mighty Midgets — They also
Serve-1 (Introduction to Earthworms)
Serve-3 (Biology of Earthworms-2)
Language: English
Format: U-Matic
Language: English
Format: U-Matic
Subject Focus: The earthworm
Synopsis: This is a part of series of programmes on the
earthworm. The first part is an introduction to earthworms.
Synopsis: This is part of the series on biology of
earthworms.
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
Language: English
Format: U-Matic
Language: English
Format: U-Matic
Synopsis: This film follows the first (see preceding entry)
in the series of programmes on the earthworm. This and
the four films that follow it explain the biology of
earthworms.
earthworms.
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
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Language: English
Format: U-Matic
earthworms.
English Title: Monsoon – The Two Faces of Indra
Language: Hindi and English
Duration: 23 min
Format: DVD
Subject Focus: Monsoons
Synopsis: After more than 50 years of independence, 70%
of Indian agriculture still depends on monsoon rains. The
film looks at this dependence on an unreliable and
unpredictable resource, and concludes that water
harvesting can spell an end to the woes of the farmer.
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
Language: English
Format: U-Matic
earthworms.
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
Directors: Aparajita Gogoi and Saurabh Rawla
Production Company: Development Alternatives
Productions
Contact Details:
P: 011-26134103, 26890380; F: 011-26130817
W: www.devalt.org
English Title: Monsoon Yatra
Original Title: Monsoon Yatra
Language: English, Hindi, Marathi, Tamil, Telegu,
Assamese, Gujarati, Punjabi, Oriya, Bengali, Malayalam
and Kannada
Duration: 144 min
Format: Betacam
Subject Focus: Monsoons and Indian agriculture
Synopsis: Indian agriculture primarily depends on the
monsoon. The film introduces the various technological
advances related to monsoons and their prediction.
Producer: Directorate of Extension, Ministry of Agriculture
Contact Details:
Directorate of Extension, Ministry of Agriculture
Krishi Vistar Bhawan, IASRI Campus, Pusa
New Delhi 110 012
P: 011-25843404; F: 011-25849881
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English Title: Mulching
Duration: 3 min
Format: Betacam
Subject Focus: Organic fertilizers
Synopsis: The film demonstrates how to use withered
leaves as organic manure.
Production Company: EMKU
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
English Title: Neem as a Pesticide
Language: English
Duration: 30 min
English Title: Participatory Research with Women
Farmers
Original Title: Participatory Research with Women
Farmers
Language: English
Duration: 32 min
Subject Focus: Crop research to counter the loss of
biological diversity
Synopsis: The International Crops Research Institute for
Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), concerned about the
increasing loss of biological diversity in South and Central
America, Africa, Asia and Australia, has been collecting
and conserving large amounts of germplasm in gene banks,
particularly in south India. The film looks at this initiative,
and documents ICRISAT’s efforts to include local farmers’
knowledge and experience in its studies. Women farmers,
the film finds, are of fundamental importance to crop
research. Their participation is starting to increase yields
and diversity, and may ensure regenerative sustainability
which will be of benefit to all farming communities.
Director: V. P. Satheesh
Subject Focus: Neem
Synopsis: Pesticide poisoning is one of the most potent
causes of ill-health today. In this film, the neem is examined
as a potential natural pesticide — an alternative to
chemical pesticides in use today.
Contact Details:
P: 011-26134103, 26890380; F: 011-26130817
W: www.devalt.org
Contact Details:
P: 011-29955124, 29956110, 29956394; F: 011-29955879
W: www.cseindia.org
English Title: Participatory Research with Women
Farmers
Language: English, French and Spanish
Duration: 28 min
Format: DVD
Synopsis: Biological diversity across the world is under
threat, compromising our ability to provide for the basic needs
of future generations. Through their large share of work in
food production, storage and food preparation, women can
play a key role in extending and conserving this genetic
diversity in their farming communities. This film shows how
the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid
Tropics (ICRISAT) is working with women farmers to preserve
and promote their valuable knowledge for the future.
Production Company: International Crops Research
Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics, Andhra Pradesh
Contact Details:
P: 011-26134103, 26890380; F: 011-26130817
W: www.devalt.org
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English Title: Patent Pending
English Title: Pesticide Pollution
Language: English
Duration: Approx 30 min
Language: Hindi
Duration: 30 min
Format: U-Matic Highband
Subject Focus: Intellectual rights and patenting of seeds
and genetic material
Synopsis: The film shows how rural communities in India
are fighting for community intellectual rights against
corporate patenting of seeds and genetic material. It
unfolds the conflict between the two world views — that
of traditional third world farmers, mostly women, for whom
agriculture is a way of life, and transnational corporations
trading in seeds. Patent Pending also documents the
Patent Yatra of August 15, 1993, in which farmers from
every village in Karnataka vowed to keep their plant and
livestock diversity within the commons.
Directors: Navdanya & South View Productions
Contact Details:
Dr. Vandana Shiva
Research Foundation for Science, Technology & Ecology
(RFSTE) and Navdanya, A-60, Hauz Khas, New Delhi 110 016
P: 011-26968077, 26853772; F: 26856795
Subject Focus: Pesticides and their impact
Synopsis: The film records the effects of indiscriminate
use of banned pesticides on people, soils, water and
natural vegetation, and highlights the effect of pesticide
use in vector control. The film concludes with a brief
depiction of biopesticide use.
Producer: Ms. Nalini Singh
Production Company: Ms. Nalini Singh
Contact Details:
The Secretary
Government of India, Ministry of Environment & Forests
Paryavaran Bhavan, CGO Complex, Lodhi Road
New Delhi 110 003
P: 91-11-2436 1896, 2436 0721
W: www.envfor.nic.in
English Title: Pesticide Trap
English Title: Pest Wars
Language: English
Duration: 49 min
Format: DVD
Subject Focus: Natural pesticides and pest-killers
Synopsis: The film documents the growing trend towards
rejecting chemical pesticides in favor of natural predators.
Contact Details:
P: 011-26134103, 26890380; F: 011-26130817
W: www.devalt.org
Original Title: Pesticide Trap
Language: English
Format: Betacam SP
Subject Focus: Endosulfan use and its impacts in Padre
village, Kasaragod.
Synopsis: Padre, a sleepy village in Kasaragod district
of Kerala, has been witnessing an unimaginably high
incidence of rare diseases among its inhabitants. The
people of the area allege that the root of their problem
lies in the Endosulfan, which is aerially sprayed over the
cashew estates owned by the Plantation Corporation of
Kerala. While the scientific community is divided over the
issue, the misery of the people continues.
Director: Sheji R.
Producer: Sheji R.
Contact Details:
Educational Multi Media Research Centre (EMRC)
University of Calicut, Malappuram 673 635, Kerala
P: 0494-2401143, M: 09447248181; F: 0494-2401143
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English Title: Pieris — The Biting Butterfly
English Title: Prayer for Rebirth
Language: English
Format: Betacam
Original Title: Punarjanikkai
Format: DV CAM
Subject Focus: The white cabbage butterfly
Subject Focus: Endosulfan poisoning of a village
Synopsis: Butterflies are harmless nectar feeders, but
their caterpillars cause serious damage to host plants.
Pieris brassicae, the white cabbage butterfly, is one such
destructive pest posing serious threat to farmers all over
the world. The film suggests that to develop an eco-friendly
method of controlling this pest, an understanding of its
biology and life cycle becomes essential.
Production Company: AIMP
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
English Title: Poultry Farming
Language: English
Format: U-Matic
Synopsis: In Kasaragod, the northern-most district of
Kerala, a village suffers the implications of an agriculture
enterprise undertaken by the Plantation Corporation of
Kerala — spraying of endosulfan pesticide on cashew
fields. The film looks at the issue through the eyes of a
little girl who believes that the band of colors, which
symbolizes life, will again sprout in her village.
Awards Received by the Film: Best Documentary Film
‘Jury Special Mention Award’, CMS VATAVARAN 2005
Director: Ambika
Production Company: Centre for Development of
Imaging Technology (C-DIT)
Contact Details:
Manoj Krishnan P.
C-DIT, Gorki Bhavan, Vanross Junction, Thiruvananthapuram
695 034, Kerala
P: 0471-2330081; M: 09447886486
F: 0471-2333735, 0471-2328659
W: www.cdit.org
Subject Focus: Poultry farming
English Title: Profits from Poison
Synopsis: The programme introduces the zoological
aspects of poultry farming, and covers the different types
of poultry farms (breeding farm, franchise hatchery and
commercial farm) and the various units of poultry farming
(breeding unit, hatchery unit, brooders unit, feed mixing
unit, etc).
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
Language: English
Duration: 45 min
Format: DVD
Synopsis: Filmed in the Philippines and Thailand, the
video shows the harmful effects of chemical pesticides
on the human environment and the efficacy and safety of
traditional and natural alternatives.
Director: Jamie Hartzell
Producers: Jamie Hartzell, Robert Lamb
Production Company: Television Trust for the
Environment (TVE)
Contact Details:
P: 011-26134103, 26890380; F: 011-26130817
W: www.devalt.org
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English Title: Prospects of Aquaculture in Western Rajasthan
Language: English
Format: Betacam
Subject Focus: Rajasthan — potential for aquaculture
Synopsis: Rajasthan’s north-west holds about 5,700
hectares of water, which can be used for development of
aquaculture. This can help in inproving the economy of
the region’s villages — says the film.
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
English Title: Revolution and After
Original Title: Revolution and After
Date/Month/ Year of Production: 1991-92
Duration: 33 min
Format: DVD/VCD
Subject Focus: Critique of Green Revolution technology
Synopsis: This film looks at the environmental and
economic costs of the Green Revolution through the
experiences of Punjab farmers.
Contact Details:
Krishnendu Bose
Director, Earthcare films, B-91, Defence Colony,
New Delhi 110 024
P: 011-24625896, 24654221; F: 011-24647310
English Title: Rational Use of Pesticides
Original Title: Rational Use of Pesticides
Language: English
Duration: 60 min
Subject Focus: Handling hazardous products &
pesticides
Synopsis: When Ellappan collapses after working in his
fields, his doctor suspects pesticide poisoning. And with
good reason — Ellappan has been a crop sprayer for over
20 years. This film is a straightforward guide that gives
clear instructions on how to prepare and handle pesticides
safely. It also addresses the wider issues of crop
management. With high-yield seed varieties requiring
increasingly costly fertilizers and pesticides, lower-yield
varieties which enjoy greater resistance to pests make
more and more sense. Pests proliferate when a crop is
encouraged to grow beyond a level of natural tolerance.
Push nature too far, the film argues, and she bites back.
Director: M. Sivakumar
Contact Details:
P: 011-29955124, 29956110, 29956394; F: 011-29955879
W: www.cseindia.org
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English Title: Salt of the Earth
Original Title: Salt of the Earth
Language: English
Duration: 25 min
Subject Focus: Land degradation in China
Synopsis: Ten percent of China’s arable land has been
reduced to a barren and useless desert of salt. The film
documents farming communities on the North China plains
who are being mobilized to reclaim the land.
Director: Ishwar Pandey
Producer: Robert Lamb
Production Company: TVE
Contact Details:
P: 011-29955124, 29956110, 29956394; F: 011-29955879
W: www.cseindia.org
English Title: Sarvodaya Ashram
English Title: Seeds of Life
Subject Focus: Sarvodaya Ashram, Uttar Pradesh
Original Title: Seeds of Life
Language: English
Duration: 30 min
Format: DVD
Synopsis: About 15 kms from Hardoi in Uttar Pradesh is
Sikandarpur, where an organization inspired by the
philosophy of Mahatma Gandhi and Vinoba Bhave is
located. Sarvodaya Ashram has been helping poor
farmers to reclaim their land from salination, and
generating awareness amongst villagers about new
farming techniques, government policies and matters of
law. One of its most impressive achievements has been
to establish a school for children belonging to backward
classes. The school, apart from giving education, trains
the children to make durries and take care of a local plant
nursery.
Subject Focus: Dr. Vandana Shiva and her work
Synopsis: The film documents the work of Vandana Shiva,
environmental activist who has made it her mission to alert
the world to the consequences of globalization of
agriculture in India.
Awards Received by the Film: Best Agricultural Film,
51st National Film Awards (Non-feature), 2004
Production Company: CNN/Turner Broadcasting System
Contact Details:
P: 011-26134103, 26890380; F: 011-26130817
W: www.devalt.org
English Title: Seeds of Freedom
Language: English
Duration: Approx. 23 min
Director: Usha Albuquerque
Producer: Rajiv Mehrotra
Production Company: Public Service Broadcasting Trust
(PSBT)
Commissioning Agency: Public Service Broadcasting
Trust (PSBT)
Contact Details:
P: 011-24355941; F: 011-24353825
W: www.psbt.org
Subject Focus: Chemical-intensive agriculture
Synopsis: This film examines the impacts of practising
chemical-intensive agriculture on the ecology of the soil
and farmers’ livelihoods, and offers sustainable
alternatives based on chemical-free organic agriculture.
Director: Sanjay Acharya
Producer: Navdanya
Contact Details:
Dr. Vandana Shiva
P: 011-26968077, 26853772; F: 26856795
CMS ENVIS Centre
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English Title: Seeds of Plenty, Seeds of Sorrow
English Title: Seeds of Sorrow
Original Title: Seeds of Plenty, Seeds of Sorrow
Language: English and Hindi (with English subtitles)
Duration: 52 min
Original Title: Seeds of Sorrow
Language: Kannada
Duration: 12 min
Format: Betacam
Subject Focus: Green Revolution and its impacts
Subject Focus: Exploiting children in hazardous
agricultural practices
Synopsis: The film uncovers the developing story of Green
Revolution I (hybrid seed development) and Green
Revolution II (biotechnology development). It investigates
the situation in Punjab’s agricultural heartland as well as
the villages of Bihari laborers who migrate every year for
farm-work, revealing how the Green Revolution has
damaged the social structure and ecology of Third World
countries. The film warns against the potential problems
biotechnology strategies could bring in their wake in terms
of trade, intellectual property rights and power relations
in a globalised world.
Director: Manjira Datta
Producers: Media Workshop, Manjira Datta, TVE, BBC
for the One World group of Broadcasters
Contact Details:
Manjira Datta
Filmmaker & Photographer, Media Workshop
11 Rakesh Deep Building, B-22, Gulmohar Commercial
Complex, Yusuf Sarai, New Delhi 110 049
P: 26967383; M: 9891646833
Synopsis: The farmers of Koppal district of Karnataka,
who grow seeds for multinational seed companies, prefer
children to work on their fields. It is a tedious task of
bending and carefully cross-pollinating the flowers for
hours which require supple bodies and small hands. For
a meagre earning, the children are drawn away from
schools and sent to the fields, where they work for 12
hours daily, seven days a week. Health problems like
backaches, limb cramps, respiratory and digestive
ailments etc are common among these children.
Producer: Plan India
Contact Details:
Plan India
B 4/161, Gulmohar House, 5th Floor, Gautam Nagar
New Delhi 110 049
P: 011-26962605, 26968432-34; F: 011-26863417
W: www.planindia.org
English Title: Silk for the Desert-1
Language: English
Format: U-Matic
Synopsis: Tribals in Assam produce silk on castor plants.
The film explores the possibility of developing this
sericulture technology for the desert regions of Rajasthan.
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
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English Title: Silk for the Desert-2
Language: English
Format: U-Matic
English Title: Social Forestry-2 (From Extinction
to Existence)
Language: English
Duration: 19 min
Format: Betacam
Synopsis: The second part of the series, this programme
deals with the post-cocoon technology of seri-silk. It
discusses the management, practice and economics of
sericulture technology in the arid zone of Rajasthan.
Synopsis: This is the second part of the interview with
Mr. R. B. Sule, Director, Social Forestry Scheme in
Maharashtra. It discusses the Joint Forestry Management
(JFM) and the Village Ecodevelopment programmes, and
the role of students in forest protection and development
schemes.
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
English Title: Social Forestry-1 (From Extinction
to Existence)
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
English Title: South Africa — The Wasted Land
Language: English
Duration: 21 min
Format: Betacam
Original Title: South Africa — The Wasted Land
Language: English
Duration: 52 min
Subject Focus: Social forestry — the schemes initiated
by the government
Subject Focus: Environmental crisis in South Africa
Synopsis: This is a discussion-based programme, where
Mr. R. B. Sule, Director of Social Forestry Scheme in
Maharashtra, discusses the various forest development
schemes launched by the government (Joint Forestry
Management programme, Village Ecodevelopment
programme, etc).
Synopsis: South Africa has not only filled coffers at the
expense of its black population — argues this film — but
also at the cost of its environment. Environmental
degradation has led to sterile fields, denuded hills, yawning
gullies and drastically reduced crop yields. Leaking drums
of toxic waste and abandoned piles of asbestos have been
dumped in the Bantustans by unscrupulous industrialists.
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
CMS ENVIS Centre
Contact Details:
P: 011-29955124, 29956110, 29956394; F: 011-29955879
W: www.cseindia.org
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English Title: State of India’s Environment (V):
Collective Approach to Land
Language: English
Duration: 27 min
Format: U-Matic & VHS
English Title: Stolen Harvest
Language: English
Duration: 12 min
Subject Focus: Liberalisation’s impacts on livelihoods and
food safety.
Subject Focus: Land fragmentation
Synopsis: This film looks at the problem of land
fragmentation.
Synopsis: This film is on the impact of liberalisation on
farmers, livelihoods and food safety.
Director: Navdanya
Production Company: Centre for Science Environment
(CSE)
Contact Details:
P: 011-29955124, 29956110, 29956394; F: 011-29955879
W: www.cseindia.org
Contact Details:
Dr. Vandana Shiva
P: 011-26968077, 26853772; F: 26856795
English Title: The Crowded Desert
English Title: State of India’s Environment (VIII):
Valli’s Story
Language: English
Duration: 30 min
Format: VHS
Subject Focus: Landless agricultural labourer
Synopsis: The film throws light on the hardships of life as
a landless agricultural labourer.
(CSE)
Contact Details:
P: 011-29955124, 29956110, 29956394; F: 011-29955879
W: www.cseindia.org
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Original Title: The Crowded Desert
Language: English
Duration: 31 min
Subject Focus: Traditional land management systems
in Rajasthan
Synopsis: This is an optimistic story about the success
of traditional land management systems in Rajasthan. The
Bishnois of Rajasthan prosper without damaging the
environment because of old but still practised customs.
The second part of the film deals with a scheme that trains
thousands of farmers each year in new farming methods.
Director: Ishwar Pandey
Contact Details:
P: 011-29955124, 29956110, 29956394; F: 011-29955879
W: www.cseindia.org
English Title: The Good Earth
English Title: The Green Poison
Original Title: The Good Earth
Date/Month/ Year of Production: 1993
Language: English and Hindi
Duration: 41 min
Format: DVD/VCD
Date/Month/Year of Production: August 2001
Format: Betacam
Subject Focus: Sustainable agriculture
Synopsis: The Green Revolution created a world where
foodgrain production rose dramatically, but the nonjudicious use of fertilisers and pesticides poisoned us
slowly. The film joins the quest for a safer alternative.
Synopsis: This film prescribes the antidote to the Green
Revolution-type of technology. It explores the sustainable
agricultural practices and philosophy across the country.
Through meetings with farmers and sustainable agriculture
philosophers, the film weaves together a strong argument
against chemicals and for natural and organic farming.
Commissioning Agency: INTACH
Contact Details:
Krishnendu Bose
New Delhi 110 024
P: 011-24625896, 24654221; F: 011-24647310
Subject Focus: Green Revolution and pesticide use
Production Company: AROO
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
English Title: The Green Warriors – Apatanis
Original Title: The Green Warriors – Apatanis
Language: English
Duration: 28 min
Format: Betacam SP
Subject Focus: The Apatani tribals of north-east
English Title: The Green Desert
Language: English
Duration: 52 min
Format: VHS
Synopsis: The agricultural practices of the Apatanis are
unique in south-east Asia. They are the survivors in the
ever-changing cultural space of the eastern Himalayas,
in spite of the onslaught of the Green Revolution. They
have shown to the rest of India how to blend tradition with
modernity — that’s why they are called The Green
Warriors.
Subject Focus: Greening arid lands — Oman
Synopsis: The film examines the example of Oman to
find out how the revival of traditional land management
practices in the country has helped make its arid lands
productive.
Environment (CSE)
Director: Jyoti Prasad Das
Producer: Jyoti Prasad Das
Contact Details:
Jyoti Prasad Das
Bishnu Kutir, G. S. Colony, Fatashil, Guwahati 781 009, Assam
P: 0361-2640249
Contact Details:
P: 011-29955124, 29956110, 29956394; F: 011-29955879
W: www.cseindia.org
CMS ENVIS Centre
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English Title: The Hanging Gardens of Arabia
English Title: The Hanging Gardens of Arabia
Language: English
Duration: 53 min
Format: DVD
Original Title: The Hanging Gardens of Arabia
Language: English
Duration: 52 min
Subject Focus: Agriculture in Yemen
Synopsis: Yemen shares the same hot, dry climate as its
closest Sub-Saharan neighbours, Ethiopia and Sudan.
Though isolated for centuries from the outside world,
Yemen has always been self-sufficient in food. Yemeni
farmers still practice a highly sophisticated form of
sustainable agriculture, growing crops on intricate terraces
carved into the mountain slopes, and harvesting every
available source of water. Each farmer is a vital part of an
interlinked chain. The film is the story of how misguided
aid projects almost destroyed the delicate balance of
Yemeni agriculture, and of the efforts now being made to
restore its mountain terraces.
Director: Andre Singer
Producer: Anthony Milroy
Production Company: TVE, Independent Communications Association
Contact Details:
P: 011-26134103, 26890380; F: 011-26130817
W: www.devalt.org
Subject Focus: Land, Agriculture And Animal Care
Synopsis: For centuries hanging gardens of Arabia have
sustained themselves through an intricate web of terraces
harvesting every available source of water. This is the
feature that made them unique in the whole world. But
this ancient traditional system of terrace farming rapidly
crumbled because of some misguided aid projects. Taking
away with it the traditional knowledge. People had started
migrating to the cities in search of greener pastures.
Several programmes like the Yemen Dutch Development
Programme have been started again to restore these
mountain terraces and to bring the people back to
traditional farming.
Director: Andre Singer
Producer: Television Trust For The Environment (TVE)
Contact Details:
P: 011-29955124, 29956110, 29956394; F: 011-29955879
W: www.cseindia.org
English Title: The Hidden Killer: Pesticides
Language: English
Duration: 30 min
Synopsis: The excessive use of chemical pesticides in
India is leading to disastrous results. Chemicals have
found their way into our food chain. Indian food products
are being sent back from international markets due to the
high levels of pesticide residues.
Contact Details:
P: 011-26134103, 26890380; F: 011-26130817
W: www.devalt.org
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English Title: The Slow Poisoning of India
English Title: Tomorrow May be the Fatal Day
Original Title: The Slow Poisoning of India
Language: English
Format: DV Cam
Original Title: Tomorrow May be the Fatal Day
Language: Hindi
Duration: 20 min
Format: Betacam, Digital
Subject Focus: Pesticides and their antidote — organic
farming
Subject Focus: Soil erosion in Himachal Pradesh
Synopsis: The slow poisoning of India is a frightening story:
the country is not only one of the largest users of pesticides,
but also one of their largest producers. The film travels to
Punjab, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra where
indiscriminate and unregulated use of pesticides has
poisoned the land, water, air and food. This, in turn, has
led to serious health complications among the people.
Director: Ramesh Menon
Producer: The Energy and Resource Institute (TERI)
Contact Details:
Darbari Seth Block, IHC Complex, Lodhi Road, New Delhi 110
003 India
P: 011-24682100, 41504900; F: 011-24682144, 24682145
W: www.teriin.org
English Title: The Whistle Blowers
Original Title: The Whistle Blowers
Language: English
Duration: 30 min
Format: DVD
Synopsis: It is a often said that the next world war will
take place for water. It is amazing that though ¾ parts of
the planet Earth is submerged under water, still we are
thirsting. With the increase in population, the consumption
has drastically increased; deforestation has adversely
affected the monsoon, which is a chief natural resource.
Another major resource is underground water. This is our
bank, but our concentration is just upon the withdrawal of
water. Who is responsible for the deposition? If this
continues, how long this bank would satisfy our unlimited
needs? Still we have time. The condition is grave, but if
we are able to manage the available resources properly
and efficiently, we can cope up the situation. Such activities
need social support and participation of society and the
NGOs can play a major role. Nehru Yuva Kendra, at
Raigarh, is an active NGO, working in the area of water
conservation in the surrounding areas of Raigarh and with
their efforts the situation has dramatically changed.
Producer: Students Members of Shivalik Eco Club
Commissioning Agency: Sanjeev Attari
Contact Details:
Students Members of Shivalik Eco Club
C/o Sanjeev Attari, Guide Teacher, Government High School,
Moginand, Sirmour 173 001, Himachal Pradesh
P: 01702-223881, 09816666014
Synopsis: This is an investigation into the issue of
pesticide residues in bottled water and soft drinks
manufactured by reputed MNCs like Coca-Cola and Pepsi
in India, which was recently revealed in a report by the
Centre for Science and Environment.
Director: Umesh Aggarwal
(PSBT)
Trust (PSBT)
Contact Details:
P: 011-24355941; F: 011-24353825
W: www.psbt.org
CMS ENVIS Centre
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English Title: Under the Sun
English Title: Why are Warangal Farmers Angry
with Bt Cotton?
Original Title: Under the Sun
Language: Bengali, Hindi, Kannada (with English
subtitles)
Duration: 55 min
Format: Mini DV
Original Title: Warangal Raitulaku Bt Patti Meeda
Kopamenduku
Language: Telegu (with voiceover and subtitles in English)
Duration: 24 min
Subject Focus: Indian ecology
Subject Focus: Bt cotton farming
Synopsis: This film attempts to capture the magnitude of
India’s biological wealth as well as the related local,
traditional knowledge while examining the reasons for their
rapid decline. The emphasis is on West Bengal for its
tremendous variety of agricultural crops, as well rich
indigenous knowledge.
Synopsis: This film was made by the women farmers (half
of them non-literate) of Pastapur village in Medak district
of Andhra Pradesh. It documents the 2002-03 season, a
traumatic one for Bt cotton farmers in Andhra Pradesh,
and nails the propganda lies of the biotech industry.
Director: Nilanjan Bhattacharya
Producer: Nilanjan Bhattacharya
Production Company: Development Research
Communication and Services Centre
Contact Details:
Nilanjan Bhattacharya
A-63, Purba Diganta, Santoshpur, Kolkata 700 075
West Bengal
P: 033-24169568
English Title: Wheat Today, What Tomorrow?
Language: English
Duration: 34 min
Format: VHS
Subject Focus: Land productivity
Synopsis: The film warns that farmers, scientists and
economists are taking too much from the land without
giving as much back — a fact that could lead to a difficult
situation in future.
(CSE)
Contact Details:
P: 011-29955124, 29956110, 29956394; F: 011-29955879
W: www.cseindia.org
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Director: D. D. S. Community Media Trust
Producers: Deccan Development Society
Contact Details:
Ms. Chinna Narsamma
Deccan Development Society (DDS)
Pastapur village, Zaheerabad Mandal
Medak 500 220, Andhra Pradesh
P: 08451-282271
Biodiversity
and
Forests
English Title: A Blossom Begins to Sing
English Title: A Journey through Moyar
Original Title: Kurinji Poomozhi
Language: Malayalam (dubbed in English)
Format: Betacam SP
Language: English
Duration: 25 min
Subject Focus: Conservation of forests
Synopsis: The film has caught the scenic beauty of this
dense forest along the river Moyar. This deciduous forest
is the dwelling place of the mighty Asian elephant.
Panoramic views of the Nilgiri slopes with floating clouds,
huge waterfalls, gushing streams and misty hillocks bring
nature alive. The film extensively covers the bio-diversity
of the area. Like any other protected area of India,
Mudumalai is not without its problems. The film gently
suggests that conservation of the natural wealth of the
forest cannot be achieved without the active involvement
of locals.
Synopsis: This film narrates the tale of a young girl’s
fascination with the beauty and splendour of forests and
her devotion to preserving a forest and its wildlife — for
which she sacrifices her own life.
Director: Premraj R.
Contact Details:
Manoj Krishnan P.
C-DIT, Gorki Bhavan, Vanross Junction
Thiruvananthapuram 695 034, Kerala
P: 0471-2330081; M: 09447886486;
F: 0471-2333735, 2328659
W: www.cdit.org
Subject Focus: The Mudumalai Wildlife Sanctuary in
Tamil Nadu
Producer: The Bombay Natural History Society (BNHS)
Contact Details:
Bombay Natural History Society (BNHS)
Hornbill House, Dr. Sálim Ali Chowk, Shahid Bhagat Singh
Road, Mumbai 400 023, Maharashtra
P: 022-22821811; F: 022-22837615
W: www.bnhs.org
English Title: A Journey through Manjira
Wildlife Sancturary
English Title: A Man, A Forest
Language: English
Subject Focus: Environment and Wildlife
Synopsis: The film is an introduction to the Manjira Wildlife
Sanctuary, the variety of birds in it, and the problems being
faced in conserving and protecting this unique wetland
ecosystem. It also describes the Environment Education
Centre set up by the forest department in the sanctuary
to educate visitors and make them aware of nature
conservation efforts.
Director: D. N. Reddy P.
Producer: Andhra Pradesh Forest Department
Contact Details:
Mr. D. N. Reddy
View Point, Flat No. 303, Block No. 3, CBR Estates, Deepthisri
Nagar, Madinaguda, Hyderabad 500 050, Andhra Pradesh
P: 040-3041617
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Original Title: Ek Aadmi aur Ek Jungle
Language: Hindi
Format: Digital
Subject Focus: Forest conservation
Synopsis: The film depicts a Man’s efforts to protect the
Forest near his village.
Producer: Anand Films
Production Company: Anand Films
Commissioning Agency: Anand Parmar
Contact Details:
Anand Films
M/2, Vardhman Towers, C/o Jabalpur Graphics
Russel Crossing, Napier Town
Jabalpur 482 001, Madhya Pradesh
P: 0761-2627967; F: 0761-2422888
Biodiversity and Forest
English Title: A Mirage for a Future?
English Title: A New Dawn in Coorg
Format: Betacam
Original Title: A New Dawn in Coorg
Language: English
Duration: 30 min
Format: Betacam SP
Subject Focus: Little Rann of Kuchch Wild Ass Sanctuary
Synopsis: Situated in western Gujarat, the Little Rann
of Kuchch Wild Ass Sanctuary is the largest protected
area in India. Over 300 species of birds, several rare
and beautiful reptiles, amphibians, mammals and plants
are protected in this unique habitat. This sanctuary is
under increasing threat from encroaching salt industries,
exotic vegitation like prosopis and unregulated traffic.
While a local NGO has filed a case against the state
government for leasing sanctuary land to the salt industry,
the government and the industry defend the move saying
it is in the interest of poor landless salt workers (agarias).
Farmers living on the periphery of the sanctuary blame
the wild ass and nilgai for crop damage, but experts point
out that the shrinking habitat brought about by the
pressure of livestock that graze in this area, has led these
animals to forage for food in the fringe areas of the
sanctuary.
Director: Ashok N. Mewada
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
CMS ENVIS Centre
Subject Focus: Sustainable development and
conservation of Coorg
Synopsis: This film captures the process of change in
Coorg, a district in Karnataka, facilitated by the Centre for
Environment Education. The challenge in Coorg was to
conserve the forests. Due to fluctuation of prices in coffee
and other cash crops, there are times when a planter is
forced to sell trees. Therefore, a plan to develop proactive
but non-degrading ecotourism activities was evolved
through a workshop which involved developing home stays
in plantations, conserving the tourist and pilgrimage
destinations. The process has just begun, but a new dawn
is emerging over the hills of Coorg.
Directors: Ms. Archana Dange, Mr. K. K. Babu, Dr.
Shyamla Mani
Producer: Centre for Environment Education (CEE)
Production Company: Centre for Environment
Education (CEE)
Contact Details:
CEE Delhi
Centre for Environment Education (CEE)
D-35, South Extension – II, New Delhi 110 049
P: 011-26262878, F: 011-26497050
W: ceeindia.org
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English Title: A Special Relationship (Manipur)
‘LAA’
Language: English
Subject Focus: The ‘LAA’, or banana leaf and its
relationship with Manipuri society
Synopsis: The people of Manipur have, over the centuries,
fostered a culture that has placed the wild banana plant
at its centre. The plant is cultivated in every Manipur
garden, primarily for its leaves, which the Manipuris call
the “LAA”. Its use in all aspects of local tradition and
customs constitutes an interesting instance of cultural
identification of a community with its natural environment.
Awards received by the film: Best non-feature film,
3rd Manipur State Film Festival, 1999
Director: Thouyangba Thoungamba
Contact Details:
Thouyangba Thoungamba
P. K. Films Manipur, Kongba Shoudongpung Ayangpalli,
Imphal 795 001, Manipur
P: 0385-242118
English Title: Aak
Language: Hindi
Duration: 15 min
Subject Focus: Medicinal plants — the Aak
Synopsis: The programme is a part of a series on
medicinal plants meant for secondary-level students. It
highlights the medicinal values of the Aak, whose leaves
are used for medicinal purposes.
Producer: Ms. Usha Narula
Contact Details:
P: 011-26864801, 26864802, 26864803; F: 011-26864141
W: www.ciet.nic.in
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English Title: Aam Mahuva ki Shadi
Language: Hindi
Duration: 23 min
Format: U-Matic Highband & VHS
Subject Focus: Conservation
Synopsis: This is a film targeted towards raising the
awareness of children, and encouraging them to protect
plants and animals. Interwoven with cultural and religious
issues, it also looks at the benefits of afforestation
Director: Mr. Brij Bhushan
Producer: Mr. Brij Bhushan
Production Company: M/s Chitrashram Motion Picture
and Video Films Productions
Contact Details:
The Secretary
New Delhi - 110 003
P: 91-11-2436 1896, 2436 0721
English Title: Aanchar Lake — A Lost Ecological
Heritage
Date/Month/Year of Production: September 2000
Format: Betacam
Subject Focus: Vanishing lakes of Kashmir
Synopsis: The lakes of Kashmir are socio-economically
and bio-aesthetically indispensable aquatic ecosystems,
harbouring a rich and diverse gene pool. They not only
provide food, fodder, manure and vegetables, but have
also been a potential source of recreation. Some of these
lakes are showing clear signs of extinction: an example is
the Aanchar Lake, which was once the pride of Srinagar.
Production Company: ASRI
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
English Title: Adaptations of Plants and Animals
English Title: An Ode to My Mother
Language: English
Duration: 14 min
Format: 16 mm
Original Title: An Ode to My Mother
Language: English
Duration: 11 min
Format: Mini DV
Subject Focus: Adaptability of living beings
Synopsis: This documentary illustrates how living beings
adapt to their environment for procuring food and for
protection.
Technology (CIET)
Contact Details:
P: 011-26864801, 26864802, 26864803; F: 011-26864141
W: www.ciet.nic.in
English Title: Adventuring in Conservation
Language: English
Duration: 15 min
Format: 16 mm
Subject Focus: Nature and its conservation
Synopsis: The video talks about the interdependence of
plants and animals in nature. It also stresses on the
importance of our natural resources and what we can do
to conserve them.
Technology (CIET)
Contact Details:
P: 011-26864801, 26864802, 26864803; F: 011-26864141
W: www.ciet.nic.in
CMS ENVIS Centre
Subject Focus: Man and nature
Synopsis: The film opens with a dream of a boy who is
deeply disturbed by visuals of an axe being sharpened, a
tree being cut, the sounds of trees being sliced into pieces,
and a cry from his mother. He begins a search for his
mother, and meets various elements of nature on his way.
Director: A. S. Pradeep Kumar
Producer: Sandhya Krishnan
Production Company: The Butterfly Art Foundation
Contact Details:
A. S. Pradeep Kumar
Butterfly Art Foundation, Pady, PO Thrissur 680 699, Kerala
P: 0480 2743102; M: 94465 08102
W: www.baf.in
English Title: And the Bamboo Blooms
Original Title: And the Bamboo Blooms
Language: English
Duration: 21 min
Format: 35 mm
Subject Focus: Relationship between tribals of northeast
and the bamboo
Synopsis: This film is a study on the relationship between
tribals of Manipur and Mizoram and the bamboo — in the
backdrop of flowering of bamboo in these two states, which
has got environmental, economic and political dimensions.
Producer: Bankim
Contact Details:
Films Division, Ministry of Information & Broadcasting,
Government of India
24, Dr. G. Deshmukh Marg, Mumbai 400 026
P: 022-23515422, 23513176, 23516931, 23513633
F: 022-23515308, 23511008
W: www.filmsdivision.org
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English Title: Apna Jungle Apni Kahani
Language: Hindi
Duration: 33 min
Format: PAL
English Title: Arid Zone Ecology Phase-1 – 1
(Plant Killers-1)
Format: Betacam
Subject Focus: People’s initiatives in conservation
Subject Focus: Plants of arid zones and their diseases
Synopsis: In Rajasthan, people from 700 villages near
Alwar have been braving annual droughts in their efforts
to conserve their forests. This film highlights their
achievements through five case studies, bringing out the
various facets of the empowerment process of the
communities, which has helped them in protecting their
forests. The leitmotif of the film is a Gram Sabha meeting,
which is the thread that binds the stories together.
Producer: UNDP
Contact Details:
Krishendu Bose
New Delhi 110 024
P: 011-24625896, 24636021; F: 011-24647310
English Title: Aranya-Yatra-Ek Sukhad Anubhuti
Original Title: Aranya – Yatra – Ek Sukhad Anubhuti
Language: Hindi
Format: Betacam SP
Subject Focus: Sensitizing general public about
conservation issues in the wildlife sanctuaries of
Hazaribagh, Kodarma, Parasnath and Topchanchi.
Synopsis: The film introduces to the viewers the wildlife
sanctuaries of Hazaribagh, Kodarma, Parasnath and
Topchanchi through the eyes of a university student. Though
some of these forests are notified as Protected Areas, they
face problems like mining. Relocation of forest dwellers is
also a major issue here. Man-animal conflict is quite common
in these sanctuaries a modern electric fencing is being done
around villages done to protect the villagers, but poverty and
lack of alternative livelihood’s forces the people it go into the
forest and act in contravention of forest laws.
Director: Payal Deogam
Producer: Diksha Kumari Prasad
Production Company: Department of Environment and
Forests
Contact Details:
Department of Environment and Forests
Forest Officer’s Colony, Doranda, Ranchi 834 002, Jharkhand
M: 9934109793
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Synopsis: This programme is about the different diseases
of plants in arid zones.
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
English Title: Arid Zone Ecology Phase-1 – 2
(Plant Killers-2)
Format: Betacam
Subject Focus: Plant pests
Synopsis: This programme talks about the different
insects, pests and nematodes responsible for damage to
economically useful plants.
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
English Title: Arid Zone Ecology Phase-1
(CAZRI: An Information on Institute)
(Technology for Productive Desert)
Format: Betacam
Format: Betacam
Subject Focus: The Central Arid Zone Research Institute
Subject Focus: Combating desertification
Synopsis: This is an interview-based programme, in which
the Director, Central Arid Zone Research Institute (CAZRI),
talks about the history, growth and activities of CAZRI.
Synopsis: The film explains the various technologies and
equipments that can be used to make the desert more
productive.
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
(Renegotiation of Desert)
(What is a Desert)
Format: Betacam
Format: Betacam
Subject Focus: Combating desertification
Subject Focus: Deserts
Synopsis: This film deals with different techniques used
to curb desertification — the species of trees, shrubs and
other vegetation used to fight against shifting of dunes,
wind erosion etc.
Synopsis: This programme talks about how deserts are
formed and expanded, conditions that are specific to
deserts (such as high wind velocity, shifting of dunes and
low and erratic rainfall), and the effects of deserts on
mankind and economy of the region.
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
CMS ENVIS Centre
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
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English Title: Arjun
Language: Hindi
English Title: Avakashita Paaristithik Tantra
Prabhandhan
Format: Betacam
Subject Focus: Medicinal plants — the Arjun
Subject Focus: Sustainable development
Synopsis: The programme describes the various
medicinal properties of the Arjun tree. This is a part of the
series of films on medicinal plants, meant for secondarylevel students.
Synopsis: The film advocates sustainable development
through multicultural approaches — intense afforestation
using advance technologies is one of them.
Contact Details:
P: 011-26864801, 26864802, 26864803; F: 011-26864141
W: www.ciet.nic.in
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
English Title: Avkarshit Parethetik Tantra
English Title: Ashwagandha
Language: Hindi
Duration: 10 min
Subject Focus: Medicinal plants — Ashwagandha
Synopsis: Another film in the series on medicinal plants,
this one talks about the medicinal properties of the roots
of Ashwagandha.
Contact Details:
P: 011-26864801, 26864802, 26864803; F: 011-26864141
W: www.ciet.nic.in
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Original Title: Avkarshit Parethetik Tantra
Format: Betacam
Subject Focus: Desert and degraded ecosystems
Synopsis: Desert eco-systems of the world have their own
individualistic characteristics. The film explores the
different aspects of degraded ecosystems.
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
English Title: Axing of the Himalayas
English Title: Banking on the Gene
Language: English
Duration: 13 min
Format: VHS
Original Title: Banking on the Gene
Language: English
Duration: 26 min
Subject Focus: Sunderlal Bahuguna
Synopsis: This film traces the story of Sunderlal
Bahuguna’s life and work. Bahuguna himself elaborates
his ideas by explaining the efforts made by the Bishnois
of Rajasthan and the Chipko Movement.
Environment (CSE)
Contact Details:
P: 011-29955124, 29956110, 29956394; F: 011-29955879
W: www.cseindia.org
English Title: Balumang
Language: Hindi
Duration: 10 min
Subject Focus: Afforestation
Synopsis: In this film, children are encouraged by a social
worker to plant trees. But they question the utility of tree
plantation by them, as the benefits will go to others.
Subject Focus: Conserving plants
Synopsis: Essential for food, fuel, clothing and shelter —
plants are the lifeblood of the world. Yet almost
everywhere, that lifeblood is being drained away as
pollution, deforestation, urbanization and modern
agriculture all take their toll. Earth Report investigates how
the diversity of plant life on the planet could solve some
of the greatest challenges facing humankind today. Just
four crops — rice, wheat, maize and potatoes — provide
over half the world’s energy intake. As the world’s
population increases and the climate changes, it is
essential to develop new, more productive crops.
Scientists and farmers are increasingly realising that they
need to work together to conserve the many thousands
of wild and cultivated crop varieties, safeguarding their
future in both genebanks and on farmers’ fields.
Contact Details:
P: 011-29955124, 29956110, 29956394; F: 011-29955879
W: www.cseindia.org
Director: S. Nazim Hussain
Producer: S. Nazim Hussain
Contact Details:
The Secretary
Paryavaran Bhavan, CGO Complex, Lodhi Road,
New Delhi - 110 003
P: 91-11-2436 1896, 2436 0721
CMS ENVIS Centre
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English Title: Bargad ne Kaha Dekho Meri Duniya
English Title: Bhalku… Ek Engineer
Original Title: The Saga of Banyan Tree
Language: Hindi (dubbed in English)
Format: DV
Original Title: Bhalku… Ek Engineer
Language: Hindi
Format: Betacam SP
Subject Focus: Contribution of the Banyan in maintaining
ecological balance
Subject Focus: Bhalku, the architect of the Kalka-Shimla
track, and how he paid attention to the environment while
designing the track
Synopsis: The Banyan tree is a complete ecological
system by itself. It provides shelter to a range of animals
— from microorganisms like algae, fungi and bacteria to
macro-organisms like insects, reptiles, birds and
mammals. The Banyan has a strange capacity to expend
itself. Every year, in the rainy season, swinging aerial roots
shoot out through its branches and grow until they touch
the earth.
Director: Anil Yadav
Producer: Anil Yadav
Production Company: The Earth Friends Group
Contact Details:
Anil Yadav
7, Jain Pathshala Parisar, Vidisha 464 221, Madhya Pradesh
P: 07594-220588, M: 09425148858
English Title: Basic Thinks of Mankind
Original Title: Basic Thinks of Mankind
Language: No spoken Language (with English subtitles)
Format: Betacam SP
Subject Focus: Deforestation and conservation
Synopsis: This documentary is about deforestation and
focuses on the fact that the stability of nature depends
upon the forest.
Director: Binudamodharan
Producer: Binudamodharan
Production Company: S & B
Contact Details:
Binudamodharan, Padinjarekarayil, Neerkunnam
Alappuzha 688 005, Kerala
P: 0471-2281924, M: 09349422715
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Synopsis: Bhalku was a villager with traditional
engineering skills who helped the British in setting up an
amazing rail track from Kalka to Shimla in Himachal
Pradesh. Through Bhalku’s exemplary life of loving and
relating to Mother Nature and being one with the
environment, the film brings forth the ideology that we
cannot always take from Nature, we must learn to give as
well.
Director: Ms. Kala Iyer
Producer: M/s. Genesis Media (P) Ltd.
Production Company: M/S Genesis Media (P) Ltd.
Contact Details:
Kala Iyer
Genesis Media (P) Ltd, B-42, II Floor, Opp. Kargil Park,
Jangpura-B, New Delhi 110 014
P: 011-24375120, 24375124, M: 9811075246
F: 011-24379598
English Title: Bhoomi (Episode-106)
English Title: Bio Control of Teak Defoliator
Language: Hindi
Duration: 26 min
Format: Betacam SP
Original Title: Bio Control of Teak Defoliator
Language: English
Format: Betacam SP
Subject Focus: Dr. Salim Ali Bird Sanctuary, Goa; the
village of Kulhadi Bandh, Rajasthan
Synopsis: This is a collection of stories and programmes,
of which the first talks about Goa’s only bird sanctuary,
the Dr. Salim Ali Bird Sanctuary. Here, the Bhoomi team
films quintal ducks, which migrate to the sanctuary in winter
from Serbia. The collection also includes a story about
Indira Point in Car Nicobar, which disappeared from the
map of India after the tsunami. The story on Kulhadi Bandh
is about a village in Rajasthan which believes that the
cutting of a tree amounts to nothing less than murder.
The jungles around the village are in safe hands.
Director: Nitin P. Nandan
Producer: Siddharth Kak
Production Company: Cinema Vision India, Mumbai
Contact Details:
Ms. Antara Kak
Cinema Vision India, 501, Adarsh Nagar, MHB Colony, New
Link Road, Jogeshwari (W), Mumbai 400 102
P: 022-26365946; F: 022-26366642
W: www.indiasurabhi.com
Subject Focus: Eco-friendly protection of forests from
pests
Synopsis: The film documents the development of an ecofriendly method to solve the problem of defoliator
outbreaks, which had evaded control for the past 150
years. The film starts with defining the economic impact
of a pest both in terms of wood loss and revenue
unrealized. The dynamics of pest outbreaks is explained
next. After a comparative analysis of potential bio-control
agents like predators, parasites and pathogens, the film
shows why the Nuclear Polyhedrosis Virus was selected
as the best bio-control agent.
Director: Dr. T. V. Sanjeev
Producer: Director, KFRI
Production Company: Kerala Forest Research Institute
Contact Details:
Kerala Forest Research Institute (KFRI), Peechi
Thrissur 680 653, Kerala
P: 0487 - 2699037, 2699061, 2699062, 2699063, 2699365
F: 0487 - 2699249
W: www.kfri.org
English Title: Bio-Diversity of India
Duration: 17 min
Format: U-Matic
Subject Focus: The biographic zones of India
Synopsis: This programme talks about the different
biographic zones of India with reference to national parks
and sanctuaries.
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
CMS ENVIS Centre
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English Title: Biological Deserts
English Title: Born Wild Episode: Sacred Groves
Format: Betacam
Original Title: Born Wild Episode: Sacred Groves
Language: English
Duration: 22 min
Subject Focus: Urban industrial pollution
Subject Focus: The Khasi sacred groves of Meghalaya
Synopsis: The programme deals with urban pollution
which is converting cities into biological deserts. The main
reason for this is unchecked industrial growth in and
around residential areas.
Synopsis: Born Wild is a series that takes a look at India’s
wildlife and wild spaces. This episode is on the sacred
groves of Meghalaya’s Khasi people, which are fast
vanishing.
Production Company: AOSM
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
English Title: Biology of Multipedes-I
Director: Swathi Thyagarajan
Producer: New Delhi Television (NDTV)
Production Company: NDTV
Contact Details:
Swathi Thyagarajan
NDTV, Archana Complex, Greater Kailash I
New Delhi 110 048
P: 011-26446666; M: 9811660901
Language: English
Format: U-Matic
English Title: Bull Cult
Subject Focus: Millipedes
Format: Betacam
Synopsis: A member of the phylum Arthropoda, millipedes
live on plants, roots and vegetation in the forest.
Subject Focus: The bull and its relationship with man
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
English Title: Boodha Pedh
Duration: 5 min
Format: Betacam
Production Company: AIND
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
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Synopsis: The bull, a symbol of fertility, is also a friend of
man. This film explores the relationship of humans with
this animal
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
English Title: Can Tropical Rainforests be Saved?
English Title: Canvas
Language: English
Format: DVD
Original Title: Canvas
Duration: 3 min
Subject Focus: Saving the rainforest
Subject Focus: Deforestation
Synopsis: The film looks at the web of economic, social
and political pressures that have led to mass destruction
of forests — and at the prospects today for saving those
that still remain. An estimated 500 million people worldwide
live in forests, many caught in the clash between
development and cultural survival. The film investigates
alternative uses for rainforests: debt-for-nature swaps in
Costa Rica and Cameroon, and the sustainable harvest
of products such as acai berries, latex and Brazil nuts in
the Amazon.
Director: Robert Richter
Producer: Robert Richter
Production Company: Richter Productions
Contact Details:
P: 011-26134103, 26890380; F: 011-26130817
W: www.devalt.org
Synopsis: In this film, a hand draws out a beautiful forest,
only to the erase it to make buildings. This sequence of
activities continues till the canvas is torn off.
Director: Divyesh Lad
Contact Details:
Divyesh Lad
ZICA, Essel World, Gorai Island, Borivali, Mumbai 400 091
M: 09892109278
English Title: Capital Green — Green Policy of
New Delhi
Language: English
Duration: 30 min
Subject Focus: Urban environment management — the
‘greens’ of New Delhi
English Title: Canines A-Z
Language: English
Format: VHS
Subject Focus: The domestic dog
Synopsis: The programme presents a compherensive
overview of the domestic dog — types of dogs, training
them for different purposes, care of a dog and why a dog
has peculiar physical characteristics.
Production Company: APAT
Synopsis: Taking a cue from the winds of privatization
sweeping the country, the Lt. Governor of Delhi has
announced the ‘privatization’ of development and
maintenance of city parks, while retaining their ownership
through the Delhi Development Authority (DDA).
Contact Details:
P: 011-26134103, 26890380; F: 011-26130817
W: www.devalt.org
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
CMS ENVIS Centre
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English Title: Captive Animals — Bonded Labour
English Title: Chance for Survival
Language: English
Format: Betacam
Format: U-Matic
Subject Focus: Degrading desert environments
Subject Focus: Animals in captivity
Synopsis: The film asks why man keeps animals captive
in cruel, inhuman conditions. Donkeys are made to carry
heavy loads, deer and geese live in squalid conditions in
‘popular’ deer parks, and birds are caged and sold only to
die in great numbers. Is this humane?
Synopsis: Desert environments around the world are
steadily deteriorating, as a result of a high-density, lowincome population depending almost entirely on land for
subsistence. Pressure on deserts should be relieved
immediately by providing alternate sources of
employment.
Production Company: MDEL
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
English Title: Care the Greens
English Title: Cockroaches
Duration: 3 min
Format: Betacam
Language: English
Format: U-Matic
Subject Focus: Medicinal plants
Subject Focus: Cockroaches
Synopsis: The world has been using medicinal plants for
centuries; we are well acquainted with the medicinal
applications of plants like Tulsi, Peepal, Ginger, Turmeric
etc. But growing pressures of population and pollution are
threatening to adversely affect medicinal plants. Today,
when our consciousness of physical fitness and a healthy
lifestyle is on the rise, it is all the more important that we
care for these plants as they care for us.
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
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Synopsis: This programme presents an overview on
cockroaches — their evolution, species attributes, lifecycle and food habits.
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
English Title: Communities
English Title: Coping with Catastrophe
Language: English
Duration: 17 min
Format: 16 mm
Language: English
Duration: 58 min
Subject Focus: Rainforest community
Subject Focus: Biodiversity and conservation in the
Northeast
Synopsis: The film reveals the structure and composition
of a rainforest community — the way it functions, the
factors that bring about changes, and the way all life is
tied to a community structure.
Technology (CIET)
Contact Details:
P: 011-26864801, 26864802, 26864803; F: 011-26864141
W: www.ciet.nic.in
English Title: Conservation of Biodiversity
Language: English
Subject Focus: Conservation in India
Synopsis: The film covers conservation in India — the
conservation practices in Indian culture, Indian flora and
fauna, parks and sanctuaries, and the country’s ongoing
efforts in conservation of biodiversity.
Producer: S. Bakshi
Production Company: M/s Chitra Utsav Video Pvt. Ltd.
Contact Details:
The Secretary
New Delhi - 110 003
P: 91-11-2436 1896, 2436 0721
CMS ENVIS Centre
Synopsis: This film focuses on biodiversity, conservation
and sustainable development in Northeast India.
Directors: Gautam Bora, C. N. Barua
Producers: Gautam Bora, C. N. Barua
Contact Details:
Gautam Bora and C. N. Barua
Senapati Road, Silpukhuri, Guwahati 781 003, Assam
P: 0361-545599; F: 0361-520348
English Title: Corbett at 60
Original Title: Corbett at 60
Language: English
Duration: 20 min
Format: Betacam
Subject Focus: The Corbett National Park
Synopsis: This documentary was made for the Uttar
Pradesh Forest Department on the occasion of the
diamond jubilee of Corbett National Park.
Director: Krishnendu Bose and Madhurima Sen Bose
Contact Details:
Krishnendu Bose
New Delhi 110 024
P: 011-24625896, 24654221; F: 011-24647310
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English Title: Courting Nature
English Title: Crustacea
Original Title: Courting Nature
Language: English
Duration: 20 min
Format: Betacam
Language: English
Duration: 20 min
Format: 16 mm
Subject Focus: Narayan Sarovar and Bhitarkanika
sanctuaries — environmental Law
Synopsis: The film covers all forms of crustacea inhabiting
freshwater, estuarine and marine environments.
Synopsis: This film on the Narayan Sarovar and
Bhitarkanika sanctuaries was made for the WWF’s Centre
for Environmental Law.
Technology (CIET)
Contact Details:
Krishnendu Bose
New Delhi 110 024
P: 011-24625896, 24654221; F: 011-24647310
English Title: Creative Cow
Original Title: Creative Cow
Language: No spoken Language
Subject Focus: Re-greening the environment
Synopsis: The film is about two naughty children who
wipe out an entire grassland. But they have a Creative
Cow who finds a way to recreate the grassland once again.
Subject Focus: Crustacea
Contact Details:
P: 011-26864801, 26864802, 26864803; F: 011-26864141
W: www.ciet.nic.in
English Title: Cry of the Forest
Language: English
Duration: 27 min
Subject Focus: People-centric conservation policy
Synopsis: This film looks into a more holistic meaning of
conservation, where people are a part of the forests and
animals that we protect. It argues that people staying inside
and around protected forests should not pay the cost of
conservation, but should be made a part of it; these people,
it says, can use the forest sustainably if given the chance.
Shot in Kanha in Madhya Pradesh, it advocates a
reappraisal of our current conservation policies.
Director: Vaibhav Shah
Contact Details:
Vaibhav Shah
M: 098198972341
Producer: Public Service Broadcasting Trust (PSBT)
Trust (PSBT)
Contact Details:
P: 011-24355941; F: 011-24353825
W: www.psbt.org
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English Title: Dalma Wildlife Sanctuary
Original Title: Dalma Wildlife Sanctuary
Language: English
Duration: 30 min
Format: Betacam
Subject Focus: The Dalma sanctuary and its floral and
faunal diversity
Synopsis: The film is about the Dalma Wildlife Sanctuary
in the state of Jharkhand. Dalma is well known as an
elephant haven. The hill terrain of the sanctuary serves
as a complete ecological unit with a variety of forests.
The Indian giant squirrel is also found in abundance here.
Producer: Forest Publicity & Extension
Commissioning Agency: Mr. Gul Bahar Singh, Director
English Title: Dawagni: Himalaya ke Dahaktey
Van
Language: Hindi
Subject Focus: Forest fires in the Himalayas
Synopsis: Fires in Himalayan forests is a regular
phenomena. Accumulation of dry pine needles and broad
leaves and bushes like lentana provide the main ignition.
Excessive temperatures and dry spells during summers
mean a small careless move can result in a massive forest
fire. The documentary is an attempt to find out the causes
of forest fires and their effects on the environment of the
Himalayan land and people.
Directors: Dharmendra Kumar Dubby/Anil Kumar Thakur
Contact Details:
Forest Publicity & Extension
(Public Relations) Division-Ranchi, Van Bhavan, Doranda,
Ranchi 834 002, Jharkhand
P: 0651-2481674
Contact Details:
Dharmendra Kumar Dubey and Anil Kuma Thakur
KAEF, Almora & A. N. Films, New Delhi, F-106, Karampura,
New Delhi 110 015
P: 011-25937844; F: 011-25415189
E: ak_thakur @epatra.com
English Title: Daughter of the Earth
English Title: Death in the Rain Forest
Language: English
Original Title: Death in the Rain Forest
Language: English
Duration: 40 min
Subject Focus: Dr. Vandana Shiva and her work
Subject Focus: Preservation of the Amazon rainforests
Synopsis: This documentary is on Dr. Vandana Shiva and
her work.
Director: Shazia
Producer: Navdanya
Contact Details:
Dr. Vandana Shiva
P: 011-26968077
Synopsis: This edited version of a BBC documentary goes
deep into the Amazonian forest to investigate the causes
of their rapid degeneration. Tribals and colonialists are at
loggerheads here. If felling continues at the same pace,
the forests will disappear within 20 years. The
documentary highlights the protest movement to save the
forests started by Chico Mendes, who fell to the bullets of
the colonialists.
Contact Details:
P: 011-29955124, 29956110, 29956394; F: 011-29955879
W: www.cseindia.org
CMS ENVIS Centre
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English Title: Deemak
English Title: Desert Locusts-I, The Farmers’ Foe
Language: English
Format: U-Matic
Language: English
Format: U-Matic
Subject Focus: Termites
Subject Focus: The desert locust menace
Synopsis: Termites are some of the most destructive pests
ever. The film finds that they have an interesting social
life.
Synopsis: This programmme highlights the menace of
locusts in the Thar and other parts of the world — it
explains the life cycle of the desert locust, how it moves
in swarms, and how these swarms destroy the vegetation
enroute.
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
English Title: Delhi Ridge
Language: English
Duration: 30 min
Subject Focus: The Delhi Ridge
Synopsis: The Delhi Ridge is the ‘lung’ of Delhi. But can
it survive the onslaught of encroachers?
English Title: Desert Locusts-II, The Farmers’ Foe
Language: English
Format: U-Matic
Subject Focus: The desert locust and its control
Contact Details:
P: 011-26134103, 26890380; F: 011-26130817
W: www.devalt.org
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Synopsis: This part of the programme talks about the
breeding behaviour of desert locusts and the national and
international efforts in locust control.
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
English Title: Destiny
English Title: Dhoodha Toli
Original Title: Destiny
Duration: 5 min
Original Title: Dhoodha Toli
Language: Hindi
Duration: 31 min
Synopsis: We have to protect our natural environment
from destruction. If we continuously focus on
concretization through deforestation then those days are
not too far when the control on earth will automatically get
transferred to the hands of evil force. In the film we have
focused on this issue and symbolically present the entire
story.
Director: Partha Banerjee
Production Company: B D Infotech
Contact Details:
Partha Banerjee
43/A, T N Banerjee Road, Panihati, Kolkata - 700 114
P: 033-2563 0132, 033-2652 5522/5523;
M: 098302 46374
[email protected]
Subject Focus: Protection of forests by the women of
Upherkhal
Synopsis: This film documents a campaign undertaken
to raise people’s consciousness regarding conservation.
Production Company: Cine Arts India
Commissioning Agency: CAPART
Contact Details:
Technology (CAPART)
P: 011-24642391,24642393,24642395
F: 011-24648607, 24625822
English Title: Devta Activists
English Title: Don’t Just Worship It – Trees
Original Title: Devta Activists
Language: Hindi and English (with English subtitles)
Duration: 28 min
Format: DV Cam
Subject Focus: Role of traditional institutions such as
Devtas (deities) in conservation
Original Title: Don’t Just Worship It – Trees
Language: Hindi
Duration: 54 sec
Format: DV CAM
Subject Focus: Caring for nature
Synopsis: Devta Activists is set in the Kullu valley. Here,
over the years, local communities have saved their
environment by acceding control over natural resources
to their Devtas — deities. Today, these practices find their
authority threatened because of the presence of two
symbols of modernity in the area: the Great Himalayan
National Park and the Parvati Hydro-Electric Project. The
film is a study on how local traditions negotiate with
contemporary discourses on scientific conservation and
national development.
Synopsis: This public service message, with its focus on
trees, draws attention to the interdependence between
water and forests. Its backdrop is a metaphor: that of Lord
Shiva’s matted locks actually being trees. Just as Shiva’s
locks bore the impact of the waters of the Ganga
descending from the heavens, trees bear the onslaught
of rain and help it to percolate into the earth.
Director: Sanjay Barnela
Production Company: Moving Images
Contact Details:
Mandakini Mathur
Devrai, Panchgani Co-Op Housing Society
Satara/Panchgani 412 805, Maharashtra
P: 02168-241220, M: 09422604440
Contact Details:
Anjali Khosla/Sanjay Barnela
D-3, 3425, Vasant Kunj, New Delhi 110 070
P: 011-26893384, M: 09818299212
W: www.movingimagesindia.com
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Director: Mandakini Mathur
Producer: Mandakini Mathur
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English Title: Doon Valley Ecosystem
English Title: Drought in Desert
Language: English
Duration: 30 min
Format: VHS
Format: U-Matic
Subject Focus: Countering drought in the desert
Subject Focus: Impact of limestone quarrying on
Himalayas
Synopsis: The film shows the impact of limestone
quarrying on the Himalayan ecosystem.
Contact Details:
P: 011-29955124, 29956110, 29956394; F: 011-29955879
W: www.cseindia.org
Synopsis: The film features the grim battle waged by the
people of the Thar to overcome recurrent drought and
famine. It focuses on the the traditional practices and the
new technology in this field.
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
English Title: Drosophila — The Fruit Fly
English Title: Earth Charmers
Language: English
Format: Betacam
Language: English
Subject Focus: The fruit fly’s sense of smell
Subject Focus: Traditional Indian systems in agriculture
and ecosystem management
Synopsis: This programme deals with a study on the
sense of smell of the fruit fly, and the relevance of its
findings for everyday life and future research.
Synopsis: Earth Charmers is a 13-episode series that
attempts to profile efforts by individuals, organizations and
communities to restore and popularize ecologically sound
traditional practices. Through these, the series tries to
highlight the fact that possibly these very practices have
the potential to offer solutions to not just Indian, but global
problems too. Some of the features in this series are ‘Seed
yatra in the Deccan for preservation of traditional multicropping system’; ‘Pongal, the harvest festival’; ‘Neem for
pesticide-intensive cotton crop’; ‘Water harvesting through
community initiative in Ralegan Siddhi’; ‘Emitter, a costeffective innovation in irrigation’; and ‘Narayan Reddy, the
master of herbs for tackling pests’.
Production Company: CEC
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
Directors: H. B. Muralidhara, Seema Muralidhar &
Sunayana Sadarangani
Producer: Zee Network
Contact Details:
H. B. Muralidhara
Beacon Television, A-1/103, Siddhartha Nagar, Off Western
Express Highway, Borivali (E), Mumbai
P: 022-28864761; F: 022-28845978
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English Title: Earth is Worth
Original Title: Earth is Worth
Language: English
Duration: 2 min
Format: AVI
Subject Focus: Saving the Earth from wars and
environmental decay
Synopsis: This film portrays a war zone, and a soldier
who is desperate to wipe out whatever comes in his way
— including the Earth’s natural resources and
environment. Finally, the soldier realizes the folly of his
actions: the Earth shows him that protecting nature —
and not destroying it — is the key to our survival.
Director: K. Thulasi Raman
Producer: K. Thulasi Raman
English Title: Earth Report VI: Hands On — Out
of the Woods
Original Title: Earth Report VI: Hands On — Out of the
Woods
Language: English
Duration: 24 min
Subject Focus: Community practices in conservation
Synopsis: Razing the world’s tropical forests makes no
long-term economic sense. In Out of the Woods,stories
from Africa, Latin America and South East Asia are
featured, where local communities are voluntarily
safeguarding their trees for their own welfare.
Contact Details:
K. Thulasi Raman
Quarter No. 6, 4th Street, Thimmiah Road, Barathi Nagar,
Bangalore 560 001, Karnataka
P: 080-25545623
English Title: Earth Report VI (Hands On): Pure
Geneeous
Contact Details:
P: 011-29955124, 29956110, 29956394; F: 011-29955879
W: www.cseindia.org
English Title: Earth Report VI: Paradise Regained
Original Title: Earth Report VI (Hands On): Pure
Geneeous
Language: English
Duration: 26 min
Original Title: Earth Report VI: Paradise Regained
Language: English
Duration: 26 min
Subject Focus: Community practices in conservation
Synopsis: It is estimated that over 50% of world’s tropical
forests have been lost or degraded over the last 20 years.
But are they gone forever, or is it possible to recreate a
complex ecosystem like a rainforest? On the Philippine
island of Leyte, local people are involved in an experiment
to do just that. Leyte’s natural tropical forest was cleared
for coconut plantations. But as the plantations have
become uneconomic, a German-funded project is the start
of the plan to recreate a natural tropical forest.
Synopsis: This film provides an antidote to the depressing
coverage of wildlife destruction in the world’s tropical
countries. It profiles communities from Africa, Asia and
Latin America who have their own strategies for saving
local biodiversity. They are doing it for a simple reason:
there’s more money to be made out of development
without destruction.
Subject Focus: Regenerating tropical forests
Contact Details:
P: 011-29955124, 29956110, 29956394; F: 011-29955879
W: www.cseindia.org
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Contact Details:
P: 011-29955124, 29956110, 29956394; F: 011-29955879
W: www.cseindia.org
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English Title: Earth Report VI: Timber Mafia Part-1
English Title: Easter Island: The Mystery
Original Title: Earth Report VI: Timber Mafia Part-1
Language: English
Duration: 26 min
Original Title: Easter Island: The Mystery
Language: English
Format: Betacam
Subject Focus: Timber mafia in Indonesia
Synopsis: Indonesia is home to 10% of the world’s
surviving tropical forest. In Kalimantan province on the
island of Borneo, illegal felling is going out of control,
threatening the environment and the habitat of endangered
species. Almost three-quarters of Indonesia’s timber trade
is reported to be illegal, but the problem is not confined to
South East Asia. It is estimated that 80% of the tropical
hardwood in the worldwide trade comes from illegal
sources in Indonesia and elsewhere in Asia, South
America and Africa. This film uncovers the brutal trade in
stolen timber from Indonesia that’s ending up in Europe,
USA, China, Australia and Japan. It also reveals that the
post-Suharto government in Jakarta is unable to control
hundreds of timber barons, who terrorise not only
environmental campaigners and journalists but also the
police and government ministers.
Contact Details:
P: 011-29955124, 29956110, 29956394; F: 011-29955879
W: www.cseindia.org
English Title: Earth Report VI: Timber Mafia Part-2
Original Title: Earth Report VI: Timber Mafia Part-2
Duration: 26 min
Subject Focus: Timber mafia in Indonesia
Synopsis: See previous entry.
Subject Focus: Ecological balance
Synopsis: This is a clay stop animation song about Easter
Island, near South America, which tells the story of
achieving a secure ecological balance to prevent
destruction of the earth.
Producer: Praveen Raja Chripugg
Contact Details:
Praveen Raja Chripugg
Painter, Animator & Director, 33/1A Shalom Avenue
Vidyalakshmi Street, Rajeswari Nagar, Selaiyur
Chennai 600 073, Tamil Nadu
P: 044-22275218
English Title: Eco-Dharma
Original Title: Eco-Dharma
Language: English
Duration: 30 min
Format: DVD
Subject Focus: The Bishnois of Rajasthan
Synopsis: This film tells the story of the dedication and
sacrifice of the Bishnoi community of western Rajasthan,
the oldest practising environmentalists of India to whom
the preservation of wildlife and forests is no less than a
faith.
Director: Malgorzata Skiba
(PSBT)
Contact Details:
P: 011-29955124, 29956110, 29956394; F: 011-29955879
W: www.cseindia.org
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Contact Details:
P: 011-24355941; F: 011-24353825
W: www.psbt.org
English Title: Ecological Modelling
English Title: Ecosystems and Interactions
Format: U-Matic
Language: English
Duration: 15 min
Format: 16 mm
Subject Focus: Ecological models for predicting the future
Subject Focus: Man and nature; energy cycles
Synopsis: Ecologists are often called upon to predict the
future of the earth. This programme focuses on the
mathematical and statistical models which ecologists use
in their prediction, and their validation.
Synopsis: The films demonstrates how energy moves
through a food chain and how nutrient cycles function.
Drawing together the concepts of populations and
communities, it explains how the delicate web of life can
be radically altered, particularly by the actions of man.
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
English Title: Ecology and Pollution in Wetland
Technology (CIET)
Contact Details:
P: 011-26864801, 26864802, 26864803; F: 011-26864141
W: www.ciet.nic.in
Duration: 45 min
Subject Focus: Conservation of wetlands
Contact Details:
Priyabrata Mukharji
Zilla School More, P.O. Dulmi Ralita, Pumlia 723 102, Orissa
P: 03252-225022
English Title: Eden of Hope
Language: English
Duration: 25 min
Subject Focus: Mumbai
Synopsis: This film is on the history and development of
the city of Mumbai — in view of the imbalance in nature
which the rising towers of civilization and influx of millions
into the city has occasioned. The city’s ‘lung’ is the Sanjay
Gandhi National Park, which remains in constant conflict
with the forces of development.
Producer: Bombay Natural History Society (BNHS)
Contact Details:
Road, Mumbai 400 023 India
P: 022-22821811; F: 022-22837615
W: www.bnhs.org
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English Title: Einthinayude Naalvazhikal
English Title: Environment & Bio-Diversity Part-I
Language: Malayalam
Duration: 63 min
Original Title: Environment & Bio-Diversity Part-I
Language: Hindi
Format: Betacam SP
Subject Focus: Forests and biodiversity of Kerala
Synopsis: This film unveils the beauty, vitality, richness
and variety of the forests in Kerala, which is home to two
biological hotspots: Silent Valley in central Kerala and
Agasthyakoodam in the southern part of the state. The
film presents the various conservation strategies — such
as joint forest management projects — and movements
to preserve this heritage.
Director: E. Unnikrishnan
Producer: Department of Forests and Wildlife,
Government of Kerala
Contact Details:
Principal Chief Conservator of Forests
Forest Headquarters, Thiruvananthapuram 695 014
P: 0471-2321610, 2529241; F: 0471-2338806
E: pccf@ keralaforest.org
W: www.keralaforest.org
English Title: Ek aur Nazaria — Maiti Andolan
Original Title: Ek aur Nazaria — Maiti Andolan
Language: Hindi
Format: Betacam
Subject Focus: Conservation in Uttarakhand and the Maiti
movement
Synopsis: This is part of a series called Ek aur Nazaria,
about alternative views taken by individuals on social
issues. The episode Maiti Andolan is about the alternative
view of Kalyan Singh Rawat, who focused on the problem
of decreasing forest cover and rapid denudation of
mountains in the Uttarakhand region. Rawat’s views and
actions resulted in the Maiti Andolan, which has since
become a mass movement.
Producer: Zee News, Zee Telefims Ltd.
Contact Details:
Zee News, Zee Telefims Ltd.
FC-19, Sector 16A, Noida 201 301, Uttar Pradesh
P: 0120-24511064-78; F: 0120-24515240
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Subject Focus: Biodiversity and the need for its
conservation
Synopsis: This film is an attempt to sensitize people
towards the urgent need for protection and conservation
of our biodiversity. It would take hundreds of years to
restore what we have destroyed; but if we don’t start now,
it might be too late to save planet.
Director: Mike H. Pandey
Producer: NOC-YCA, Department of Science and
Technology (DST), Govt. of India
Production Company: Riverbank Studios
Contact Details:
NOC-YCA, Department of Science and Technology (DST),
Government of India
306, Vigyan Sadan, Sector X, R K Puram, New Delhi 110 022
P: 011-26195312-13; F: 011-26195312
W: www.ysa2004.org
English Title: Environment & Bio-Diversity Part-II
Original Title: Environment & Bio-Diversity Part-II
Language: Hindi
Format: Betacam SP
Subject Focus: Biodiversity and its conservation
Synopsis: This film highlights the importance of all life forms,
their interactions with each other and with the rest of the
environment, and the role of biodiversity as a source of a
large number of products and services that sustain our lives.
Technology (DST), Govt. of India
Production Company: Riverbank Studios
Contact Details:
Government of India
P: 011-26195312-13; F: 011-26195312
W: www.ysa2004.org
English Title:
(Coastal Elusion)
Environmental
Science
English Title: Facing a Battle for Survival
Format: Betacam
Language: English
Format: Betacam
Subject Focus: Coastal ecosystems
Subject Focus: The environmental crisis in the Thar
Synopsis: The life and environment of coastal ecosystems
are controlled by various abiotic and biotic factors. Coasts
are dynamic environments, involving mass and energy
transFormations of waves and currents. Shorelines are
subjected to both continental and oceanic processes. Dr.
A. Balasubramanian of the University of Mysore, explains
the geomorphology of coasts, causes of erosion and its
impact on the environment.
Synopsis: The Thar is the most populous desert in the
world. The biodiversity of this arid region is influenced by
man, his livestock and his agricultural activities, and
traditional desert flora and fauna is slowly giving way to
species which are unsuited to its ecology.
Production Company: AMYS
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
English Title: Fate of 1988 National Forest Policy
English Title: Expedition to an Ancient Jungle
Date/Month/Year of Production: October 1998
Format: Betacam
Language: English
Subject Focus: India’s forest policy
Subject Focus: The Eturu Nagaram Wildlife Sanctuary,
India
Synopsis: The Eturu Nagaram Wildlife Sanctuary in India
houses some of the few remaining ancient forests in the
country. This is a place which has yielded stone age tools
and fossils. Now, human encroachments and unchecked
exploitation of natural resources are threatening its very
existence.
Synopsis: This film explains how India’s forest policy has
been implemented and the amendemnts made to make it
more people-oriented.
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
Director: G. Sankar
Producer: Andhra Pradesh Forest Department
Contact Details:
Mr. G. Shankar
Shankar Films, Plot No. 2, Venkatapuram Colony, Walker
Town, Secunderbad 500 025, Andra Pradesh
P: 040-750 2943
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English Title: Fate of the Forests
English Title: Finding the Link
Original Title: Fate of the Forests
Language: English
Duration: 26 min
Subject Focus: The Nagarahole National Park
Subject Focus: The use of forests
Synopsis: For over 20 years, the shrinkage of the world’s
tropical forests has been at the forefront of environmental
concerns. Yet the forests continue to be cleared. The key
word is ‘cleared’ for — as the film finds — while commercial
logging contributes to deforestation in the tropics, terms
like ‘destruction’ and ‘devastation’ are too simple. Forests
have always been used by local people. Stories from Peru
and Indonesia show how forest ‘farmers’ ingeniously
imitate the natural productivity of the rainforest. In Uganda,
agro-forestry techniques are helping to keep a watershed
reserve intact. Guyana’s president argues that timber
concessions have been made to Asian companies to pay
off Guyana’s huge national debt.
Contact Details:
P: 011-29955124, 29956110, 29956394; F: 011-29955879
W: www.cseindia.org
Director: Krupakar Senai
Producer: Karnataka Forest Department
Contact Details:
Conservator of Forests (Wildlife), Karnataka Forest
Department, Aranyabhavana, 2nd Floor, Malleswaram 18th
Crs., Bangalore 560 003, Karnataka
E: [email protected] /[email protected]
English Title: Fire of the Forest
Original Title: Fire of the Forest
Language: Chhattisgarhi
Director: Tejendra Tamrakar
Contact Details:
P: 011-26537456/26521882; F: 011-26512347
English Title: Fires in National Park — A Case
Study
English Title: Fighting for a Future
Format: U-Matic
Language: English
Duration: 52 min
Format: DVD
Subject Focus: Forest fires
Subject Focus: Natural disaster management strategies
Synopsis: This programme, filmed on location in Ethiopia,
India, China and Botswana, examines strategies to combat
natural disasters.
Synopsis: In this programme, Mark S. Boyce talks about
fires in National Parks with special reference to the fire of
1988 in the Yellowstone National Park. He explains the
impacts of such fires on wildlife and the complex relation
between fires, wildlife and vegetation.
Director: Octavio Bezerra
Producer: Octavio Bezerra
Production Company: UNEP/Cinematografics/BBC
Contact Details:
P: 011-26134103, 26890380; F: 011-26130817
W: www.devalt.org
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Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
English Title: Fisheries-5 (Culture Fisheries)
English Title: Forest
Language: English
Format: Betacam
Original Title: Dhanwa Lama
Language: Hindi
Duration: 12 min
Format: Betacam
Subject Focus: Culture fisheries
Synopsis: Culture fishery or aqua culturing is like
agriculture, and aims at getting increased fish production
to improve the quality of fish. It can be done on land.
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
English Title: Fisheries-6 (Fisheries-Port —
Ratnagiri)
Language: English
Duration: 12 min
Format: Betacam
Subject Focus: The fishing port of Ratnagiri
Synopsis: In this episode of the fisheries series, the focus
is on the fishing port of Ratnagiri. In the process, the
programme also provides information on the fishing
industry, its spread, and its scope.
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
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Synopsis: The film tells the story of two small boys who
are rescued from a landslide by a folk character called
‘Dhanwa Lama’. The children learn about the importance
of trees from this character, and realise how disastrous
deforestation can be.
Producer: Children’s Film Society
Contact Details:
Children’s Film Society, India
Films Division Complex, 24, Dr.G.Deshmukh Marg
Mumbai 400 026
P: 022-23526798, 23516136
F: 022-23522610
W: www.cfsindia.org
English Title: Forest Fires: Prevention & Control
Original Title: Forest Fires: Prevention & Control
Language: English
Duration: 22 min
Format: 35 mm
Subject Focus: Forest fires and their control
Synopsis: This film looks at the reasons behind forest
fires and covers the entire range of forest fire control
programmes in use.
Producer: Films Division
Contact Details:
Films Division, Ministry of Information & Broadcasting
Government of India
P: 022-23515422, 23513176, 23516931, 23513633
F: 022-23515308, 23511008
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English Title: Forest Policy ‘88
Duration: 13 min
Format: U-Matic
English
Title:
Forestry
(Forest Policies and Man)
in
India-7
Format: Betacam
Subject Focus: Indian Forest Policy
Subject Focus: Community management of forests
Synopsis: The film provides a brief history of the evolution
of the forest policy in India, and the best roadmaps for
achieving the goals set in the policy resolution.
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
English Title: Forest Settlements in Gir
Format: U-Matic
Synopsis: Communities and forest authorities have
always had a massive communication gap between them,
which has been largely nurtured by the notion that the
rural poor are responsible for destroying our forests. The
film explores the history of this alienation, in the
perspective of the new forest policy which is trying to
involve the people in forest management.
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
English Title: Forests
Subject Focus: Forest settlements of India
Synopsis: Forest settlements are common all over India;
they are established for managing forest-related work like
raising plantations, conserving soil, extinguishing forest
fires etc. This programme looks at the forest settlements
in Gir, their problems, and the steps being taken by the
forest department to solve them.
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
Language: English
Duration: 3 capsules, 4.5 min each
Subject Focus: Jute, biodiversity and bamboo
Synopsis: These three Terraview capsules highlight a
tribal community’s efforts at preserving bamboo, a
precious resource which is under threat due to demand
from the paper industry; the importance of and strategies
to preserve India’s biodiversity; and experiments to use
jute as an environment-friendly replacement for plastic
and wood packaging.
Director: Tata Energy Reseach Institute (TERI)
Contact Details:
P: 011-24682100, 41504900; F: 011-24682144, 24682145
W: www.teriin.org
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English Title: Forests — The Last Stand
English Title: Forests in Peril-1
Original Title: Forests — The Last Stand
Language: English
Duration: 26 min
Format: U-Matic
Subject Focus: Sustainable management of forests
Synopsis: The programme shows the various causes and
impacts of deforestation, and how important it has become
for us to save our forests.
Synopsis: Two-thirds of the earth’s virgin forests have
been wiped out. This Earth Report looks at forestry
management around the world and the attempts to make
it more sustainable. In Hands On, reports from Mexico
talk about intermediate technology developing tractors
adapted to local loggers’ needs.
Contact Details:
P: 011-29955124, 29956110, 29956394; F: 011-29955879
W: www.cseindia.org
English Title: Forests & Us
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
Format: U-Matic
Subject Focus: Forests
Format: Betacam
Synopsis: This part of the series is on forest types and
their biomass. It also discusses various indigenous
methods of protecting forests used by tribals and people
living among mountains.
Synopsis: This film — which also features Sunderlal
Bahuguna — discusses the importance of forests for the
survival of the earth.
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
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English Title: Forests of the Gods
Format: U-Matic
Language: English
Subject Focus: Destruction of forests
Subject Focus: The sacred groves of Kerala
Synopsis: The film exposes the role man has played in
destroying our forests, particularly in India.
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
Synopsis: This is a documentary on the temple groves of
Kerala, known as Kavus. The filmmakers enter the grove
of Iringole, listen to folk legends of disasters that have
befallen those who dared violate the sanctity of the forest,
witness the practice of serpent worship, and learn about
the ecological significance of these groves. They also
capture the spectacular teyyam ritual dance, performed
annually in many sacred groves of north Kerala, during
which the spirit of the deity is believed to visit the kavu for
a brief while in the incarnation of the performer.
English Title: Forests of Reverence
Director: Christopher Rego
Producer: Zee Telefilms
Original Title: Forests of Reverence
Language: English
Format: DV CAM
Subject Focus: Sacred groves
Synopsis: Thousands of sacred forests are spread across
India. Revered by local communities, these sacred groves
have been preserved for generations and are home to
many rare and endangered plant and animal species.
Today, many of these groves are fading away because of
increasing modernization. The film tells the story of two
native communities in Karnataka and Maharashtra, who
have withstood the forces of the modern world to protect
their faith and their forests.
Director: Rishu Nigam
Production Company: The Energy Resource
Institute (TERI)
& Cooperation
Contact Details:
P: 011-24682100, 41504900; F: 011-24682144, 24682145
W: www.teriin.org
Contact Details:
Christopher Rego
Ultra Film and Video, A-10, Sagar Sanjog, 50/C, JP Road,
Versova, Mumbai 400 061
P: 022-26360793; F: 022-26312861
English Title: Forgotten Villages
Original Title: Forgotten Villages
Language: English (conversations in Kannada with
English subtitles)
Format: Betacam
Subject Focus: Resettlement of villagers from the Bhadra
Tiger Reserve, Karnataka
Synopsis: Thirty kilometres from the town of Chikmagalur
in Karnataka lies the Bhadra Tiger Reserve. Besides
wildlife, the reserve holds 16 hamlets, whose inhabitants
are mostly peasants and forest-produce gatherers. The
film documents the process of resettlement of these
people: the stress in this process is on human welfare
and its end result is effective conservation of a rich
biodiversity, as well as protecting the catchments of the
Bhadra river.
Producer: Krupakar Senani Features
Contact Details:
Krupakar Senani Features
No. 1, 12th Cross, V. V. Mohalla, Mysore, Karnataka 570 002
P: 0821-2519211
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English Title: Ghonsla
English Title: Green Medicines
Language: Hindi
Duration: 10 min
Language: English
Duration: 52 min
Format: DVD
Subject Focus: Conservation of medicinal plants
Subject Focus: Tree felling and conservation
Synopsis: The story begins with children of a
neighbourhood rescuing a young bird that had fallen from
its nest and putting it back in its home in the trees. But
they find out that a large number of such trees were being
axed down by the father of one among them. So they get
together to persuade their elders not to cut the trees for
temporary financial gains.
Director: S. Nazim Hussain
Producer: S. Nazim Hussain
Contact Details:
The Secretary
New Delhi - 110 003
P: 91-11-2436 1896, 2436 0721
Synopsis: Tropical rainforests are home to thousands of
medicinal plant species. Between 70-90% of the world’s
rural population relies on traditional herbal medicines for
primary healthcare. Shot in Thailand, Western Samoa,
Borneo, Costa Rica, Papua New Guinea and Brazil, the
film shows the different initiatives being taken to conserve
and promote traditional knowledge of plant-based
medicines.
Production Company: Scandinature Films
Contact Details:
P: 011-26134103, 26890380; F: 011-26130817
W: www.devalt.org
English Title: Green Signals – The Environment
in India
English Title: Grassroots
Original Title: Grassroots
Language: English
Duration: 30 min
Format: Betacam
Subject Focus: Individual grassroot initiatives to preserve
environment and wildlife
Original Title: Green Signals – The Environment in India
Language: English (with English subtitles; dubbed in
English)
Format: Digital beta
Subject Focus: India’s contribution in environment
protection and conservation of natural resources
Synopsis: The programme features stories of ordinary
people who, with their sheer determination and initiative,
managed to bring about change. It contains five stories
— those of Rattan Chand of Chamba, Laxman Singh of
Rajasthan, the Van Suraksha Samiti, the Dana-Paani
Yojana and the Sacred Forest.
Synopsis: With only 2.4% of the world’s land area, India
accounts for as much as 7.31% of the global fauna. Not
surprisingly, it is recognized as one of the 12 mega-diverse
countries in the world. The film travels to various parts of
the country and outlines some important environmental
initiatives that clearly suggest that economic growth and
environmental protection are not opposed to each other.
Producer: Umesh Aggarwal
Commissioning Agency: Doordarshan India
Directors: Partha Sarkar & Raman Mann
Producer: Navtej Sarna, Joint Secretary (XP)
Contact Details:
News & Entertainment Television
994, 1st Floor, Laxmi Commercial Complex, Nehru Road,
Arjun Nagar, Kotla Mubarakpur, New Delhi 110 003
P: 011-24644494/24658384; F: 011-24631408
Contact Details:
Ministry of External Affairs
XP Division, Shashtri Bhavan, New Delhi 110 001
P: 011-23383371; F: 011-23384319
W: www.mea.gov.in
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English Title: Green Warriors of Thar
English Title: Greening the Mining Mess
Original Title: Green Warriors of Thar
Language: English
Language: English
Subject Focus: The Bishnois of Rajasthan
Subject Focus: Afforestation programmes on overburden
of open cast mines; reclamation practices
Synopsis: Amidst the arid Thar desert, where survival itself
is tough, there exists a community which reveres nature
in all its forms and can even kill to protect an animal or
tree. This film takes you to the Bishnois of western
Rajasthan, probably the world’s first conservationists.
Institute (TERI)
Commissioning Agency: Air India
Contact Details:
P: 011-24682100, 41504900; F: 011-24682144, 24682145
W: www.teriin.org
Synopsis: This film examines an afforestation effort
carried out on land left over after open-cast coal mining in
West Bengal. The Social Forestry Division of Durgapur
has procured fallow land from the Eastern Coalfield Limited
and Bharat Coking Coal Limited, and has planted trees
on these overburdens. The attempt has led to a revival of
greenery on these erstwhile desolate stretches.
Director: Ashijit Ganguli, Educational Research Centre,
Kolkata
Contact Details:
Ashijit Ganguly
50, Circus Avenue, Kolkata 700 017, West Bengal
P: 033-2474869
English Title: Greening the Waste Land
English Title: Greening the Char
Language: English
Duration: 30 min
Format: Betacam
Subject Focus: Wasteland development
Subject Focus: Reforesting a river bank in Assam
Synopsis: Initiatives to protect the environment can
emerge from all kinds of sources. In Dibrugarh, Assam,
the government and the people have joined hands in an
unusual collaboration to green the char, the long bank of
the Brahmaputra river.
Contact Details:
P: 011-26134103, 26890380; F: 011-26130817
W: www.devalt.org
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Synopsis: This programme deals about the restoration
of environment and ecological balance by greening
degraded and waste.
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
English Title: Greenline and Greening of Delhi
English Title: Habitat
Language: English
Duration: 30 min
Format: Betacam
Subject Focus: Corporate contribution to environmental
revival
Synopsis: Greenline, launched in 1992, is providing an
excellent outlet and platform to industrial houses to
demonstrate their ‘green thinking’ by becoming sponsors
for planting trees and maintaining greenery on roadsides,
parks and roundabouts. In return, Greenline allocates
various lengths and stretches of roads for strategic
advertising.
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
English Title: Halting the Fires
Contact Details:
P: 011-26134103, 26890380; F: 011-26130817
W: www.devalt.org
English Title: Grow More & More Trees
Original Title: Grow More & More Trees
Language: English
Duration: 16 min
Format: 35 mm
Subject Focus: Trees and forests
Synopsis: The film emphasizes the importance of trees
in general, examines social forestry and farm forestry, and
highlights the activities of the forest department.
Contact Details:
Government of India
P: 022-23515422, 23513176, 23516931, 23513633
F: 022-23515308, 23511008
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Language: English
Duration: 53 min
Format: DVD
Subject Focus: Environmental crisis in the Amazon
Synopsis: In 1964, Brazil’s military government
announced Operation Amazon — a project intended to
“flood the Amazon with civilization” by building new roads,
hydroelectric dams and cities, and developing mines and
cattle ranches in the Amazon rainforest. In this film, Octavio
Bezerra shows how cattle ranchers, industrialists and
multinationals were encouraged to clear the forest with
huge subsidies and tax concessions. Todate, 10% of the
Amazon has been cleared, with tax incentives and cash
grants totaling US $6 billion. Each year, for the last three
years, some eight million hectares of forest have gone up
in smoke. Halting the Fires looks at the disastrous legacy
of Brazil’s development policy for the Amazon, current
attempts to stop the burning of the forest – and alternative
ways of exploiting the resources of the world’s greatest
rainforest.
Director: Octavio Bezerra
Producer: Herbie Girardet
Production Company: Nexus TV, Channel Four
Contact Details:
P: 011-26134103, 26890380; F: 011-26130817
W: www.devalt.org
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English Title: Hands On — Out of the Forest
English Title: How Plants Help Us?
Original Title: Hands On — Out of the Forest
Language: English
Duration: 24 min
Language: English
Duration: 11 min
Format: 16 mm
Subject Focus: Environmentally sound forest products
Synopsis: While most media images dwell on forest fires,
indiscriminate logging and the resulting loss of species,
Out of the Forest checks out a range of environmentally
sound forest products. Not only are the products good for
the trees, but they’re also good for the pockets of the forestdwellers — generating jobs in regions where there are
few other ways to earn money.
Contact Details:
P: 011-29955124, 29956110, 29956394; F: 011-29955879
W: www.cseindia.org
Subject Focus: Plants and what they give us
Synopsis: This film shows how we are dependent upon
plants for food, clothing, wood, paper, rubber and many
other common articles of importance in our daily lives.
Technology (CIET)
Contact Details:
P: 011-26864801, 26864802, 26864803; F: 011-26864141
W: www.ciet.nic.in
English Title: Hymn of Herbs
English Title: Healers for All Reasons
Original Title: Healers for All Reasons
Language: English, Hindi and Gujarati (with English
subtitles)
Duration: 28 min
Format: DV CAM
Subject Focus: Village healers and traditional medicinal
knowledge
Synopsis: Healers for All Reasons is a portrait of Rehmat
Khan Solanki and Karimbhai Sumra – two village healers
of Gujarat, whose lives and work embody respect for
biodiversity, Gandhian selfless service and promotion of
communal harmony at the grassroots. Rehmat Khan
Solanki of Chur village uses traditional and eco-friendly
methods to cure animals, while Karimbhai Sumra of
Virampur village uses herbs to treat humans as well as
animals. He has also gone to the extent of creating a forest
of 12,000 plant varieties that have great medicinal value.
Director: Vijay S. Jodha
Producers: Prasar Bharati Corporation and Public Service
Broadcasting Trust (PSBT)
Production Company: Prasar Bharati Corporation and
Contact Details:
Vijay S. Jodha
E-58, II Floor, G K-I Enclave, New Delhi 110 048
M: 9810068930; F: 011-26241559
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Original Title: Onshadi Sukhtam
Duration: 27 min
Subject Focus: Medicinal plants and their conservation
Synopsis: Sustainability of biological diversity can be
ensured only if traditional knowledge is also sustained
and perpetuated along with medicinal plant conservation.
Based on this premise, this documentary reiterates the
need for conservation.
Producer: Kerala Agriculture University
Contact Details:
Manoj Krishnan P.
P: 0471-2330081; M: 09447886486
F: 0471-2333735, 2328659
W: www.cdit.org
English Title: In the Jungles of Rajasthan
Original Title: In the Jungles of Rajasthan
Language: English
Duration: 21 min
Format: 35 mm
English Title: Invocations to the Mountain
Goddess
Subject Focus: Rajasthan’s forests and wildlife
Original Title: Invocations to the Mountain Goddess
Duration: 1 hr 3 min 50 sec
Format: DV, Beta SP
Synopsis: The film documents the reserved forests and
sanctuaries of Rajasthan and the animals that abound in
them.
Subject Focus: Biosphere reserve conservation and
management in the Nanda Devi Biosphere Reserve; parkpeople conflict
Contact Details:
Government of India
24, Dr. G. Deshmukh Marg, Mumbai 400 026, Maharashtra
P: 022-23515422, 23513176, 23516931, 23513633
F: 022-23515308, 23511008
English Title: Indonesia: Palm Oil, Primates and
Pyromania
Original Title: Indonesia: Palm Oil, Primates and
Pyromania
Language: English
Duration: 26 min
Subject Focus: Forest fires of Indonesia
Synopsis: At the end of 1997, forest fires in Indonesia
blanketed much of the country and its neighbours in South
East Asia in a choking haze. This documentary
investigates the causes of the catastrophe and asks if the
concern it catalysed will be translated into action to save
Indonesia’s remaining tropical forests.
Synopsis: The Niti valley in the Garhwal Himalayas has
been declared a protected area by the government for
conserving its natural biodiversity. This has been a setback
for the pastoral Bhotiya community, which lives in mountain
settlements scattered throughout the Nanda Devi
Biosphere Reserve. Deprived by new laws of access to
the alpine pastures where their flocks once grazed, this
tribe has been forced to sell off the livestock that formed
the bedrock of its traditional way of life. Ironically, the
Bhotiyas are not opposed to the conservation ethic itself
– in fact, it was from their villages that the famous Chipko
movement began.
Award, CMS VATAVARAN 2005 in Forest for Life Category
Director: Christopher Rego
Producer: Christopher Rego
Production Company: Ultra Film and Video
Contact Details:
Christopher Rego
Ultra Film and Video, A-10, Sagar Sanjog, 50/C, J P Road
Versova, Mumbai 400 061
P: 022-26360793/26321629, M: 09820426048
Director: Peter Cannon
Contact Details:
P: 011-29955124, 29956110, 29956394; F: 011-29955879
W: www.cseindia.org
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English Title: Irony
English Title: Jack aur Jill ki Kahani
Original Title: Irony
Language: No spoken Language (with music and sound
effects)
Duration: 50 sec
Format: Computer-generated animation
Language: Hindi
Subject Focus: Saving trees
Synopsis: The movie starts with a view of a sylvan forest,
whose peace is shattered by the sounds of tree felling.
The chirping of birds gives way to industrial sounds. The
movie underlines the need to look out for alternate ways
in awareness generation, particularly on environmental
issues.
Award, CMS VATAVARAN 2005 in Animation Category
Director: R. Sathya Narayanan
Producer: Ramanujam Foundation
Production Company: Ramanujam Foundation
Contact Details:
R. Sathya Narayan
27, III Street, Kumaran Colony, Vadapalani, Chennai 600 026
Tamil Nadu
P: 044-55439240, M: 09841298729
Subject Focus: Environmental degradation
Synopsis: This is a programme on environmental
degradation, conveyed through graphics, animated visuals
and nursery rhymes.
Director: P. K. Sai Prakash
Producer: Audio Visual Research Centre (AVRC)
Contact Details:
Audio Visual Research Centre (AVRC)
Osmania University, Hyderabad 500 007, Andhra Pradesh
P: 040-7098659
English Title: Jal, Jungle aur Jeevan
Original Title: Jal, Jungle aur Jeevan
Language: Hindi
Duration: 12 min
Format: Betacam SP
Subject Focus: Indigenous management of resources
in Rajasthan
English Title: It’s Our Future Too
Language: English
Duration: 30 min
Subject Focus: Protected areas
Synopsis: This film on conservation covers the problems
and prospects of three protected areas: the Sanjay Gandhi
National Park in Mumbai, the Keoladeo National Park in
Rajasthan and Mudumalai Wildlife Sanctuary in Tamil
Nadu. The film also provides an introduction to the Bombay
Natural History Society and its activities.
Producer: Bombay Natural History Society (BNHS)
Contact Details:
Road, Mumbai 400 023 India
P: 022-22821811; F: 022-22837615
W: www.bnhs.org
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Synopsis: The tribes of southern Rajasthan’s Aravalli
region — though illiterate — are repositories of immense
knowledge on the region’s resources — its plants, forests
and water. The practice of sustainable use of these
resources has been in vogue for years. The message is
reinforced through folk festivals like the Gavri, when the
use of certain endangered vegetables is prohibited.
Producer: Manohar Lalas
Production Company: Educational Multimedia Research
Centre
Contact Details:
Educational Multimedia Research Centre (EMRC)
Faculty of Engg, JNV University, Jodhpur, Rajasthan
P: 0291-2513734; F: 0291-2513733
English Title: Joint Forest Management
Duration: 21 min
Format: Betacam
Subject Focus: JFM and participatory management of
resources
Synopsis: In 1970, Dr. Ajit Kumar Banerjee, a forest officer
in West Bengal, recognized the symbiotic relationship
between people and forests and the need to tap it for
managing resources: he suggested alliances with local
user communities, and started experimenting at Arabari,
in the district of Midnapore. In 1990, the government
ordered other state governments to adopt the idea, which
was referred to as joint forest management or JFM.
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
English Title: Jungle Pharmacy
English Title: Jungle Tales: Surviving
Development in Uttara Kannada
Language: English
Duration: 52 min
Subject Focus: Environmental issues in Uttara Kannada
Synopsis: Uttara Kannada in Karnataka is one of the most
densely forested districts in India. Development projects
in the district have displaced one out of its every 10
inhabitants. The film examines the livelihood and survival
issues of the forest-dependent communities, against the
backdrop of the destruction of a fragile and versatile
ecosystem in the Western Ghats region, and state
interventions towards joint forest management.
Directors: K. P. Jayasankar, Anjali Monteiro
Producer: Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS)
Contact Details:
Unit for Media Communication, Tata Institute of Social
Sciences (TISS)
Deonar, Mumbai 400 088
P: 022-55632289; F: 022-5562912
Language: English
Duration: 53 min
Format: DVD
English Title: Kahani Peepal Wali Gali ki
Subject Focus: Medicinal plants and their sustainable
use
Synopsis: Over a quarter of Western medicines today
contain plant toxins — half of which come from tropical forest
species. Forest plants have been the source of some of the
most effective drugs in the history of pharmacology, but so
far only 2% of forest flora has been screened for its
pharmaceutical potential. Jungle Pharmacy looks at research
into the commercial potential of plant remedies in Brazil and
the United States, and explores the traditional knowledge of
the shaman, the tribal healers of Peru and Brazil who use
plant remedies to cure a variety of ills. The anthropologist
Dr. Darrell Posey believes Indians have developed a perfect
model for sustainable development, managing the forest in
a way that actually increases its biological diversity.
Producer: Herbie Girardet
Production Company: Central TV, TVE, Better World
Society
Contact Details:
P: 011-26134103, 26890380; F: 011-26130817
W: www.devalt.org
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Original Title: Kahani Peepal Wali Gali ki
Language: Hindi
Duration: 50 sec
Format: DVC
Subject Focus: Environment and trees making way for
urbanization
Synopsis: The film is based on a true story. The Pipal
Waali Gali is no different from any other alley or smalltown neighbourhood. If you visit the historical city of Jaipur,
you will find it in one of the city’s numerous meandering
lanes. The film covers a period of 50 years, over which
the pipal tree has been slowly, but surely mowed down to
make way for modern conveniences. It depicts how
mercilessly the environment has been butchered in the
name of progress.
Producer: Zee News, Zee Telefims Ltd.
Contact Details:
Zee News, Zee Telefims Ltd.
FC-19, Sector 16A, Noida, Uttar Pradesh 201 301
P: 0120-24511064-78; F: 0120-24515240
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English Title: Kaise Aag
English Title: Kanha – Protecting a Paradise
Original Title: Kaise Aag
Language: Hindi
Duration: 05 mins
Original Title: Kanha – Protecting a Paradise
Language: English
Duration: 17 min, 30 sec
Format: Mini DV
Synopsis: The film highlights the majestic deciduous tree
– Chinar, the very symbol of Kashmir. Come autumn and
the entire valley is aflame with hues of reds and orange the beauty of the Chinar is seen to be believed. Woven
intrinsically in to the psyche of the valley people, mighty
Chinar unfortunately is on the verge of disappearance due
to illegal felling.
Director: Rajesh Jhala
Contact Details:
Rajesh Jhala
M: 9811011685
English Title: Kalpavriksha — Legacy of Forests
Original Title: Kalpavriksha — Legacy of Forests
Language: English
Format: Betacam
Subject Focus: Medicinal plants and the need for
integration of tribal wisdom with modern science
Synopsis: This film traces the evolution of the use of
medicinal plants and tribal wisdom in India to show how,
historically and culturally, they have been an integral part
of India. About 80% of the developing world still relies on
age-old medicinal practices based on the curative
properties of plants. Today, the modern world too is
returning to these traditional practices.
Awards Received by the Film: ‘Silver Tree Award’ CMS
VATAVARAN 2003
Producer: Mike H. Pandey
Commissioning Agency: UNESCO
Contact Details:
River Bank Studios, C-18, Chirag Enclave, New Delhi 110 048
P: 011-26216508; M: 9810029247; F: 011-26216508
E: [email protected], [email protected];
[email protected], [email protected]
W: www.riverbankstudios.com
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Subject Focus: The role of forest guards in protecting
wildlife reserves and the hardships they face
Synopsis: Kanha National Park, in Madhya Pradesh, is
one of the most well known Project Tiger reserves in India.
It is a veritable wildlife paradise, visited by about 50,000
people every year. The reserve’s star attractions are its
tigers. But what does it take to protect Kanha’s tigers and
other wildlife? In a country of one billion people and
innumerable pressures, how does a reserve like Kanha
manage to thrive?
Director: Shekar Dattatri
Producer: Shekar Dattatri
Production Company: Shekar Dattatri
Contact Details:
Shekar Dattatri
Plot No. 40, Door No. 11, 3rd East Street, Thiruvanmiyur,
P: 044-24415744, 2491 4802; M: 9841015997
F: 044-2491 0910, 24918747
W: www.shekardattatri.com
English Title: Kanha National Park
Language: Hindi
Subject Focus: Kanha National Park
Synopsis: This is a documentary on Kanha National Park
in Madhya Pradesh and its wildlife.
Producer: Usha Natula
Contact Details:
P: 011-26864801, 26864802, 26864803; F: 011-26864141
W: www.ciet.nic.in
English Title: Kareem and his Forest
English Title: Kerala: A Green Chronicle
Original Title: Kareem and his Forest
Language: English
Format: Betacam SP
Original Title: Einthinayude Naalvazhikal
Language: Malayalam
Duration: 1 hr 3 min
Format: Betacam SP
Subject Focus: Abdul Kareem’s initiative in Kasaragod,
Kerala
Subject Focus: The forests of Kerala
Synopsis: In Kasaragod, Kerala, drinking water is scarce
everywhere except in the village of Puliyamkulam —
thanks to the sustained efforts of Mr. Abdul Kareem, who
has raised and maintained a forest here. Twenty-five years
ago, he purchased 32 acres of barren land, planted
saplings of wild trees and nursed them. What was once a
barren land, metamorphosed into a deciduous forest. This
turned the soil fertile and increased its water-retention
capacity.
Director: Abdu Raoof, A. I.
Producer: Abdu Raoof, A. I.
Contact Details:
University of Calicut, Malappuram 673 635, Kerala
P: 0494-2401143, M: 09847292788; F: 0494-2401143
Synopsis: This film unveils the beauty, vitality, richness
and variety of the forests of Kerala. Kerala is home to two
biological hotspots which are repositories of endangered
flora and fauna: Silent Valley in the centre of the state
and Agasthyakoodam in south Kerala. The film documents
attempts towards conservation of forests, such as the Joint
Forest Management projects.
Producer: Department of Forests and Widllife
Contact Details:
Manoj Krishnan P.
C-DIT, Gorki Bhavan, Vanross Junction, Thiruvananthapuram
695 034, Kerala
P: 0471-2330081; M: 09447886486
F: 0471-2333735, 2328659
W: www.cdit.org
English Title: Khajoor
Language: Hindi
Duration: 16 min
Subject Focus: Date palm
Synopsis: Starting with a look at trees mentioned in
various Indian scriptures and ancient literature, the
programme moves to the date palm (khajoor) and its
medicinal properties.
Contact Details:
National Council of Education Research and Training, (NCERT)
NIET, Chacha Nehru Bhawan, Sri Aurobindo Marg
New Delhi 110 016
P: 011-26864801, 26864802, 26864803
F: 011-26864141
W: http://www.ciet.nic.in/welcome
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English Title: Know Their Land
English Title: Latvia’s Rich Wetlands
Original Title: Know Their Land
Format: Betacam SP
Language: English
Duration: 50 min
Format: DVD
Subject Focus: Management and revival of natural
resources and wastelands
Synopsis: Latvia, on the eastern edge of the Baltic Sea,
boasts of a wide diversity of habitats and wildlife — whitebacked woodpeckers, black and white storks, otters,
beavers, lynx and wolves. Thousands of birds and bats
stop over at Lake Pape, in the north, on their annual
migration route south. But this rich biodiversity is now
under threat as Latvia begins to introduce new farming
practices to develop its economy. The film shows how
drainage ditches in wetlands are being widened and the
marshes are starting to dry up.
Synopsis: The film focuses on issues of degradation of
natural resources and their revival. The efforts of the
Society for Promotion of Wastelands Development
(SPWD), an NGO engaged in halting and reversing
degradation, have been showcased. The film also holds
up some success stories — such as the development of
pastures and joint forest management with local tribal
communities in Sabarkantha, Chittaurgarh and Udaipur.
Another case study that finds a mention is that of Dalion
ka Dagadia (Friends of Trees), a local group in Tehri
Garhwal, which has turned the practice of girls in the region
planting a tree before their wedding, into a ritual.
Director: Faiyaz Dilbar
Producer: Faiyaz Dilbar
Production Company: Studio Nine
Contact Details:
Faiyaz Dilbar
Producer/Proprietor, Studio Nine, 323 D, Shipra Suncity,
Indirapuram, Ghaziabad 201 010, Uttar Pradesh
P: 95120-2912026, M: 9811922521
English Title: Kudrat ki Den
Original Title: Kudrat ki Den
Language: Hindi
Duration: 20 sec
Format: Betacam SP
Synopsis: This PSM conveys the message that nature is
the basis of our existence and we have to protect it.
Director: Naazish Hussaini
Technology (DST), Government of India
Production Company: Tassavur Films Pvt. Ltd.
Contact Details:
Government of India
P: 011-26195312-13; F: 011-26195312
W: www.ysa2004.org
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Subject Focus: Environment vs development in Latvia
Director: Anders Gissla
Producer: Anders Gissla
Production Company: Scandinavian Films
Contact Details:
P: 011-26134103, 26890380; F: 011-26130817
W: www.devalt.org
English Title: Learning from Nature-3
(Serene Supremacy)
Original Title: Learning from Nature-3 (Serene
Supremacy)
Language: English
Duration: 17 min
Format: U-Matic
Subject Focus: Ecology of the Little Rann of Kutch
Synopsis: The programme documents the ecology of the
Little Rann of Kutch. Though not a true desert, the Little
Rann is a vast desolate area with a unique ecosystem.
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
English Title: Learning to Dream Again
English Title: Lecture Series on Environmental
Science (Ecology of Terrestrial Habitat)
Original Title: Learning to Dream Again
Duration: 22 min
Format: DV CAM
Language: English
Duration: 18 min
Format: Betacam
Subject Focus: Joint forest management
Subject Focus: Terrestrial ecology
Synopsis: The film traces the relationship communities
have with their forests. Numerous stories from various
parts of India underline the fact that forests cannot be
saved by force and regulations. The way out is to involve
local people to protect and nurture them.
Synopsis: This lecture-based programme covers topics
like the limiting factors of terrestrial life, terrestrial
communities, types of terrestrial ecosystems, forest biome
and some extreme terrestrial environments.
(TERI)
& Cooperation
Contact Details:
Darbari Seth Block, IHC Complex, New Delhi 110 003
P: 011-24682100; F: 011-24682144, 24682145
W: www.teriin.org
English Title: Leave Nature Alone
Language: English
Format: U-Matic
Synopsis: By cutting down forests, says this film, we not
only denude the land and expose it to other natural forces,
but also reduce its water-holding capability. By conserving
forests, we recharge the earth’s — and our — capacity to
survive.
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
English Title: Let Live
Original Title: Let Live
Synopsis: The film tells a story of how three characters
chase and destroy some beautiful objects, and then realize
the futility of their actions.
Director: Pinkal Patel
Contact Details:
Pinkal Patel
M: 098198972341
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
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English Title: Life
English Title: Living on Thy Land
Original Title: Life
Duration: 15 sec
Format: 35 mm to Digital beta
Original Title: Living on Thy Land
Duration: 32 min
Subject Focus: Park-people conflicts
Subject Focus: Nature’s self-healing capacity
Synopsis: The Public Service Message (PSM) message is
that nature can always find a way to prosper if we let it —
even on the very instrument which is used to destroy it. The
film’s key image is that of an old and rusty axe, which has a
green sapling jutting out from a crack in its wooden grip.
Director: Sameer Puri
Producer: Bilawal S. Thakar
Production Company: Vivid Motion Pictures
Contact Details:
Sameer Puri
Proprietor, Raja House 61, Waroda Road (Off Hill Road),
Bandra (W), Mumbai 400 050
P: 022-56820073, M: 09821073375
English Title: Life Under Gondola
Language: English
Duration: 18 min
Synopsis: Gulmarg - the Meadows of flowers is nestled
among fir and pine covered slopes and has magnetic
attraction for the rich as well as the poor. Due to the latest
addition of aerial ropeway - Gondola it has received more
attraction. The discovery of Gondola trip is the spectacle
of a nomadic hill tribe. Their ethereal lifestyle is the best
bit of experience at hand. The film revolves around this
village called as Hakarpathri where Khans of far of village
reside during summer months. The hutments in which they
live are constructed in an intricate way, made up of rare
forest wood. Here we can see nature, wildlife and human
beings: the fusion is queer yet alluring. With their
indigenous traditions, the people here tend a special tang
of secluded area they inhabit. Simple living is their
hallmark. Besides men of his tribe, women also are very
hard working. Their life is arduous, yet gratifying and
peaceful. The ecosystem of area has not only been
disturbed because of them but also due to Gondola, which
has stabbed a chest of majestic pine covered terrain.
Director: Shahid Rasool
Contact Details:
Shahid Rasool
The University of Kashmir, Hazratbal, Srinagar 190 006 J&K
E: [email protected]; [email protected]
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Synopsis: The film highlights conservation and livelihood
issues that involve dwellers of reserve forest areas, and their
conflicts with forest laws. The location is Lakhimpur Kheri
district of Uttar Pradesh. The declaration of a forest area as
a reserve forest renders people here as encroachers on a
land inhabited by them for decades. Their dependency on
the forests for livelihood now becomes an unlawful pursuit.
The film does not undermine the importance of establishing
reserve forest areas, but highlights the importance of taking
care of the people who are affected in the process.
Directors: Mr. Anirudh Rastogi, Ms. Vanshaja Shukla and
Mr. Vikas Upadhyay
Producers: Mr. Anirudh Rastogi, Ms. Vanshaja Shukla
and Mr. Vikas Upadhyay
Contact Details:
Anirudh Rastogi
C/o Mr. Arvind Rastogi, 20 A/3, Nehru Nagar (West),
Bhilai 490 020, Chhattisgarh
P: 0788-2392018, M: 09826272782; F: 0788-2392753
English Title: Looking at Forests
Language: Englihs & Hindi
Duration: 15 min
Format: U-Matic, VHS
Subject Focus: Re-growing natural forests
Synopsis: The Prakriti Samrakshana Samiti (PSS) is
involved in studying indigenous trees, plants and
undergrowth, and replanting them with the help of local
tribals in an attempt to regrow a natural forest. The film
looks at these efforts.
Contact Details:
Technology (CAPART)
New Delhi 110 003
P: 011-24642391,24642393,24642395
F: 011-24648607, 24625822
English Title: Man and Environment-1
(What on Earth are We Doing to Our
Environment?)
Language: English
Format: U-Matic
Subject Focus: Man and environment
Synopsis: This is an introductory programme to a series
that talks about the constant interaction between man,
animals, birds and the environment — natural as well as
man-made. Displacement of a single element from the
web of life disturbs this delicate balance between man
and environment.
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
English Title: Man Made Misery
Original Title: Man Made Misery
Language: English
Duration: 20 min
Format: 35 mm
Synopsis: The film shows how man, by ruthlessly
exploiting the gifts of nature, has created misery for
himself.
Contact Details:
Government of India
P: 022-23515422, 23513176, 23516931, 23513633
F: 022-23515308, 23511008
English Title: Mangrove — Facts and Policies
English Title: Man and Environment-2
(What on Earth are We Doing to Our Land?)
Language: English
Format: U-Matic
Subject Focus: Land and wasteland development
Synopsis: This episode focuses on a specific issue —
land, its different geographical classifications, wastelands
and their development.
Format: Betacam
Subject Focus: Mangroves
Synopsis: The word ‘mangrove’ derives from the
Portuguese word ‘mangue’ and the English word ‘grove’.
The film uncovers similar facts about mangroves.
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
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English Title: Mangroves — Life on the Margin
English Title: Mangroves of Sundarban
Duration: 21 min
Format: Betacam
Original Title: Mangroves of Sundarban
Language: English
Duration: 24 min
Format: 35 mm
Subject Focus: Threats to mangroves
Synopsis: Mangrove and their swamps harbour distinctive
ecosystems and are important land builders, helping to
form islands, and protecting and extending shorelines.
Today, mangroves are being over-exploited for fuelwood,
charcoal, aquaculture and other purposes.
Subject Focus: Mangroves of the Sunderbans
Synopsis: This is a documentary film on the mangroves
of the Sunderbans, the world’s largest delta; 65% of India’s
mangrove forests lie in the districts of North and South 24
Parganas in this region.
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
English Title: Mangroves and the Man
Format: Betacam
Subject Focus: The mangroves of Krishna and Godavari
deltas in Andhra Pradesh
Synopsis: Mangroves are salt-tolerant forest ecosystems
of intertidal regions near river mouths. Due to various
reasons (mainly economic), these critical habitats are
being degraded and denuded. The programme depicts
the present status of the mangroves of Krishna and
Godavari deltas in Andhra Pradesh.
Production Company: EHYD
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
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Director: K. G. Das
Producers: Bankim & A.K. Bhattacharya
Contact Details:
Government of India
P: 022-23515422, 23513176, 23516931, 23513633
F: 022-23515308, 23511008
English Title: Mangroves of Sundarbans
Language: English
Subject Focus: Mangroves of the Sunderbans
Synopsis: This programme takes us to the estuarine
deltaic forests — mangroves — of the Sunderbans. It
identifies the different mangrove species, tells the viewers
about their unique characteristics, and urges their
protection from destruction caused by human interference.
Director: Ashijit Ganguli, Educational Research Centre,
Kolkata
Contact Details:
Ashijit Ganguly
50, Circus Avenue, Kolkata 700 017, West Bengal
P: 033-2474869
English Title: Marine Parks
English Title: Mere Desh ki Dharti Part-I
Language: English
Format: U-Matic
Original Title: Mere Desh ki Dharti Part-I
Language: Hindi
Duration: 26 min
Format: Betacam SP
Subject Focus: Marine parks
Subject Focus: Deforestation and soil conservation
Synopsis: American marine park experts Dr. John
Reynolds, Dr. John Clark and Ms. Cindy Nielson, and Dr.
Peter Maginnity of Australia share their views on national
parks for protecting marine lifeforms. The film also features
Prof. V. R. Muthukaruppan of Madurai Kamaraj University,
who discusses the first marine park, to be set up in the
Gulf of Mannar off Tamil Nadu.
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
Synopsis: The film is on the environmental devastation
wrought by mankind’s unsustainable practices, and the
scientific methods of conserving soil, which is affected by
deforestation.
Director: Arun Kaul
Production Company: Arun Kaul Productions
Contact Details:
Government of India
P: 011-26195312-13; F: 011-26195312
W: www.ysa2004.org
English Title: Medicinal Plants through Scientoon
Language: English
Format: Betacam
Subject Focus: Medicinal plants and the biodiversity of
the Asia-Pacific region
Synopsis: The programme deals with medicinal plants
and the biodiversity of the Asia-Pacific region.
SCIENTOON, a new class of science cartoons started in
India in 1998, has been used in the lectures.
Production Company: AIMP
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
English Title: Mere Desh ki Dharti Part-II
Original Title: Mere Desh ki Dharti Part-II
Language: Hindi
Format: Betacam SP
Subject Focus: Soil and its conservation
Synopsis: This part of the two-part series focuses on the
important role played by soil in our sustenance. It also
talks about how India has traditionally looked after soil.
Director: Arun Kaul
Production Company: Arun Kaul Productions
Contact Details:
NOC-YCA, Department of Science and Technology (DST)
Government of India
P: 011-26195312-13; F: 011-26195312
W: www.ysa2004.org
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English Title: Mobile Bio-diversity Festival
English Title: Monsoon Flowers
Language: English
Duration: 11 min
Original Title: Monsoon Flowers
Language: English
Duration: 17 min
Format: Betacam SP
Subject Focus: Biodiversity, importance of traditional
crops and the need to empower women in agriculture
Subject Focus: Monsoon flowers
Synopsis: The Deccan Development Society (DDS) has
launched an interesting strategy: the Mobile Diversity
Festival, in which bullock carts go around villages
demonstrating traditional seeds, explaining their value,
and interacting with farmers, scientists, farm workers,
policy planners and people. The film has been shot by
non-literate women belonging to the Community Media
Trust of DDS.
Director: Emani Krishna Rao
Producer: Doordarshan Kendra, Hyderabad
Contact Details:
Doordarshan Kendra
Ramanthapur, Hyderabad 500 013, Andhra Pradesh
P: 040-7038761; F: 040-7038790
English Title: Mobile Bio-diversity Festival 2002
Synopsis: The film provides botanical information about
‘monsoon flowers’.
Director: Balkrishna Damle
Producer: Balkrishna Damle
Centre (EMRC)
Contact Details:
Educational Multi Media Research Centre (EMRC)
University of Pune, Pune 411 007, Maharashtra
P: 020-25690701; F: 020-25690315
English Title: Mujhe Bachao Nainital
Language: Hindi
Original Title: Mobile Bio-diversity Festival 2002
Language: Telegu (with English subtitles)
Duration: 13 min
Subject Focus: DDS’s 2002 Mobile Biodiversity Festival
Synopsis: In January 2000, the Deccan Development
Society (DDS) embarked on a unique conservation and
cultural campaign called the Mobile Biodiversity Festival.
Beyond the specially decorated caravan of bullock carts,
traditional musical bands, dancing, singing and exhibits of
varieties of traditional seeds, the most important part of the
festival was that it converted itself into a forum for the farmers
in the region to voice their personal concerns about the future
of farming in India. Since then, the festival has been
illustrating what communities can do to reflect the rich
agricultural diversity of their region in a celebratory fashion.
Directors: Vijendra Patil and P. V. Satheesh
Producers: DDS Community Media Trust, Ms. Chinna
Narsamma
Contact Details:
Vijendra Patil
C/o Bars & Tone, 17, Sarvadarshan, Opp. Saraswat
Cooperative Bank, Karve Road, Pune 411 004, Maharashtra
P: 020-5444750
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Subject Focus: Environmental degradation in Nainital
Synopsis: The film depicts the massive environmental
costs Nainital is paying for its ‘development’ and for unsustainable tourism.
Awards Received by the Film: International Adventure
Film Festival award, 1996
Director: Shiv Painuli
Contact Details:
Shiv Painuli
TV-Giridoot, 82, Krishan Nagar, Dehradun 248 001
Uttaranchal
P: 0135-2754157; M: 09412009947; F: 0135-759466
English Title: Mystery within Gulf of Kutch
English Title: National Marine Parks of America
Language: English
Format: Betacam
Language: English
Format: U-Matic
Subject Focus: Biodiversity of the Gulf of Kutch
Subject Focus: Protecting marine habitats
Synopsis: This programme is on the biodiversity of the
Gulf of Kutch — an area which shelters animals like
starfish, jellyfish, lobsters, sea-slugs, crabs, conches,
seaweeds, corals and barral fish.
Synopsis: Dr. Cindy Neilsen, Chief Naturalist, Glaciar
National Park, discusses the various aspects of marine
parks and the protection of marine habitats in this film.
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
English Title: Natural Hertiage of Gujarat
English Title: Nagarhole: Tales from an Indian
Jungle
Original Title: Nagarhole: Tales from an Indian Jungle
Language: English
Duration: 52 min
Format: 16 mm
Subject Focus: Ecosystem of the Nagarhole National
Park
Synopsis: The film captures the changing seasons of the
forest, and the hidden dramas that go on within it.
Awards Received by the Film: ‘Jury Special Mention
Award’—CMS VATAVARAN 2003; Special Jury Award,
International Wildlife Film Festival, Monthana, 1998;
Sondrio International Festival on Parks & Protected Areas,
1998; Arlette Vincent Prize, Valvert International Wildlife
Film Festival, Brussels, 1999
Producers: Shekar Dattatri/Eco Media (P) Ltd.
Commissioning Agency: MC Arthur Foundation
Language: English
Duration: 42 min
Subject Focus: Wildlife and the protected areas of Gujarat
Synopsis: Gujarat, in western India, has a diverse
ecosystem: a mix of dry, moist, thorny and semi-deciduous
forests, large grasslands (Banni near the Rann), the
longest coastline in the country, two gulfs (the Gulf of Kutch
and the Gulf of Khambhat), and mountain ranges (Vindhya,
Satpura, Western Ghats and Aravallis). It has 21
sanctuaries and four national parks, which cover 8.6% of
its geographical area. The Asiatic lion and the Asiatic wild
ass are found only in Gujarat. But this immense heritage
needs careful conservation, says the film.
Directors: Ashok N. Mewada, Nam Communication
Contact Details:
Ashok Mewada
Gujarat University, Ahmedabad 380 009, Gujarat
P: 079-6302409
Contact Details:
Shekar Dattatri
Eco Media (P) Ltd.
Director, Plot No. 40, Door No. 11, 3rd East Street,
Thiruvanmiyur, Chennai 600 041, Tamil Nadu
P: 044-24415744, 2491 4802; M: 9841015997
F: 44-2491 0910
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English Title: Nature and Man
English Title: Neem: The Green Gold Mine
Original Title: Nature and Man
Language: English
Duration: 19 min
Format: 35 mm
Original Title: Neem: The Green Gold Mine
Language: English
Format: Betacam
Subject Focus: The neem tree and its importance
Synopsis: The film presents the delicate balance and
inter-relationship between the two in life and creation.
Contact Details:
Government of India
P: 022-23515422, 23513176, 23516931, 23513633
F: 022-23515308, 23511008
Synopsis: The film educates viewers on the importance
of the neem (Azadirachta Indica), which grows everywhere
on the Indian sub-continent. The most important
compounds the tree has are its oil and limonoids.
Producer: Vinod Sati
Contact Details:
Jai Narayan Vyas University, MBM College Campus, Jodhpur
Rajasthan
P: 0291-2513734; F: 0291-2513733
English Title: Nature’s Care
English Title: New Forest Policy
Language: English
Duration: 23 min
Format: 16 mm
Language: English
Duration: 30 min
Subject Focus: Life and nature
Subject Focus: India’s forest policy
Synopsis: The film gives an insight into the continuity of
life in various living beings and nature’s role in this.
Synopsis: The Government of India’s Forest Policy has
raised a lot of debate. This story discusses the implications
of this new policy for the industrial sector.
Technology (CIET)
Contact Details:
P: 011-26864801, 26864802, 26864803; F: 011-26864141
W: www.ciet.nic.in
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Contact Details:
P: 011-26134103, 26890380; F: 011-26130817
W: www.devalt.org
English Title: Nimiya ka Ped
English Title: No Title
Original Title: The Neem Tree
Format: DV CAM
Original Title: No Title
Language: English
Duration: 56 sec
Format: DV
Subject Focus: Tree-felling and its impacts
Subject Focus: Protecting the environment
Synopsis: Rampant deforestation is eating up the green
cover of our country. It is easy to point at the forest dwellers
and villagers who still depend on forest produce, but we
forget that the forests had been safe in their hands while
they were the custodians.
Synopsis: In this fast changing world and rat-race for
survival, environmental issues are put on the back-burner.
The PSM sends out the message of protecting the
environment and the delicate fabric of nature.
Director: Kavita Bahl
Producer: Nandan Saxena
Production Company: Top Quark Productions
Contact Details:
Kavita Bahl
C-227, Anand Vihar, Vikas Marg Extn., New Delhi 110 092
P: 011-22152787; M: 9868805077
Director: Girish A. V.
Producer: A. K. Venugopal
Production Company: Single Knight
Contact Details:
Girish A. V.
Gopa Nivas, Kudavechoor PO, Kottayam, Kerala
M: 09895546808
English Title: Once There was a Forest
English Title: No More Tigers in the Yard
Language: English
Duration: 28 min
Format: DVD
Original Title: Once There was a Forest
Language: English
Duration: 57 min
Subject Focus: Tribals and their relationship to forests
Synopsis: This film is a testimony to the struggle of the
tribals of Gujarat to retain their cultural identity and their
forests in the face of modern development. In a series of
interviews, the tribal people relate the history of the great
forests which once surrounded their villages. They are
highly critical of the Forest Societies who, they say, have
not come up with effective policies for managing the
forests.
Director: Mira Tanna
Producer: Suresh Kumar Awasthi
Contact Details:
P: 011-26134103, 26890380; F: 011-26130817
W: www.devalt.org
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Subject Focus: Regenerating the Usambara forests of
Tanzania
Synopsis: Not 100 years ago, the Usambara Mountains
in north-eastern Tanzania abounded in all kinds of tropical
flora and fauna. The Samba tribals grew their gardens in
the heart of these forests without hampering the ecological
balance. But as people’s needs increased, exploitation
began. But the film brings forth an exhilarating view:
traditional agricultural techniques and plantation of trees
have been revived.
Director: Lars Johannessen
Contact Details:
P: 011-29955124, 29956110, 29956394; F: 011-29955879
W: www.cseindia.org
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English Title: Once Upon a Time
English Title: Only an Axe Away
Original Title: Once Upon a Time
Language: Malayalam
Format: Betacam SP
Original Title: Oru Mazhuvinte Dooram Mathram
Format: Digital Video (DV)
Subject Focus: Environmental destruction — man and
nature
Subject Focus: The campaign to save the Silent Valley
and the threats it faces today
Synopsis: This film is a sarcastic comment on man’s
continuous attempts at building material comforts at the
expense of nature. This desire for material comforts has
been seen in the film in synchrony with receding forest
cover. The happy wife and husband have succeeded in
creating a luxurious lifestyle out of forest wealth, but soon
face the inevitable fury of nature; all that they had amassed
are lost to nature itself.
Synopsis: This film narrates the story of the unique
campaign to save the Silent Valley from destructive
development. Silent Valley was declared a National Park
in 1984, but the threats to it have not ceased to exist. The
Kerala State Electricity Board plans to build a dam on the
fringes of the Park at Pathrakadavu, across the river
Kunthi. Nature lovers are concerned that the proposed
dam will harm the pristine evergreen forests in the Valley.
Award’—CMS VATAVARAN 2005
Directors: P. Baburaj and C. Saratchandran
Producers: C. Saratchandran, Third Eye Communications
Production Company: Third Eye Communications
Director: Girish A. V.
Producer: Department of Forests and Wildlife
Contact Details:
Manoj Krishnan P.
C-DIT, Gorki Bhavan, Vanross Junction,
P: 0471-2330081; M: 09447886486
F: 0471-2333735, 2328659
W: www.cdit.org
Contact Details:
P. Baburaj and C. Saratchandran
Third Eye Communications, 101, North Fort Garden
NF Gate, Tripunithura, Ernakulam 682 301, Kerala
P: 0484-2784333, M: 09349259321
English Title: Orchids of Manipur
Language: English
Duration: 22 min
Subject Focus: Orchids of Manipur
Synopsis: The forests of Manipur are the home of beautiful
varieties of orchids, some of them endemic to the state.
Director: Aribam Shyam Sharma
Contact Details:
Aribam Shyam Sharma
Thangmeiband, opposite ABC Godown
Imphal 795 001, Manipur
P: 0385-2413310
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English Title: Origin of Life
English Title: Our Jungle Our People
Language: English
Duration: 1 hr 5 min
Format: 16 mm
Language: Oriya
Duration: 20 min
Subject Focus: Origins of life on earth
Contact Details:
D. Samanathey
Orissa Social Service Institute
At/Po. Baramba Post Box 1, Cuttack 754 031, Orissa
P: 06721-273276; F: 06762-243120
Synopsis: The film explains the basis of plant and animal
life on earth, and probes the history of ancient man.
Technology (CIET)
English Title: Out of the Blue
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
English Title: Our Earth
Original Title: Our Earth
Language: No dialogues
Format: 35 mm
Synopsis: This film illustrates how Earth gets disfigured
in the name of industrial development and progress, and
ends on the note that children could help restore its beauty
and greenery.
Director: Sanjay Jadhav
Producer: Arun Gongade, Films Division
Contact Details:
Government of India
P: 022-23515422, 23513176, 23516931, 23513633
F: 022-23515308, 23511008
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Language: English
Duration: 24 min
Subject Focus: Biodiversity and life on the Otago
Peninsula in New Zealand
Synopsis: This is a film about the Otago Peninsula on
the fringes of Dunedin in New Zealand. The rich fishing
grounds around the Peninsula, owing to the proximity of
the continental shelf and deep canyons, make it a priced
piece of real estate for its inhabitants — from the Royal
Albatrosses to the Yellow-eyed Penguins — to breed. A
land of wild extremes, it is home to a fascinating mix of
life across its sandy dunes, estuaries and rugged volcanic
cliffs.
Director: Humphrey Tauro
Environment (CSE)
Contact Details:
P: 011-29955124, 29956110, 29956394; F: 011-29955879
W: www.cseindia.org
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English Title: Panchghani: Fire on the Mountain
English Title: Parks or People
Original Title: Panchghani: Fire on the Mountain
Language: English
Duration: 27 min
Format: U-Matic
Language: English
Duration: 39 min
Format: DVD
Subject Focus: The practice of burning down hill slopes
in Panchgani, Mahabaleshwar
Synopsis: The Korup National Park and the Kilum
Mountain Forest are two rainforest projects in Cameroon:
the film explores the relative merits of the two approaches
to forest conservation that they represent. Kilum, set up
by the International Council for Bird Preservation, is smallscale and relies on local expertise. Korup, a more
ambitious project by the World Wide Fund for Nature
(WWF), has begun moving people out of the forest
reserve. Kilum, on the other hand, actively encourages
local people to move back in to practise the sustainable
use of forest resources. The film argues that in the long
run, rainforest conservation can only work if it involves
local people in the protection of their own rainforests.
Synopsis: The film documents the wanton burning of the
Western Ghats in the Panchgani-Mahabaleshwar region.
What pushes the villagers to consciously light a match,
which sets a whole hillside aflame, destroying precious
and fragile saplings, and murdering ground-dwelling
animals on an unimaginable scale?
Contact Details:
Mandakini Mathur
Dr. Nivsarkar’s Bunglow, Mahabaleshwar Road
Panchgani 412 805, Maharashtra
P: 02168-241220; M: 09422604440
Subject Focus: Rainforest conservation
Awards Received by the Film: Wildscreen Golden Panda
Award
Director: Damien Lewis
Producer: Damien Lewis
Production Company: Forest Films
English Title: Papeeha
Language: Hindi
Duration: 30 min
Format: VHS
Subject Focus: Environmental awareness
Synopsis: This feature film attempts to enlighten its
viewers about the environment and forests.
Producer: M/s Sai Paranjpye Films Pvt.
Commissioning Agency: Partly supported by Ministry
of Environment & Forests, Government of India
Contact Details:
The Secretary
New Delhi - 110 003
P: 91-11-2436 1896, 2436 0721
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Contact Details:
P: 011-26134103, 26890380; F: 011-26130817
W: www.devalt.org
English Title: Partners in Peril
English Title: Pen vs Pen
Language: English
Duration: 30 min
Original Title: Pen vs Pen
Duration: 2 min
Format: DV
Subject Focus: The ecology of the Sundarbans and the
dangers it faces
Subject Focus: Environmental depredations of man
Synopsis: The Sundarbans delta, the world’s largest
mangrove forests, is an attractive tourist destination. But
what is the greater fear for the three million people living
in the periphery of these forests — the tiger or the floods
which regularly inundate their land? Prawn farms are
turning the waters of the region barren, and endangering
the delicate ecosystem. People have turned to prawn
farming because the forest can no longer meet their
livelihood demands.
Director: Johar Kanungo
Producer: Doordarshan
Contact Details:
Jahar Kanungo
1143/D-1, Vasant Kunj, New Delhi
P: 011-26890758, 4692087; F: 011-24625170
English Title: Pastures in the Heaven
Synopsis: This is an animated representation of how
human beings discover the beauty of nature and wildlife,
but fight to own it using their powers, which results in the
destruction of the beautiful environment.
Director: Avinash Patil
Producer: Avinash Patil
Contact Details:
Avinash Patel
115, Shaktinagar, Gupteshwar, Jabalpur 482 002,
Madhya Pradesh
P: 0761-2425335
English Title: Penguin Island
Language: English
Duration: 6 min
Format: 16 mm
Original Title: Kurinhithinayilude
Format: Betacam SP
Subject Focus: Penguins
Subject Focus: The Western Ghats
Technology (CIET)
Synopsis: The Western Ghats is one of the 18 biological
hotspots of the world. The film documents the biodiversity
of this region, and the lifestyles of people co-inhabiting
with the region’s wildlife.
Director: K. Mohan Kumar
Producer: C-DIT
Synopsis: The film shows penguins on their breeding
grounds on Dessen Island, near Cape Town.
Contact Details:
P: 011-26864801, 26864802, 26864803
F: 011-26864141
W: www.ciet.nic.in
Contact Details:
Manoj Krishnan P.
P: 0471-2330081; M: 09447886486
F: 0471-2333735, 2328659
W: www.cdit.org
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English Title: People’s Agenda for Biodiversity:
Mobile Fesivals of the D.D.S.
English Title: Phosphogypsum as Wood
Substitute
Original Title: People’s Agenda for Biodiversity: Mobile
Fesivals of the D.D.S.
Duration: 26 min
Format: Betacam SP
Language: English
Duration: 30 min
Subject Focus: The Mobile Biodiversity Festivals of the
Deccan Development Society
Synopsis: Medak district of Andhra Pradesh, where the
Deccan Development Society (DDS) works, has
thousands of women farmers who have kept alive a vibrant
agro-biodiversity on their farms and fields. This is the
tradition that inspired the biodiversity festivals of the DDS
— called the Mobile Biodiversity Festivals.
Directors: P. V. Satheesh and Vijendra Patil
Production Company: Deccan Development Society
(DDS)
Subject Focus: Eco-friendly alternative to wood
Synopsis: The destruction of our forests for wood is
responsible for the vast tracts of degraded land that we
are left with today. Phosphogypsum can be an eco-friendly
substitute for wood used in the interiors of buildings.
Contact Details:
P: 011-26134103, 26890380; F: 011-26130817
W: www.devalt.org
English Title: Plant Succession
Contact Details:
P. V. Satheesh and Vijendra Patil
Deccan Development Society, 101, Kishan Residency,
H. No. 1-11-242/1, Street No. 5, Begumpet,
Hyderabad 500 016, Andhra Pradesh
P: 022-28576119; F:044-27764722
W: www.ddsindia.com
English Title: People’s
Bandhavgarh and Jhabua
Participation:
Language: English
Duration: 30 min
Subject Focus: Participatory management of forests
Synopsis: Many reserve forests and sanctuaries are in
the midst of a ‘man versus nature’ struggle. The issues
are conservation of forests and displacement of human
habitation. In Bandhavgarh and Jhabua, people’s
participation in the campaign to conserve is witnessing a
harmony between man and nature.
Contact Details:
P: 011-26134103, 26890380; F: 011-26130817
W: www.devalt.org
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Language: English
Duration: 15 min
Format: 16 mm
Subject Focus: Plant succession
Synopsis: This film demonstrates the stages of theoretical
primary succession — from bare rock to hardwood forests,
as each stage prepares the soil for the next and paves
the way for its own destruction.
Technology (CIET)
Contact Details:
P: 011-26864801, 26864802, 26864803; F: 011-26864141
W: www.ciet.nic.in
English Title: Poetry of Nature
English Title: Pride of Nature
Language: English
Duration: 8 min
Format: 16 mm
Language: English
Duration: 20 min
Format: 16 mm
Subject Focus: Animals of California
Subject Focus: Plants and trees of eastern India
Synopsis: This film documents animals in their natural
environments in redwood country in California, and their
constant struggle for survival.
Synopsis: This film gives an introduction to the different
types of plants and trees of eastern India.
Technology (CIET)
Contact Details:
P: 011-26864801, 26864802, 26864803; F: 011-26864141
W: www.ciet.nic.in
Technology (CIET)
Contact Details:
P: 011-26864801, 26864802, 26864803; F: 011-26864141
W: www.ciet.nic.in
English Title: Private Life of Plants
English Title: Prickly Profit
Language: English
Duration: 26 min
Format: Betacam SP, DVD
Subject Focus: Sustainable agriculture in the arid regions
Synopsis: Three thousand years ago, the Sumerians
started a trend that the great civilizations in the arid and
semi-arid regions have followed ever since: they planted
crops that had to be irrigated. But to irrigate crops, some
countries are forced to pump water from underground
supplies, much faster than nature can replace it. In a
radical re-think, farmers in Israel are being encouraged
to abandon water-guzzling crops and to plant species that
are adapted to shortage of water.
Language: English
Duration: 292 min
Format: DVD
Director: David Attenborough
Producer: Keith Scholey
Contact Details:
British Council Library
17, Kasturba Gandhi Marg, New Delhi 110 001
P: 011-23711401, 51497237 (D), 23711401; F: 011-23710717
Environment (TVE)
Contact Details:
P: 011-26134103, 26890380; F: 011-26130817
W: www.devalt.org
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English Title: Rang
English Title: Registani Kalpavriksha — Khejari
Original Title: Rang
Language: Hindi
Duration: 17 min
Format: DV
Original Title: Registani Kalpavriksha — Khejari
Language: Hindi
Format: Betacam
Subject Focus: The khejari tree
Subject Focus: Interpretation of colours by nature and
human beings
Synopsis: This film deals with how nature and human
beings interpret the colours orange and green in marigold
flowers — differently.
Director: Vijay Kalamkar
Production Company: Spandan Pariwar
Contact Details:
Vijay Kalamkar
7, Gulab Kondi Chawl, Dayas Complex, Natwar Nagar,
Road No. 1, Jogeshwari East, Mumbai 400 060
P: 022-28263960; M: 09821036497
Synopsis: The khejari tree grows in the harsh conditions
of deserts, and is very useful for farmers. The Bishnois of
Rajasthan have a legend: 363 members of the community
sacrificed their lives in Khejarli village 150 years ago to
save the khejari.
Contact Details:
Faculty of Engineering, Jai Narayan Vyas University, MBM
College Campus, Jodhpur, Rajasthan
P: 0291-2513734; F: 0291-2513733
English Title: Romance of Life
English Title: Ravages of Drought
Language: Hindi
Duration: 27 min
Format: VHS
Language: English
Duration: 14 min
Format: 16 mm
Subject Focus: Origins of life on earth
Subject Focus: Deforestation and drought
Synopsis: The film examines the connection between
deforestation and drought, and shows the problems of
drinking water and fodder shortage faced by humans and
livestock in Gujarat.
Environment (CSE)
Contact Details:
P: 011-29955124, 29956110, 29956394; F: 011-29955879
W: www.cseindia.org
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Synopsis: This film records the origin of life on earth, and
traces its course from the amoeba to reptiles, and to
flowers, forests and primates.
Technology (CIET)
Contact Details:
P: 011-26864801, 26864802, 26864803; F: 011-26864141
W: www.ciet.nic.in
English Title: Sacred Grove-1 (The Rare Islands
of Greenery)
Language: English
Format: U-Matic
English Title: Sahayak: Species in Partnership
Language: English
Duration: Approx. 30 min
Subject Focus: Partnership and interrelationship of
species
Subject Focus: Sacred groves of Maharashtra
Synopsis: In many villages of Maharashtra, forests are
protected in the names of deities — as sacred groves.
This programme looks at the need to conserve these
groves.
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
English Title: Sacred Groves
Synopsis: This video explores the relationship that exists
between the peasant, the herbalist and biodiversity —
which ensures successful conservation. Traditional
societies relate to biodiversity through the concept of the
‘sahayak’ — of species in partnership with each other.
Plants are not merely food for humans, but also a source
of medicines. This is in total contrast to the emerging world
view of Intellectual Property Rights, which denies the
intrinsic worth of lifeforms.
Directors: Navdanya & South View Productions
Contact Details:
Dr. Vandana Shiva
P: 011-26968077
Original Title: Sacred Groves
Language: English
Duration: 10 min
Format: 35 mm
Subject Focus: Sacred groves and their conservation
Synopsis: A sacred grove is a miniature forest located
within areas of human settlement and nurtured by myths
and traditions. In modern times, we must protect these
‘lungs’ of civilization.
Director: Suresh Menon
Producer: Kuldeep Sinha
Production Company: Films Division
Contact Details:
Government of India
P: 022-23515422, 23513176, 23516931, 23513633
F: 022 23515308, 23511008
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English Title: Sahyadris — Mountains of the
Monsoon
Original Title: Sahyadris — Mountains of the Monsoon
Language: English
Duration: 45 min
Format: Digital
Subject Focus: Biodiversity of the Western Ghats
Synopsis: On the Malabar coast of southern India, along
the Arabian Sea, lies the Western Ghats, one of the most
biodiverse regions on the planet. The film follows the
wildlife of these mountains during monsoons — from the
peaks of the Sahyadris to the thick shola forests, home to
the highly endangered Lion-tailed Macaque, and to the
dry deciduous forests at the foothills of the mountains,
where elephants and other wildlife wait in expectation of
the coming deluge.
Awards Received by the Film: Young Achiever of the
Year Award, Infosys, 2005; Finalist at WildSouth Festival,
New Zealand, 2005; Special Jury Award for Wildlife
Conservation—CMS VATAVARAN Film Festival, 2003;
Gold REMI Award for Creative Excellence, Houston
Worldfest, 2003; Nominated for the BBC Newcomer of
the Year Award, Wildscreen Wildlife Film Festival, 2002;
Merit Award for Cinematography, International Wildlife Film
Festival, Montana, 2002
Director: Sandesh V. Kadur
Producer: Sandesh V. Kadur
Production Company: Gorgas Science Foundation/
University of Texas at Brownsville/Texas Southmost
College
Commissioning Agency: Goras Science Foundation
Contact Details:
Sandesh V. Kadur
Producer/Director, 503, 4th Main, 6th Cross, Kengeri Satellite
Town, Bangalore 560 060, Karnataka
P: 080-8483828; F: 080-6602909
English Title: Sandesh Ek Log Anek
Format: Betacam
Subject Focus: Planting trees for environmental
conservation
Synopsis: The message this programme carries is: save
trees and plant trees for the benefit of our children and
our environment.
Production Company: CDEL
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
English Title: Savage Strikes Back: Parts I, II & III
Original Title: Savage Strikes Back: Parts I, II & III
Language: English
Duration: 3 x 52 min
Subject Focus: Indigenous peoples’ role in protecting
environment
Synopsis: Many anthropological series portray indigenous
peoples as exotic curiosities. In sharp contrast, Nexus
Feature’s five-part series explores the crucial role they play
in protecting wilderness and scarce resources, and their
case for self-determination. Flames in the Forest focuses
on the Eucadorian Indians’ fierce resistance to multinational
oil companies invading and polluting their forests. Hunters
and Bombers looks at the conflicting interests of the Inuit
people of Labrador-Quebec and the neighbouring Goose
Bay base’s low-level bomber aircraft training. Rebels of the
Forgotten World investigates the West Papuan peoples’
armed resistance to Indonesia’s transmigration policy; The
Kimberly Mob examines moves to rebuild aboriginal culture
on traditional lands in Australia; and Follow the Rainbow
tells the story of the Ho tribe’s opposition to two massive
dams planned in south Bihar, India.
Directors: Hugh Brody, Luke Holland, Alan Hayling,
Graham Chase, and Nigel Markham
Contact Details:
P: 011-29955124, 29956110, 29956394; F: 011-29955879
W: www.cseindia.org
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English Title: Save Bhitarkanika
English Title: Save Trees, Trees Save
Original Title: Save Bhitarkanika
Language: English
Duration: 40 min
Format: Betacam
Original Title: Save Trees, Trees Save
Subject Focus: Olive Ridley turtles and mangrove forests
of Bhitarkanika
Synopsis: This is a documentary on the Bhitarkanika
Sanctuary in Orissa.
Commissioning Agency: Doordarshan
Contact Details:
Krishnendu Bose
New Delhi 110 024
P: 011-24625896, 24654221; F: 011-24647310
Language: English
Duration: 30 sec
Format: 16 mm
Synopsis: In a flooded Indian village, the waters are
washing away homes, people and cattle. But one villager
has saved his life by clinging on to the branches of a tree.
The film depicts how trees can save us, if we save them
from the axe.
Director: Lowe Team
Producer: Lowe Team
Production Company: Lowe Team
Contact Details:
Milind Lanjekar
Lowe Team, 15th Floor, Express Towers
Nariman Point, Mumbai 400 021
P: 022-56361577, M: 9892277430
F: 022-22043135/36
English Title: Save Trees
English Title: Seasons in the Sun
Language: English
Duration: 45 sec
Synopsis: This is a message on saving trees to save the
environment.
Director: Reena Ashok
Contact Details:
Crest Communication, A-1/307, Safdurjung Enclave
New Delhi 110 029
P: 011-26183478
Original Title: Seasons in the Sun
Language: English
Duration: 22 min
Format: DVD/VHS
Subject Focus: The Keoladeo National Park in Rajasthan
Synopsis: This is a visual journey through the Keoladeo
National Park through different seasons, beginning with
the monsoons. The film begins with an introduction to the
Park, its history and goes on to talk about the amazing
bird diversity the Park supports.
Director: Himanshu Malhotra
Producer: Himanshu Malhotra
Production Company: Multi Media
Contact Details:
Multi Media
C-50 Defence Colony, New Delhi 110 024
P: 011-24330000, 24330005; F: 011-24330090
E: [email protected], www.wildlifefilms.com
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English Title: Securing India’s Future: On the Trail
of the National Biodiversity Strategy & Action
Plan
Original Title: Securing India’s Future: On the Trail of the
National Biodiversity Strategy & Action Plan
Language: English
Format: Betacam
Subject Focus: India’s National Biodiversity Strategy &
Action Plan (NBSAP)
Synopsis: Planning processes in India are usually topdown, with a handful of ‘experts’ and decision-makers
preparing plans that the rest of the country has to follow.
For once, however, a planning process showed that things
could be done differently. This film documents the process
of evolution of India’s National Biodiversity Strategy &
Action Plan (NBSAP) through foot-marches, biodiversity
festivals, etc.
Producer: Vijendra Patil
Commissioning Agency: United Nations Development
Programme
Contact Details:
Vijendra Patil
Bars and Tome Television Pvt. Ltd., 17 Sarvadarshan, Nal Stop
Chowk, Karve Road, Opp. Saraswat Co-operative Bank, Pune
411 004, Maharashtra
P: 020-5444750, 5443309; F: 020-5439790
English Title: Seeds of Hope
Language: English, Tamil and Telugu
Duration: 30 min
Format: 16 mm
Subject Focus: Tree nurseries
Synopsis: This film demonstrates how tree nurseries can
be established and maintained — and explains the entire
process from seed selection to soil preparation and
germination.
Awards Received by the Film: National Award (India)
for Best Agricultural Film, 1988
Directors: Shekar Dattatri and Romulus Whitaker
Producers: Shekar Dattatri and Romulus Whitaker
Production Company: Swedish International
Development Agency (SIDA)
Commissioning Agency: Trust for Environmental
Education
Contact Details:
Shekar Dattatri
Plot No. 40, Door No. 11, 3rd East Street, Thiruvanmiyur
P: 044-24415744, 2491 4802, M: 9841015997
F: 044-2491 0910, 24918747
English Title: Sehjan
Language: Hindi
Subject Focus: Drumsticks (sehjan) and its medicinal
properties
Synopsis: Sehjan or drumsticks is a common tree found
in most parts of India. The programme highlights the
medicinal uses of the various parts of sehjan.
Contact Details:
P: 011-26864801, 26864802, 26864803; F: 011-26864141
W: www.ciet.nic.in
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English Title: Service of Trees
English Title: Shatavari
Original Title: Service of Trees
Language: English
Duration: 11 min
Format: 35 mm
Language: Hindi
Subject Focus: The uses of trees
Contact Details:
P: 011-26864801, 26864802, 26864803; F: 011-26864141
W: www.ciet.nic.in
Synopsis: This film describes the different services that
trees provide to humanity.
Contact Details:
Government of India
P: 022-23515422, 23513176, 23516931, 23513633
F: 022-23515308, 23511008
English Title: Shadows of Tehri
Original Title: Shadows of Tehri
Format: Betacam SP
Subject Focus: History of the submerged town of old Tehri
in Uttaranchal
Synopsis: Shadows of Tehri is an attempt to capture the
essence of old Tehri town in Tehri Garhwal, Uttaranchal,
before it is lost forever under the swirling waters of the
world’s highest dam, built over the rivers Bhilangana and
Bhagirathi.
Director: Anirban Datta
Producer: Department of Culture, Government of
Uttaranchal
Production Company: Metamorphosis Film Junction
Contact Details:
Anirban Dutta
E-316, Anandlok Housing Society, Mayur Vihar, Phase I
New Delhi 110 091
P: 011-30933259, M: 9891770500, 9811557259
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English Title: Shrimp Fever
Language: English, Spanish
Duration: 52 min
Format: DVD
Subject Focus: Environmental impacts of shrimp farming
in Ecuador
Synopsis: In Ecuador, hundreds of miles of tidal
mangrove, the breeding ground for much of the fish and
shellfish of the Pacific Ocean, have been burned to make
way for commercial shrimp farms. Running in a fringe
down the coasts of Africa, Asia and Latin America,
mangroves are the ocean’s equivalent of the tropical
rainforest, vital to the preservation of the coastline and
the ecological balance of the region. But today, the 800
km of Ecuador’s Pacific coastline — once densely forested
— are largely bare. Shrimp farming has become the
second largest export business in the country, and is fast
destroying the very ecosystem that created the conditions
for this gold rush.
Director: Nick Davidson
Producer: Ron Orders
Production Company: Central TV
Contact Details:
P: 011-26134103, 26890380; F: 011-26130817
W: www.devalt.org
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English Title: Silent Valley — An Indian Rainforest
Language: English, Tamil, Malayalam
Duration: 53 min
Format: 16 mm
English Title: Social Insects: Ants Biology,
Social Organization
Language: English
Format: U-Matic
Subject Focus: Indian rainforests
Subject Focus: The social behaviour of ants
Synopsis: The film takes the viewer through the heart of
south India’s mysterious and little known rainforests. It is
the first comprehensive documentation of the wildlife of
the grassland and ‘shola’ forest ecosystem of the Western
Ghats.
Synopsis: The programme explains the social behaviour
of ants, and the biology and organization of their social
structures within the colonies.
Awards Received by the Film: National Award for Best
Film on Ecology and Environment, 1991; National Award
for Best Cinematograpy (Non Feature category), 1991;
Special Jury Award, Jackson Hole Festival, 1991; Citta
de Sondrio Award, Italy 1991; Best Nature Film,
Earthvision Festival, Japan, 1992
Producers: Shekar Dattatri and Romulus Whitaker
Production Company: Eco Media (P) Ltd.
Commissioning Agency: NORAD, Misereor
Contact Details:
Shekar Dattatri
Plot No. 40, Door No. 11, 3 rd East Street, Thiruvanmiyur,
P: 044-24415744, 2491 4802, M: 9841015997
F: 044-2491 0910, 24918747
English Title: Social Forestry
Original Title: Social Forestry
Language: English
Duration: 14 min
Format: 35 mm
Subject Focus: Social forestry
Synopsis: The film showcases the uses of social forestry.
Contact Details:
Government of India
P: 022-23515422, 23513176, 23516931, 23513633
F: 022-23515308, 23511008
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Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
English Title: Socotra: Island of Dragon’s Blood
Language: English
Duration: 15 min
Format: DVD
Subject Focus: Biodiversity of the Socotra islands
Synopsis: The island of Socotra, off the Yemeni coast, is
home to over 750 plant and tree species – 250 of them
endemic. In 1992, an international team of scientists and
botanists visited the island. Edward Milner’s documentary
follows the expedition, recording its effort to catalogue and
evaluate Socotra’s extraordinary genetic wealth, including
the bizarre-looking Dragon’s Blood tree. All botanic
specimens found on the island are highly resistant to
drought, a genetic quality ideal for habitat restoration with
enormous potential for other drought-prone parts of the
world.
Director: Edward Milner
Producer: Edward Milner
Production Company: Acacia Productions
Contact Details:
P: 011-26134103, 26890380; F: 011-26130817
W: www.devalt.org
English Title: Song of the Forest: Yanomamo
Language: English
Duration: 54 min
Format: DVD
Subject Focus: The Amazon rainforest and its devastation
Synopsis: Yanomamo is a musical which tells the story
of the Amazon rainforest, the Indians who live there, and
the destruction of the forest brought about by reckless
development. Written by two teachers from St. Augustine’s
High School in Lancashire, UK, it is performed by the
school’s choir and musicians together with the rock-singer
Sting, an old pupil from the school. The musical is a
powerful plea for preserving the Yanomamo’s land and
traditional way of life.
Director: Richard Keefe
Producer: Richard Keefe
Production Company: North South Productions, Central
Independent TV
Contact Details:
P: 011-26134103, 26890380; F: 011-26130817
W: www.devalt.org
English Title: State of the Planet
Language: English
Duration: 147 min
Format: DVD
Producer: Rupert Barrington
Contact Details:
P: 011-23711401, 51497237 (D), 23711401; F: 011-23710717
English Title: Suits and Savages — Why the
World Bank Won’t Save the World
Original Title: Suits and Savages — Why the World Bank
Won’t Save the World
Language: English & Kannada (with English subtitles
where Kannada is spoken)
Duration: 38 min
Subject Focus: The Global Environment Facility (GEF)
and its ecodevelopment agenda
Synopsis: The Global Environment Facility (GEF) looks
promising on paper: with US $2.5 billion dollars from the
world’s governments to spend on global green aid, and
an inclusive, democratic model of governance. But does
this newest of the international financial institutions live
up to its own rhetoric? The film looks at a GEF/World Bank
ecodevelopment project from the ground up — traveling
between one remote tribe in India and another, more
powerful, in Washington DC, spanning the gulf between
their environments with a video letter from the forest to
the Bank.
Directors: Zoe Young & Dylan Howitt
Producers: Conscious Cinema, Zoe Young & Dylan Howitt
Contact Details:
Zoe Young & Dylan Howitt
100, Bayswater Rd, London W2, UK
P: 44-207-7232875
English Title: Swaran Patri
Language: Hindi
Subject Focus: Medicinal plants
Synopsis: The programme is a part of a series on
medicinal plants targeted at secondary-level students, and
highlights the medicinal values of the plant called Swaran
Patri.
Contact Details:
P: 011-26864801, 26864802, 26864803; F: 011-26864141
W: www.ciet.nic.in
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English Title: Swarming Hordes
English Title: Taru
Language: English
Duration: 45 min
Format: 16 mm
Language: English
Duration: 19 min
Format: 35 mm
Subject Focus: Insects
Synopsis: The film explores the history of insects and
their interdependence and coevolution with the plants that
support them.
Technology (CIET)
Contact Details:
P: 011-26864801, 26864802, 26864803; F: 011-26864141
W: www.ciet.nic.in
Synopsis: This is a story of a man and a tree and their
life-long relationship. At a subtle level, Taru points to man’s
wanton exploitation of nature and its grim consequences,
which could be avoided only if man treats his environment
with care and concern.
Director: Ram Mohan
Contact Details:
Mumbai 400 026 India
P: 022-23526798, 23516136; F: 022-23522610
W: www.cfsindia.org
English Title: Symphony in Green
Duration: 26 min
Format: Betacam
Subject Focus: Participatory management of forests
English Title: Tensions — Maharashtra Social
Forestry Programme
Duration: 22 min
Format: U-Matic
Synopsis: Forests, our national wealth, are being
destroyed at a rapid rate. The government has initiated
programmes to stop this destruction. This film takes a look
at two of these programmes: Joint Forest Management
(JFM) and the Village Ecodevelopment (VED)
programmes as part of the Social Forestry Scheme. These
programmes aim to save the forests by involving the local
communities in their management.
Subject Focus: Deforestation and social forestry
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
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Synopsis: The programme deals with the causes of
deforestation in India, and showcases the reforestation
measures adapted by the Maharashtra state forest
department.
English Title: Thar Registan — Ek Jeevant
Paridrashya
English Title: The ‘Savage’ Strikes Back Series
(Prog. I: Flames in the Forests)
Format: Betacam
Language: English
Duration: 53 min
Format: DVD
Subject Focus: The Thar desert
Subject Focus: Amazon’s indigenous communities’ fight
for control over their resources
Synopsis: The film depicts the ecology of the Thar desert
and the lifestyles and culture of the people who inhabit it.
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
English Title: Thar Registan — Jeevan Vividhata
Format: Betacam
Subject Focus: The Thar desert
Synopsis: Like deserts elsewhere in the world, Indian
deserts too are shrinking because of environmental
reasons. The film documents the beauty and variety of
the Thar, and the necessity for preserving it.
Synopsis: The episode tells the story of the Amazonian
Indians’ resistance to multinational oil companies’ invasion
of their traditional forest lands in Ecuador.
Directors: Alan Hayling, Luke, Holland, Hugh Brody, Nigel
Markham, Claudio van Planta, Graham Chase, Vasudha
Joshi and Ranjan Paiit
Producers: Alan Hayiing/Luke Hoiiand
Production Company: Nexus Features
Contact Details:
P: 011-26134103, 26890380; F: 011-26130817
W: www.devalt.org
English Title: The ‘Savage’ Strikes Back Series
(Prog. Ill: Rebels of the Forgotten World)
Language: English
Duration: 53 min
Format: DVD
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
Subject Focus: Indigenous communities’ fight for control
over their resources — West Papua
Synopsis: This episode is filmed in the tropical forests of
West Papua, in the western half of the island of New
Guinea. It looks at the armed tribal opposition by guerrilla
leaders of the Free West Papua Movement (OPM) to
Indonesia’s controversial transmigration project, which
involves relocating thousands of peasants from the overpopulated islands of Java and Bali to West Papua.
Directors: Alan Hayling, Luke, Holland, Hugh Brody, Nigel
Markham, Claudio van Planta, Graham Chase, Vasudha
Joshi and Ranjan Paiit
Producers: Alan Hayiing/Luke Hoiiand
Production Company: Nexus Features
Contact Details:
P: 011-26134103, 26890380; F: 011-26130817
W: www.devalt.org
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English Title: The Blue Mountains: Land of
Biodiversity
Duration: 19 mins 16sec
Format: Betacam
English Title: The Changing Nature of a Wetland
Format: U-Matic
Subject Focus: Wetlands of Ujjaini, Maharashtra
Subject Focus: The biodiversity of the Nilgiris
Synopsis: The Blue Mountains – known as Nilgiris —
preserved by the people of the hills over the centuries, is
now threatened by degradation because of improper land
use and environmental mismanagement. Frequent
landslides, soil erosion and flooding of rivers have been
the results. The programme looks at these issues, as also
the initiatives to save the Niligris.
Production Company: AMAD
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
English Title: The Bounties of Nature
Language: English
Duration: 38 min
Format: VHS
Synopsis: The programme depicts successional changes
over the last five years in the plant and animal life in the
backwaters of the Ujjani irrigation project in Maharashtra.
These changes will progressively modify environmental
conditions in this area.
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
English Title: The Decision
Original Title: The Decision
Language: English (dubbed in English)
Format: Video
Subject Focus: Saving the environment
Subject Focus: Biodiversity
Synopsis: The film covers biodiversity in general, focusing
on the Himalayas, the flood plains of Brahmaputra in
Assam, and some estuarine ecosystems.
Producer: G. Hari
Contact Details:
The Secretary
New Delhi - 110 003 India
P: 91-11-2436 1896, 2436 0721
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Synopsis: A father decides to leave the Earth and settle
in new colonies on the Moon so that he can bring up his
son in a clean environment. The son, on the other hand,
is confident that the present situation on the Earth can be
changed and that he can do it with the support of his father.
The son’s optimism forces the father to change his mind.
The film demonstrates the despair faced by people when
it comes to the deteriorating environment, and its antidote:
the hope and promise held out by the young.
Director: Harold Raichur
Producer: Akhlaque Shaikh
Contact Details:
Harold Raichur
RH-81, Shrinivas Society, Flat No 17, Shahu Nagar
Pune 411 033, Maharashtra
M: 09850894075
English Title: The Fine Balance
English Title: The Guardian of Nature
Original Title: The Fine Balance
Language: English
Duration: 30 min
Format: DVD
Original Title: Nidhi Pedakanghalude Kaavalkkaran
Format: Betacam SP
Subject Focus: Park-people coexistence
Subject Focus: The life of Bhaskara Pillai
Synopsis: This is a portrayal of the collective efforts by
forest officers and NGOs to attain an eco-balance between
the last surviving gene pool of the Asiatic lion, and the
Maldhari and Siddi communities.
Synopsis: This documentary portrays the life of 63-yearold Bhaskara Pillai, who safeguards the biggest teak tree
in Asia in the deep forests of Edamalayar, Kerala. He has
spent 16 years of his life here, protecting the forest and
its resources.
Director: Darshan Dave
(PSBT)
Trust (PSBT)
Contact Details:
P: 011-24355941; F: 011-24353825
W: www.psbt.org
Director: Biju Pankaj
Producer: Surya TV Trivandrum
Production Company: Surya TV, Trivandrum
Contact Details:
Bureau Chief, Surya TV
41/2969, Kacheripady, Chittor Road, Cochin
Ernakulam 682 018, Kerala
P: 0424-2397977/8, M: 09895721732
English Title: The Landscape
English Title: The Greening of Thailand
Original Title: The Greening Of Thailand
Language: English
Duration: 53 min
Subject Focus: The environmental movement in Thailand
Synopsis: The great flood of 1988 was the starting point
of an environmental movement in Thailand. People were
rudely awakened to the fact that the devastating flood was
due to excessive logging and was entirely man-made. A
spontaneous surge of protest led to the formation of
several environmental groups. The film details some
examples where the power of people’s protests led to
environmental protection in Thailand.
Director: J. Edward Milner
Original Title: The Landscape
Language: Only music
Duration: 4 min
Format: 35 mm
Subject Focus: Nature and its degradation by man
Synopsis: Nature has given us so much, but our greed is
tearing it apart. We are digging our own grave through
this attitude, says the film.
Producer: Bankim
Contact Details:
Government of India
P: 022-23515422, 23513176, 23516931, 23513633
F: 022-23515308, 23511008
Contact Details:
P: 011-29955124, 29956110, 29956394; F: 011-29955879
W: www.cseindia.org
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English Title: The Last Show on Earth
English Title: The Lifeline of Pocharam
Original Title: The Last Show on Earth
Language: English
Duration: 102 min
Original Title: The Lifeline of Pocharam
Language: English
Format: U-Matic
Subject Focus: The Pocharam Wildlife Sanctuary and
its revival
Synopsis: Over the last few centuries, more than 400
known animal species and an unknown number of plant
species have become extinct. More are on their way to
extinction. But the conservation of these species is
inextricably linked, claims Philip Cayford, with the survival
of the human race. From the plains of South Dakota with
their protected buffalo herds to the snake stalls of Taiwan’s
markets, he travels the globe filming rare and endangered
animals, interviewing well-known conservationists, and
going undercover to observe illegal wildlife traffickers.
Director: Philip Cayford
Contact Details:
P: 011-29955124, 29956110, 29956394; F: 011-29955879
W: www.cseindia.org
Synopsis: The film demonstrates the inherent capacity
of nature to rejuvenate, provided sufficient protection is
accorded to it. Detailing the rich floral and faunal diversity
of Pocharam Wildlife Sanctuary, it also covers the role
played by the local community in protection and
management of the forest.
Producer: D. N. Reddy
Commissioning Agency: The Chief Conservator of
Forests (C.C.F.)-Wildlife
Contact Details:
D. N. Reddy
View Point , F. No. 303, Block III, C.B.R. Estates, Deepthisri
Nagar, Madinaguda, Hyderabad 500 050, Andhra Pradesh
P: 040-23041617
English Title: The Man Who Planted Mangroves
English Title: The Last Wilderness
Language: English
Subject Focus: Hyderabad’s green belt
Synopsis: A Park, named after Kasu Brahmananda
Reddy, a former Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh, has
come up in the stately Chiran Palace of the former Nizam
of Hyderabad. Situated well within the City, the Park acts
as Hyderabad’s ‘lung’ — preventing pollution, replenishing
the air and recharging groundwater. The Park is also
envisaged as a centre for spreading environmental
awareness among citizens.
Director: G. Sankar
Producer: Andhra Pradesh Forest department
Contact Details:
Mr. G. Shankar
Shankar Films, Plot No. 2, Venkatapuram Colony, Walker
Town, Secunderbad 500 025, Andra Pradesh
P: 040-750 2943
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Original Title: Kandal Pokkudan
Language: English, Malyalam (with English voiceover)
Format: Digital
Subject Focus: Conserving mangroves — the life and
work of Sri Pokkudan
Synopsis: The Man Who Planted Mangroves is a
biographical documentary about Sri Pokkudan, who has
planted about one lakh mangroves. It talks about his
experiences as a dalit, his political life, his inspiration to
plant mangroves, and his philosophy of life.
Producer: M. N. Surendran
Contact Details:
M. N. Surendran
Owner, ‘Nirbhinna’, Mundur, Thrissur 680 541, Kerala
P: 95487-2277268
English Title: The Mud Island
English Title: The Spirits of Forest
Original Title: The Mud Island
Language: English
Original Title: The Spirits of Forest
Language: English
Duration: 23 min
Subject Focus: Environmental degradation and its
impacts
Subject Focus: Sacred groves
Synopsis: The film’s story begins with a group of refugees
fleeing war, who escape to a beautiful island which has
lots of trees. They re-settle on this island, and cut the
trees for making their houses. Nature takes revenge: in a
night of torrential rains and landslides, the settlement is
destroyed and the island subsides into the seas.
Director: Anish P. Soman
Contact Details:
Anish P Soman
601, Gaurav Shikhar, Akash – C Wing, Thakkur Village
Kandivali (E), Mumbai 400 101
M: 09892621878
English Title: The Revival
Original Title: Sanjeevanam
Language: Malyalam (with English subtitles)
Format: Digital Video
Subject Focus: Regeneration of forests
Synopsis: Sanjeevanam is the true story of a man —
Kareem — and his mission: regeneration of a forest in
Kerala. Today, Kareem’s forest is a treat and an inspiration
for all nature lovers.
Director: Jobin Thomas
Producer: Ajish Jacob George
Production Company: Aliens
Contact Details:
Ajish Jacob George
E B No 6, Young Group Estate, Perintalmanna
Malappuram 679 325, Kerala
P: 04933-270397, M: 09846190497
Synopsis: Sacred groves are social practices, the cultural
codes which are embedded through years of practice and
ritual. They preach prudence in the use of resources in
the long term interest of communities. Sacred groves are
found thoughout India, though they are known by different
names.The purpose of a sacred grove is to manage and
protect forests in the name of god. There are no fences or
guards here; there is only faith and the community will.
But these days, these forests are disappearing. If they
are to remain, two things need to be done — local
community control must be strengthened, and we have
to rebuild faith in the wealth that our forests provide.
Director: Pradeep Saha
Producer: Centre for Science and Environment (CSE)
Contact Details:
P: 011-29955124, 29956110, 29956394; F: 011-29955879
W: www.cseindia.org
English Title: The Story of a Kaththa Forest
Format: Betacam
Synopsis: This film begins with the protagonist’s discovery
that Kaththa (catechu) comes from a tree. He then visits
the jungle where these trees grow and discovers that the
Kaththa forest was not a natural forest, but a man-made
plantation which in this case was suffering from fungal
diseases. The programme ends with a monkey, who turns
out to be the protagonist, preferring his natural forest to
the man-made plantation.
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
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English Title: The Thin Framework
English Title: The Tidal Rhythm
Language: English
Duration: 58 min
Language: English
Duration: 10 min
Subject Focus: The mangrove ecosystem of Bhitarkanika
in Orissa
Subject Focus: Tidal ecosystems
Synopsis: This documentary is a venture to generate
awareness about the uniqueness of a dynamic mangrove
ecosystem and its symbiotic relationship with the people,
and to solicit public participation for its preservation and
conservation. The film also talks about endangered
species like the Olive Ridley Sea turtles and their
protection.
Synopsis: This film examines the influence of the tidal
cycle on life forms in the tidal ecosystem. It focuses on
the life in the inter-tidal zone – the coastal area between
the low and high tides. The regular alteration between
submergence and emergence and the extreme variations
in temperature and salinity make it an exacting
environment. But this zone has witnessed the ability of
organisms to adapt — the most wonderful instance being
their adaptation to the rhythm of the tides.
Director: Bijaya Kumar Nanda
Contact Details:
Bijaya Kumar Nanda
Sandhan Foundation, D / 62, Block-11, Jayadev Vihar
Bhubaneswar 751 015, Orissa
P: 0674-550699, 3204212; F: 0674-553637
English Title: The Tidal Life of Krishna
Original Title: The Tidal Life of Krishna
Language: English
Format: U-Matic
Subject Focus: Conservation of the endangered
mangroves of the Krishna estuary
Synopsis: The film brings out the importance of conserving
the highly endangered and threatened mangrove forest
ecosystems. It also highlights how mangroves form
nurseries and breeding grounds for large number of fish
and prawn species, and how they shelter the villages and
human settlements along the coasts from the fury of nature.
Producer: D. N. Reddy
Commissioning Agency: The Chief Conservator of
Forests (C.C.F.)-Wildlife
Contact Details:
D. N. Reddy
F. No. 303, Block III, C.B.R. Estates, Deepthisri Nagar
Madinaguda, Hyderabad 500 050, Andhra Pradesh
P: 040-23041617
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Director: Sanjay P. K.
Producer: Centre for Development of Imaging
Technology (C-DIT)
Commissioning Agency: Centre for Development of
Contact Details:
Manoj Krishnan P.
P: 0471-2330081; M: 09447886486
F: 0471-2333735, 2328659
W: www.cdit.org
English Title: The Tragedy
Original Title: The Tragedy
Language: Only music
Duration: 7 min
Format: 35 mm
Synopsis: This film documents man’s devastation of
nature, which fuels his own demise.
Producer: Arun Gongade
Contact Details:
Government of India
P: 022-23515422, 23513176, 23516931, 23513633
F: 022-23515308, 23511008
English Title: The Tree
English Title: The Way
Original Title: Maram
Language: Visual film with no spoken Language
Format: MINI DV
Original Title: The Way
Language: English
Format: Digital Camera 102 A, Panasonic
Subject Focus: Social consciousness about environment
Subject Focus: Saving animal life
Synopsis: The film is aimed at provoking social
consciousness about saving environment and trees —
by talking about a tree that stood for 60 years before being
relegated to memories.
Synopsis: The film shows how different people react
differently to animals and environment. A two-wheeler
driver wantonly runs over a frog trying to cross a road,
while a boy witnessing the event tries to save the creature.
Director: Omar Chakkarvarthy M.
Director: J Ram
Producer: Amirtha Jagan
Production Company: Spectrum Film Makers
Contact Details:
Omar Chakkaravarthy M.
8868, Thirumayam Road, Opp Rose Land
Pudukkottai 622 001, Tamil Nadu
P: 04322-265891
Contact Details:
J Ram
S/o D. Jagadeesan, No.13, Ganesh Nagar, II Cross,
Pathrikuppam, Cuddalore 607 002, Tamil Nadu,
P: 04142-570564; M: 09345401874
English Title: The Wake Up Call
Original Title: The Wake Up Call
Language: English
Format: AVI
English Title: The Woodcutter
Subject Focus: Environmental conservation
Synopsis: This film is about a character who symbolizes
Man. He leads a peaceful existence on earth, protected
by a tree, which is symbolic of Nature. But in his greed
and arrogance, Man wants to dominate over all creatures
and thinks he can exist without the tree. So he uproots it.
But his pride turns to despair when he is left helpless before
the vagaries of nature and climate.
Synopsis: A short animation on the importance of trees,
the film begins with a cheerful picture of a jungle where
animals, birds and trees co-exist in peace. But their
peaceful life is soon upset by the appearance of a
woodcutter who wants to chop down a tree. The tree runs
to save itself and is followed by the woodcutter brandishing
his axe. Exhausted by the chase in the hot sun, the
woodcutter stops to catch his breath. The fleeing tree offers
him shade and fruits to eat — and it transforms the
woodcutter into a friend of the trees.
Directors: Leslie Dias & Vinayak D. Naik
Producer: Mr. Sreedhar V. T.
Production Company: ANTS (Animation Training School)
Contact Details:
Indrani G
ANTS, II Floor RD Complex, 8th Main Basavesh Waranagar
P: 080-51287127-128; M: 09886550638
W: www.antsindia.com
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Language: English
Directors: Prabhash Bhatnagar, Atul K. Garg
Producer: Image
Contact Details:
Prabhash Bhatnagar, Atul K. Garg
B-91/2, East of Kailash, New Delhi 110 065
P: 011-26250105; F: 011-26251832
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English Title: …There is a Fire in your Forest
English Title: Tinku Lives in Heaven
Language: English
Duration: 58 min
Original Title: Tinku Lives in Heaven
Language: English
Duration: 75 min
Format: Betacam SP
Subject Focus: Displacement of indigenous people from
Kanha National Park
Synopsis: Who does the forest belong to? Who should it
be conserved for? In the film, wildlife photojournalist
Sanjay Sharma travels into the Park with Anita Pawar,
who works with the displaced adivasis of Kanha. He
interacts with the villagers of Mawala on the buffer of
Kanha, who have clear-felled 100 acres of prime forest
for farming, unable to survive the choking off of their nistar
(collection of MFP) rights.
Contact Details:
Krishendu Bose
New Delhi 110 024
P: 011-24625896, 24636021; F: 011-24647310
English Title: Threatened Ecosystems in India
Duration: 20 min
Format: U-Matic
Subject Focus: Ethical treatment of animals and
environmental degradation
Synopsis: In the film, the protagonist — a 13-year-old
girl named Vani — and her friends try to save the
environment and its innocent creatures from the cruelty
of man.
Director: J Dayanand Reddy
Producer: Ms. Sangita Deshmukh
Production Company: STEP (Society for Training and
Empowerment for People)
Contact Details:
Sangeeta Deshmukh
203, Sweta Appartment, Himayat Nagar, Hyderabad 500 029
Andhra Pradesh
P: 040-27661465, M: 09849131645
English Title: Traditions — Bio-diversity in Indian
Agriculture
Language: English
Duration: 24 min
Subject Focus: Ecosystems of India
Synopsis: This film discusses the various ecosystems in
India which are at the threshold of extinction. In the
process, it attempts to answer questions like what is an
ecosystem and how has mankind affected natural
ecosystems in India.
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
Subject Focus: Biodiversity and community-based
conservation in Indian agriculture
Synopsis: The film is a comprehensive study of age-old
wisdom and biodiversity in Indian agriculture. It traces the
similarities between various regions in their efforts in
conservation of traditional knowledge — a field in which South
Asia is fast emerging as a pioneer. Communities here are
digging deep into their past and reviving powerful traditions
of communal decision-making, as also adjusting to new
circumstances and challenges. On the other side, the region’s
countries are revamping their planning and policy framework
to facilitate community-based conservation.
Director: Emani Krishna Rao
Producer: Doordarshan Kendra, Hyderabad
Contact Details:
Doordarshan Kendra
Ramanthapur, Hyderabad 500 013, Andhra Pradesh
P: 040-703 8761; F: 040-703 8790
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English Title: Trees Give Life
English Title: Unearthed Hell
Original Title: Jhad e to Jeevan
Language: Gujarati/Hindi/English (subtitles)
Duration: 23 min
Format: U-Matic
Original Title: Unearthed Hell
Language: Hindi (dubbed in English)
Subject Focus: Ecological awareness and conservation
Subject Focus: Degradation of forests and its impact on
humans
Synopsis: Trees Give Life is a programme to educate
and inspire children and adults to preserve this beautiful
earth. Presented through Bhavai (the traditional folk
dance-drama of Gujarat) and puppetry, the programme
challenges all to act in favour of ecological preservation
and restoration.
Synopsis: The story of the film is based on the spread of
a deadly disease — fluorosis — in Jharkhand. More than
70 villages in the state have reported very high fluoride
content in their water. Studies indicate that deforestation
has led to a decrease in underground water levels — and
to the disease.
Director: Rappai Poothokaren, SJ
Producer: Rappai Poothokaren, SJ
Production Company: Gurjarvani, Ahmedabad
Director: Sudhir Pal
Producer: Sudhir Pal
Production Company: Manthan Yuva Sansthan
Contact Details:
Rappai Poothokaren, SJ
Gurjarvani, St. Xavier’s College Campus
Ahmedabad 380 009, Gujarat
P: 079-26300127, 26303114
Contact Details:
Sudhir Pal
Mathan Yuva Sansthan, Hindpiri, 3rd Street, Ranchi 834 001
Jharkhand
P: 0651-2202202, M: 09431325249
English Title: Trials of Life: The Complete Series
English Title: Van aur Hum
Language: English
Duration: 358 min
Format: DVD
Language: Hindi
Subject Focus: Environment conservation
Producer: BBC
Contact Details:
P: 011-23711401, 51497237 (D), 23711401; F: 011-23710717
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Synopsis: The programme focuses on the importance of
forests.
Contact Details:
P: 011-26864801, 26864802, 26864803; F: 011-26864141
W: www.ciet.nic.in
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English Title: Van Laxmi
English Title: Vanishing Forests
Language: English (voiceover)
Format: PAL, U-Matic, Colour
Language: English
Duration: 29 min
Format: DVD
Subject Focus: Deforestation and the future of rainforests
Subject Focus: Wasteland development by women
Synopsis: This film depicts how women in Ganeshpura,
Mehsana district, regenerated wasteland by organizing
themselves into a cooperative society and working
together to re-green the land.
Contact Details:
SEWA
Krushna Bhavan, Opp Sakar-II, Ellisbridge
P: 079-26580474; F: 079-26587708
W: www.sewa.org
English Title: Van Patra
Original Title: Van Patra
Language: Nagpuri
Format: Betacam SP
Synopsis: Tropical rainforests, covering one-sixth of the
earth’s land and home to half of all the living species, are
being destroyed at an alarming rate. Half of the rainforests
have been cleared this century and, by the middle of the
next century, there may not be any rainforests left. The
film explores various issues involved with the problem of
deforestation in Third World countries.
Producers: Robert Lamb and Bruno Sorrentino
Production Company: TVE, Jordan Radio and TV Corp.
Contact Details:
P: 011-26134103, 26890380; F: 011-26130817
W: www.devalt.org
English Title: Vanishing Forests
Format: Betacam
Subject Focus: Saving forests
Synopsis: The programme aims at sending out a message
against deforestation and exhorting people to adopt
plantation to save forests. The programme was produced
in the local Nagpuri Language of Jharkhand to
communicate the intended message effectively.
Synopsis: Natural forests have vanished; man has
converted them into plantations. Population growth,
increased urbanization, industrialization and consumption
are all leading to the depletion of forests. Conservation is
the only way out, says the film.
Producer: Lalit Kumar
Contact Details:
Doordarshan Kendra
Ratu Road, Ranchi 834 001, Jharkhand
P: 0561-282 192
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Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
English Title: Vasundhara (Forest Trees and
People)
English Title:
(Vasundhara)
Vasundhra
Mangroves
Date/Month/Year of Production: Septmber 1997
Language: English
Format: Betacam
Language: English
Format: Betacam
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
English Title: Vasundhra (Sacred Grove)
English Title: Vatavaran (Tree Conservation)
Language: English
Format: Betacam
Original Title: Vatavaran (Tree Conservation)
Language: English
Format: Animation Movie
Subject Focus: Afforestation
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
Synopsis: The protagonist of the film, a Robot, is
destroying the forest and building houses in the area.
Animals too, of course, make way for the houses. While
destroying the forest, the Robot finds the Green Forest
Book, which tells him that forests should be preserved.
He stops destroying them and starts afforestation.
Director: M. Bala Mohana Vivek
Producer: M. Bala Mohana Vivek
Contact Details:
M. Bala Mohana Vivek
390, Jawahar Bazar, Karur 639 001, Tamil Nadu
P: 04324-261823, 261528
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English Title: Vatsi 1: A Boat with a Difference
English Title: Vriksha Mapak Yantra
Duration: 16 min
Format: VHS
Format: Betacam
Subject Focus: Eco-friendly boats for fishermen
Subject Focus: The DSC, an instrument to measure trees
Synopsis: The scarcity of wood for making boats has hit
the fishermen of Tamil Nadu very hard. But help is at hand:
a boat made from high density polythene pipes. CAPART
is facilitating the extension of this technology to other
states.
Synopsis: This film showcases an instrument, known as
the DSC, to measure a tree. The DSC helps researchers
find out information like circumference of the main stem,
and the height, weight and age of the tree.
Contact Details:
Technology (CAPART)
New Delhi 110 003
P: 011-24642391,24642393,24642395
F: 011-24648607, 24625822
English Title: Vriksh Lagao
Language: Hindi
Subject Focus: Benefits of tree plantation
Synopsis: The film points out that deforestation could
trigger droughts. The only way to stop it is by saving trees
for a sustainable future.
Director: Kamal Sharma
Contact Details:
Kamal Sharma
Stuti Films, 1903, Gali Mata Wali, Chira Khana, Chandni
Chowk, Delhi 110 006
P: 011-23254195
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Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
English Title: Vrikshamitra
Language: Hindi
Format: Betacam SP
Synopsis: A small girl plants a seedling and helps it grow
into a tree. When a woodcutter comes to cut it, she makes
every effort to save the tree. Through this story, the film
attempts to inspire young viewers to save trees.
Director: Master Darpan
Producer: Mayur Vaishnav
Contact Details:
Hemant Nanavati
Rupayatan, Giri Taleti, Bhavnath, Junagadh 362 004, Gujarat
P: 0285-2627573
English Title: Vrksamitra — A Friend of Trees
English Title: Where The Tallest Grass Grows
Format: Betacam
Language: English
Duration: 29 mins
Format: Beta
Subject Focus: Uses of trees and nature
Synopsis: In the land of Assam, bamboo grows tall and
figures ubiquitously in life and beliefs, in legends and
history. This film portrays man’s intimate bond with
bamboo, the tallest grass species, without which life at
the grassroots is impossible even for a single day. Shot
across the hills and plains of the Brahmaputra Valley of
Assam, the film not only highlights man’s bond with
bamboo, but also covers 13 rare and easily available
species of the tallest grass found in Assam. In portraying
the age-old tradition of bamboo culture the film suggests
the possibilities of developing the tradition for the benefit
of those at the grassroots keeping the culture alive since
long.
Synopsis: Herbal medicines have played a major role in
traditional healthcare systems courted by indigenous
peoples and tribals. This programme is an attempt to show
that nature has tremendous powers which, if tapped and
utilized properly, can give miraculous results.
Production Company: ECAL
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
English Title: Ways and Words
Original Title: Ways and Words
Duration: 26 min
Format: HD MINI DV
Synopsis: In this film, narrow alleys and rural by-lanes
evoke nostalgia and memories in Malayalees.
Awards received by Film: the Best Cinematography
Award in the 2001 UGC – CEC Festival of Educational
Films. This film was also screened as a part of a Special
Package on North-east in MIFF, 2006.
Director: Mauleenath Senapati
Production Company: EMPC - IGNOU, New Delhi
Contact Details:
Mauleenath Senapati
K-202, Arunodoy Apartment, 3, Basisthapur by-lane, Beltola
Guwahati 781 028 Assam
P: 361-2263092, M: 9435017554
Director: R G Gopanarayanan
Producer: Dinesh Melekkamalasseri
Production Company: Chrisalis
Contact Details:
Gopanarayanan R G
Sreevalsam, Vaidyanangadi P O, Ramanattukar (Via)
Kozhikode 673 633, Kerala
P: 0495-2440033; M: 09895434022
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English Title: Wilderness Lost and Drying
Watershed
Language: English
Duration: 3 min
Format: VHS
English Title: Wood for the Tree-1
Language: English
Format: U-Matic
Subject Focus: Link between forests and the rural poor
Subject Focus: Impacts of deforestation
Synopsis: The film studies the impact of deforestation on
the environment and economy of a hill station located in
Tamil Nadu.
Synopsis: The film discusses the crucial link between
forests and the rural poor. It also highlights the impact of
the degradation of forests on peoples’ lives.
Environment (CSE)
Contact Details:
P: 011-29955124, 29956110, 29956394; F: 011-29955879
W: www.cseindia.org
English Title: Wings of Change
Original Title: Wings of Change
Language: English
Duration: 30 min
Format: Betacam
Subject Focus: People-park conflict
Synopsis: The film is on the people-park conflict at
Keoladeo National Park (Bharatpur) and its resolution.
Commissioning Agency: Bombay Natural History
Society (BNHS)
Contact Details:
Krishnendu Bose
New Delhi 110 024
P: 011-24625896, 24654221; F: 011-24647310
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Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
English Title: Wooden Wonder
Original Title: Wooden Wonder
Language: Gujarati/Hindi/English (subtitles)
Duration: 19 min
Format: DV/VCD, DVD
Subject Focus: Recycling
Synopsis: This is a programme on people who recycle
wood. Discarded wood from packing cases is converted
into good household furniture, which are used by the poor.
Contact Details:
P: 079-26300127, 26303114
English Title: Woods Were Lovely Dark and
Deep….
Original Title: Woods Were Lovely Dark and Deep….
Language: English
Format: Betacam
Subject Focus: Conservation of biodiversity — access
to traditional knowledge and benefit sharing
Synopsis: An indigenous Indian tribe, the Kanis of
Agsthayar Hills in Kerala, has been awarded the
Intellectual Property Rights to the active ingredients of a
plant long known to it, which helps combat stress. This
move, the government hopes, will end the ‘piracy’ of tribal
knowledge by drug companies. While tracing the history
of the case itself and trying to understand the issue of
access to traditional knowledge and benefit sharing, the
film probes an equally larger issue of biodiversity
conservation, IPR regimes and patent debates.
Producer: Dinesh Lakhanpal
Commissioning Agency: IUCN
Contact Details:
Dinesh Lakhanpal
Producer/Director, Lakhanpal Productions, 48/C-I, Areshwar
Mhada, S.V.P. Nagar, Andheri (W), Mumbai 400 053
P: 022-26391666; M: 098201 81979; F: 022-26391666
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English Title: Worship with a Difference
Original Title: Worship with a Difference
Language: English
Format: Betacam SP
Subject Focus: Conservation and environmental
awareness
Synopsis: About 10 lakh people travel on foot from Alandi
to Pandharpur with the Palkhi of Sant Tukaram and Sant
Dyaneshwar from Maharashtra. Using this opportunity,
National Service Scheme students of Pune University
travelled along with the Warkaris, spreading the message
of tree plantation and soil and water conservation.
Director: Vivek Harihar Nabar
Producer: Educational Multimedia Research Centre
Centre (EMRC)
Contact Details:
Mr. S D Walvekar
EMMRC, University of Pune, Pune 411 007, Maharashtra
P: 020-25690701; F: 020-25690315
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Eco-tourism
English Title: A Tribute to Himalaya
English Title: Baraka
Language: Sanskrit
Format: Betacam SP
Original Title: Baraka
Duration: 92 min
Subject Focus: The Himalayas
Synopsis: This film is based on Sanskrit hymns from
Kalidas’ Kumarsambhavam , depicting the glorious
Himalayas. The hymn refers to these mountains as the
“unique creation of God”, whose rivers, trees and forests
motivate man to meditate and live. Saluting the “majestic
Himalayas”, the hymn exhorts Indians not to destroy its
pristine beauty.
Director: Biyot Projna Tripathy
Producer: Biyot Projna Tripathy
Contact Details:
Biyot Projna Tripathy
1, Narmada Road, Nildih, Jamshedpur 831 003, Jharkhand
P: 0657-2270951; M: 9334814751
English Title: Ayyappa Poongavanom
Language: English
Duration: 33 min
Format: Betacam SP
Subject Focus: A message to pilgrims of Lord Ayyappa
temple about their duty towards forests
Synopsis: The shrine of Lord Ayyappa and his
mountainous abode of Poongavanom at Sabarimala lies
inside the Periyar Tiger Reserve. The shrine attracts
millions of devotees. Over the years, the biotic pressure
on the surrounding forests has increased and the
environmental impact has become manifold. The film
attempts to showcase to pilgrims the richness of the
biodiversity that Lord Ayyappa’s Poongavanom holds, and
the importance of protecting it.
Director: Suresh Elamon
Producer: Suresh Elamon
Contact Details:
Suresh Elamon
Birdwing, CIT Road, Karamana P.O.
Trivandrum 695 002, Kerala
P: 0471-2343505, M: 09447020059
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Synopsis: Shot in 24 countries, Baraka is a journey to
show the beauty of nature and how man has destroyed it.
The stunning shots are coupled with a rich soundrack
which includes onsite recordings of the monks of the Dip
Tse Chok Ling Monastery.
Director: Ron Fricke
Producer: Magidson Films
Contact Details:
Janice Evans
English Title: Hands On — Think Global, Act
Natural
Language: English
Duration: 26 min
Subject Focus: Eco-tourism involving local communities
Synopsis: The film introduces six stories on eco-tourism.
These include stories about the Maasai in Kenya, who
have switched from being warriors to eco-warriors and
the Ese’Eja indigenous people in Peru, who function as
guides for intrepid tourists who want the authentic ‘jungle’
experience.
Contact Details:
P: 011-29955124, 29956110, 29956394; F: 011-29955879
W: www.cseindia.org
Eco-Tourism
English Title: Ladakh, the Land of Mystery
English Title: Nepal Roadshow
Language: English
Format: Betacam SP
Original Title: Nepal Roadshow
Language: English
Duration: 26 min
Subject Focus: Ladakh
Synopsis: Ladakh, the land of many passes, is a
civilization and a world on its own. Nowhere in India is
man so dependent on nature as he is in Ladakh. The film
documents the beauty of this land, with the extraordinary
Nubra valley and the Pengyong-so Lake. But isolated as
they are amidst the Himalayan ranges, are Ladakhis at a
safe distance from the complexities of the modem survival
process?
Director: Biyot Projna Tripathy
Producer: Biyot Projna Tripathy
Contact Details:
Biyot Projna Tripathy
1, Narmada Road, Nildih, Jamshedpur 831 003, Jharkhand
P: 0657-2270951; M: 9334814751
English Title: Ladakh, Unraveling an Enigma
(Moosa Ali’s Camel, ‘Enroute to Karakorams’)
Original Title: Ladakh, Unraveling an Enigma (Moosa Ali’s
Camel, ‘Enroute to Karakorams’)
Language: English
Format: Betacam
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
Subject Focus: Environmental issues in Nepal; recycling
in Denmark
Synopsis: The Nepal Roadshow visits a park high up in
the eastern Himalayas, which is now to be protected as a
‘Gift to the Earth’. It also shows how the National Park
provides refuge for sloth bears and a recovering rhino
population. The team looks at the harmful impacts of
tourism on the fragile economy of the Himalayas — and
on Kathmandu’s ancient water system. The Hands-On
feature shows how recycling has become a way of life for
the people of Frederica in Denmark.
Contact Details:
P: 011-29955124, 29956110, 29956394; F: 011-29955879
W: www.cseindia.org
English Title: Ocean’s Vengeance – Digha,
West Bengal
Language: English
Duration: 30 min
Subject Focus: Digha and the hazards of unplanned
tourism
Synopsis: An example of how the indiscriminate growth
of travel trade is wreaking havoc on our environment is
the sea resort of Digha on the West Bengal coast. This
magnificent beach is now eroding at a rapid pace.
Mushrooming hotels on the seaside have destroyed the
natural barrier – the sea. And now the ocean is seeking
vengeance that may cause Digha to go under water
forever.
Contact Details:
P: 011-26134103, 26890380; F: 011-26130817
W: www.devalt.org
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English Title: Perspectives on Mountain Tourism-2
(Badrinath Zone: Impacts and Implications)
Language: English
Format: Betacam
Subject Focus: Mountain tourism and its environmental
implications
Synopsis: The programme deals with the various impacts
and implications of tourism on environment, local
infrastructure and community development.
English Title: The Green Brigade
Language: English
Duration: 30 min
Subject Focus: Initiative to stop degradation brought
about by unplanned tourism
Synopsis: Most hill stations in India have lost their forest
cover to commercialisation and tourism. A new initiative
has been launched in Mussourie by four battalions of exservicemen to undo this damage.
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
Contact Details:
P: 011-26134103, 26890380; F: 011-26130817
W: www.devalt.org
English Title: The Earthworkers
(Paradise Lost and Found)
English Title: The Hanjees Livelihood at
Crossroad
Language: English
Format: Betacam
Original Title: The Hanjees Livelihood at Crossroad
Language: English (with subtitles)
Duration: 41 min
Format: Sony DV CAM (PD-170)
Subject Focus: Eco-tourism
Synopsis: Whenever we want to take a break, out comes
a set of glossy tourist guides. Over the years, the much
publicised destinations have received so many tourists
that today, they are gasping for breath. But tourism is a
flourishing industry, and alternatives are needed. Which
is where the new perspective of eco-tourism steps in. This
is not just tourism, but responsible nature-based travel
that conserves the environment and also improves the
welfare of the local people.
Subject Focus: The community of ‘Hanjees’ and
environmental degradation of the Dal Lake
Synopsis: In Kashmir, shikaras (house boats) have lost
their glory and their owners have been suffering for the
last 15 years because of militancy. Tourist inflow has
almost stopped. Environmental degradation of lakes and
rivers is reaching alarming levels. Giving special attention
to the community of Hanjees, the film tracks a few
members to find out how they sustained their livelihoods
during the troubled years.
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
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Director: Snehasis Das
Producer: Snehasis Das
Production Company: Snehasis Das
Contact Details:
Snehasis Das
1478, Lodhi Road Complex, New Delhi 110 003
M: 9811156383
Eco-Tourism
English Title: Tourism in Andaman & Nicobar
Language: English
Duration: 30 min
Subject Focus: Eco-tourism in the Andamans
Synopsis: The film highlights an effort by a hotel chain to
educate local people and tourists on eco-tourism. In its
day-to-day affairs, the hotel has introduced measures
which help in conserving water and preventing land
degradation.
Contact Details:
P: 011-26134103, 26890380; F: 011-26130817
W: www.devalt.org
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Energy
English Title: 15 Points for Drivers to Save Diesel
English Title: A Return to Nature
Language: English/Hindi
Duration: 21 min
Language: English
Format: U-Matic
Subject Focus: Heavy vehicle maintenance
Synopsis: The film is a guide to maintaining buses and
trucks.
Producer: Executive Director, PCRA
Production Company: Petroleum Conservation
Research Association (PCRA)
Contact Details:
Petroleum Conservation Research Association (PCRA)
Sanrakshan Bhavan, 10 Bhikaiji Cama Place
New Delhi 110 066
P: 011- 26198809; F: 011-26109668
W: www.pcra.org
Subject Focus: Alternative sources of energy
Synopsis: The programme is on alternative sources of
energy, such as solar energy, biogas and wind energy.
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
English Title: An Area of Darkness
English Title: A Burning Issue
Original Title: A Burning Issue
Language: English
Duration: 8 min
Original Title: An Area of Darkness
Duration: 22 min
Format: DV CAM
Subject Focus: Energy
Subject Focus: Initiative to stop land degradation
Synopsis: The film documents an innovative aid project
trying to relieve pressure on grazing lands by introducing
a new fuel-efficient stove that uses less wood.
Contact Details:
P: 011-29955124, 29956110, 29956394; F: 011-29955879
W: www.cseindia.org
Synopsis: The film focuses on life in rural India after
sunset, as millions of homes sink into darkness without
electricity. It highlights how villagers who have waited for
decades to see light at the end of the tunnel have finally
been able to turn night into day, by generating electricity
through renewable energy. Contrary to the conventional
wisdom, the film drives home a point: the best reason to
think that ‘a happier energy future awaits the world’s poor’
comes from the grassroots.
(TERI)
& Cooperation
Contact Details:
New Delhi 110 003
P: 011-24682100, 41504900; F: 011-24682144, 24682145
W: www.teriin.org
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Energy
(Solar Energy Appliances)
Original Title: Arid Zone Ecology Phase-1 (Solar Energy
Appliances)
Format: Betacam
English Title: Bio Urja ki Ujali Kiran
Original Title: Bio Urja ki Ujali Kiran
Language: Hindi
Format: Betacam SP
Subject Focus: Bio-diesel
Subject Focus: Solar energy appliances
Synopsis: This programme gives details of various solar
energy appliances which can be used in regions where
solar radiation is available in abundance.
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
Synopsis: The film aims to promote the use of bio-diesel
to save our environment.
Director: R. S. Sharma
Contact Details:
New Delhi 110 066
P: 011-26198809; F: 011-26109668
W: www.pcra.org
English Title: Ashtak — The Achievement
Original Title: Ashtak — The Achievement
Format: Betacam
Subject Focus: Harnessing renewable energy resources
in Auroville
Synopsis: This documentary talks about the renewable
energy resource systems — to harness solar and wind
energy — in Auroville, and explains the optimal use of
natural sources of energy available to us.
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
English Title: Bio-Diesel Resurrection of Honge
Oil
Original Title: Bio-Diesel Resurrection of Honge Oil
Format: Betacam
Subject Focus: Initiative to generate power from local
oilseeds
Synopsis: Ungra village, 100 km from Bangalore, is getting
electricity for lighting and for pumping drinking water using
oil from locally available Honge seeds. Honge oil, when
throughly cleaned, can be directly used in diesel engines.
The initiative is a part of a pilot project called SUTRA
managed by the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
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English Title: Biogas
English Title: Biogas, a Blessing
Original Title: Biogas
Language: English
Duration: 23 min
Original Title: Biogas, a Blessing
Language: English
Duration: 20 min
Format: 35 mm
Subject Focus: Biogas
Synopsis: In parts of India today, biogas provides a more
reliable source of power than the national grid. Long
promoted as the solution to the energy crisis of poor rural
communities who had exhausted their available resources
of biomass — like fuelwood — biogas is now gaining
ground in urban areas too: powering generators, cooking
stoves and even factories. Modern biogas digestors are
becoming an efficient supplementary power supply,
helping to lessen dependence on expensive fossil fuels.
And with India’s abundant supply of labour, biogas is finally
proving a viable energy source in paper and pulp industry,
distilleries, food process units and various other industries.
Director: Michèle Maillet
Contact Details:
P: 011-29955124, 29956110, 29956394; F: 011-29955879
W: www.cseindia.org
English Title: Biogas — Wealth & Waste
Original Title: Biogas — Wealth & Waste
Duration: 18 min
Format: U-Matic
Synopsis: The programme focuses on different types of
biogas plants.
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
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Synopsis: Biogas can be a boon for any household. On
one hand, it provides for a cleaner, healthier and happier
life; while on the other, it saves our forest wealth and keeps
the environment pollution-free.
Contact Details:
Government of India
P: 022-23515422, 23513176, 23516931, 23513633
F: 022-23515308, 23511008
English Title: Biogas — Gair-Paramparik Urja ka
Srota
Original Title: Biogas — Gair-Paramparik Urja ka Srota
Language: Hindi
Format: Betacam
Synopsis: Biogas uses animal excreta and agricultural
waste to produce energy. The residue of this process is
used as fertilizer for the soil. Non-traditional sources of
generating energy — such as biogas — are today making
an important contribution to the total energy reserves of
the country.
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
Energy
English Title: Bio-mass Gasifier, Odonthadai
English Title: Box Solar Cooker
Original Title: Bio-mass Gasifier, Odonthadai
Language: Hindi
Format: Betacam SP
Original Title: Box Solar Cooker
Format: Betacam
Subject Focus: Bio-mass use
Subject Focus: The box solar cooker — using renewable
energy to cook
Synopsis: The film aims to promote the use of bio-mass
for replacing conventional fuels.
Synopsis: The film demonstrates the use of the box solar
cooker for cooking food.
Directors: Asrar Shamse & Kailash Bhutani
Production Company: Superads
Contact Details:
New Delhi 110 066
P: 011-26198809; F: 011-26109668
W: www.pcra.org
English Title: Black Gold
Original Title: Black Gold
Duration: 22 min
Subject Focus: Petroleum and the Petroleum
Conservation Research Association (PCRA)
Synopsis: The film documents the energy scenario and
the activities undertaken by the Petroleum Conservation
Research Association (PCRA) in different sectors of the
economy.
Contact Details:
New Delhi 110 066
P: 011-26198809; F: 011-26109668
W: www.pcra.org
CMS ENVIS Centre
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
English Title: Burning Bright — Sun, a Viable
Energy Option
Original Title: Burning Bright — Sun, a Viable Energy
Option
Format: Betacam
Subject Focus: Solar energy
Synopsis: This programme presents the case for solar
energy, especially for a developing country like India. It
shows the different methods of harnessing solar energy
and how they have been integrated in a village near Delhi.
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
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English Title: Car Pool System
English Title: Clean Drive – CNG Cars
Original Title: Car Pool System
Language: Hindi
Duration: 20 min
Original Title: Clean Drive – CNG Cars
Language: English
Duration: 30 min
Subject Focus: Saving fuel
Subject Focus: Compressed Natural Gas (CNG)
Synopsis: The film features comedian Jaspal Bhatti, and
presents a case for saving fuel through car-pooling.
Synopsis: CNG gives more kilometres per rupee and
reduces pollution. CNG-run vehicles have 80-90 per cent
less carbon monoxide emissions and 50 per cent less
hydrocarbon emissions compared to petrol-run vehicles.
Contact Details:
New Delhi 110 066
P: 011-26198809; F: 011-26109668
W: www.pcra.org
English Title: Changing Climates: The Future
Original Title: Changing Climates: The Future
Language: English
Duration: 27 min
Subject Focus: New technologies to generate power from
clean and renewable sources
Synopsis: Hands-On brings information on what
entrepreneurs and individuals around the world are doing
in the fields of sustainable enterprise and appropriate
technology. In this film, it takes a look at some of the new
technologies that generate power from clean and
renewable sources.
Contact Details:
P: 011-26134103, 26890380; F: 011-26130817
W: www.devalt.org
English Title: Coal-1 (The Captive Sun)
Original Title: Coal-1 (The Captive Sun)
Format: Betacam
Subject Focus: Coal
Synopsis: This programme deals with the formation of
coal, its different types (peat, lignite, bituminous and
anthracite), and the main deposits in India.
Contact Details:
P: 011-29955124, 29956110, 29956394; F: 011-29955879
W: www.cseindia.org
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Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
Energy
English Title: Coal-2 (From Pithead to Blast
Furnace)
Original Title: Coal-2 (From Pithead to Blast Furnace)
Format: Betacam
English Title: Concentrator Solar Cooker
Format: Betacam
Subject Focus: Alternative energy-efficient methods of
cooking
Subject Focus: Coal mining
Synopsis: This episode on coal deals with the process of
extraction of coal, as well as the various uses of coal.
Methods such as underground mining and surface mining
have been focused on.
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
Synopsis: This programme discusses an alternative,
energy-efficient technology for cooking — the concentrator
solar cooker.
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
English Title: Deenbandhu
English Title: Coal-3 (Earth on Fire)
Original Title: Coal-3 (Earth on Fire)
Format: Betacam
Subject Focus: Impact of coal mining on environment
Synopsis: This third episode on coal deals with the
implications of coal mining for the environment. It looks
into the Environmental Management Plans which are put
into practice for countering this impact, the measures and
precautions taken by mining companies, and the problem
of technology and economic constraints.
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
CMS ENVIS Centre
Language: Hindi
Duration: 12 min
Format: VHS
Synopsis: This is a technical film demonstrating the
process of construction of a low-cost biogas plant for
meeting the fuel requirements of a family. The plant also
provides fertilizers for use in agricultural fields.
Contact Details:
Technology (CAPART)
New Delhi 110 003
P: 011-24642391, 24642393, 24642395
F: 011-24648607, 24625822
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English Title: Domestic Energy Management
English Title: Earth Report V: Water in Your Tank
Original Title: Domestic Energy Management
Format: U-Matic
Original Title: Earth Report V: Water in Your Tank
Language: English
Duration: 24 min
Subject Focus: Using solar energy in households
Synopsis: There are many simple ways with which we
can save energy as well as money. This programme
provides some guidelines on saving energy in the
domestic sector — especially with respect to electricity,
LPG and petroleum, the three main household energy
sources. Solar energy is the answer, and the programme
tells us how to instal and use solar-powered equipments
in the house.
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
English Title: Driving for Diesel Economy
Original Title: Driving for Diesel Economy
Duration: 18 min
Subject Focus: Fuel efficiency
Synopsis: The film offers tips to drivers on saving diesel.
Contact Details:
New Delhi 110 066
P: 011-26198809; F: 011-26109668
W: www.pcra.org
Subject Focus: Eco-friendly (hydrogen-powered) cars
Synopsis: Transport accounts for more than 20% of global
emissions of carbon dioxide — and the proportion is
growing rapidly. Cleaning up the internal combustion
engine or replacing it altogether is now an urgent priority
to combat climate change. This video looks into the cars
of the future and asks why they aren’t widely available
today. They look normal, but under the bonnet is a
remarkable technology — the fuel cell, which makes
electricity from hydrogen. While all the world’s big car
manufacturers are working on hydrogen-powered cars,
how quickly they can be introduced is still a matter of
contentious debate between environmentalists,
governments and the car industry.
Contact Details:
P: 011-29955124, 29956110, 29956394; F: 011-29955879
W: www.cseindia.org
English Title: Earth Report VI (Hands-On):
Fuel for Thought
Original Title: Earth Report VI (Hands-On): Fuel for
Thought
Language: English
Duration: 24 min
Subject Focus: Renewable energy initiatives
Synopsis: In this film on renewable energy, Italian engineers
make a breakthrough in tapping energy from hot springs; in
the Dominican Republic, solar energy has put slum dwellers
on the grid for the first time; in the UK, ASDA — a major
supermarket chain — is running its fleet of lorries on used
cooking oil; villagers in Kenya are benefiting from mini-hydro
stations; and in Bangladesh, solar-powered fridges are
ensuring that vaccines are conserved.
Contact Details:
P: 011-29955124, 29956110, 29956394; F: 011-29955879
W: www.cseindia.org
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Energy
English Title: Earth Report VIII: Smokeless in China
English Title: Energising – India
Original Title: Earth Report VIII: Smokeless in China
Language: English
Duration: 23 min
Original Title: Energising – India
Language: English
Subject Focus: Energy crisis in China and initiatives to
surmount it
Synopsis: China is the world’s fastest growing industrial
power-house. But the vast amount of energy needed to
drive this economy comes at a price. China has suffered
some of the worst environmental disasters in the world,
due in part, to the over-exploitation of its natural resources.
As demand for energy grows, the government is investing
in large-scale energy projects like the Three Gorges Dam.
These projects may be a short-term solution for delivering
energy to people in cities, but there are over 600 million
people living in rural areas who need energy to survive. In
one such area in Yunnan, new efforts are underway to
provide people with alternative, low-impact forms of energy.
Contact Details:
P: 011-29955124, 29956110, 29956394; F: 011-29955879
W: www.cseindia.org
English Title: Embig
Subject Focus: Indian corporate sector’s efforts towards
conservation and sustainable development
Synopsis: The Third World’s appetite for energy is
constantly on the rise. Reduction of energy consumption
can reduce costs and control pollution, thus improving
profit levels across industries. This reduction has been
achieved in India by improving the efficiency of industrial
operations and equipment — some of the notable cases
this film documents are INDAL in the aluminium sector,
Reliance in the petrochemicals sector and Raymond in
the textile sector. The film also highlights the role of GTZ
(German Technical Coorperation) for facilitating technical
support and know-how to these industries.
Director: Mr. Jyoti Sarup
Producers: Ms. Pampash Bhat and Dr. Albrecht Kaupp
Production Company: German Technical Cooperation
Contact Details:
GTZ, A-33, Gulmohar Park, New Delhi 110 049
P: 011-26611021; F: 011-26537673
W: www.asemindia.com
Original Title: Embig
Format: U-Matic
Subject Focus: Gasification systems
Synopsis: This programme throws light on the technology
for gasification and the various types of gasification
systems — especially the Dual Fuel System, which aims
to achieve energy conservation.
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
CMS ENVIS Centre
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English Title: Energy and Environment
English Title: Energy & Environment-2
Language: English
Duration: 3 capsules — 4.5 min each
Original Title: Energy & Environment-2
Format: Betacam
Subject Focus: Renewable energy and energy
conservation
Synopsis: Divided into three capsules, the film discusses
various options of renewable energy and its different
applications: energy from wind, which is increasingly
becoming commercially viable; co-generation plants in
industries that can generate excess electricity and be a
source for decentralised power; the technology of solar
photovoltaics that converts sunlight into electricity; and
compact fluorescent lamps that are an energy-saving
alternative.
Contact Details:
New Delhi 110 003
P: 011-24682100, 41504900; F: 011-24682144, 24682145
W: www.teriin.org
Format: Betacam
Subject Focus: Impact of energy generation on the
environment
Synopsis: There is an interrelationship between energy,
development and environment. There are certain risks for
the environment from each of the energy options that
mankind has today — this series of programmes explores
these risks in the case of a developing country like India.
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
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Subject Focus: Impact of energy generation on the
environment
Synopsis: There is an interrelationship between energy,
development and environment. There are certain risks for
the environment from each of the energy options that
mankind has today — this series of programmes explores
these risks in the case of a developing country like India.
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
Duration: 16 min
Format: Betacam
Subject Focus: Environment and development
Synopsis: Mankind must plan carefully to prevent
environmental degradation. At the same time, it should
give equal weightage to development. The film discusses
this necessary balance.
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
Energy
English Title: Energy and its Forms
English Title: Energy Conservation
Language: English
Duration: 11 min
Format: 16 mm
Original Title: Energy Conservation
Language:
Format: U-Matic
Subject Focus: Energy and its various forms
Synopsis: The film explains the basic concepts of energy
and presents examples of its principal forms, including
nuclear energy. It also illustrates how energy is converted
from one form into another (for example, solar into
chemical by photosynthesis in plants).
Technology (CIET)
Subject Focus: Energy conservation
Synopsis: The importance of energy conservation is dealt
with in this programme. Industries can conserve energy
by recycling energy that is wasted. An example of how
energy wasted by a diesel generator can be used, has
been documented.
Contact Details:
P: 011-26864801, 26864802, 26864803; F: 011-26864141
W: www.ciet.nic.in
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
English Title: Energy Conservation
English Title: Energy Consciousness in the
Commercial Sector
Original Title: Energy Consciousness in the Commercial
Sector
Language: Hindi
Duration: 30 min
Synopsis: This programme focuses on energy
conservation.
Contact Details:
New Delhi 110 066
P: 011-26198809; F: 011-26109668
W: www.pcra.org
CMS ENVIS Centre
Original Title: Energy Conservation
Language: Hindi
Duration: 30 min
Synopsis: This programme deals with energy
conservation.
Contact Details:
New Delhi 110 066
P: 011-26198809; F: 011-26109668
W: www.pcra.org
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English Title: Energy Flow in Eco-System
English Title: Energy for Rural Development
Original Title: Energy Flow in Eco-System
Format: Betacam
Original Title: Energy for Rural Development
Format: U-Matic
Subject Focus: Energy flows in an ecosystem
Subject Focus: Energy for rural development
Synopsis: This programme shows how energy flows in
an ecosystem. Sun is the only source of energy in the
universe. Energy flowing from the sun is trapped on earth
by green plants, which use it to make food.
Synopsis: The poverty of developing countries is mainly
due to the lack of energy. The programme explains how
poverty in rural India can be eradicated by generating
enough energy. The story it recounts is that of technical
cooperation between a young group of scientists,
engineers and technicians, and agriculturists.
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
English Title: Energy for All
Original Title: Energy for All
Date/Month/Year of Production: December
Format: U-Matic
Subject Focus: Using energy
Synopsis: The film shows how man has constantly tried
to evolve easier and more efficient ways of doing his work
— for instance, from muscular power to electricity.
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
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English Title: Energy from Wind, Water and Sun
Original Title: Energy from Wind, Water and Sun
Language: English
Duration: 15 min
Format: 35 mm
Subject Focus: Renewable sources of energy
Synopsis: The film demonstrates the importance of
renewable sources of energy such as wind, water and
sun.
Contact Details:
Government of India
P: 022-23515422, 23513176, 23516931, 23513633
F: 022-23515308, 23511008
Energy
English Title: Energy Management
Original Title: Energy Management
Duration: 16 min
Format: U-Matic
Subject Focus: Energy auditing and use
English Title: Environment Shapes National
Culture-2 (Biogas-2)
Original Title: Environment Shapes National Culture-2
(Biogas-2)
Format: U-Matic
Synopsis: The programme talks about the concept of
energy auditing. It tells us how energy consumption can
be reduced, and gives guidelines on using energy and
energy sources.
Subject Focus: Biogas technology
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
Culture-1 (Biogas-1)
English Title: Environmental Science Series
(Energy Resources)
(Biogas-1)
Format: U-Matic
Original Title: Environmental Science Series (Energy
Resources)
Format: Betacam
Subject Focus: Biogas plants
Subject Focus: Forms and sources of energy
Synopsis: The film demonstrates the working processes
of a biogas plant.
Synopsis: This video lecture has been delivered by Prof.
A. Balasubramanian of the University of Mysore, and
discusses several forms of energy — including energy
from fossil fuels, solar and wind energy, hydropower,
energy from biomass, nuclear energy, etc.
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
CMS ENVIS Centre
Synopsis: In this part, an expert talks about the technology
of biogas plants in Rome, Italy.
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
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English Title: Fluorescent Lamps as Energy
Conservers
Original Title: Fluorescent Lamps as Energy Conservers
Language: English
Duration: 30 min
English Title: Fuel Economy in 2/3 Wheelers
Original Title: Fuel Economy in 2/3 Wheelers
Duration: 18 min
Subject Focus: Fuel economy
Subject Focus: Fluorescent lamps
Synopsis: Conventional bulbs require more electricity to
produce light. Replacing thm with fluorescent lamps can
save a lot of electricity.
Contact Details:
P: 011-26134103, 26890380; F: 011-26130817
W: www.devalt.org
English Title: Fuel Briquettes
Original Title: Fuel Briquettes
Language: English
Duration: 30 min
Synopsis: The film shows how petrol can be saved by
better driving habits and maintenance practices.
Contact Details:
New Delhi 110 066
P: 011-26198809; F: 011-26109668
W: www.pcra.org
English Title: Future – 2040 AD
Original Title: Future – 2040 AD
Language: English
Duration: 58 sec
Format: Betacam SP
Subject Focus: Fuel convervation
Subject Focus: Alternative sources of fuel
Synopsis: Non-renewable fuels are disappearing, even
as the demand for them increases every day. The way
out is alternatives like fuel briquettes made of fast-growing
biomass, waste products etc.
Contact Details:
P: 011-26134103, 26890380; F: 011-26130817
W: www.devalt.org
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Synopsis: This Public Service Message is to promote
conservation of fuel.
Producer: Executive Director, Petroleum Conservation
Contact Details:
New Delhi 110 066
P: 011-26198809; F: 011-26109668
W: www.pcra.org
Energy
English Title: Geothermal Energy Sources
English Title: Good Cooking Habits
Original Title: Geothermal Energy Sources
Format: U-Matic
Original Title: Good Cooking Habits
Language: English / Hindi
Duration: 10 min
Subject Focus: Saving energy in cooking
Subject Focus: Geothermal energy
Synopsis: The programme deals with the sources of
geothermal energy, how this form of energy can be used,
its potential for the future etc.
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
Synopsis: The film shows how adopting good cooking
practices can save on cooking gas and kerosene.
Contact Details:
New Delhi 110 066
P: 011-26198809; F: 011-26109668
W: www.pcra.org
English Title: Good Earth – Build with Mud
English Title: Gharat
Original Title: Gharat
Language: Hindi (with English subtitles)
Duration: 42 min
Format: Mini DV
Subject Focus: Using Gharats, traditional watermills, to
generate power
Synopsis: This is a film about decentralized sustainable
development. Gharats (watermills used by people living
in the mountains) could be a vehicle for overall rural
development, without any of the ecological hazards
associated with big dams. In the backdrop of the larger
developmental issues that plague the Garhwal Himalayas
with the building of dams like the Tehri Hydro Project, the
film relates the story of Tau upgrading his Gharat, which
brings electricity to his house for the first time.
Original Title: Good Earth – Build with Mud
Language: English
Duration: 30 min
Subject Focus: Energy-efficient and eco-friendly building
material
Synopsis: This capsule introduces us to the TARA Balram,
the machine which produces Compressed Earth Blocks
– an eco-friendly and energy-efficient building material.
Contact Details:
P: 011-26134103, 26890380; F: 011-26130817
W: www.devalt.org
Director: Pankaj Rishi Kumar
Producer: Rajeev Mehrotra
(PSBT)
Contact Details:
Pankaj Rishi Kumar
B –103, Gokul Tower, Thakur Complex, Kandivli (E)
Mumbai 400 101
P: 022-28547585
CMS ENVIS Centre
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English Title: Good Family
English Title: Green Fuel – Unleaded
Original Title: Good Family
Language: Hindi
Duration: 40 sec
Format: Betacam
Original Title: Green Fuel – Unleaded
Language: English
Duration: 30 min
Subject Focus: Saving fuels in cooking
Synopsis: April 1, 1995 was a landmark in the annals of
vehicular pollution in India: on that day, around 154 retail
outlets of government-owned oil companies initiated the
sale of unleaded petrol in the country.
Synopsis: Most serials we see today on television are
based on family feuds. This film uses the same concept,
with the aim of spreading the message of ‘save cooking
gas’ among domestic sector users of LPG.
Producer: Jaspal Bhatti Productions
Commissioning Agency: Petroleum Conservation
Contact Details:
New Delhi 110 066
P: 011-26198809; F: 011-26109668
W: www.pcra.org
English Title: Green Architecture
Original Title: Green Architecture
Language: English
Duration: 30 min
Subject Focus: Eco-friendly architecture
Synopsis: A new form of architecture has emerged in the
post-industrial age, which believes in a blend of renewable
energy resources and innovative alternatives with energy
modification properties of the building fabric. Such sources
of energy are the elements of nature — the sun, sky, air,
earth and water. It aims to put a greater control back into
the hands of people.
Contact Details:
P: 011-26134103, 26890380; F: 011-26130817
W: www.devalt.org
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Subject Focus: Unleaded fuel
Contact Details:
P: 011-26134103, 26890380; F: 011-26130817
W: www.devalt.org
English Title: Hands On-2 — It’s a Gas
Original Title: Hands On-2 — It’s a Gas
Language: English
Duration: 24 min
Synopsis: While those living in the ‘developed’ world take
light, heat and TV for granted, millions of people living in
rural areas have no ‘flick of a switch’ solution to their energy
needs. It’s a Gas looks at how the latest in solar, wind and
biogas technologies provide answers where there is no
national grid. And in Austria we see how woodchips
generate enough heat to power an Alpine village.
Contact Details:
P: 011-29955124, 29956110, 29956394; F: 011-29955879
W: www.cseindia.org
Energy
English Title: Hands On: Fuel for Thought
English Title: Interdependence of Plant and
Animal Life
Original Title: Hands On: Fuel for Thought
Language: English
Duration: 26 min
Language: English
Duration: 15 min
Format: 16 mm
Subject Focus: Energy flow and interdependence of all
life on earth
Synopsis: Italian engineers make a breakthrough in
tapping energy from hot springs. In the Dominican
Republic, solar energy has put slum dwellers on the grid
for the first time. In the UK, ASDA – a major supermarket
chain – is running its fleet of lorries on used cooking oil;
villagers in Kenya are benefiting from mini-hydros; and in
Bangladesh, solar-powered fridges are used to preserve
vaccines.
Synopsis: The film depicts the sun as a source of all
animal and plant energy. It points out the relations between
plant and animal growth, and the role of bacteria in
decomposing animal wastes and making them available
for use by plants.
Environment (TVE)
Contact Details:
P: 011-26864801, 26864802, 26864803; F: 011-26864141
W: www.ciet.nic.in
Contact Details:
P: 011-26134103, 26890380; F: 011-26130817
W: www.devalt.org
Technology (CIET)
English Title: IREDA
English Title: Hands On: Power to the People
Original Title: Hands On: Power to the People
Language: English
Duration: 24 min
Subject Focus: Solar power
Synopsis: Power to the People checks out the latest in
solar power technology. In Austria, passive energy is being
used to save money, and the environment. In a town in
Germany, everything from swimming pools to parking
metres is powered by the sun. In Kenya, the ‘Glowstar lamp’
is replacing kerosene and candles. In Peru, the film travels
up the Amazon to discover how a new river turbine converts
the current to produce energy to recharge batteries
Environment (TVE)
Contact Details:
P: 011-26134103, 26890380; F: 011-26130817
W: www.devalt.org
CMS ENVIS Centre
Original Title: IREDA
Language: English
Duration: 30 min
Subject Focus: The Indian Renewable Energy
Development Authority
Synopsis: The potential of new and renewable sources
of energy in India is enormous. But what has the
government done to tap these sources? Has the Ministry
of Non-conventional Energy really performed? The film
documents its most potent arm — IREDA, or the Indian
Renewable Energy Development Authority.
Contact Details:
P: 011-26134103, 26890380; F: 011-26130817
W: www.devalt.org
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English Title: Kahani Har Ghar Ki
English Title: Kitchen ki Nounk-Jhonk
Original Title: Kahani Har Ghar Ki
Language: Hindi
Duration: 10 min
Format: Betacam
Original Title: Kitchen ki Nounk-Jhonk
Language: Hindi
Duration: 20 min
Subject Focus: Fuel conservation in the domestic sector
Synopsis: Based on the Hindi serial Tu-Tu Main-Main,
the film provides tips on good cooking habits.
Synopsis: While our fuel consumption habits have
changed over time, fuel conservation habits have failed
to keep pace. Even though users are more aware and
conscious than before about the need, importance and
benefits of saving fuel, the tendency is to consider it
everybody else’s responsibility rather than one’s own.
Producer: New Fields Advertising Pvt. Ltd.
Contact Details:
New Delhi 110 066
P: 011-26198809; F: 011-26109668
W: www.pcra.org
Subject Focus: Good cooking habits
Contact Details:
New Delhi 110 066
P: 011-26198809; F: 011-26109668
W: www.pcra.org
English Title: Know Them by Dialogue-1
(A Talk with Claude Carrigues)
Original Title: Know Them by Dialogue-1 (A Talk with
Claude Carrigues)
Language: English
Format: U matic
English Title: Kisan ka Dost
Subject Focus: Energy conservation in industries
Original Title: Kisan ka Dost
Language: Hindi
Duration: 10 min
Format: Betacam
Synopsis: In this programme, Claude Carrigues, an expert
in energy conservation, talks about energy audit of
industries — particularly the textile industry.
Subject Focus: Saving fuel in agriculture
Synopsis: Through the story of a farmer named Matadin
and an oil drop, the film aims to highlight the methods of
conserving diesel in lift irrigation pumpsets.
Contact Details:
New Delhi 110 066
P: 011-26198809; F: 011-26109668
W: www.pcra.org
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Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
Energy
(A Talk with Eric Larson)
English Title: Know Them by Dialogue:
A Talk with Claude Carrigues-II
Original Title: Know Them by Dialogue-1 (A Talk with Eric
Larson)
Language: English
Format: U matic
Original Title: Know Them by Dialogue: A Talk with Claude
Carrigues-II
Duration: 15mins 32sec
Format: U matic
Subject Focus: Energy conservation in industries
Synopsis: The film present programme about energy
conservation and technological menu, the concept of
which is given by Dr. Larson. He is interviewed by Vijoy
Vihari, Director of the National Productivity Council.
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
Synopsis: This is the second part of the interview with
Claude Carrigues.
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
English Title: Kuch aur Kadam
Original Title: Kuch aur Kadam
Original Title: Know Them by Dialogue-2
Language: English
Format: U matic
Synopsis: The film present programme about energy
conservation and technological menu, the concept of
which is given by Dr. Larson. He is interviewed by Vijoy
Vihari, Director of the National Productivity Council.
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
CMS ENVIS Centre
Subject Focus: The Ladakh Ecological Development
Group
Synopsis: The film is on the Ladakh Ecological
Development Group, which explores the possibilities of
using alternative energy sources in Leh and the
surrounding hills. It has successfully experimented with
solar energy in Leh, and makes everything — solar
cookers, stoves etc — in its own workshop. It has also
developed an insulating wall, which keeps the room warm
during winters. The Group’s other initiatives include
greenhouses, a vocational training center, using a river’s
energy to run a turbine and grind grain, gobar gas plants
for providing cooking fuel, etc.
Production Company: CNN/Turner Broadcasting
System
Contact Details:
P: 011-26134103, 26890380; F: 011-26130817
W: www.devalt.org
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English Title: LPG Saving Tips
English Title: Management Control on Energy
Original Title: LPG Saving Tips
Language: Hindi / Punjabi / Urdu
Duration: 11 min
Original Title: Management Control on Energy
Format: U matic
Subject Focus: Saving cooking fuel (LPG)
Subject Focus: Energy management in industry
Synopsis: The film provides tips for saving LPG in the
domestic sector.
Contact Details:
Sanrakshan Bhavan, 10 Bhikaiji Cama Place,
New Delhi 110 066
P: 011-26198809; F: 011-26109668
W: www.pcra.org
English Title: Mahaan Driver
Original Title: Mahaan Driver
Language: Hindi
Duration: 6 min
Format: Betacam
Synopsis: The programme demonstrates how proper
coordination and management of energy and its use in
an industry can bring down energy consumption levels,
without affecting production.
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
English Title: Meal Maker: Solar Cooker
Original Title: Meal Maker: Solar Cooker
Language: English
Duration: 30 min
Subject Focus: Fuel conservation in the transport sector
Subject Focus: Energy-efficient cooking
Synopsis: The film depicts the effects of good and bad
driving habits through two characters — Ujjagar, a braggart
whose driving skills are abysmal, and Meher, who shows
how careful driving habits can make a world of difference.
Contact Details:
New Delhi 110 066
P: 011-26198809; F: 011-26109668
W: www.pcra.org
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Synopsis: Convinced of the potential of harnessing the
energy of the sun, entrepreneur Raghunathan’s Solker
Enterprise has sought to replace the solar cooking box
with an improvised product called the ‘Mealmaker’.
Contact Details:
P: 011-26134103, 26890380; F: 011-26130817
W: www.devalt.org
Energy
English Title: Message from Film Actor
(Akshay Kumar)
English Title: Micro Hydro Power Plant: Need of
the Hour-1
Original Title: Message from Film Actor (Akshay Kumar)
Language: Hindi
Duration: 10 sec
Format: Betacam
Original Title: Micro Hydro Power Plant: Need of the Hour-1
Format: Betacam
Subject Focus: Oil conservation
Subject Focus: Using micro hydro power plants in the
hills
Synopsis: Celebrity endorsements are extremely effective
in communicating a message. This approach has been
used by PCRA to drive home the message of oil
conservation.
Producer: Petroleum Conservation Research Association
(PCRA)
Contact Details:
New Delhi 110 066
P: 011-26198809; F: 011-26109668
W: www.pcra.org
English Title: Message from Film Actress
(Priyanka Chopra)
Synopsis: In mountainous regions, the use of renewable,
eco-friendly energy resources such as biogas and solar
and wind energy has met with little success because of
the high financial investment they entail. The film
advocates Micro Hydro Plants as the most suitable energy
resource for meeting the requirements of remote hilly
settlements. These plants are small power generating units
that operate on the basis of converting water pressure
energy first into mechanical and then to electrical energy.
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
English Title: Nature of Energy
Original Title: Message from Film Actress (Priyanka
Chopra)
Language: Hindi
Duration: 10 sec
Format: Betacam
Language: English
Duration: 10 min
Format: 16 mm
Subject Focus: Saving LPG and kerosene in households
Synopsis: While clarfying the scientific concept of energy,
this film shows the relationship of atomic energy to the
other forms of energy.
Synopsis: The PCRA uses another celebrity to endorse
and communicate its message on conserving cooking
fuels — LPG and kerosene.
Producer: Petroleum Conservation Research Association
(PCRA)
Contact Details:
Sanrakshan Bhawan, 10, Bhikaji Cama Place
New De lhi 110 066
P: 011-26198809; F: 011-26109668
W: www.pcra.org
CMS ENVIS Centre
Subject Focus: Energy and its forms
Technology (CIET)
Contact Details:
P: 011-26864801, 26864802, 26864803; F: 011-26864141
W: www.ciet.nic.in
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English Title: New and Renewable Sources of
Energy
English Title: Non-Conventional Energy Sources-1
(Solar Energy)
Original Title: New and Renewable Sources of Energy
Language: English
Duration: 30 min
Format: 35 mm
Original Title: Non-Conventional Energy Sources-1 (Solar
Energy)
Language: English
Format: U matic
Subject Focus: Renewable energy
Synopsis: The film documents research and development
in new and renewable sources of energy.
Contact Details:
Government of India
P: 022-23515422, 23513176, 23516931, 23513633
F: 022-23515308, 23511008
English Title: Non-Conventional Energy
Resources
Original Title: Non-Conventional Energy Resources
Language: English
Duration: 14 min
Format: 35 mm
Subject Focus: Non-conventional energy resources for
rural India
Synopsis: The film informs and motivates rural women
to adopt new energy resources, like biogas and solar
energy, for cooking.
Synopsis: The programme’s focus is solar energy and
its applications (as in solar cookers, heaters etc).
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
English Title: Non-Conventional Energy Sources-2
(Wind Energy)
Original Title: Non-Conventional Energy Sources-2 (Wind
Energy)
Language: English
Format: U matic
Subject Focus: Wind energy
Synopsis: The film is devoted to issues like ways of
harnessing wind energy, wind monitoring, generation of
electricity using wind, and the limitations and advantages
of wind energy.
Contact Details:
Government of India
P: 022-23515422, 23513176, 23516931, 23513633
F: 022-23515308, 23511008
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Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
Energy
English Title: Non-Conventional Energy Sources
(Solar Energy — An Answer to Energy Crisis)
English Title: Nuclear Energy: The Question
before Us
Original Title: Non-Conventional Energy Sources (Solar
Energy — An Answer to Energy Crisis)
Language: English
Format: Betacam
Language: English
Duration: 25 min
Format: 16 mm
Synopsis: The programme provides a guide to generation
of solar energy, and to its application in various fields.
Subject Focus: Nuclear energy
Synopsis: In this film, experts talk about how a nuclear
generating plant works, the pros and cons of nuclear
energy, and the problems of cost and waste disposal.
Technology (CIET)
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
Contact Details:
P: 011-26864801, 26864802, 26864803; F: 011-26864141
W: www.ciet.nic.in
English Title: Nuclear Energy in India
Original Title: Nuclear Energy in India
Format: U matic
Subject Focus: Nuclear energy in India
Synopsis: In this film, Prof. V. G. Bhide, former ViceChancellor of Poona University, interviews Dr. Srinivasan
on the nuclear power and its use in India.
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
English Title: Operation Prakriti (Biogas from Fuit
& Vegetable Waste)
Original Title: Operation Prakriti (Biogas from Fruit &
Vegetable Waste)
Language: English
Format: Betacam
Subject Focus: Energy from waste — a new initiative
Synopsis: An innovative technology has been developed
to produce biogas from fruit and vegetable wastes, by the
Microbiology Department of CFTRI, Mysore. This
technology generates energy from these wastes, reduces
pollution and produces nutrient-rich manure for crops.
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
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English Title: Pawan Urja
English Title: Petroleum Story
Original Title: Pawan Urja
Language: Hindi
Format: Betacam
Original Title: Petroleum Story
Format: Betacam
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
English Title: Phir Bhi Dil Hain Hindustani
English Title: Pawan Urja: Ek Saabhark Vikalpa
Original Title: Pawan Urja: Ek Saabhark Vikalpa
Language: Hindi
Format: Betacam
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
Original Title: Phir Bhi Dil Hain Hindustani
Language: Hindi
Format: Betacam SP
Subject Focus: Conservation of diesel
Synopsis: The film aims to highlight the message of
conservation of diesel.
Director: Arnab Chatterjee
Producer: Executive Director, Petroleum Conservation
English Title: Petrol Saving Tips
Original Title: Petrol Saving Tips
Language: Hindi/Punjabi/Urdu
Duration: 15 min
Subject Focus: Fuel conservation
Synopsis: The film provides tips for saving petrol.
Contact Details:
New Delhi 110 066
P: 011-26198809; F: 011-26109668
W: www.pcra.org
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Contact Details:
New Delhi 110 066
P: 011- 26198809; F: 011-26109668
W: www.pcra.org
Energy
English Title: Power to the People
English Title: Printer
Original Title: Power to the People
Language: English (with subtitles for the Hindi bytes)
Format: Digital
Original Title: Printer
Language: English
Duration: 30 sec
Format: 35 mm
Subject Focus: Small hydro offers a ray of hope to the
villages that the grid does not reach or where the grid
supply is only for the namesake. A UNDP-GEF project in
association with the MNES explores the feasibility of this
environmentally begin concept with 20 demonst
Subject Focus: Saving trees by using less paper
Synopsis: At the Tawang Gompa, in a tradition unbroken
for more than 600 years, the community kitchen prepares
breakfast for the novitiates and the Lamas, use logs of wood,
as fuel. From every house, one can see a wisp of smoke
rising – as if a thousand prayers were sent heavenwards.
For a region, which is under snow cover for seven months,
survival takes precedence over ecological concerns. Little
wonder then if a forest without trees shocks none at Tawang.
Producer: Nandan Saxena
Contact Details:
Nandan Saxena
Director, Top Quark Productions, C-227, Anand Vihar
Delhi 110 092
P: 011-22152787, 95120-2490628; F: 95120-2490627
English Title: Power to the People
Original Title: Power to the People
Language: English
Duration: 7 min
Format: DVD
Subject Focus: Local power generation initiatives in India
Synopsis: The film’s subject is the energy crisis in India
and the need for affordable and reliable sources of power.
It projects small, independent power production units as a
solution to the problem; the example given is of DESI
POWER in Orchha, a power station which runs on ipomea,
a weed. The film also explains the process of electricity
production from renewable sources like bio-mass and the
economics of setting up independent power producing units.
Synopsis: Though every one working in an office has
access to a computer and email today, a paperless office
remains a distant dream. In this PSM, the printer is
portrayed as a chainsaw, chopping a tree with every page
it prints.
Directors: Umang Pahwa, Mahendra Bheda
Producer: Umang Pahwa
Production Company: Collage Communications
Contact Details:
Umang Pahwa
Mudra Communications, Shree Ram Mills, Mumbai 400 013
P: 022-30408001, M: 0987025252; F: 022-24964809
W: www.mudra.com
English Title: Pump Chalao, Diesel Bachao
Original Title: Pump Chalao, Diesel Bachao
Duration: 20 min
Subject Focus: Saving fuel in agriculture
Synopsis: A film on diesel economy in lift irrigation
pumpsets, it depicts how diesel can be saved by farmers
by proper selection, operation and maintenance of
pumpsets and diesel engines.
Contact Details:
New Delhi 110 066
P: 011-26198809; F: 011-26109668
W: www.pcra.org
Director: Aparajita Gogoi
Production Company: FREND
Contact Details:
P: 011-26134103, 26890380; F: 011-26130817
W: www.devalt.org
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English Title: Renewable Energy Sources: Anoxic
Bio-Degradation
Original Title: Renewable Energy Sources: Anoxic BioDegradation
Format: U matic
Subject Focus: Methane as a renewable energy source
Synopsis: The programme explains the production of
methane by anoxic biodegradation, and shows how this
biogas produced from biological wastes can be used as a
renewable source of energy.
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
English Title: Role of Energy Management Centre
in Improving Energy Efficiency
Original Title: Role of Energy Management Centre in
Improving Energy Efficiency
Format: Betacam
Subject Focus: Energy Management Centre, New Delhi
Synopsis: The film is on the activities of the Delhi-based
Energy Management Centre, which advocates energyefficient appliances like slim light tubes (the country can
save Rs 100 crore just by using them).
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
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English Title: Ruki Ruki Si Zindagi
Original Title: Ruki Ruki Si Zindagi
Language: Hindi
Duration: 20 min
Subject Focus: Fuel economy and car maintenance
Synopsis: The film, featuring comedian Jaspal Bhatti, is
on the importance of good car maintenance habits.
Contact Details:
New Delhi 110 066
P: 011-26198809; F: 011-26109668
W: www.pcra.org
English Title: Safar ka Sabak
Original Title: Safar ka Sabak
Language: Hindi
Duration: 10 min
Format: Betacam
Subject Focus: Fuel conservation in the transport sector
Synopsis: This animation film with its two characters, Mr.
Cool and Mr. Bhool, focuses on mankind’s carelessness
and greed and how they have put undue pressure on
natural resources.
Producer: Airads Ltd.
Contact Details:
New Delhi 110 066
P: 011-26198809; F: 011-26109668
W: www.pcra.org
Energy
English Title: Santa Banta aur Diesel ki Bachat
English Title: Save Every Drop
Original Title: Santa Banta aur Diesel ki Bachat
Language: Hindi/Punjabi/Urdu
Duration: 10 min
Original Title: Save Every Drop
Language: English
Duration: 20 min
Subject Focus: Fuel conservation
Synopsis: The film provides some tips on saving diesel.
Synopsis: This film on energy conservation presents
some success stories on saving energy.
Contact Details:
New Delhi 110 066
P: 011-26198809; F: 011-26109668
W: www.pcra.org
English Title: Saur Urja — Gair-Paramparik Urja
ka Amit Srota
Contact Details:
New Delhi 110 066
P: 011-26198809; F: 011-26109668
W: www.pcra.org
English Title: Save Petrol in Cars
Original Title: Saur Urja — Gair-Paramparik Urja ka Amit
Srota
Format: Betacam
Original Title: Save Petrol in Cars
Duration: 18 min
Synopsis: The film shows how petrol can be saved by
better driving habits and maintenance practices.
Synopsis: The total capacity of non-traditional sources
of energy in India is around 1,95,000 megawatts — which
can only generate 31% of the energy we need. It is
possible to generate 15,000 megawatts of energy from
the sun — which is a perennial, clean and environmentfriendly source. Using solar energy can give us a new
perspective towards rural development, economic
prosperity and industrial growth.
Subject Focus: Fuel conservation in transport sector
Contact Details:
New Delhi 110 066
P: 011-26198809; F: 011-26109668
W: www.pcra.org
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
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English Title: Save Petrol Save Money
English Title: Smokeless Chullah
Original Title: Save Petrol Save Money
Language: English
Duration: 60 sec
Format: Betacam SP
Original Title: Smokeless Chullah
Language: Gujarati and English
Format: PAL, U-Matic, colour
Subject Focus: Conservation of petrol
Subject Focus: The smokeless chullah
Synopsis: The idea of the film came from how people go
to ridiculous lengths to save their hard-earned money, and
end up wasting it because of their careless driving skills.
For example, precious fuel is wasted by driving too slowly
or speeding up unnecessarily, or by incorrect use of the
clutch. The film uses actor Boman Irani to drive home the
message.
Synopsis: The smokeless chullah is a fuel-saving device
for cooking where the smoke escapes through a long pipe
instead of collecting in the house and causing domestic
air pollution and health hazards. The tape demonstrates
how to construct a smokeless chullah. It proved very
effective in SEWA’s drive towards promoting such devices
among its rural members. It has been widely used to inform
village communities and policy makers.
Production Company: Gray World Wide
Contact Details:
New Delhi 110 066
P: 011-26198809; F: 011-26109668
W: www.pcra.org
Contact Details:
SEWA
Krushna Bhavan, Opp. Sakar-II, Ellisbridge
P: 079-26580474; F: 079-26587708
W: www.sewa.org
English Title: Solar Concentrator
English Title: Sewage Gas: The Initiative in Okhla
Original Title: Sewage Gas: The Initiative in Okhla
Language: English
Duration: 30 min
Subject Focus: Energy from waste — biogas from
sewage
Original Title: Solar Concentrator
Language: Hindi
Format: Betacam SP
Synopsis: The film promotes pollution-free solar power.
Synopsis: A sewage treatment plant at Okhla, New Delhi,
is generating energy from biogas — which is created in
the process of treatment of domestic sewage.
Contact Details:
P: 011-26134103, 26890380; F: 011-26130817
W: www.devalt.org
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Contact Details:
New Delhi 110 066
P: 011-26198809; F: 011-26109668
W: www.pcra.org
Energy
English Title: Solar Cooker
English Title: State of India’s Environment (II):
The Kilowatt Question
Original Title: Solar Cooker
Language: Gujarati
Format: PAL, U-Matic, colour
Language: English
Duration: 27 min
Format: U-matic & VHS
Subject Focus: Solar cookers
Subject Focus: Energy and development
Synopsis: This film is an introduction to a cooker, which
operates using energy from the sun.
Synopsis: What is the relationship between energy and
development? What do we understand by energy needs
of people and how is energy generated? The film examines
these questions in the light of alternative technologies
being developed to meet energy needs.
Contact Details:
SEWA
P: 079-26580474; F: 079-26587708
W: www.sewa.org
English Title: Solar Passive House-1
(The Principles)
Original Title: Solar Passive House-1 (The Principles)
Language: English
Format: U matic
Subject Focus: Climate-friendly architecture
Synopsis: The primary purpose of a house is to provide
comfortable living for its residents. In arid regions, summer
heat takes a heavy toll — even indoors. Solar Passive
Houses, which provide thermally comfortable indoor
climates, are the solutions. The programme explains the
principles of Passive Architecture and the advantages of
living in Solar Passive Houses.
Environment (CSE)
Contact Details:
P: 011-29955124, 29956110, 29956394; F: 011-29955879
W: www.cseindia.org
English Title: Tap Energy Unlimited
Original Title: Tap Energy Unlimited
Language: English
Duration: 7 min
Format: 35 mm
Subject Focus: Renewable energy
Synopsis: The film talks about utilization of energy from
the sun, wind and water in various industrial, agricultural
and domestic applications.
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
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Contact Details:
Government of India
P: 022-23515422, 23513176, 23516931, 23513633
F: 022-23515308, 23511008
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English Title: TERI, Uttam Urja
English Title: The Scientist
Original Title: TERI, Uttam Urja
Duration: 21 min
Original Title: The Scientist
Language: Hindi
Duration: 40 sec
Format: Betacam
Subject Focus: Local initiative in energy efficiency and
development
Subject Focus: Saving fuel in households
Synopsis: The film is a documentation of TERI Uttam
Urja, an initiative aimed at giving power to the people. It is
an umbrella brand developed under the project on
‘Implementation of Renewable Energy Technologies in
Rural India through NGOs’, and aims at achieving
economic, environmental, and social sustainability. The
film shows how better-lit homes lead to better performance
by school children, greater productivity, diversification of
business, and better health.
Synopsis: Comedian Jaspal Bhatti is the ‘scientist’ in this
show. The characterisation implies that education does
not necessarily mean good sense. In fact, good old
common sense goes a long way in saving precious fuel
and gas.
(TERI)
& Cooperation
Contact Details:
New Delhi 110 066
P: 011-26198809; F: 011-26109668
W: www.pcra.org
Contact Details:
P: 011-24682100, 41504900; F: 011-24682144, 24682145
W: www.teriin.org
English Title: The Solar Passive House-2
(A House for all Seasons)
English Title: The Breezy Boon: Wind Power
Original Title: The Breezy Boon: Wind Power
Language: English
Duration: 30 min
Synopsis: The past few years have given a new meaning
to the equation between wind and electricity. The Natural
Energy Processing Company or NEPC was the first to
invest in wind energy, and the film celebrates its
achievements in this field.
Contact Details:
P: 011-26134103, 26890380; F: 011-26130817
W: www.devalt.org
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Original Title: The Solar Passive House-2 (A House for
all Seasons)
Language: English
Format: U matic
Subject Focus: Climate-friendly architecture
Synopsis: This film is a continuation of Solar Passive
House Part-1, and deals with the construction of such
houses and their seasonal benefits.
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
Energy
English Title: Tirkit Dheena Kala Sona
English Title: Tuning of Boilers & Furnace
Original Title: Tirkit Dheena Kala Sona
Language: Hindi
Original Title: Tuning of Boilers & Furnace
Language: English
Duration: 20 min
Subject Focus: Oil conservation
Subject Focus: Fuel efficiency in industries
Synopsis: The film is a dramatisation of the subject of
saving diesel and oil conservation.
Contact Details:
New Delhi 110 066
P: 011-26198809; F: 011-26109668
W: www.pcra.org
Synopsis: The film shows the benefits of proper tuning
and maintenance of boilers and furnaces in industries to
improve fuel efficiency.
Contact Details:
New Delhi 110 066
P: 011-26198809; F: 011-26109668
W: www.pcra.org
English Title: Tractor Chalao, Diesel Bachao
Original Title: Tractor Chalao, Diesel Bachao
Duration: 23 min
English Title: Turning the Tide (II): Running Out
of Steam
Subject Focus: Diesel economy in agriculture
Synopsis: This film is on diesel economy in tractors — it
shows how good maintenance and selection of proper
implements helps farmers to save fuel.
Language: English
Duration: 30 min
Format: VHS
Contact Details:
New Delhi 110 066
P: 011-26198809; F: 011-26109668
W: www.pcra.org
Subject Focus: Energy misuse
English Title: Trash into Cash
Contact Details:
P: 011-29955124, 29956110, 29956394; F: 011-29955879
W: www.cseindia.org
Original Title: Trash into Cash
Format: Betacam
Synopsis: The film discusses the problems posed by the
misuse of energy.
Environment (CSE)
Subject Focus: Energy from wastes
Synopsis: The programme explains the process of
converting vegetable wastes into biogas, and talks about
its commercial potential.
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
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English Title: Urja Utsav, Energy Skills as Life Skills
English Title: Whose Energy for Whom
Original Title: Urja Utsav, Energy Skills as Life Skills
Language: Gujarati
Duration: 8 min
Original Title: Whose Energy for Whom
Language: Gujarati (with English subtitles)
Duration: 24 min
Subject Focus: Urja Utsav, a state-level energy fair
Subject Focus: Energy
Synopsis: The film documents the Urja Utsav, a statelevel energy education opportunity targeted at schools.
The event was supported by the Gujarat Electricity Board,
Gujarat Energy Development Agency and the Gujarat
Council of Science City.
Directors: Vineeta Bhansali & Nimmi Chauhan
Producer: Drishti Media Collective
Director: Narayan H. K.
Producer: Centre for Environment Education
Commissioning Agency: Gujarat Energy Development
Agency, Gujarat Electricity Board
Contact Details:
Video Resource Centre Secretariat
Centre for Environment Education, Southern Regional Cell
143, Kamala Mansion, Infantry Road,
P: 080-22869094/9907; F: 080-22868209
W: www.ceeindia.org, www.kidsrgreen.org, www.ceevrc.org
Contact Details:
143, Kamala Mansion, Infantry Road, Bangalore 560 001
Karnataka
P: 080-22869094/9907; F: 080-22868209
English Title: Wind is Power
Original Title: Wind is Power
Language: English
Duration: 20 min
Format: 35 mm
English Title: Who’s Got the Power?
Original Title: Who’s Got the Power?
Language: English
Duration: 28 min
Subject Focus: Initiatives in energy conservation and
generation
Synopsis: Only 4% of the eight million people who live in
rural Peru currently have access to electricity, but all that
could change if micro-hydro takes off. A pilot project in
Cajamarca uses the force of running water to generate
electricity — benefiting over 8000 families. In Germany, waste
from farm animals generates biogas which fuels both home
and farm, with enough energy left over to sell to the electricity
companies. The film also visits wind-mill businesses in the
Netherlands, and a research centre in Spain which is
investigating different ways to harness energy from the sun.
Finally, in China, the ‘Green Lights’ programme is promoting
the use of energy efficient light bulbs.
Synopsis: The film talks about harnessing wind for
producing electricity.
Contact Details:
Government of India
P: 022-23515422, 23513176, 23516931, 23513633
F: 022-23515308, 23511008
English Title: Wind Mills: from Energy to
Electricity
Original Title: Wind Mills: from Energy to Electricity
Format: Betacam
Synopsis: The programme deals with the various aspects
and utilities of wind mills as alternative sources for
electricity generation.
Contact Details:
P: 011-29955124, 29956110, 29956394; F: 011-29955879
W: www.cseindia.org
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Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
Environmental
Education
English Title: A Day at the Zoo
English Title: A Walk Through the Ridge
Language: English, Hindi
Duration: 35 min
Format: 16 mm
Original Title: A Walk Through the Ridge
Format: U-Matic
Subject Focus: Evolution
Subject Focus: Delhi Ridge
Synopsis: The video explains the process of evolution of
man and other living beings — how it has taken millions
of years for the first living creature to reach the latest stage
on the path of evolution.
Technology (CIET)
Contact Details:
P: 011-26864801, 26864802, 26864803; F: 011-26864141
W: www.ciet.nic.in
English Title: A Journey Through Life —
Early Omtogeny of Fish
Original Title: A Journey Through Life — Early Omtogeny
of Fish
Language: English
Format: Betacam
Subject Focus: Nature’s wonders — mysteries of life and
birth
Synopsis: The film takes us on a journey through life and
birth, and lets us pause a little and mull over a few
questions: what is life? Is it the first body movements, or
the formation of the heart?
Contact Details:
P: 0291-2513734; F: 0291-2513733
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Synopsis: A nature walk with school children through the
Delhi Ridge gives them an insight into the ecology, flora
and fauna of the area.
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
English Title: Abhiyan
Original Title: Abhiyan
Language: Hindi
Format: Betacam
Subject Focus: State of India’s ecology and citizens’
movements for its conservation
Synopsis: This is a weekly environmental series aimed
at the Hindi-speaking, non-metropolitan viewer — to
encourage them to join in the movement to save India’s
ecology. Travelling across India, it highlights the problems
faced by India’s ecology and features some common
citizens’ movements for conservation. It also offers useful
tips on conservation that can be followed by all citizens.
Producer: Miditech Pvt. Ltd. (Niret & Nikhil J. Alva)
Contact Details:
Miditech Pvt. Ltd.
121, Udyog Vihar, Phase IV, Gurgaon – 122 015, Haryana
P: 0124-2397001 – 10; F: 0124-2397011
W: www.miditech.org
English Title: ACAP
English Title: Aspects of Arctic Environment
Original Title: ACAP
Language: English
Duration: 5 min
Production Company: ACAP India
Original Title: Aspects of Arctic Environment
Date/Month/Year of Production: December1995
Duration: 17 min
Format: U-Matic
Contact Details:
ACAP India
Wildlife Protection Society of India (WPSI), S-25, Panchsheel
Park New Delhi 110 017
D 923, New Friends Colony (2nd Floor), New Delhi 110 065
P: 011-41635920, 21; F: 41635924
W: www.wpsi-india.org
Subject Focus: The Arctic region
English Title: Animation Compilation
Synopsis: The programme features Mr. Paranjpe, who
has toured the Arctic Circle extensively.
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
Duration: 96 min
Format: DVD
English Title: Aur Kitne Dhara: Sikudte
Sansadhan, Pasarte Hum
Synopsis: This is a series of abstract, animated films
highlighting man’s relationship with the environment. A
variety of themes have been taken up: the problems of
industrialization and waste, reliance on non-sustainable
energy sources and the disparity in consumption patterns
between the North and the South.
Original Title: Earth Report VI: Three Planet Syndrome
Language: Hindi
Duration: 26 min
Subject Focus: Eco-friendly building and architecture
Production Company: Pannonia Films
Contact Details:
P: 011-26134103, 26890380; F: 011-26130817
W: www.devalt.org
Synopsis: Until recently, if you wanted to live in a
sustainable house, you probably had to design and build
it yourself. In the 1980s UK filmmaker, Ashley Bruce, did
exactly that. He turned his cottage into an eco-home, with
passive solar heating and photovoltaic cells on the roof.
Twenty years on, he wants to find out if more people can
live better, on less. Bruce visits two new mass housing
developments in London, to see how sustainable
principles can go beyond design, and begin to influence
lifestyle choices — without compromising comfort.
Contact Details:
P: 011-29955124, 29956110, 29956394; F: 011-29955879
W: www.cseindia.org
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English Title: Bandits and the Backhanders
English Title: Bhoomi (Earth)
Original Title: Bandits and the Backhanders
Language: English
Duration: 23 min
Original Title: Bhoomi
Language: Hindi
Duration: 26 min
Format: Betacam
Subject Focus: Corruption in environmental management
Subject Focus: Initiatives to solve environmental
problems
Synopsis: This video takes a look at how the degradation
of values translates into degradation of nature. In a corrupt
system, people lose respect for things. If there is large
scale corruption in the nature management sector, people
lose respect for nature over a long time. And this can be a
very dangerous trend. The video takes viewers to look at
irrational policies (not based on scientific understanding,
but on vested interests) in management of rivers, floods,
forests, and urban planning. The video, through interviews
with intellectuals and decision-makers, tries to focus on
the method behind this madness. Ultimately, we meet an
unassuming grassroots activist in Maharashtra to find out
some solutions: Anna Hazare, who has launched an anticorruption drive.
Director: Pradip Saha
Contact Details:
P: 011-29955124, 29956110, 29956394; F: 011-29955879
W: www.cseindia.org
Synopsis: This television series strives to raise
environmental consciousness by focusing on the efforts
of the people — individuals, community groups, corporate
houses, NGOs and the government — to protect, preserve
and enhance the quality of India’s environment.
Producer: Siddharth Kak (Cinema Vision India)
Commissioning Agency: Ministry of Environment &
Forests, Government of India
Contact Details:
Cinema Vision India
501, Adarsh Nagar, M.H.B. Colony, Jogeshwari (W)
Mumbai 400 102
P: 022-26365946/26320739; F: 022-26366642
W: www.kftv.com
English Title: Buildings that Breathe
Original Title: Buildings that Breathe
Date/Month/Year of Production: Jan 2006
Language: English
Subject Focus: Environment-friendly building and
architecture
Synopsis: Most traditional buildings of India were built on
sustainable principles; today, many architects are reviving
these techniques to reduce the burden on the environment.
The film looks at the work of some of this new breed of
architects who specialize in green architecture.
(TERI)
Commissioning Agency: Air India
Contact Details:
New Delhi 110 003
P: 011-24682100, 41504900; F: 011-24682144, 24682145
W: www.teriin.org
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English Title: China Roadshow
English Title: Designing a Lifestyle
Original Title: China Roadshow
Language: English
Duration: 26 min
Original Title: Designing a Lifestyle
Duration: 15 min
Format: Betacam
Subject Focus: Environmental issues in China
Synopsis: For centuries, China has experienced periodic
floods; but in 1998, several river systems overflowed at
the same time. Over one million people lost their homes,
and more than 3,500 lost their lives. This video travels to
the forests of the Tibetan Plateau to investigate the role
of deforestation and land degradation in the massive
flooding. It visits the site of the world’s largest dam, Three
Gorges on the Yangtze river — a controversial project
which aims to control flood waters and generate electricity.
And the Yellow River, where waters are diverted to provide
irrigation for agriculture, industry and domestic users.
Contact Details:
P: 011-29955124, 29956110, 29956394; F: 011-29955879
W: www.cseindia.org
English Title: Cycling: A Healthy and
Environment-Friendly Way to Travel
Language: English
Duration: 30 min
Subject Focus: The advantages of cycling
Synopsis: Modern sedentary lifestyle is leading to a large
number of health problems — especially in urban areas.
Cycling is not just an eco-friendly way of traveling, but
also beneficial for our health.
Contact Details:
P: 011-26134103, 26890380; F: 011-26130817
W: www.devalt.org
CMS ENVIS Centre
Subject Focus: Product design and its environmental
implications
Synopsis: The perspective on product design has
changed with time. After World War II, consumer products
began to be designed to flatter the ego of the neo-rich.
This trend is going strong even today and is known as
consumerist design. This craving leads to wastage of
resources. Is it really necessary?
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
English Title: Destination Ungra
Language: English
Duration: 20 min
Format: VHS
Subject Focus: Application of Science in Rural
Technology (ASTRA)
Synopsis: The film documents the activities of the
Bangalore-based Application of Science in Rural
Technology (ASTRA), and the efforts being made by
scientists to better the lives of people in rural areas.
Contact Details:
Technology (CAPART)
New Delhi 110 003
P: 011-24642391,24642393,24642395
F: 011-24648607, 24625822
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English Title: Development Stall at Trade Fair
English Title: Earth as Witness
Original Title: Development Stall at Trade Fair
Language: English
Duration: 30 min
Language: English
Duration: 40 min
Subject Focus: Environment and development stall at
the India International Trade Fair
Subject Focus: Ancient Buddhism and the modern
ecological movement
Synopsis: The India International Trade Fair in Delhi
showcased a specially designed development stall which
displayed products linked to environment and
development.
Synopsis: The film commemorates a gift from Tibet to
India — a statue of the Buddha given by the Dalai Lama
— and discusses the links between ancient Buddhism
and the modern ecological movement.
Director: Amar Kanwar
Contact Details:
P: 011-26134103, 26890380; F: 011-26130817
W: www.devalt.org
Contact Details:
Mr. Amar Kanwar
A. K. Productions, N 14A, Saket, New Delhi 110 017
P: 011-26516088, 26534712; M: 9810216088
F: 011-26513556
English Title: Earth Report II: Spain Roadshow
English Title: Earth
Language: English
Duration: 10 min
Format: 16 mm
Original Title: Earth Report II: Spain Roadshow
Language: English
Duration: 26 min
Subject Focus: Early forms of life
Synopsis: The film is an account of the earliest forms of
life as revealed through geology.
Technology (CIET)
Contact Details:
P: 011-26864801, 26864802, 26864803; F: 011-26864141
W: www.ciet.nic.in
Subject Focus: Environmental issues in Spain; a disaster
management initiative in Nepal
Synopsis: This video features energy-efficient buildings
in Granada; eco-tourism in Andalusia; an investigation into
the consumption of under-sized fish; fish-farming in
Donana, a threatened wetland site; and the fate of
migratory birds caught in the blades of windmills designed
to boost Spain’s electricity supplies. The Hands-On slot
shows ‘bio-engineering,’ a technique that brings together
botany and civil engineering to prevent landslides in Nepal.
Director: Marc De Beaufort
Contact Details:
P: 011-29955124, 29956110, 29956394; F: 011-29955879
W: www.cseindia.org
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English Title: Earth Report VIII: Communicating
for Change
Original Title: Earth Report VIII: Communicating for
Change
Language: English
Duration: 26 min
Subject Focus: Bridging the digital divide between North
and South
Synopsis: Received wisdom says that the digital divide
between North and South is one of the reasons why the
poor in the developing world are not able to practise
sustainable development. With an eye to the agenda of
the World Summit on the Information Society, this
programme journeys across four continents to find that
there are lots of people with schemes that are bridging
the divide.
English Title: Eco-Friendly Gifts
Original Title: Eco-Friendly Gifts
Language: English
Duration: 30 min
Subject Focus: Eco-friendly gifts
Synopsis: Gifts come in all shapes and sizes, but the
best gifts are those which do not cost the earth. The film
lists some eco-friendly gifts which people can give each
other.
Contact Details:
P: 011-26134103, 26890380; F: 011-26130817
W: www.devalt.org
Contact Details:
P: 011-29955124, 29956110, 29956394; F: 011-29955879
W: www.cseindia.org
English Title: Ecotoons
English Title: Eco Mela – Man and Nature ’95
Subject Focus: Environmental awareness through
animation
Original Title: Eco Mela – Man and Nature ’95
Language: English
Duration: 30 min
Subject Focus: The Man and Nature ’95 fair, in Delhi
Synopsis: In February 1995, Delhi hosted a unique fair –
Man and Nature ’95 – to celebrate the symbiotic
relationship between the two. At the mela, the effort was
to bring people and their craft together under one roof,
with ecological sustainability as the common thread.
Original Title: Ecotoons
Language: English
Duration: 47 min
Synopsis: This compilation of animated environmental
films is part of Global View’s Earthscope series. It
comprises a variety of public service announcements
(PSA), government-sponsored shorts, campaign films by
NGOs, and independent works from Canada, the US,
Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia and the UK. The
programme shows that animation is effective in explaining
environmental issues. In one PSA, for instance, Popeye,
the spinach-munching cartoon character, catches his archrival Bluto dumping plastic waste into the ocean and says:
“Doesn’t he realise critters are strangulating in all this
plastic junk?”
Contact Details:
P: 011-26134103, 26890380; F: 011-26130817
W: www.devalt.org
CMS ENVIS Centre
Contact Details:
P: 011-29955124, 29956110, 29956394; F: 011-29955879
W: www.cseindia.org
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English Title: Education Through Art — Isa Vasya
Original Title: Education Through Art — Isa Vasya
Format: U-Matic
Subject Focus: Environmental crisis
Culture-5 (Manchar)
(Manchar)
Format: U-Matic
Synopsis: In the programme, artistes convey through their
work that man has received this beautiful world, but is
hell-bent on destroying everything that nature has given
him. They urge that unless we take steps to stem the rot,
we stand to lose everything.
Subject Focus: Rural initiatives to save the environment
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
English Title: Ek Jivan Yatra
English Title: Environmental Economics
Original Title: Ek Jivan Yatra
Language: English
Format: Betacam
Original Title: Environmental Economics
Format: Betacam
Subject Focus: History of Earth and life — evolution
Synopsis: The Earth came into being some 4.6 billion
years ago. It was covered with ammonia, hydrogen and
methane gases initially. When its surface cooled down,
the seas were formed and vaporous gases — including
water — appeared. The increasing oxegenization of the
environment led to the birth of mono-cellular acaroids,
which eventually led to the appearance of life.
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
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Synopsis: The programme shows what a small rural
college can do for the environment, without any help from
government.
Synopsis: Very little information is available about the
Siberian Cranes (Feeding, Breeding etc.). This
programme tries to give some information about these
birds. These birds are the threshold of extinction.
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
English Title: Environmental Education —
Key for Survival
(Introduction to Ecology)
Original Title: Environmental Education — Key for
Survival
Format: Betacam
Original Title: Environmental Science Series (Introduction
to Ecology)
Format: Betacam
Subject Focus: Environment
Subject Focus: Ecology
Synopsis: The film provides a basic backgrounder and
relevant information on our environment.
Synopsis: Prof. A. Balasubramanian of the University of
Mysore talks on history and definition of ecology,
environmental interactions, and the major subdivsions and
branches of ecology.
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
(Ecosystems: Predator and Prey Relationship)
Original Title: Environmental Science Series
(Ecosystems: Predator and Prey Relationship)
Format: Betacam
Subject Focus: Predator-prey relationships
Synopsis: Predation is an important evolutionary force:
natural selection favors more effective predators and more
evasive prey. ‘Arms races’ have been recorded in some
snails, which over time become more heavily armored
prey, and their predators, crabs, which over time develop
more massive claws with greater crushing power. Mr. K.
S. Arathi, Lecturer, SVV College, Mysore explains the
types of predation mechanisms, role of parasites, types
of defense mechanisms, polymorphism etc in this film.
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
CMS ENVIS Centre
(On-Shore Ecosystems)
Original Title: Environmental Science Series (On-Shore
Ecosystems)
Format: Betacam
Subject Focus: On-shore ecosystems
Synopsis: This programme covers topics like fore-shore
ecosystems, sandy foreshores or beaches, shingle and
muddy, salt marshes and rocky fore-shores and the
environmental concerns related to all these.
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
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English Title: Evolution and Races of Man
English Title: From the Sublime to the Ridiculous
Language: English
Duration: 27 min
Format: 16 mm
Original Title: From the Sublime to the Ridiculous
Language: English
Format: Betacam
Subject Focus: Evolution of man
Synopsis: The film outlines the process of evolution, and
traces the history of man. The film shows that all
differences which exist among human beings today are
superficial.
Technology (CIET)
Contact Details:
P: 011-26864801, 26864802, 26864803; F: 011-26864141
W: www.ciet.nic.in
Synopsis: The film is about our environment, and the way
we have abused it. The message it sends forth is: cherish
the planet we have been blessed with.
Producer: Mita Chandran, Mokshaa
Commissioning Agency: Mita Chandran, Mokshaa
Contact Details:
Mita Chandran, Proprietor, Mokshaa
1st Floor, 6-3-248/G, Road No. 1, Banjara Hills, Hyderabad
500 034, Andhra Pradesh
P: 040-23305665, 55526628, 26564101, 26969770
M: 9818495925
W: www.mokshaa.com
English Title: Fresh from Your Garden
English Title: Ghas ka Prabandh
Original Title: Fresh from Your Garden
Format: U-Matic
Original Title: Ghas ka Prabandh
Date/Month/Year of Production:
Language: Hindi
Duration: 12 min
Subject Focus: Kitchen gardens
Subject Focus: Local initiatives to save the environment
Synopsis: The aim of the programme is to encourage
viewers — particularly housewives — to maintain kitchen
gardens. The programme explains the various aspects of
kitchen gardening — ploughing, watering, sowing,
weeding and applying fertilizers and pesticides.
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
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Synopsis: In this documentary, school children in Almorah
take the lead in environmental conservation. Local farmers
used to let their cattle graze in the fields and forests; the
children learnt that this practice leads to soil erosion and
groundwater scarcity due to run-off of rainwater. So they
initiated a better practice: cut the forage and feed the cattle
by weight according to their requirements.
Producer: Padam Singh
Contact Details:
P: 011-26864801, 26864802, 26864803; F: 011-26864141
W: www.ciet.nic.in
English Title: Giants and Dwarfs
English Title: Growing Up
Language: English
Duration: 16 min
Format: 16 mm
Language: English, French, Spanish
Duration: 60 & 30 min
Format: DVD
Subject Focus: The Watusi and Pygmy tribes of Congo
Subject Focus: The state of the world’s children
Synopsis: The film is on the oldest inhabitants of Central
Africa — the Watusi and Pygmy tribes of Congo, their
lands, environment and lifestyles.
Synopsis: What does the future hold for the children of
the new millennium? From Brazil to China, the film follows
the lives of 11 babies born in the year of the 1992 UN
Earth Summit to find out. In Kenya, Erdo is the daughter
of Turkana herders, whose lives are shattered when
raiders steal their cattle and they are reduced to cutting
the few remaining trees in the region to make charcoal to
feed their children. In China’s Guangzhou city, baby Leong
Yukkay is the first and only child her parents Liang and
Zheng will have. Zheng works in a factory manufacturing
paper: effluents from the plant pollute the air and the local
countryside — but it’s typical of China’s wholesale drive
to develop and catch up with the industrialized north. And
in India, baby Panjarvanarn’s older sisters already work
in a local match-making factory. Will she meet the same
fate? Three years later, the programme returns to measure
the children’s progress: some things have changed, other
haven’t. In South Africa, where President Mandela’s
government has replaced the old National Party regime,
baby Justin’s parents welcome the changes which mean
everyone working together for a better country. But in
nearby Ciskei, where baby Vusumzi lives with her single
mother Mavis, conditions are still very much as they were
in 1992. Through their stories, the film poses a challenge
to deliver on the promises made at Rio.
Technology (CIET)
Contact Details:
P: 011-26864801, 26864802, 26864803; F: 011-26864141
W: www.ciet.nic.in
English Title: Green Animation: Cartoons to Save
the World
Original Title: Green Animation: Cartoons to Save the
World
Language: English
Duration: 54 min
Subject Focus: Environmental issues facing the earth
Synopsis: The supermarket clerk in Katherine Stratfield’s
film not only rings up the price of the items, but their cost
to the environment as well. A package of toilet paper
evokes a man cutting down trees, and then sewage
pouring into the ocean. An aerosol spray prompts images
of deforestation, industrial pollution, and people coughing.
Even a humble loaf of bread conjures up scenes of clearcutting forests for agriculture and ranching.
Directors: Julian Ware and Bruno Sorrentino
Producers: Julian Ware and Bruno Sorrentino
Contact Details:
P: 011-26134103, 26890380; F: 011-26130817
W: www.devalt.org
Contact Details:
P: 011-29955124, 29956110, 29956394; F: 011-29955879
W: www.cseindia.org
CMS ENVIS Centre
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English Title: Hair: Cables of Information
Original Title: Hair: Cables of Information
Language: English
Duration: 12 min
Format: U-Matic
English Title: Hands Up for the Environment and
the Market
Original Title: Hands Up for the Environment and the
Market
Language: English
Duration: 21 min
Format: DVD
Subject Focus: Hair
Synopsis: Scientifically, our hair can be used to determine
our nutritional status, disease symptoms and
environmental contamination.
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
Synopsis: The film focuses on a weekly puppet show set
in Nigeria for promoting environmental education in Africa.
Contact Details:
P: 011-26134103, 26890380; F: 011-26130817
W: www.devalt.org
English Title: Health in the City
English Title: Hands On — City Scope
Original Title: Hands On — City Scope
Language: English
Duration: 24 min
Subject Focus: Sustainable urban management and
planning
Synopsis: Hands On , the regular Earth Report
programme that gives would-be green consumers and
entrepreneurs tips on eco-enterprise, goes downtown.
Five stories from towns and cities from all the continents
show that the sustainable city is a dream some people
are turning into reality.
Contact Details:
P: 011-29955124, 29956110, 29956394; F: 011-29955879
W: www.cseindia.org
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Original Title: Health in the City
Language: English
Format: DVD
Subject Focus: Urban slums
Synopsis: Backed by the music of the Eurthymics, the
video highlights the crisis of urban slums.
Producers: WHO/David Jay & Jamie Hartzell
Contact Details:
P: 011-26134103, 26890380; F: 011-26130817
W: www.devalt.org
English Title: Heredity and Environment
Language: English
Duration: 11 min
Format: 16 mm
Subject Focus: Heredity and environment
Synopsis: The film presents an overview of cultural
inheritance — genetics, environmental influences and their
interrelationships.
Technology (CIET)
English Title: How Realistic can These Models
Be?
Original Title: How Realistic can These Models Be?
Format: Betacam
Subject Focus: Ecological modelling
Synopsis: Ecological models cannot predict the future,
but they do allow us to understand ecological systems
better.
Contact Details:
P: 011-26864801, 26864802, 26864803; F: 011-26864141
W: www.ciet.nic.in
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
English Title: Hunters and Hunted
English Title: Hole in One
Original Title: Hole in One
Language: English
Format: DV-Sony Handycam
Subject Focus: Sports and environment
Synopsis: This film draws attention to the ethics of the
game of golf vis-à-vis the environment. While city dwellers
look at golf courses as urban greens, the city pays a heavy
cost of depleting forest covers for the sake of sports.
Redefining perspectives to include environmental issues
in sports is the film’s message. It attempts to draw attention
to the fact that contrary to Merriam Webster’s definition of
‘Sports’ as ‘a means to amuse oneself, the repercussions
of sports (here, golf) are far from diverting.
Directors: Abbas Shamael Rizvi, Anandana Kapur, Manak
Matiyani, Surabhi Saral
Producers: Abbas Shamael Rizvi, Anandana Kapur
Manak Matiyani, Surabhi Saral
Language: English
Duration: 45 min
Format: 16 mm
Subject Focus: Predators and their prey
Synopsis: The programme studies one of the driving
forces of evolution — the eternal duel between hunters
and the hunted — and the tactics adopted by both.
Technology (CIET)
Contact Details:
P: 011-26864801, 26864802, 26864803; F: 011-26864141
W: www.ciet.nic.in
Contact Details:
Anandana Kapur
4/52, II Floor, Malviya Nagar, New Delhi 110 017
M: 9350874109 (Surabhi), 9312580794 (Manak Matiyani)
CMS ENVIS Centre
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English Title: Infinite Variety
English Title: Kaksha ki Safai
Language: English
Duration: 56 min
Format: 16 mm
Original Title: Kaksha ki Safai
Language: Hindi
Subject Focus: Evolution of life
Subject Focus: Health and hygiene
Synopsis: The beginning and evolution of life on earth is
the focus of this video.
Technology (CIET)
Contact Details:
P: 011-26864801, 26864802, 26864803; F: 011-26864141
W: www.ciet.nic.in
English Title: Insect Zoo
Language: English
Duration: 11 min
Format: 16 mm
Producer: Anita Gupta
Contact Details:
P: 011-26864801, 26864802, 26864803; F: 011-26864141
W: www.ciet.nic.in
English Title: Khel Khel mein Badlo Duniya
Original Title: Khel Khel mein Badlo Duniya
Language: Hindi
Duration: 30 min
Format: Betacam
Subject Focus: Insects
Synopsis: This film, targeted at children, talks about the
insects in Ted and Susan’s zoo. It also instructs its viewers
on how to build a simple home or a zoo for insects.
Technology (CIET)
Contact Details:
P: 011-26864801, 26864802, 26864803; F: 011-26864141
W: www.ciet.nic.in
Synopsis: The programme is based on a competition
between two different schools or colleges: in this, the
participants are given the liberty to choose a topic on the
theme of conservation and address it in their own special
way. There are special episodes too, in which the tussle
is between teachers and students, young and old, males
and female, self-employed professionals and governmentemployed professionals, etc. These specials reflect the
varied exposures and knowledge of people from different
sections of the society.
Producer: Directorate of Advertising & Visual Publicity
(DAVP)
Contact Details:
Directorate of Advertising & Visual Publicity (DAVP)
Ministry of Information & Broadcasting, 3rd Floor, PTI Building,
Sansad Marg, New Delhi 110 001
P: 011-23353073; F: 011-23739083
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English Title: Khullam Khulla — Environment
Special
(Neglected Nectar)
Original Title: Khullam Khulla — Environment Special
Language: Hindi
Duration: 24 min
Format: Betacam
Original Title: Learning from Nature-1 (Neglected Nectar)
Language: English
Format: U-Matic
Subject Focus: Sensitizing a child towards the natural
world and its conservation
Synopsis: Khullam Khulla is a fun-learning children’s
series. The idea is to motivate and sensitise the child.
One of the most successful and enjoyable teaching aids
used is the puppet. A programme comprising of colourful
puppet characters, live footage, animations, graphics and
music, this special environmental episode of Khullam
Khulla aims to enhance the child’s knowledge of the
natural world and emphasises the need for conservation
and protection of the environment.
Commissioning Agency: Confederation of Indian
Industry (CII)
Contact Details:
River Bank Studios, C-18, Chirag Enclave, New Delhi 110 048
P: 011-26216508; M: 9810029247; F: 011-26216508
English Title: Land of Sun and Sand —
The Arid Region
Original Title: Land of Sun and Sand — The Arid Region
Format: Betacam
Synopsis: This programme, the first in the series on
Learning from Nature, explains the complex but beautiful
web of life on earth. The programme’s message is that
man should live in harmony with the ecosystem.
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
(Back to Nature)
Original Title: Learning from Nature-2 (Back to Nature)
Language: English
Format: U-Matic
Synopsis: The second part of the series demonstrates
how living in close proximity to nature can provide
youngsters with an opportunity to learn about it. The
message: we should understand the environment and
learn to preserve it for our own future.
Subject Focus: Arid regions
Synopsis: Based on a seminar, the programme covers
topics like features of arid regions; management of
degraded land through remote sensing; groundwater in
arid regions; and the use of local plants as medicines.
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
CMS ENVIS Centre
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English Title: Learning through Environment
English Title: Life in a Pond
Language: English
Duration: 28 min
Format: 16 mm
Language: English
Duration: 11 min
Format: 16 mm
Subject Focus: Environment education
Subject Focus: Animals and habitats
Synopsis: This film provokes the audience to discover
the various aspects of environment by themselves — and
explains the possible topics emerging from the
environment, the process of learning, structuring the
lesson plans, directing the learning experiences etc.
Synopsis: The film is targeted at students and showcases
a world of microscopic animals, food-chains etc in natural
as well as controlled settings.
Technology (CIET)
Contact Details:
P: 011-26864801, 26864802, 26864803; F: 011-26864141
W: www.ciet.nic.in
English Title: Leaving No Trace – Cyclist in the
City
Original Title: Leaving No Trace – Cyclist in the City,
Language: Hindi & English
Duration: 15 Minutes
Format: Beta, DVD
Synopsis: We should all switch to ridding bicycle this is
the mantra of the film. Seen through the eyes the
septuagenarian Gandhian Dasharath Shah, the film
emphasizes the advantage of using cycles to commute with
n the city instead of the poison spewing motor vehicles.
Making a fashion statement, both college student and officer
goers in cities are gradually waking up to the beauty of this
“2-wheeler” ride. Bicycling is the most healthy and safe
mode of transport, provided the road rules are adhered to
and is also being adopted by the army at AFMC, Pune.
Director: Prayas and Manjushree Abhinav
Commissioning Agency: Centre for Media Studies (CMS
and Star TV Film Fellowship)
Contact Details:
Prayas and Manjushree Abhinav
House No. 315, IIM Campus, Vastrapur
Ahmedabad 380015 Gujarat
M: 9227234979
W: www.prayasabhinav.net
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Technology (CIET)
Contact Details:
P: 011-26864801, 26864802, 26864803; F: 011-26864141
W: www.ciet.nic.in
English Title: Life Series 3
(a) The Road from Rio-27
(b) The Trade Trap-27
(c) The Perfect Famine-27
Original Title: Life Series 3 (a) The Road from Rio-27,
(b) The Trade Trap-27, (c) The Perfect Famine-27
Language: English
Subject Focus: Poverty alleviation, human rights and
governance
Synopsis: In the The Road from Rio, the concerns of 21year-old Nankie in Johannesburg — the venue for the
World Summit on Sustainable Development — finds a
voice along with comments from the leading players like
Maurice Strong, ex-Secretary General of the Rio Earth
Summit, and James Wolfensohn, World Bank President.
Nankie and her friends are hoping the decisions made at
the conference will address the problems of poverty,
inequality and lack of basic services that are part of their
day-to-day existence. In The Trade Trap , Augustine
Adongo, chief executive of the Federation of Associations
of Ghanaian Exporters, tries to find out whether trade is
really the solution for poor countries like his. Proglobalization lobbies say yes, but anti-globalization
protesters argue that trade isn’t actually working for the
poorest of the poor — the one billion people round the
world who live on less than a dollar a day. In The Perfect
Famine, the stage shifts to Malawi, which is at the epicentre
of a major famine in the southern African region. While
there’s no outright starvation yet, families have been
resorting to traditional famine strategies — abandoning
villages and eating wild plants and next year’s seed corn.
As one US journalist described it, it has all the ingredients
of ‘the perfect famine’. Yet Malawi is a green land that
should be able to feed itself. Much of the problem, claim
critics, derives from poor governance, repressive policies
and corruption.
English Title: Low Cost Housing
Duration: 18 min
Subject Focus: Low-cost rural housing
Synopsis: In 1983, Gandhigram, a research institute in
Tamil Nadu, introduced a unique house design for rural
areas. The film details the design and its specifications,
as well as the efforts made for disseminating the
technology to the people.
Contact Details:
Technology (CAPART)
New Delhi 110 003
P: 011-24642391,24642393,24642395
F: 011-24648607, 24625822
English Title: Maan Gaye
Original Title: Maan Gaye
Language: Hindi
Duration: 18 min
Subject Focus: Environmental awareness
Synopsis: This is a motivational film on environment for
children, and depicts how children are able to convince
adults to follow environment-friendly practices.
Director: Ms. Kiron Wadhera, ACORD
Contact Details:
P: 011-29955124, 29956110, 29956394; F: 011-29955879
W: www.cseindia.org
CMS ENVIS Centre
Contact Details:
Asian Centre for Organization Research and
Development (ACORD)
C-126, Greater Kailash-I, New Delhi 110 048
P: 011-26410616, 26238495
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English Title: Magic of Life
English Title: Meena: Three Wishes
Original Title: Magic of Life
Language: English
Format: Betacam
Original Title: Meena: Three Wishes
Language: English
Duration: 13 min
Subject Focus: Creation, evolution and life
Synopsis: Meant for children and the young, the film —
whose key themes are compassion and love — talks about
the marvelous and magical world of creation and the
intricate threads that bind all living beings.
Synopsis: Meena dreams of a magic genie that will grant
her three wishes so that everyone would be healthy and
never again get sick from poor sanitation and unsafe water.
When Meena wakes up, she realizes that she must make
her dream come true. With the help of her brother Raju,
other children in the village, and Mithu, her pet parrot,
Meena convinces people to build and use latrines, use
safe water and wash their hands to ensure that they stop
the spread of germs and disease.
Awards Received by the Film: Best Documentry
Award z– CMS VATAVARAN 2003 in Newcomer Category
Director: Gautam Pandey
Contact Details:
Riverbank Studios, C-18, Chirag Enclave, New Delhi 110 048
P: 011-26216508; M: 9810449789; F: 011-26216508
Contact Details:
P: 011-29955124, 29956110, 29956394; F: 011-29955879
W: www.cseindia.org
English Title: Makkhi ki Dawat, Aap ki Afat
Original Title: Makkhi ki Dawat, Aap ki Afat
Language: Hindi
Contact Details:
P: 011-26864801, 26864802, 26864803; F: 011-26864141
W: www.ciet.nic.in
English Title: Nature Walk
Original Title: Nature Walk
Language: English
Synopsis: The programme is addressed to teachers, and
extols the benefits of exposing children to nature and its
wonders and encouraging them to learn through
observation and experimentation.
Producer: Central
Technology (CIET)
Institute
of
Educational
Contact Details:
P: 011-26864801, 26864802, 26864803; F: 011-26864141
W: www.ciet.nic.in
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English Title: Our Future World
Original Title: Our Future World
Language: English
Duration: 20 min
Format: DVD
Subject Focus: Environmental crisis and its solutions
Synopsis: This is an overview programme in the BBC/
IBT series Our Global Environment, and it looks at current
environmental problems and initiatives to deal with them.
Production Company: BBC/international Broadcasting
Trust
Contact Details:
P: 011-26134103, 26890380; F: 011-26130817
W: www.devalt.org
English Title: Oxygen-free Radicals and
Antioxidants-11 (Tobacco and Oxygen Radicals)
Original Title: Oxygen-free Radicals and Antioxidants-11
(Tobacco and Oxygen Radicals)
Language: English
Duration: 18 min
Format: Betacam
English Title: Oxygen-free Radicals and
Antioxidants-12 (Antioxidants in Food)
Original Title: Oxygen-free Radicals and Antioxidants-12
(Antioxidants in Food)
Language: English
Format: Betacam
Subject Focus: Adverse side-effects of medicines and
their cure
Synopsis: Medicines we take for our ailments — such as
antibiotics like Gentamicin — can have harmful sideeffects. Nutritional modulations can alleviate these harmful
effects to some extent. In the film, Dr. Sarmistha Ghosh
will tell us how.
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
English Title: Paper Problems: Save Paper in
Your Office
Original Title: Paper Problems: Save Paper in Your Office
Language: English
Duration: 30 min
Subject Focus: Tobacco and its health impacts
Subject Focus: Paper-less office
Synopsis: Cigarette smoking and the use of oral tobacco
are common habits all over the world, even though people
are aware about their harmful effects. In the film, Dr.
Shakuntala Das Gupta explains the nature of the effects
of various chemical components of cigarette smoke on
the metabolic systems of the body. The use of oral tobacco
also causes a lot of damage in different tissues like the
liver, the heart and the kidneys — Dr. Manashi Bagchi
talks about smokeless tobacco.
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
CMS ENVIS Centre
Synopsis: A major part of a lost forest cover feeds the
paper industry. In India, 30 million trees are cut down every
year for making paper, most of which ends up on our office
desk. This film gives tips on how to save paper in the
office.
Contact Details:
P: 011-26134103, 26890380; F: 011-26130817
W: www.devalt.org
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English Title: Paryavaran Shiksha Kyon
English Title: Quiz on Environment
Original Title: Paryavaran Shiksha Kyon
Language: Hindi
Format: Betacam
Language: English
Synopsis: Co-hosted by Shevendra Kundra and Suhaila
Charnalia, a 13-part quiz on environment, wildlife and
nature. Three teams — Earth, Air and Water — vie for the
honours. Each programme consists of six rounds and is
devoted to a specific contemporary topic, such as
biodiversity, environment and health, or wetlands.
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
Subject Focus: Environment, wildlife and nature
Director: Sita Nanda
Producer: Doordarshan (National Network)
English Title: People and the Planet Compilation
Original Title: People and the Planet Compilation
Language: English and other
Duration: 3 min
Contact Details:
Doordarshan Kendra
Akashwani Bhawan, Parliament Street, New Delhi 110 001
P: 011-23715822; F: 011-23421144
Subject Focus: Women, empowerment and health
English Title: Ruchi
Synopsis: These three videos take as their theme the
positive messages which emerged from the 1994 Cairo
International Conference on Population and Development.
Victory for Women illustrates how in Egypt the government
had moved away from its rigorous population control
programme to a more sensitive reproductive health
approach, and how Profamilia in Colombia is involving
young people and men in its ‘people-centred’ approach
to family planning. Learning for Life looks at successful
education initiatives for girls and women in Senegal and
Bangladesh. The final film, Calling the Shots, profiles two
successful women’s communications projects — the Self
Employed Women’s Association in Ahmedabad, and the
Sistren Theatre Collective in Jamaica which uses popular
theatre to get across messages on domestic violence and
teenage sexuality.
Original Title: Ruchi
Subject Focus: The activities of RUCHI in Himachal
Pradesh
Synopsis: Life in the mountains can be tough, more so if
you are a woman. The women of Himachal Pradesh have
accepted as their fate the fact that they have to work in
the fields, at home, rear the kids and deal with husbands
who are alcoholics. This was until a voluntary organization
called RUCHI (Rural Centre for Human Interest) came
along. Over the years, it has worked with the people to
improve their standard of living and stop further
degradation of the environment. Local people, with the
help of RUCHI, have built schools and health centres and
have improved the irrigation facilities.
Directors: Richard Keefe, Rosanna Horsley
Contact Details:
P: 011-29955124, 29956110, 29956394; F: 011-29955879
W: www.cseindia.org
Contact Details:
P: 011-26134103, 26890380; F: 011-26130817
W: www.devalt.org
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English Title: Saaf Rahe Tan to Khush Rahe Man
English Title: Sasthrakauthukam
Original Title: Saaf Rahe Tan to Khush Rahe Man
Language: Hindi
Original Title: Sasthrakauthukam
Language: Malayalam
Format: Betacam SP
Subject Focus: Environmental issues in Kerala
Synopsis: The programme with special focus on
cleanliness and orderliness, is meant for nine-11 yearolds. It has four distinct sequences, beginning with the
disorderly habits of a child who gradually realizes the
importance of orderliness.
Contact Details:
P: 011-26864801, 26864802, 26864803; F: 011-26864141
W: www.ciet.nic.in
English Title: Sahi Jagah Par
Original Title: Sahi Jagah Par
Language: Hindi
Synopsis: Cleanliness and orderliness are considered
routine matters in schools. However, their application in
real life is still some way off. The programme tries to
communicate the message of orderliness to children and
motivate them to apply it.
Contact Details:
P: 011-26864801, 26864802, 26864803; F: 011-26864141
W: www.ciet.nic.in
Synopsis: Sasthrakauthukam is the first science
magazine programme in Malayalam. The series focused
on subjects like science, environment and health. This
compilation covers locally-relevant stories on rainwater
harvesting, persistent organic pollutants, colas and
packaged drinking water, etc.
Director: Sreedevi
Producer: Sreedevi
Production Company: C-DIT, Visual Communication
Team
Contact Details:
Manoj Krishnan P.
C-DIT, Gorki Bhavan Vanross Junction
Thiruvanthapuram 695 034, Kerala
P: 0471-2330081; M: 09447886486
F: 0471-2333735, 2328659
W: www.cdit.org
English Title: Save Paper
Original Title: Save Paper
Format: AVI-Flash Exe, SWF, HTML
Subject Focus: Saving paper
Synopsis: This animation film on saving paper reflects a
commitment towards preservation of the environment,
through a depiction of real-life takes based on the day-today activities of employees and their use of paper. Using
animation saves the film from being alarmist in nature, and
helps create a positive awareness of an important issue.
Director: Sameer Patil
Producer: Tata Interactive Systems
Production Company: Tata Interactive System
Contact Details:
Sameer Patil
Tata Interactive Systems, Leela Business Park, Andheri Kurla
Road, Andheri (E), Mumbai 400 059
P: 022-56438000; m: 098223310277; F: 022-56438800
W: www.tatainteractive.com
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English Title: Science for Survival
English Title: Singapore Roadshow
Original Title: Science for Survival
Language: English
Duration: 50 min
Format: DVD
Original Title: Singapore Roadshow
Language: English
Duration: 26 min
Subject Focus: Fusion of modern science and indigenous
knowledge
Synopsis: The film looks at a people’s movement
spearheaded by Vandana Shiva, against the perceived
threat of ‘reductionist Western science’. In India, argues
Shiva, the introduction of high yielding crop varieties has
failed to take women’s knowledge of seeds into account.
Is there a meeting point, the film asks, between western
science and indigenous knowledge? Silk technologist
Prabha Shekar claims that, if done sensitively, the fusion
of modern science with indigenous knowledge can provide
a powerful way forward for poor communities.
Director: Ani King-Underwood
Producer: Ani King-Underwood
Production Company: International Broadcasting Trust
Contact Details:
P: 011-26134103, 26890380; F: 011-26130817
W: www.devalt.org
English Title: Signs of Hope
Language: English
Duration: 22 min
Format: VHS
Synopsis: The film discusses global environmental
problems and challenges faced by people in working
towards a secure common future.
Environment (CSE)
Contact Details:
P: 011-29955124, 29956110, 29956394; F: 011-29955879
W: www.cseindia.org
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Subject Focus: Environmental issues in Singapore;
tapping wind power in Indonesia
Synopsis: Earth Report travels to Singapore to look at a
cheap, quick, clean and efficient public transport system,
which has made the city run like clockwork. In Bukit Timah,
we follow a group of volunteers who are helping out the
environment by planting trees. Singapore is becoming
more and more dependent on migrant workers — we
examine the problems this is causing and how they can
be addressed. Singapore is a regional hub for
environmental technology; we follow one such project —
an engineer whose air conditioning system cuts energy
use by 80%. Hands-On visits Indonesia to know how wind
pumps are making a big difference.
Contact Details:
P: 011-29955124, 29956110, 29956394; F: 011-29955879
W: www.cseindia.org
English Title: Skinning Mother Nature...!?
English Title: Songs and Tears of Nature
Original Title: Skinning Mother Nature...!?
Format: Betacam
Original Title: Songs and Tears of Nature
Language: English
Duration: 55 min
Synopsis: The impact of human activity on the physical
and biological environment has a consequential effect on
life forms due to changes in their immediate habitat. Many
of the large-scale human activities tend to alter the natural
balance of living organisms in an ecological system. Such
disturbances can affect human socities in a number of
ways. The close interdependence between resources,
development population and environment seems obvious
on examination, but we tend to ignore the risk factors and
population pressures that are involved in the
developmental process. The programme throws light on
these deteriorations in habitats.
Subject Focus: Man and environment — seen through
indigenous beliefs and cultures
Directors: Marie-Clemence Blanc and Cesar Paes
Contact Details:
P: 011-29955124, 29956110, 29956394; F: 011-29955879
W: www.cseindia.org
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
English Title: Source of Life (I)
English Title: Some People
Original Title: Some People
Duration: 2 min
Synopsis: The film shows how environmental degradation
affects all of us and states why environmental concern is
so crucial for a country like India.
Subject Focus: Environment and its conservation
Environment (CSE)
Synopsis: Looking at people who care for the environment
and those who don’t, the film tries to provoke viewers to
be more caring towards nature and its resources.
Director: Paritosh Kumawat
Language: English
Duration: 26 min
Format: VHS
Contact Details:
P: 011-29955124, 29956110, 29956394; F: 011-29955879
W: www.cseindia.org
Contact Details:
Paritosh Kumawat
Flat No. 603, Aakash ‘C’ Wing, Gaurav Shikhar, Kandivli (E)
Mumbai 400 101
M: 09819689227
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English Title: State of India’s Environment (VII):
In and Out of School
Language: English
Duration: 30 min
Format: VHS
English Title: Sundara Vasundara (Baldoot)
Original Title: Sundara Vasundara (Baldoot)
Language: Hindi
Duration: 14 min
Format: Betacam
Subject Focus: Environment conservation
Synopsis: The film brings to light voluntary attempts at a
different sort of education, which helps children develop
in harmony with their environment.
Environment (CSE)
Synopsis: This is an introductory episode of CFSI’s
environmental teleserial Baldoot. The film, through its
theme song based on Rabindranath Tagore’s poem,
stresses on protecting the environment.
Producer: Children’s Film Society, India
Contact Details:
P: 011-29955124, 29956110, 29956394; F: 011-29955879
W: www.cseindia.org
Contact Details:
Films Division Complex, 24, Dr.G.Deshmukh Marg,
Mumbai 400 026
P: 022-23526798, 23516136; F: 022-23522610
W: www.cfsindia.org
English Title: Sting in the Tale
Original Title: Sting in the Tale
Language: English
Duration: 24 min
Subject Focus: Environmental initiatives from across the
world
Synopsis: Hands On — the regular Earth Report
programme that gives tips on green enterprise — starts
this programme in a laboratory in Belgium where we find
that bees are the latest recruits in the battle against
pollution. In Sweden, there is more animal magic — sniffer
dogs trained to detect mercury. In Bangladesh, sari cloth
is being used as a cheap and simple filter to help prevent
the spread of cholera. In China, coalbed methane is a
peril for miners. It has to be vented safely into the
atmosphere. But methane is a greenhouse gas many
times more potent than carbon dioxide. Through a new
method being tried out in the mining town of Yangquan,
it’s being used to meet household energy needs for 20,000
people.
Contact Details:
P: 011-29955124, 29956110, 29956394; F: 011-29955879
W: www.cseindia.org
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English Title: Teaching of Science through
Environment: Rock and Soil
Language: English
Duration: 17 min
Format: 16 mm
Subject Focus: Understanding rocks and soils
Synopsis: The film shows how a teacher can make the
best use of environment by taking the children on field
trips for on-the-spot study of various objects, making
learning interesting and more purposeful. Various
formations of rocks and soils and their stratification are
shown through models from available resources within
the school compound.
Technology (CIET)
Contact Details:
P: 011-26864801, 26864802, 26864803; F: 011-26864141
W: www.ciet.nic.in
English Title: Terraquiz — A Televised Quiz
Programme
Original Title: Terraquiz — A Televised Quiz Programme
Language: English
Duration: 25 min
Subject Focus: A quiz programme on environment
Synopsis: Every year, the Green Olympiad culminates
into the Terraquiz, a multi-episode national environment
quiz programme for television. Top-performing schools are
selected to take part in this quiz. The questions emanate
from topics of daily concern, local and global; attractive
audiovisuals impart a unique flavour to this quiz, which is
an interesting pedagogical tool and an effective medium
to convey messages in a short period of time.
Contact Details:
Darbari Seth Block, IHC Complex, Lodhi Road,
P: 011-24682100, 41504900; F: 011-24682144, 24682145
W: www.teriin.org
English Title: The Circles of Distortion
Original Title: The Circles of Distortion
Language: English
Format: MINI DV
Synopsis: The film is based on a first person narrative of
an artist. It is an allegory where an artist and his artistic
expressions represent desires of human beings — a desire
for the kind of world they want to live in. Our behaviour
towards the environment is similar. Our desires and
ambitions dominate our ability to see the reality. We always
impose our colours on the environment and ignore
whatever nature is giving us. The film says that we must
stop this distortion in the interest of the future of mankind.
English Title: The Dinosaur-1
Original Title: The Dinosaur-1
Language: English
Format: U-Matic
Subject Focus: Dinosaurs
Synopsis: Dinosaurs are fascinating. They reigned on
earth — it is said — 160 million years, and suddenly
vanished. The film is a guide to these ancient giant reptiles.
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
Language: English
Format: U-Matic
Synopsis: This part of the series discusses how scientists
reconstruct the structure of a dinosaur.
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
Director: Suchitra Varma
Producer: Rammohan Khanapurkar
Contact Details:
Rammohan Khanapurkar
C1/701, Valley Tower, Aggarwal Estate, S V Road, Manpada,
Thane 400 670, Maharashtra
P: 022-55777769; M: 09820040066; F: 022-25890008
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Language: English
Format: U-Matic
Subject Focus: The Mesozoic era
Synopsis: This episode deals with the Mesozoic era,
which is also called the Dinosaur era. It looks at the three
sub-divisions of the Mesozoic era and the development
of dinosaurs in each of these.
English Title: The Dinosaur-5 — The Extinction
of Dinosaur
Original Title: The Dinosaur-5 — The Extinction of
Dinosaur
Language: English
Format: U-Matic
Synopsis: The programme is on the birth of the dinosaurs
in early Mesozoic era, their evolution and their sudden
disappearance from the world.
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
English Title: The Dinosaur-4 (The Dinosaur with
Wings)
Original Title: The Dinosaur-4 (The Dinosaur with Wings)
Language: English
Duration: 16 min
Format: U-Matic
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
English Title: The Earth
Original Title: Bhoomi
Duration: 30 min
Format: Mini DV
Subject Focus: Initiatives to protect the environment
Subject Focus: Birds and dinosaurs
Synopsis: This programme tells us how birds descended
from dinosaurs, and compares modern birds with the flying
dinosaurs. One of its highlights is its documentation of
the fossil found in Texas, USA, which is closely related to
the modern crow.
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
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Synopsis: The film looks at positive efforts made by
individuals and groups to preserve and protect the
environment.
Director: Nitin Nandan
Producer: Siddharth Kak
Production Company: CinemaVision India, Mumbai
Commissioning Agency: Ministry of Environment and
Forests, Government of India
Contact Details:
Cinema Vision India
501, Adarsh Nagar, MHB Colony, Jogeshwari (W)
Mumbai 400058
P: 022-26365946, 26320739; M: 09324476425
English Title: The Fragile Web
English Title: The State of the Planet
Original Title: The Fragile Web
Language: English
Duration: 30 min
Format: DVD
Language: English
Duration: 1 min
Format: VHS
Subject Focus: State of the world’s environment
Subject Focus: Interdependence of all life forms on earth
Synopsis: An exploration of the interdependence of all
life forms on earth, the film looks at the fragile web of life
which binds us together in a unique relationship, each
strand dependent on the other for survival.
(PSBT)
Trust (PSBT)
Contact Details:
P: 011-24355941; F: 011-24353825
W: www.psbt.org
English Title: The Girl Who Saw the World from
Above
Original Title: The Girl Who Saw the World from Above
Language: English, Spanish
Duration: 60 min
Format: DVD
Subject Focus: Man and nature — environmental
degradation and the need to stop it
Synopsis: Eight-year-old Adriana has one dream — to
be able to fly. In this film from Guatemala, her dream
comes true when a mysterious stranger carries her off in
a balloon to visit the ancient Mayan temples of Mexico
and explore the tropical forests of Peten. Confronting evil
tomb robbers and exploring the emerald depths of the
Caribbean Sea, Adriana is witness to man’s destructive
powers in a fragile world. Combining adventure and
fantasy as an educational tool, the film attempts to provide
information on the threats to global environment, and the
inspiration to conserve and protect it.
Synopsis: The film covers the proceedings of the hearing
on world environment, organised by the United Nations
in 1992.
Environment (CSE)
Contact Details:
P: 011-29955124, 29956110, 29956394; F: 011-29955879
W: www.cseindia.org
English Title: The Voice of the Children
Original Title: The Voice of the Children
Language: English
Duration: 16 min
Format: DVD
Subject Focus: Children and their concerns on
environment
Synopsis: In this film, children voice their concerns to
politicians about the future of the planet.
Contact Details:
P: 011-26134103, 26890380; F: 011-26130817
W: www.devalt.org
Director: Maria-Cristina Rosales
Producer: Maria-Cristina Rosales
Production Company: CREA
Contact Details:
P: 011-26134103, 26890380; F: 011-26130817
W: www.devalt.org
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English Title: Third Eye
Original Title: Teesari Aankh
Language: Hindi
Format: Betacam
Synopsis: This programme was conceived for
Doordarshan to bring about a sense of awareness in the
society on issues of relevance — inclusing the
environment.
Producer: Prabhu Jhingran
Commissioning Agency: Doordarshan Kendra
Contact Details:
Doordarshan Kendra
24-Ashok Marg, Lucknow 226 001, Uttar Pradesh
P: 0522-2205752; F: 0522-2287268
English Title: Torch Cactus: A Natural Ionizer
Original Title: Torch Cactus: A Natural Ionizer
Language: English
Duration: 30 min
Subject Focus: Problem of ions in air — the Torch Cactus
Synopsis: Natural phenomenon and electronic goods
release millions of ions into the atmosphere, which affect
our health. Especially, in workplaces, our work gets
affected due to the presence of ions in the air. The film
tells about a plant called Torch Cactus, nature’s own
ionizer.
Contact Details:
P: 011-26134103, 26890380; F: 011-26130817
W: www.devalt.org
English Title: UGC Lecture Series in
Environmental Science-1 (Environmental
Protection and Youth)
Original Title: UGC Lecture Series in Environmental
Science-1 (Environmental Protection and Youth)
Language: English
Format: Betacam
Subject Focus: Environmental conservation and the
youth
Synopsis: The programme is a part of a series of lectures
on environmental sciences, delivered by Prof. Ramesh
Sharma of the Garhwal University in Uttranchal.
Environmental protection and the role the youth can play
in it is the focus, and the film looks at various movements
like Chipko, Silent Valley etc to make its point.
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
English Title: UGC Lecture Series in Environmetal
Science-2 (Natural Resource Management)
Original Title: UGC Lecture Series in Environmetal
Science-2 (Natural Resource Management)
Language: English
Format: Betacam
Subject Focus: Conservation and management of natural
resources
Synopsis: The importance of natural resources, the
causes behind their depletion, goal of resource
management etc have been dealt with in the film, whose
underlying message is conservation of natural resources
for ecological balance.
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
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English Title: Unnatural Destiny
English Title: Vasundhra-2 (Ecoquest-2)
Original Title: Unnatural Destiny
Language: Tamil (with English subtitles; dubbed in
English)
Duration: 4 min
Format: Betacam SP
Original Title: Vasundhra-2 (Ecoquest-2)
Language: English
Format: Betacam
Subject Focus: Environmental conservation
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
Synopsis: This is a movie on societal responsibility: the
importance of environment for the continued well-being
of the earth.
Director: J. Ramesh
Producer: J. Ramesh
Production Company: Avinaash Visuals
Contact Details:
J Ramesh
50/2, Marar Apartment, 1 Main Road Shenoy Nagar
M: 09841053626
Language: English
Format: Betacam
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
English Title: Vigyan Ashram, Pabal
Duration: 13 min
Format: VHS
Subject Focus: Educational initiatives for improving rural
lifestyles
Synopsis: This is about a unique educational experiment
aimed at imparting simple technical skills and the use of
science in day-to-day life. The Ashram’s philosophy of
learning by doing is exemplified in the work done by the
students in water prospecting and other technologies
designed to improve the life of rural people.
Contact Details:
Technology (CAPART)
New Delhi 110 003
P: 011-24642391, 24642393, 24642395
F: 011-24648607, 24625822
Language: English
Format: Betacam
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
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English Title: Vivekanand Research and Training
Centre
Language: English & Gujarati
Duration: 25 min
Format: VHS
Subject Focus: The Vivekanand Research and Training
Centre and its work
Synopsis: The film documents and analyses the work
done by the Centre, and looks at aspects like peoples’
participation, cost-benefit ratios of new technologies etc.
Contact Details:
Technology (CAPART)
New Delhi 110 003
P: 011-24642391, 24642393, 24642395
F: 011-24648607, 24625822
English Title: What on Earth are We Doing
Original Title: What on Earth are We Doing
Duration: 17 min
Format: U-Matic
Synopsis: The film gives the viewer an overall perspective
on the state of the environment — ecosystems,
deforestation, pollution, the depleting Ozone layer etc —
and provides suggestions on how the viewer can help
save the planet.
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
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English Title: When the Bough Breaks
Original Title: When the Bough Breaks
Language: English
Duration: 52 min
Subject Focus: Impacts of degrading environment on
children
Synopsis: This documentary, produced for the World
Environment Day in 1990, explores how the lives of
children are affected by environmental problems all over
the world.
Directors: Moore And Robbie Stamp
Contact Details:
P: 011-29955124, 29956110, 29956394; F: 011-29955879
W: www.cseindia.org
English Title: Wildlife Plus (Discovering the
Nature of Art)
English Title: Zoology (UVLC) Animal Diversity
and Classification
Original Title: Wildlife Plus (Discovering the Nature of
Art)
Language: English
Format: Betacam SP
Original Title: Zoology (UVLC) Animal Diversity and
Classification
Language: English
Duration: 30 min
Format: U-Matic
Subject Focus: Relationship of children and performing
arts with nature
Production Company: ZOOL
Synopsis: Animals and dance, music and nature — is
there a thread that runs through them? These are some
of the questions a group of kids try and find the answers
to, as they spend a summer learning the classical arts.
As they sing, dance, play and fight through the summer,
they also learn about nature. Helping them in their journey
of discovery are eminent performers Gopal Sharman and
Jalabala Vaidya.
Directors: Ajay Shetty and Anasuya Vaidya
Production Company: Saa Ree Gaa Productions
Trust (PSBT)
Contact Details:
Ajay Shetty and Anasuya Vaidya
Saa Ree Gaa Productions, 11-B, Baba Kharak Singh Marg,
New Delhi 110 001
P: 011-32102117, 30920725; M: 9313009524; F: 011-23742083
E: [email protected],
[email protected]
English Title: Zoology (UVLC) Animal Behaviour
Original Title: Zoology (UVLC) Animal Behaviour
Language: English
Duration: 30 min
Format: U-Matic
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
English Title: Zoology (UVLC) Animal Nutrition
Original Title: Zoology (UVLC) Animal Nutrition
Language: English
Duration: 30 min
Format: U-Matic
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
English Title:
Reproduction
Zoology
(UVLC) Animal
Original Title: Zoology (UVLC) Animal Reproduction
Language: English
Duration: 30 min
Format: U-Matic
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
CMS ENVIS Centre
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
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English Title: Zoology (UVLC) Aquatic Mammals
and their Adaptations
English Title: Zoology (UVLC) Asexual
Reproduction in Non-Chordates
Original Title: Zoology (UVLC) Aquatic Mammals and
their Adaptations
Language: English
Duration: 30 min
Format: U-Matic
Original Title: Zoology (UVLC) Asexual Reproduction in
Non-Chordates
Language: English
Duration: 30 min
Format: U-Matic
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
English Title: Zoology (UVLC) Asexual and
Sexual Reproduction
English Title: Zoology (UVLC) Ecology, Animal
Behaviour and Development Biology — Biotic
Potential
Original Title: Zoology (UVLC) Asexual and Sexual
Reproduction
Language: English
Duration: 30 min
Format: U-Matic
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
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Original Title: Zoology (UVLC) Ecology, Animal Behaviour
and Development Biology — Biotic Potential
Language: English
Duration: 30 min
Format: U-Matic
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
Behaviour and Development Biology
(Population)
Behaviour and Development Biology: Ecological
Principles and Biotic Community
and Development Biology (Population)
Language: English
Duration: 30 min
Format: U-Matic
and Development Biology: Ecological Principles and Biotic
Community
Language: English
Duration: 30 min
Format: U-Matic
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
Behaviour and Development Biology: Basic
Features of Production, Consumption and
Decomposition
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
Behaviour and Development Biology: Hormones
and Behaviour
and Development Biology: Basic Features of Production,
Consumption and Decomposition
Language: English
Duration: 30 min
Format: U-Matic
and Development Biology: Hormones and Behaviour
Language: English
Duration: 30 min
Format: U-Matic
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
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Behaviour and Development Biology: Learning
and Development Biology: Learning
Language: English
Duration: 30 min
Format: U-Matic
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
English Title: Zoology (UVLC) Fertilization
Original Title: Zoology (UVLC) Fertilization
Language: English
Duration: 30 min
Format: U-Matic
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
English Title: Zoology (UVLC) Food Chain and
Food Webs
English Title: Zoology (UVLC) Evolution of Man
Original Title: Zoology (UVLC) Evolution of Man
Language: English
Duration: 30 min
Format: U-Matic
Original Title: Zoology (UVLC) Food Chain and Food
Webs
Language: English
Duration: 30 min
Format: U-Matic
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
English Title: Zoology (UVLC) Feeding
Mechanisms in Animals
English Title:
Communities
Original Title: Zoology (UVLC) Feeding Mechanisms in
Animals
Language: English
Duration: 30 min
Format: U-Matic
Original Title: Zoology (UVLC) Forest Communities
Language: English
Duration: 30 min
Format: U-Matic
Zoology
(UVLC)
Forest
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
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Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
English Title: Zoology (UVLC) The Circulatory
System of Birds and Mammals
English Title: Zoology (UVLC) Types of Eggs in
Animals
Original Title: Zoology (UVLC) The Circulatory System
of Birds and Mammals
Language: English
Duration: 30 min
Format: U-Matic
Original Title: Zoology (UVLC) Types of Eggs in Animals
Language: English
Duration: 30 min
Format: U-Matic
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
English Title: Zoology (UVLC) The Circulatory
System of Reptiles
Original Title: Zoology (UVLC) The Circulatory System
of Reptiles
Language: English
Duration: 30 min
Format: U-Matic
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
English Title: Zoology (UVLC) Variation —
Its Nature and Resources
Original Title: Zoology (UVLC) Variation — Its Nature and
Resources
Language: English
Duration: 30 min
Format: U-Matic
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
English Title: Zoology (UVLC) Tissue Culture
English Title: Zoology (UVLC)-1 —
Natural Selection-1
Original Title: Zoology (UVLC) Tissue Culture
Language: English
Duration: 30 min
Format: U-Matic
Original Title: Zoology (UVLC)-1 — Natural Selection-1
Language: English
Duration: 30 min
Format: U-Matic
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
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English Title: Zoology (UVLC)-2 —
Natural Selection-2
English Title: Zoology (UVLC)-3 — Feeding
Nutrition and Digestion in Invertebrates-3
Original Title: Zoology (UVLC)-2 — Natural Selection-2
Language: English
Duration: 30 min
Format: U-Matic
Original Title: Zoology (UVLC)-3 — Feeding Nutrition and
Digestion in Invertebrates-3
Language: English
Duration: 30 min
Format: U-Matic
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
English Title: Zoology (UVLC)-2 — Feeding
Nutrition and Digestion in Invertebrates-2
Original Title: Zoology (UVLC)-2 — Feeding Nutrition and
Digestion in Invertebrates-2
Language: English
Duration: 30 min
Format: U-Matic
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
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Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
Industry
and
Environment
English Title: A Second Hand Life
English Title: Apathy – The Indifference
Original Title: A Second Hand Life
Format: DV Beta
Original Title: Apathy – The Indifference
Language: English
Format: MPEG2, AVI, MPEG1, MPEG2-VCD
Subject Focus: Electronic waste business
Synopsis: This investigative film brings to light the murkier
side of information technology: e-waste. Tonnes of
electronic waste from obsolete computers and televisions
are being exported to poor countries like India from the
Western world. Asif, the film’s central character, is a worker
in the e-waste recycling business. His life reveals how
this global e-waste business is engulfing us and shows
how dangerous are the working conditions in these
recycling ghettos. We see how blue chip MNCs sell ewaste as second hand computers to Indian traders and
how unscrupulous agents import dangerous waste under
the guise of ‘charitable donations’. We get a peep into
the sweat shops where thousands of labourers, including
children, burn, smash and tear apart electronic waste to
scavenge for heavy metals such as copper and iron,
precious metal such as gold and platinum. The methods
of disposal are rudimentary. It results in heavy metal poison
affecting the entire food chain.
Subject Focus: Apathy towards environmental issues
Synopsis: The film tells the story of a protagonist who
successfully agitates to shut down a polluting factory, but
has his face blackened by smoke emitted from passing
cars. And to all this, the common man remains completely
indifferent.
Directors: Manjunath Jambe, Vibin Vijayan
Producer: ANTS (Animation Training School)
Production Company: ANTS (Animation Training School)
Contact Details:
ANTS, II Floor RD Complex, 8 th Main Basavesh Waranagar,
P: 080-51287127-128; M: 09886550638
W: www.antsindia.com
English Title: Aviation and Environment
Awards Received by the Film: ‘Delhi Chief Minister’s
Award’, CMS VATAVARAN 2005
Language: English
Duration: 24 min
Director: Nutan Manmohan
Production Company: All Time Production
Trust (PSBT)
Subject Focus: Polluted environment affects air travel
and the aviation sector
Contact Details:
P: 011-24355941; F: 011-24353825
W: www.psbt.org
Synopsis: A deteriorating environment has enormous
implications on aviation activities. Degradation of
environment, like proliferation of abattoirs in areas close
to airports, can lead to bird hits. The film also deals with
the implications of human habitation close to the airport
boundaries, a safety hazard for aviation.
Productions
Contact Details:
P: 011-26134103, 26890380; F: 011-26130817
W: www.devalt.org
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English Title: Avoiding Eye Strain in Electronic
Factories
Language: English
Duration: 30 min
Subject Focus: Occupational health — saving the eyes
while working in electronics
Synopsis: People working in electronic factories undergo
severe eye strain due to the kind of work they do. This
story suggests some preventive measures to avoid such
harmful eye-exposure.
English Title: Building with Mud
Language: Hindi, English
Duration: 23 min
Subject Focus: Mud as a building material
Synopsis: The film is meant for NGOs, architects, builders
and people involved in exploring the possibility of mud as
a viable building material. The Balram mud block press,
designed and marketed by Development Alternatives, is
a simple manual device, which makes easy the tedious
job of mud block making.
Director: Safina Uberoi
Productions
Contact Details:
P: 011-26134103, 26890380; F: 011-26130817
W: www.devalt.org
Contact Details:
P: 011-26134103, 26890380; F: 011-26130817
W: www.devalt.org
English Title: Brickmaster
Language: English
Duration: 30 min
Subject Focus: Laurie Baker, the architect
Synopsis: The film is a tribute to the British-born architect
Laurie Baker, who became the messiah of low cost, ecofriendly housing in India.
Director: Priya Krishnaswamy
Trust (PSBT)
Contact Details:
P: 011-24355941; F: 011-24353825
W: www.psbt.org
English Title: Chaliyar — The Final Struggle
Original Title: Bakkiipathram
Language: Malayalam
Duration: 35 min
Format: Beta
Subject Focus: Industrial pollution and human rights —
the case of Grasim rayon in Mavoor, Kerala
Synopsis: In 1958, the government of Kerala persuaded
the Birlas to open a factory in Mavoor, north Kerala. The
Grasim rayon pulp factory has been operating since then.
Here, thousands of workers earn their living trading their
futures for the present. Fumes from the factory wing their
way into the neighbourhood, spreading disease and death.
Effluents gurgle into the Chaliyar river poisoning everything
on its way to the sea. At a time when environmentalism
was unheard of, a man led his people to save their river
and their lives from the killer factory.
Awards Received by the Film: ‘Bronze Tree Award’, CMS
VATAVARAN 2002; Special Jury Citation Award, MIFF 2000
Directors: P. Baburaj & C. Sarathchandran
Producer: C. Sarathchandran
Contact Details:
C. Sarathchandran
Third Eye Communications, 101, North Fort Garden,
North Fort, Tripunithura, Ernakulam 682 301, Kerala
P: 0484-784333
CMS ENVIS Centre
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English Title: Chemicals in Cosmetics
English Title: Closure of Industries in Delhi
Language: English
Duration: 30 min
Language: English
Duration: 30 min
Subject Focus: Use of dangerous chemicals in cosmetics
Subject Focus: Polluting industries of Delhi and their
relocation
Synopsis: The multi-billion dollar cosmetic industry
survives by selling dreams in tubes and bottles. The film
exposes the use of dangerous chemicals in cosmetics.
Contact Details:
P: 011-26134103, 26890380; F: 011-26130817
W: www.devalt.org
English Title: Cities under Siege
Original Title: Cities under Siege
Language: English
Duration: 28 min
Synopsis: Delhi, today, is more congested, populated and
polluted than ever before. The claustrophobic atmosphere
has been further heightened by the presence of various
industrial units that have mushroomed here. The situation
has forced the Supreme Court to intervene, and on its
direction, the Central Pollution Control Board is attempting
to relocate polluting industries operating in non-conforming
areas.
Contact Details:
P: 011-26134103, 26890380; F: 011-26130817
W: www.devalt.org
English Title: Corporate Cooperate: Seminar on
Subject Focus: Urban management and planning
Synopsis: The film is an attempt to look at the world’s
mega cities — those with populations over 10 million —
most of which are in the developing world, in poorer
countries less able to deal effectively with the vast
problems of massive urban expansion. Cities under Siege
looks at innovative urban management efforts which are
being backed by the Asian Development Bank: tackling
urban poverty in New Delhi, India; improving traffic
congestion in Bangkok, Thailand; and the ‘clean and
green’ movement in the Philippines.
Director: Matthew Westfall
Contact Details:
P: 011-29955124, 29956110, 29956394; F: 011-29955879
W: www.cseindia.org
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Language: English
Duration: 30 min
Subject Focus: Corporate environmental responsibility
Synopsis: The growing realisation of the need for
occupational safety, environmental protection and waste
minimisation inspired JK Corp to organise its first Intercompany Safety and Environment Managers’ Conference
in April, 1995. The film is a record of the event.
Contact Details:
P: 011-26134103, 26890380; F: 011-26130817
W: www.devalt.org
English Title: Costing the Earth
Original Title: Costing the Earth
Language: English
Duration: 30 min
Format: Betacam
Subject Focus: Conflict between development and
environment
Synopsis: This is a pilot episode for a weekly environment
programme for Business India Television.
Producer: BITV
Contact Details:
Krishnendu Bose
New Delhi 110 024
P: 011-24625896, 24654221; F: 011-24647310
W: www.earthcarefilm.com
English Title: Earth Report IV (Hands On):
Back in Business
Original Title: Earth Report IV (Hands On): Back in
Business
Language: English
Duration: 24 min
Subject Focus: Innovative entrepreneurs
Synopsis: Who would imagine that mobile phones are a
good business proposition for illiterate women in rural
Bangladesh, or that peanut butter producers could help
families survive Zimbabwe’s economic crisis? Back in
Business learns the tricks of the trade from entrepreneurs
around the world as they use a combination of innovative
ideas and business acumen in their quest to make a profit.
Contact Details:
P: 011-29955124, 29956110, 29956394; F: 011-29955879
W: www.cseindia.org
English Title: Death of a Community Foretold
Original Title: Death of a Community Foretold
Format: DV CAM
Subject Focus: Industrial pollution and people’s struggles
— the case of SIPCOT in Cuddalore
Synopsis: This film looks at what it is like to live alongside
factories that produce the chemicals that society is
addicted to. It’s the story of a pollution-impacted
community in SIPCOT Industrial Estate, Cuddalore, Tamil
Nadu and its ongoing struggle for survival. After waiting
20 years in vain for the government or the judiciary to
intervene on their behalf, the residents of Cuddalore
decided to take matters in their own hands. The film is an
attempt to mobilize support for them.
Production Company: Media for Conservation and Social
Change Trust
English Title: Earth Report V: The Nature of
Business
Original Title: Earth Report V: The Nature of Business
Language: English
Duration: 27 min
Subject Focus: Environment and Industry
Synopsis: Global economic development has taken a
heavy toll on nature. But now, some corporations are
beginning to wake up to the fact that if they continue to
plunder natural resources, pollute air and water and
damage ecosystems they will not be in business much
longer. In this film, corporate leaders who have committed
to a sustainable approach, and the President of the World
Bank, give their views on how global business can take
care of the environment — and profits — at the same time.
Contact Details:
Dharmesh Shah
Media for Conservation and Social Change Trust
H 19/4, Gangai Street, Kalakhshetra Colony
Basant Nagar, Chennai, 600 090, Tamil Nadu
P: 044-24463763; M: 09444416546
CMS ENVIS Centre
Contact Details:
P: 011-29955124, 29956110, 29956394; F: 011-29955879
W: www.cseindia.org
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English Title: Eco Mark: Environment Labelling
English Title: Eicher Group’s Initiatives
Language: English
Duration: 30 min
Language: English
Duration: 30 min
Subject Focus: Environment-friendly production and
products
Subject Focus: Environment-friendly initiatives of the
Eicher Group
Synopsis: Evaluation of consumer products and awarding
an eo-mark to those which pass environmental safety
norms can provide the much needed incentive to industry
to manufacture items which are environment-friendly.
Synopsis: This story traces the growth of environmental
concerns in the Eicher Group of Industries. A number of
measures adopted to conserve resources and treat
effluents are in place today, which also help in saving
money.
Contact Details:
P: 011-26134103, 26890380; F: 011-26130817
W: www.devalt.org
Contact Details:
P: 011-26134103, 26890380; F: 011-26130817
W: www.devalt.org
English Title: Effluent Treatment Plant of Dabur
English Title: Environmental Audits in India
Language: English
Duration: 30 min
Language: English
Duration: 30 min
Subject Focus: Effluent Treatment Plant of Dabur
Subject Focus: Environmental audits in India
Synopsis: The Dabur group has traditionally had its roots
in Ayurveda, the ancient Indian science of life. Today, the
group has eight manufacturing units producing over 450
products. This capsule profiles an effluent treatment plant
at Dabur’s Sahibabad unit.
Contact Details:
P: 011-26134103, 26890380; F: 011-26130817
W: www.devalt.org
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Synopsis: In 1992, the Government of India made it
mandatory for industries to provide annual reports of usage
of water, raw materials and energy, as also of the waste
generated and the waste-disposal mechanisms. This film
takes a look at the fate of this decree.
Contact Details:
P: 011-26134103, 26890380; F: 011-26130817
W: www.devalt.org
English Title: Environmental Impact —
(Assessment of a Soapstone Mine)
Original Title: Environmental Impact — (Assessment of
a Soapstone Mine)
Format: U-Matic
Subject Focus: Environmental impact assessment —
soapstone mining
Synopsis: Environment impact assessment has become
a part of any development activity — and India holds
immense potential in this area. This programme on the
environmental impact assessment of a soapstone mine,
provides a complete checklist of parameters for evaluation.
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
English Title: Floundering Foundries
Language: English
Duration: 30 min
Subject Focus: Industrial pollution control
Synopsis: The crackdown on industrial pollution is a long
awaited and welcome step that is sure to ease the pressure
on our environment. But has anyone thought of the plight
of small industrial units? The film visits Howrah district,
off Kolkata, where scores of iron foundries are threatened
with closure for violating air pollution norms.
Contact Details:
P: 011-26134103, 26890380; F: 011-26130817
W: www.devalt.org
CMS ENVIS Centre
English Title: Flying Shuttle
Language: English
Format: DVD
Subject Focus: The TARAloom, a modern loom
Synopsis: The TARAloom is a modern loom which
enables traditional weavers to compete with the
powerloom and its products in open market. TARAloom
is being used by rural weavers, state-run craft centres
and entrepreneurs. Users can use this film as an
instruction manual in assembling and maintenance of the
loom.
Director: A. Sahni
Productions
Contact Details:
P: 011-26134103, 26890380; F: 011-26130817
W: www.devalt.org
English Title: Hands On — Fair Trade, Fair Profit
Language: English
Duration: 26 min
Subject Focus: Eco-friendly business
Synopsis: From toothpaste to coffee, and babassu nuts
to mosquito nets, Fair Trade, Fair Profit finds out what
makes green enterprises work and bring in a fair price for
the producer. The movie looks into what the economists
call ‘externalities’ as the catalysts. In Mexico, it’s about
ownership of land; in Tanzania, a campaign to prevent
malaria; and in Brazil, it’s all about getting products to the
supermarkets.
Environment (TVE)
Contact Details:
P: 011-26134103, 26890380; F: 011-26130817
W: www.devalt.org
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English Title: Hangover
English Title: Health Food Shops
Original Title: Hangover
Format: DV CAM
Language: English
Duration: 30 min
Subject Focus: The youth, their lifestyles and their
ecological footprints
Synopsis: Growing and selling organic foods and
vegetables is becoming a big business in Mumbai. Large
organic farms around the city feed this growing business
— the film examines one such farm in Umergaon.
Synopsis: Campus festivals are not extravagant, less
wasteful of resources, and more reflective of a youth culture
wherever the young are in control. Where once support
was sought from small entrepreneurs, students, local
businesses and alumni, today’s festivals are almost totally
sponsored and controlled by multinational corporations.
This film looks at the relevance of current youth lifestyles
and their ecological footprint.
Director: R. Vydianathan
Production Company: Green Festival Initiative & We Feel
Responsible
Contact Details:
Dharmesh Shah
Media for Conservation and Social Change Trust
H 19/4, Gangai Street, Kalakhshetra Colony
Basant Nagar, Chennai 600 090, Tamil Nadu
P: 044-24463763; M: 09444416546
Subject Focus: The organic food business
Contact Details:
P: 011-26134103, 26890380; F: 011-26130817
W: www.devalt.org
English Title: Hero Honda: An EnvironmentFriendly Initiative
Language: English
Duration: 30 min
Subject Focus: Hero Honda’s environment-friendly
vehicles
English Title: Hazards in Electroplating
Language: English
Duration: 30 min
Subject Focus: Industrial pollution — the electroplating
industry
Synopsis: Today’s urban centers are littered with small
and tiny industrial units, which do not conform to any laws
and are highly polluting. One such sector is the
electroplating industry. This film provides a glimpse of its
hazards.
Contact Details:
P: 011-26134103, 26890380; F: 011-26130817
W: www.devalt.org
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Synopsis: Hero Honda produces a range of four-stroke
motorcycles from its Dharuhera plant in Haryana. The unit
produces 700 vehicles per day. These vehicles are much
less polluting than the average two-wheeler on Indian
roads.
Contact Details:
P: 011-26134103, 26890380; F: 011-26130817
W: www.devalt.org
English Title: Hides of Death – Leather in Calcutta
English Title: Industrial Waste Water Treatment
Language: English
Duration: 30 min
Format: Betacam
Subject Focus: Industrial pollution — Kolkata’s leather
industry
Synopsis: The leather industry in Kolkata is infamous for
its unhygienic and polluting maufacturing process. People
living in the nearby areas are getting affected due to the
dumping of the wastes and effluents.
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
English Title: Insult to Civilization
Contact Details:
P: 011-26134103, 26890380; F: 011-26130817
W: www.devalt.org
English Title: Industrial Pollution in Medak
Language: English
Duration: 30 min
Subject Focus: Industrial pollution — the case of Medak
Synopsis: Medak, in Andhra Pradesh, has been laid to
waste. Years of unplanned industrialization and so-called
‘development’ have led to the destruction of almost
everything that was natural here.
Original Title: Insult to Civilization
Language: English
Duration: 14 min
Format: 35 mm
Subject Focus: Environment vs development
Synopsis: The film looks at the age-old debate of
environment vs development. Progress does not mean
industrial advancement at all costs, it says. It is the quality
of life that has to be preserved and enhanced.
Contact Details:
Government of India
P: 022-23515422, 23513176, 23516931, 23513633
F: 022-23515308, 23511008
Contact Details:
P: 011-26134103, 26890380; F: 011-26130817
W: www.devalt.org
CMS ENVIS Centre
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English Title: Khurja Pottery: The Tale behind the
Gloss
Language: English
Duration: 30 min
English Title: Love, Women and Flowers
Original Title: Love, Women and Flowers
Language: English
Duration: 56 min
Subject Focus: Industrial pollution — pottery units of Khurja
Synopsis: The beautiful pottery that adorns our tables and
shelves does not even give a hint about its polluting process
of manufacture. Khurja is a town whose people have borne
the brunt of its famous, but polluting, pottery kilns.
Contact Details:
P: 011-26134103, 26890380; F: 011-26130817
W: www.devalt.org
Subject Focus: The cut-flower industry in Columbia and
its polluting ways
Synopsis: Cut flowers are Columbia’s third largest export
industry. But to produce the perfect blooms required for
the international market, the flowers are sprayed with lethal
pesticides and fungicides affecting the health of 40,000
women who work in these glass houses. The film gives
voice to these women.
Directors: Jorge Silva and Marta Rodrigues
Contact Details:
P: 011-29955124, 29956110, 29956394; F: 011-29955879
W: www.cseindia.org
English Title: Life II: City Life
Original Title: Life II: City Life
Language: English
Duration: 26 min
Subject Focus: Urban planning and management
Synopsis: By 2007, more people will live in cities and
towns than in the countryside. For the first time in history,
human experience will be predominantly urban rather than
rural. It’s a shift that took over two centuries in the
industrialised world, but has taken less than half that time
in developing countries — bringing massive social
transformation to billions of people’s lives, often with no
infrastructure or services to support them. The result is all
too evident in the sprawling shanty-towns and slums that
have sprung up in and round cities from Kingston to
Kolkata, from Lagos to Sao Paolo. In 1996, leaders
meeting at the Istanbul City Summit pledged themselves
to a programme designed to improve the lives of the urban
poor. This Life programme asks how cities can organise
themselves to take advantage of the new globalized
economy to benefit all their inhabitants — rich and poor.
Contact Details:
P: 011-29955124, 29956110, 29956394; F: 011-29955879
W: www.cseindia.org
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English Title: Mindless Mining – The Tragedy of
Kudremukh
Original Title: Mindless Mining – The Tragedy of
Kudremukh
Language: English
Duration: 12 min
Format: Mini DV
Subject Focus: Iron ore mining in the Kudremukh National
Park, Karnataka
Synopsis: In the Western Ghats of Karnataka, right in the
heart of the Kudremukh National Park, a huge iron ore mining
operation has been destroying the hills for over 20 years.
Every year, heavy monsoon rains wash the loose soil on the
mined slopes into the Bhadra river, leading to erosion and
siltation on a massive scale. Floods caused by this leave a
thick sludge of iron ore on the fields of farmers cultivating
along the banks of the Bhadra, reducing the fertility of the
soil. While the hills have been stripped bare, a 100-metre
deep valley has been filled to the brim with the tailings left
over from iron ore extraction. This disastrous mining project
is one of the worst examples of the rape of India’s wild areas.
Production Company: Shekar Dattatri
Contact Details:
Shekar Dattatri
P: 044-24415744; M: 9841015997
F: 044-2491 0910, 24918747
English Title: Money on Trees
English Title: Pearls of Enterprise
Language: English
Duration: 30 min
Language: English
Format: Betacam
Subject Focus: Business schemes to re-green the earth
Synopsis: The film is an investigation into a host of
attractive investment schemes floated by some
companies, which promised to re-green the earth by
selling “teak units” to environmentally-conscious investors.
Were these schemes genuinely environment-friendly or
a big hoax?
Contact Details:
P: 011-26134103, 26890380; F: 011-26130817
W: www.devalt.org
English Title: Occupational Health Hazards in
Industry
Language: English
Duration: 14 min
Format: 35 mm
Subject Focus: The pearl harvesting industry
Synopsis: Pearls, once harvested from oysters, can also
be ‘created’ in laboratory conditions from mussels found
in rivers and creeks. The frontrunners in today’s cultured
pearl industry are China and Japan. India needs to move
ahead and catch up. The Ratnagiri college of fisheries,
Konkan Krishi Vidyapith, is one of the few centres that
has been successfully doing that.
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
English Title: Polluters Pay: Gujarat Industries
Language: English
Duration: 30 min
Subject Focus: Fighting industrial pollution in Gujarat
Subject Focus: Occupational safety of workers
Synopsis: The film highlights the effect chemical
substances have on the health of industrial workers, and
the preventive measures that can be taken.
Contact Details:
Government of India
P: 022-22 - 23515422, 23513176, 23516931, 23513633
F: 022-23515308, 23511008
CMS ENVIS Centre
Synopsis: Gujarat is one of the most industrialized regions
in India. The environment has paid the price for this
industrial growth. Vast tracts of land in the state have
become repositories of toxic chemicals due to wanton
dumping of effluents. But the government is now finally
clamping down on polluting industries.
Contact Details:
P: 011-26134103, 26890380; F: 011-26130817
W: www.devalt.org
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English Title: Retrofitting for Indian Industries
English Title: Sanghi Industries
Language: English
Duration: 30 min
Language: English
Duration: 30 min
Subject Focus: Pollution control in Indian industry
— the case of Sanghi Industries
Synopsis: Pollution prevention should be a front-end
approach, attacking the source of waste by adjusting
process technologies and controls, cleaning and handling
practices, packaging and even transporting practices. But
the Indian approach hinges on end-of-the pipe
technologies — that merely remove or detoxify waste
without fundamentally affecting the industrial processes
that produce them.
Contact Details:
P: 011-26134103, 26890380; F: 011-26130817
W: www.devalt.org
Synopsis: A few industries have learnt to expand their
corporate bottom line without causing major distress to
ecosystems. One such company is Sanghi Industries in
Andhra Pradesh. This is a report on how they set about
making their township, Sanghi Nagar, a better place to
live in.
Contact Details:
P: 011-26134103, 26890380; F: 011-26130817
W: www.devalt.org
English Title: Sriram Group of Industries
English Title: Rubbish from the Information
Superhighway
Original Title: Rubbish from the Information
Superhighway
Language: English
Duration: 26 min
Subject Focus: E-waste
Synopsis: Hazardous substances like mercury, lead and
cadmium can leak from computers and TVs when they
are dumped as waste in landfill sites. As consumers we
are throwing away huge quantities every year, and the
health hazards are considerable when these toxins enter
the food chain. Recycling of these electronics goods is
urgently needed to reinvent this waste as a valuable
resource, and some companies are rising to the challenge.
Contact Details:
Centre for Science and Environment
P: 011-29955124, 29956110, 29956394; F: 011-29955879
W: www.cseindia.org
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Language: English
Duration: 30 min
— the case of Sriram Group
Synopsis: The Sriram Group of Industries has adopted a
number of environment-friendly measures in the day-today management of its factories. These measures have
also led to considerable savings in monetary terms.
Contact Details:
P: 011-26134103, 26890380; F: 011-26130817
W: www.devalt.org
English Title: Steering Away Losses
English Title: The Black Triangle
Language: English
Duration: 30 min
Original Title: The Black Triangle
Language: English
Duration: 52 min
— the case of Sona Steering Systems
Synopsis: Sona Steering Systems is another company
which has tried to move with the times and has introduced
new innovations to cut down on waste generation. To
reduce the use of water in the manufacturing process, it
has adopted measures for treatment and recycling of
water.
Contact Details:
P: 011-26134103, 26890380; F: 011-26130817
W: www.devalt.org
English Title: TARAcrete: A Roof for the Millions
Subject Focus: Industrial pollution
Synopsis: The border region between former
Czechoslovakia and East Germany, known as the Black
Triangle, is one of the most polluted and environmentally
devastated regions in the world. To the south, in erstwhile
Czechoslovakia, are coal mines and on the other side, in
former East Germany are the biggest concentrations of
uranium mines. The radiation levels here are four to 10
times higher than normal. The film exposes the
unregulated industrial activity going on in the region.
Director: Nick Davidson
Contact Details:
P: 011-29955124, 29956110, 29956394; F: 011-29955879
W: www.cseindia.org
Language: Hindi, English
Duration: 18 min
Format: DVD
English Title: The Black Valley
Subject Focus: Ecofriendly construction material
Synopsis: The film is on affordable and quality roofing
material — offered by the MCR technology and TARAcrete
tiles. The film also explains the process of manufacturing
TARAcrete tiles and the economics of setting up an MCR
enterprise selling these tiles.
Productions
Contact Details:
P: 011-26134103, 26890380; F: 011-26130817
W: www.devalt.org
CMS ENVIS Centre
Original Title: Karimukal
Language: Malayalam
Duration: 33 min
Format: Digital
Subject Focus: People’s struggle against a polluting
carbon black factory
Synopsis: The film is about the struggle of the people of
Karimukal against a carbon black factory that has been
polluting the air and water in the region.
Producer: Manilal
Commissioning Agency: Manilal
Contact Details:
Manilal
Director, 172-CSM Nagar, Edappazhanji,
M: 9447380651
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English Title: The Broken Flight
English Title: The Greening of GATT
Original Title: The Broken Flight
Language: English
Duration: 28 min
Original Title: The Greening of GATT
Language: English
Duration: 11 min
Subject Focus: Environmental crisis triggered by industry
Subject Focus: GATT and its attitude towards
environment and sustainable development
Synopsis: Between 1949 and 1952, Kazakhstan played
host to more than 500 nuclear test explosions. Over
100,000 citizens of the republic were exposed to harmful
radiation as Stalin sought to gain nuclear parity with the
USA. More than 40 years later, soil and air are still so
heavily polluted that habitation is no longer an option in
many areas for the citizens of the newly independent
republic of Kazakhstan. In Senegal, deadly industrial
accidents are a grim reminder of the price paid by working
people and the environment, and in parts of Venezuela,
too, the people have become refugees in a war waged by
others against the environment. Here, the Warao tribe
bears silent witness to the destruction of its lands and
forests by logging and mining interests.
Synopsis: In June 1992, the world’s leaders attending
the Rio Earth Summit resolved to “make trade and
environment policies mutually supportive in favour of
sustainable development”. This film examines how far the
General Agreements on Tariff and Trade (GATT) has
strayed from this resolution — by scrapping, for example,
the tarriffs that the European Union had imposed on
imported bananas grown on massive industrial plantations
in Costa Rica, to favour those produced on sustainable
small farms in the Caribbean.
Director: Adrian Pennink
Contact Details:
P: 011-29955124, 29956110, 29956394; F: 011-29955879
W: www.cseindia.org
English Title: The Green Show
Original Title: The Green Show
Language: English
Duration: 30 min
Format: Betacam
Subject Focus: Corporate responsibility towards
environment; green businesses
Synopsis: This is a weekly television magazine on
environment.
Contact Details:
Krishnendu Bose
New Delhi 110 024
P: 011-24625896, 24654221; F: 011-24647310
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Contact Details:
P: 011-29955124, 29956110, 29956394; F: 011-29955879
W: www.cseindia.org
English Title: The Many Faces of Madness
English Title: The TARA Advantage
Language: English
Duration: 19 min
Language: English
Subject Focus: Destruction and appropriation of the
commons in India
Synopsis: The film, with its images of contemporary
ecological destruction in India, brings people face to face
with the intensity and impact of globalization and
industrialization. It is a tale of destruction and appropriation
of the commons in India, and covers a range of issues
including traditional water management, mining, chemical
pollution, community forest protection, displacement,
deforestation and biopiracy.
Awards Received by the Film: ‘Best of the Festival
Golden Tree Award’—CMS VATAVARAN 2002
Director: Mr. Amar Kanwar
Commissioning Agency: Foundation for Ecological
Security c/o NITGCF, NDDB Campus
Contact Details:
Mr. Amar Kanwar
A. K. Productions, N 14-A, Saket, New Delhi 110 017
P: 011-26516088; M: 9810216088 ; F: 011-26513556
English Title: The Pathetic Story of Patencheru
Language: English
Format: Betacam
Subject Focus: The TARA loom, an initiative to help
weavers
Synopsis: The Industrial Revolution brought powerlooms
into the market. It spelt disaster for traditional weavers.
The need, since then, has been to find an alternative to
get the weavers back into the market. The TARAloom, an
upgraded version of the traditional loom, can accomplish
this. The modifications and upgradation enable the
TARAloom to produce as much cloth as the powerloom
without using power.
Productions
Contact Details:
P: 011-26134103, 26890380; F: 011-26130817
W: www.devalt.org
English Title: The Way to Dusty Death
Original Title: The Way to Dusty Death
Language: English and Hindi (with English subtitles)
Duration: 28 min
Format: DV
Subject Focus: Victims of silicosis in the agate grinding
industry in Khambath in Gujarat
Synopsis: Patancheru, located 40 km from Hyderabad
in Andhra Pradesh, is a study in industrial pollution. Very
few measures have been taken to check pollution in
Patancheru, which lies ravaged by industrial development.
Synopsis: Gujarat has played host to a thriving agate
industry — and to the killer disease, silicosis. During
grinding and polishing of agate, workers are exposed to
dangerous amounts of dust containing silica, which
triggers this incurable lung disease. An estimated 30,000
people or more are believed to be affected.
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
CMS ENVIS Centre
Director: Syed Fayaz
Trust (PSBT)
Contact Details:
P: 011-24355941; F: 011-24353825
W: www.psbt.org
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English Title: Tiling Right – Micro Concrete
Roofing Tiles
Language: English
Duration: 30 min
Subject Focus: Alternative and eco-friendly building
technologies
English Title: Toxic Trespass
Original Title: Toxic Trespass
Language: English
Subject Focus: Hazardous waste management
Synopsis: Development Alternatives, a non-profit
organization working on alternative technologies for
sustainable development, has attempted to plug the gap
in roofing materials with its Micro Concrete Roofing
technology. The production of Micro Concrete roofing tiles
requires neither any sophisticated technology, nor highly
skilled labour.
Synopsis: Hazardous waste is generally disposed off via
sewage systems or by uncontrolled dumping, thus posing
an imminent risk to environment and human health. One
industrial estate which has pioneered environmental
protection and hazardous waste management is the
Ankleshwar Industrial Estate in Gujarat, which houses
more than 1,000 industries. The film documents the estate
and its achievements, and also sends out the message
that industrialization is required, but with it comes the
responsibility to save the environment.
Contact Details:
P: 011-26134103, 26890380; F: 011-26130817
W: www.devalt.org
Director: Mr. Jyoti Sarup
Producers: Ms. Pamposh Bhat, Mr. Trilok Negi
Production Company: German Technical
Cooperation (GTZ)
English Title: Tomorrow We Will Finish
Contact Details:
Naman Gupta
GTZ, A-33, Gulmohar Park, New Delhi 110 049
P: 011-26611021; F: 011-26537673
W: www.asemindia.com
Original Title: Tomorrow We Will Finish
Language: English
Duration: 26 min
English Title: VSBK: A Technology for the
Millennium
Subject Focus: Child labour in Nepal
Synopsis: Over 150,000 girls between the ages of five
and 16 work in Nepal’s 2,000 carpet factories. The stories
portrayed in this programme are based on cases compiled
by ‘Child Workers in Nepal’, a children’s labour
organisation.
Director: Frode Pederson
Contact Details:
P: 011-29955124, 29956110, 29956394; F: 011-29955879
W: www.cseindia.org
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Language: English
Subject Focus: Eco-friendly brick-making
Synopsis: Traditional brick-making is an extremely
polluting process. The search for a cleaner alternatives
led Development Alternatives to the VSBK technology –
which enables improved fuel efficiency over existing kilns
and conforms to all environmental norms.
Productions
Contact Details:
P: 011-26134103, 26890380; F: 011-26130817
W: www.devalt.org
English Title: Welcom Group Hotels and Their
Conservation Efforts
Language: English
Duration: 30 min
— the case of Welcom Group
English Title: Whose Children
Original Title: Whose Children
Language: English
Duration: 28 min
Subject Focus: Occupational Health Hazards
Synopsis: The efforts of the Welcom Sheraton to recycle
and reuse resources, including water, is just a part of the
Group’s campaign to be eco-friendly. The Group has found
out that it is not only fashionable to be eco-friendly, but an
economically viable proposition as well.
Synopsis: The film looks at the plight of child workers in
the industrial town of Firozabad. Respiratory diseases,
accidents and burns are common in this ‘the Belgium of
the East’.
Director: Meera Dewan
Contact Details:
P: 011-26134103, 26890380; F: 011-26130817
W: www.devalt.org
Contact Details:
P: 011-29955124, 29956110, 29956394; F: 011-29955879
W: www.cseindia.org
English Title: White Smoke Rising
Original Title: White Smoke Rising
Language: English
Duration: 26 min
Subject Focus: Industrial and urban pollution
Synopsis: The town of Kunda, on Estonia’s Baltic coast,
is dependent on one factory — a cement plant. For
decades, Kunda has been almost a byword for pollution,
with tonnes of brown dust thrown out of its kilns every
hour. The streets, fields, people and animals of the
surrounding area are often covered with a layer of dust,
and at times the air is thick with it. Telling the story of
Kunda through the words of those who live and work there,
this film follows their changing fortunes as this ex-Soviet
factory is taken over by foreign managers, and the
transition to a liberal economy begins.
Contact Details:
P: 011-29955124, 29956110, 29956394; F: 011-29955879
W: www.cseindia.org
CMS ENVIS Centre
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Livelihood
English Title: (In)Visible City
English Title: 3..2..1..0..? Who Can Change Me?
Original Title: (In)Visible City
Language: Bengali
Duration: 48 min
Format: Mini DV
Original Title: 3..2..1..0..? Who Can Change Me?
Language: Tamil
Subject Focus: Urban encroachments; right to land and
livelihoods
Synopsis: This film is based on a true story of an old
rickshaw-puller in the city of Chennai. As the name of the
film suggests, the rickshaw-puller’s life has progressively
degenerated. With a decreasing demand for this ecofriendly mode of transport, the rickshaw-puller has become
unwanted and practically jobless. Can he survive in this
pathetic condition?
Synopsis: This is a documentary on the life and struggles
of 4,000 families of the Gobindopur Rail Colony, who have
been living for decades along a stretch of railway tracks
in south Kolkata. They are encroachers in the eyes of the
law. In 2002, an environmental group filed a petition in
the Kolkata High Court, claiming that these people were
polluting a lake called Robindra Sarovar. The Court
ordered their eviction, but these people have launched a
legal and political struggle to resist their eviction without
any alternative plan for rehabilitation.
Director: Pramod Gupta
Producer: Pramod Gupta
Contact Details:
Pramod Gupta
2, Deshbandhu Road (West), Kolkata 700 035, West Bengal
P: 033-25778061, M: 9830411525
English Title: …and Nomads Took Root
Original Title: Aur Ghumantu Thahar Gaye
Language: Hindi
Subject Focus: Urban poverty and crisis of livelihoods
— the case of a rickshaw-puller
Director: Biju K. C.
Contact Details:
Father Biju K. C.
Pastoral Centre, 25, Rosary Church Road, Santhome,
Chennai, 600 004 Tamil Nadu
M: 9840120610
English Title: A Cooperative for Snake Catchers
Duration: 17 min
Format: VHS
Synopsis: The film demonstrates how the special skills
of the Itulas tribe can be used to meet modern needs and
also provide means of livelihood for them.
Subject Focus: Nomadic peoples of India
Synopsis: Ghumantu is the name given to wanderers and
nomads. Independent India denies theses nomads
citizenship rights — simply because their lifestyles have
never allowed them to belong to a place which they can
call their own. The film addresses the struggles of
culturally-rich nomads in this era of globalization and
industrialization. It brings to light the efforts of a lawyer,
Ratan Katyayni, towards settling these groups, and
questions the viability of the Habitual Offender Act, still in
force in many states.
Director: Meenakshi and Vinay Rai
Contact Details:
Vinay Rai & Meenakshi Rai
Leoarts Communication, A-103, LGF, Amar Colony,
Lajpat Nagar–IV, New Delhi 110 024
P: 011-26488898; F: 011-26216536
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Contact Details:
Technology (CAPART)
P: 011-24642391,24642393,24642395
F: 011-24648607, 24625822
Livelihood
English Title: A Life of Motion and Commotion
English Title: A New Deal
Language: English
Format: DV CAM
Subject Focus: Women’s empowerment
Subject Focus: Urban livelihoods — the case of auto
rickshaw drivers of Vadodara
Synopsis: This documentary film takes a closer look at
the lives of auto rickshaw drivers in the city of Vadodara.
It highlights the tedium of their daily toil, looks at the
obstacles, which the local road transport bureaucracy puts
in their way, and at the control exercised over them by
traffic police — and salutes the indomitable spirit of these
auto rickshaw drivers.
Director: Nimesh Desai
Contact Details:
P: 011-26537456/26521882; F: 011-26512347
English Title: A Magic Mystic Marketplace
Language: English
Director: Vasudha Joshi
Production Company: Vasudha Joshi
Contact Details:
Vasudha Joshi
Top Floor, 189 Sarat Bose Road, Kolkata 700029,
West Bengal
English Title: A Maritime Livelihood
Original Title: A Maritime Livelihood
Language: Koli, Marathi
Subject Focus: Fishermen
Synopsis: This is a film on a maritime fishermen’s
community in Mumbai.
Synopsis: Barbara Pyle travels to a rural Filipino village
to see innovative loan programmes that enable women
to overcome poverty and powerlessness. She meets a
young mother, Lala, who uses her loan to raise and sell
pigs. Earning her own income has given Lala new
confidence. Her husband now values her opinion on
everything from finances to family size.
Contact Details:
P: 011-26134103, 26890380; F: 011-26130817
W: www.devalt.org
English Title: A Page from the Red Data Book
Duration: 15 min
Format: DV
Subject Focus: Urban livelihoods — hand-pulled
rickshaws of Kolkata
Synopsis: The hand-pulled rickshaw, a heritage vehicle
of Kolkata, would be abolished soon from the city. The
documentary explores the emotions of one rickshawpuller, Rambahadur, and examines whether the ideological
principle behind the abolition — ‘man carrying man is
unacceptable’ — holds true for the people who do it
themselves. Is it a mere loss of occupation that
Rambahadur is afraid of, or will the ‘abolition’ have a much
greater psychological impact on his being? The Red Data
Book keeps an account of all the endangered species of
the world — the rickshaw-puller is on the brink of entering
its pages.
Director: Saurav Dey
Contact Details:
P: 011-26537456/26521882; F: 011-26512347
Director: Rosalyn Fiona D’Mello
Contact Details:
P: 011-26537456/26521882; F: 011-26512347
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English Title: A Question of Tomorrow
English Title: A Win-Win Solution
Language: English
Language: English
Duration: 15 min
Format: Mini DV
Subject Focus: The tribe of Brogpas in the Himalayas
Synopsis: This is a story of the vanishing tribe of Brogpas
of the Himalayas, whose members claim descent from
Alexander the Great’s army — its threatened lifestyle and
future prospects in the modern world.
Director: Mohi-ud-Din Mirza
Contact Details:
P: 011-24355941; F: 011-24353825
W: www.psbt.org
Subject Focus: Resettlement of people from protected
forests
Synopsis: Dozens of families marooned deep inside the
Bhadra Tiger Reserve and the Nagarahole National Park
have elected to move out of the parks and settle in land
provided to them by the government. This film documents
how government officers and NGOs such as Wildlife First
collaborated to ensure that the people opting for
resettlement got the best deal possible.
Production Company: Trust for Environmental Education
Commissioning Agency: Wildlife Conservation Society
English Title: A Season Outside
Original Title: A Season Outside
Language: English
Duration: 30 min
Subject Focus: Conflict, violence and non-violence
Synopsis: There is, perhaps, no border outpost in the
world quite like Wagah, where this film begins its
exploration about conflict, violence and non-violence. This
is an outpost where everyday, divided people are drawn
to a thin white line, a fait accompli bequeathed to them by
history. A Season Outside is a personal and philosophical
journey through the shadows of past generations,
conflicting positions, borders and time zones — a nomad
wandering through lines of separation, examining the
scars of violence and dreams of hope scattered among
nameless people, communities and nations.
Awards Received by the film: Golden Gate Award, 1999
— Golden Spire Trophy, 41st San Francisco International
Film Festival; Golden Conch, Best Film/Video, Mumbai
International Documentary Film Festival, 1998; Best
Programme, Script, Camera & Sound, All India CEC UGC
Film Festival, 1998
Producer: Amar Kanwar
Contact Details:
Amar Kanwar
A K Productions, N-14A, Saket, New Delhi 110 017
P: 011-26516088; M: 9810216088; F: 011-26513556
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Contact Details:
Shekar Dattatri
Chennai 600041 Tamil Nadu
P: 044- 24415744, 2491 4802; M: 0 9841015997
F: 044-2491 0910, 2491 8747
Livelihood
English Title: A World of Her Own
English Title: Aamchi Kasauti
Original Title: A World of Her Own
Language: English
Duration: 29 min
Format: DVD/VCD
Language: Hindi, Marathi
Duration: 12 min
Format: DV
Subject Focus: Dust scavengers of Pune
Subject Focus: Women and their right to livelihoods
Synopsis: In India, 80 percent of rural women are
engaged in livelihoods based on natural resources. This
intense relationship throws up a whole range of issues
and questions. Does policy recognize it? Do we value the
knowledge systems which may have developed among
these women? How have women coped with coercion from
State in their accessing of natural resources? The film
tries to explore these questions through four focused
engagements: with fisherwomen of Karnataka, the Apatani
women of Arunachal Pradesh, and the adivasi and dalit
women of Orissa.
Commissioning Agency: UNDP, DFID and MOEF
Contact Details:
Krishnendu Bose
New Delhi 110 024
P: 011- 24334171, 24332005; M: 9811843111; F: 011- 24334068
Synopsis: Aamchi Kasauti or ‘Our Test’ is the story of the
dust scavengers of Pune, a rare breed of traders. They
scavenge dust from daybreak to dusk and take their harvest
at the end of the day to the gold traders, who mark it against
a kasauti or a testing stone to evaluate the harvest.
Director: Rrivu Laha, Film and Television Institute of India,
Pune
Production Company: Rrivu Laha
Contact Details:
Film and Television Institute of India
Law College Road, Pune 411 004 Maharashtra
T: 020-25431817,25433016, 25430017
W: www.ftiindia.com
English Title: Aftershocks: The Rough Guide to
Democracy
Language: Gujarati, Kutchi, Hindi and English
Duration: 66 min
Subject Focus: Displacement
English Title: Aahad Sanskriti Sthal – Ojhiana
Language: English
Format: Betacam
Subject Focus: The Ojhian civilization/habitation
Synopsis: The Ojhian civilization is believed to have lasted
some 1,500 years. Excavations indicate that the people
lived in mud houses and used utensils of painted blackred mud in the early stages; in the second stage, they
built houses of stones — remains of a granary stand
testimony to the skills of these people.
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
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Synopsis: A devastating earthquake strikes Gujarat; the toll
is 20,000 dead and over 100,000 homes destroyed. A
government-controlled mining company — the Gujarat Mineral
Development Corporation (GMDC) — sees the quake as a
God-sent opportunity to acquire two quake-hit villages to further
its mining operations. The film documents this process of
acquisition and displacement and its impact. It engages in
the ongoing debate of environment vs. development and
examines the fate of marginal citizens in a welfare state making
its transition into the new economy of the new millenium.
Awards Received by the Film: Le Prix Da Le Presse
Politique Award for Best Film, 16th Fribourg Film Festival,
Switzerland
Director: Rakesh Sharma
Contact Details:
Rakesh Sharma
Lighthouse, Sita Niwas, 12th Road, Khar, Mumbai 400052,
Maharashtra
P: 044-26485604; F: 26485604
W: www.rakeshfilm.com
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English Title: Aleesha
Original Title: Aleesha
Language: Konkani
Duration: 118 min
Format: 35 mm
Synopsis: Aleesha is an artist and photographer and an
ardent environmentalist. Married into the family of an
industrialist, she finds herself in a situation where her
beliefs are in contradiction to the business interests of
her family. The film shows how Aleesha achieves a
balance, overcoming all odds.
Director: Rajendra Talak
Producer: Rajendra Talak Creations
Contact Details:
Government of India
P: 022-23515422, 23513176, 23516931, 23513633
F: 022-23515308, 23511008
English Title: Ancient Futures: Learning from
Ladakh
Original Title: Ancient Futures: Learning from Ladakh
Language: English
Duration: 60 min
Subject Focus: Development; traditional resource
management
Synopsis: Perched in the Himalayas on the edge of the
Tibetan plateau, Ladakh has one of the harshest climates
on earth. For over 1,000 years, Ladakhis have managed
to survive and prosper by husbanding resources and by
protecting their land from overuse. But the Ladakh’s culture
and environment are being systematically eroded now in
the pursuit of Western-style progress. Shops are filled with
luxury goods but the water is contaminated by pesticides,
sanitation is almost non-existent, and squalid housing
colonies sprawl towards the desert from the overcrowded
capital Leh. What is happening in Ladakh, claims John
Page, is a microcosm of social and environmental
breakdown in the West. It challenges assumptions about
the nature and value of progress.
Director: John Page
Contact Details:
P: 011-29955124, 29956110, 29956394; F: 011-29955879
W: www.cseindia.org
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Livelihood
English Title: Aruvacode Diary
Language: English
Duration: 20 min
Format: 35 mm
Original Title: Aruvacode Diary
Language: English/Malayalam
Duration: 28 min
Format: Beta/Digital
Subject Focus: Bamboo flowering and its impacts
Synopsis: The film is a study on the relationship between
tribals in northeast and bamboo. The flowering of bamboo
which occurs once in a 40-120 year life span depending
on the species, is a time of devastation. The rodent
population multiplies uncontrollably (bamboo seeds are
presumably aphrodisiacs), devouring crops and leaving
the farmer bereft of a livelihood.
Director: Joshy Joseph
Contact Details:
Government of India
P: 022-23515422, 23513176, 23516931, 23513633
F: 022-23515308, 23511008
Subject Focus: Women and empowerment
Synopsis: This is a story of grit and determination of the
women of Aruvacode, a small village near Kozhikode in
Kerala. This erstwhile community of potters had struggled
hard to find a foothold in the modern world — and women
had suffered the most. Economic deprivation had forced
them to sell their bodies. These women have now
reorganized themselves into a co-operative, and are
making beautiful pottery and other clay items that have
found new markets in major cities in India. An earlier
attempt to document their condition had ended
disastrously: the co-operative was shut down, family
members refused to allow their women to continue work.
This film attempts to do things differently — without
jeopardizing the on-going process of rehabilitation.
Directors: Sanjay Maharishi and Anuradha Maharishi
English Title: Arrows Against the Wind
Language: English
Duration: 53 min
Format: DVD
Contact Details:
Sanjay Maharishi and Anuradha Maharishi
FA-338, Mansarover Garden, New Delhi 110 015
P: 011-25431627, 25534890; F: 011-25437230
E: [email protected];
[email protected]
Subject Focus: Indigenous peoples — Papua New
Guinea
Synopsis: Known as ‘The Amazon of Asia’, West Papua, a
part of the largest island in the Asia-Pacific region, is home to
some of the world’s most ancient cultures. In 1963, when the
Dutch colonists finally left, Indonesia seized control of the
territory, declared West Papua its 26th province, and launched
a controversial transmigration policy to move Indonesians into
West Papua. Outlawing cultural individualism, the Indonesian
government instead promotes the forced assimilation of
indigenous groups to make “one kind of mankind” and
ruthlessly suppresses any opposition. The result is that the
70,000 Asmat people who inhabit the world’s largest alluvial
swampland have had their territory confiscated by the state,
while the 200,000 strong Dani people face extinction as the
government presses ahead with road development.
Director: Tracey Groome
Producer: Tracey Groome
Production Company: Land Beyond Productions
Contact Details:
P: 011-26134103, 26890380; F: 011-26130817
W: www.devalt.org
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English Title: At the Distant Horizon
English Title: Ban on Ragpickers by MCD Delhi
Original Title: Door Digante
Language: Oriya
Duration: 2 hr
Format: 35 mm to VCD/Beta
Language: English
Duration: 30 min
Subject Focus: Environment vs development — in the
context of the fishing industry
Synopsis: The Municipal Corporation of Delhi has
imposed a ban on ragpicking. For lakhs of peole, their
only source of livelihood is threatened.
Synopsis: The film is about the conflict between
modernization and human existence, set in the backdrop
of traditional fishermen’s resistance to mechanized fishing.
The protagonist Manua, a young deaf and dumb
fisherman, fights against all odds as mechanized trawlers
throw him out of his traditional professional and force him
into the big, bad world of the city.
Director: Santanu Mishra
Producer: A. K. Rath
Production Company: Smruti Productions
Contact Details:
Santanu Mishra
Plot No. 656, Nayapali (near Mangala Temple), Behera Sahi
M: 9861013867, 9861013867, 9337112386
English Title: Backstage Boys
Language: English
Duration: 30 min
Format: Beta
Subject Focus: Migration — the case of Punjabi farmers
Synopsis: The film reflects the impact of globalization on
immigration from Punjab to the West. Marginal Punjabi
farmers, unable to survive on small land holdings, are
lured by the promise of plenty abroad. Despite the
increasingly tough immigration laws there and the inherent
risks involved in illegal international travel, there is a
constant stream of brave, adventurous and perhaps
foolhardy young man willing to take chances. The film
maps this journey, fraught as it is with danger, deportation
and even death.
Contact Details:
Meera Dewan
South View Productions, 73 Poorvi Marg, Vasant Vihar
New Delhi 110 057
P: 011-26144782; F: 011-26151908
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Subject Focus: Urban livelihoods — ragpickers of Delhi
Contact Details:
P: 011-26134103, 26890380; F: 011-26130817
W: www.devalt.org
English Title: Baphlimali 173
Language: English, Hindi and Oriya
Duration: 28 min
Format: VCD
Subject Focus: Resistance of Kashipur tribals against
bauxite mining and aluminum companies
Synopsis: This is a film about globalization and tribal
consciousness, a brief glimpse into an eight-year long
struggle that is pushing out powerful Indian and
international companies from the tribal lands in the Eastern
Ghats in Orissa.
Contact Details:
Amar Kanwar
P: 011-26516088; M: 9810216088; F: 011-26513556
Livelihood
English Title: Because of Our Rights
English Title: Beijing Shorts
Language: Hindi
Duration: 42 min
Original Title: Beijing Shorts
Language: English
Duration: 6 min
Subject Focus: Forest dependent communities and their
struggles
Synopsis: The film documents the struggle of the baan
rope workers of Utter Pradesh for their rights. Over the
years, these people have been denied the right of entry
and use of forests.
Environment (CSE)
Contact Details:
P: 011-29955124, 29956110, 29956394; F: 011-29955879
W: www.cseindia.org
Subject Focus: Women and their empowerment
Synopsis: In Andra Pradesh, rural women attending a
literacy class discovered they all suffered from their
husband’s addiction to arak, the local alcohol. So they
launched a campaign to ban it. In Guatemala, 45,000
women widowed as a result of decades of political violence
joined forces to campaign against human rights violations.
And in the Carribbean, a new movement using drama and
‘rap’ music has sprung up to combat widespread domestic
violence.These are just three of six inspirational stories in
this series made to mark the 1996 Beijing Conference on
Women. Filmed entirely on location by women directors,
they feature women from five different continents who are
fighting environmental neglect, discrimination, poverty,
illiteracy and violence — and learning to take control of
their own lives.
English Title: Behind the Glitter
Language: English
Duration: 45 min
Format:
Contact Details:
P: 011-29955124, 29956110, 29956394; F: 011-29955879
W: www.cseindia.org
Subject Focus: Mining and its impact on environment
and livelihoods
Synopsis: Narsipatnam was a non-descript small town
in Vizag district of Andhra Pradesh. In it were the
predominantly tribal villages of Karaka, Kasimi,
Donepalem and K. Yellavaram — remote, surviving by
selling their produce in the small market at Narsipatnam.
Alexandrite, the precious stone, was unearthed in Karaka
hill — and the entire region underwent a transformation.
With modernization has come its attendant malaise, such
as AIDS. Behind the Glitter tells the story of how in a bid
to gain control on the mining areas, mining syndicates
have played havoc with the lives of innocent villagers.
Director: Saraswati Kavula
Production Company: Key Lite Studio, Hyderabad
English Title: Bhuj 40
Original Title: Bhuj 40
Language: Hindi-Kutchhi
Subject Focus: Mining and its impact on livelihoods
Synopsis: In Kutch, Gujarat, mining is one of the biggest
industries — almost 2,000 truckloads of bauxite leave the
region every day. And most of these trucks are driven by
Debariya Rabaris, a sub-group of the Rabari nomadic
community, which resides in and around this region. Innercity Debars have left their traditional herding occupation for
other forms of work, the most common being truck driving.
Director: Dhanya Pilo
Contact Details:
P: 011-24355941; F: 011-24353825
W: www.psbt.org
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Contact Details:
P: 011-26537456/26521882; F: 011-26512347
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English Title: Blowpipes and Bulldozers
English Title: Breathing Without Air
Language: English
Duration: 52 min
Format: DVD
Original Title: Breathing Without Air
Language: Oriya/English
Subject Focus: Indigenous peoples and their rights over
resources — the Penan tribe of Malaysia
Synopsis: The Penan tribe of Malaysia is among the few
remaining nomadic forest people left in Asia. Now their
way of life is threatened by the relentless encroachment
of logging companies, clear-felling the Sarawak forests
to provide hardwood for luxury goods in Japan and the
West. This Australian film tells the story of Bruno Manser,
a young Swiss shepherd and artist who went to live with
the Penan — and was forced to become an outlaw in the
forest as a result of his campaign to save the forest, and
the Penan people, from extinction.
Directors: Jeni Kendell & Paul Tait
Producers: Jeni Kendell & Paul Tait
Production Company: National Geographic Society
Channel Four
Contact Details:
P: 011-26134103, 26890380; F: 011-26130817
W: www.devalt.org
English Title: Brazil Roadshow
Original Title: Brazil Roadshow
Language: English
Duration: 26 min
Subject Focus: Environmental issues in Brazil
Synopsis: The Earth Report goes to Curitiba,
environmental city of the future; onto the set of ZaZa, the
latest soap opera; to the Amazonian floodplains to see
community action helping the fisheries regenerate; and
onto the football pitch where youngsters find an escape
from their shanty towns. In 1992, TVE visited a fisherman
and his family in Rio’s slums — the Earth Report also
returns to see how they are faring five years on.
Directors: Janet Boston, Marc De Beaufort
Contact Details:
P: 011-29955124, 29956110, 29956394; F: 011-29955879
W: www.cseindia.org
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Subject Focus: Indigenous communities — the
Mundapotas of Orissa
Synopsis: The Mundapotas, a nomadic group in south
Orissa, survive by collecting honey and capturing animals
like snakes, porcupines and rats etc., which menace
granaries. Another source of their livelihood is the rustic
roadshow called Mundapota, the most thrilling item of
which consists in a performer burying his head under the
ground to provide macabre entertainment. Breathing
Without Air is the tale of a father-son duo of this community.
The son buries his head, while the father accompanies
the show beating his drum. The film is a metaphor for the
soul-killing deprivation of the working children of India.
Director: Kapilas Bhuyan
Contact Details:
P: 011-26537456/26521882; F: 011-26512347
English Title: Bugyal (Pastures)
Original Title: Bugyal
Language: Hindi
Duration: 8 min
Format: Betacam
Subject Focus: Traditional systems of conservation in
the Himalayas — the bugyal grasslands of Uttaranchal
Synopsis: The lush green pastures of Uttaranchal, known
locally as bugyal, have been preserved and cared for by
local communities for years. These communities,
equipped with traditional knowledge about the importance
and fragility of the ecosystem, have developed ways and
means to conserve them.
Producer: Sandeep Bhatt
Contact Details:
Sandeep Bhatt
563A, Sector 3, R. K. Puram, New Delhi 110 022
P: 011-23782018
Livelihood
English Title: Burdened Existence
English Title: Centre for Science for Villages,
Wardha
Original Title: Burdened Existence
Duration: 8 min
Format: Betacam
Duration: 13 min
Format: VHS
Subject Focus: Life and struggles of the girl-child in
Garhwal
Subject Focus: The Centre for Science for Villages,
Gujarat
Synopsis: For a Garhwali girl, life is fraught with difficulty
and despair. She goes to school, but also has to trudge
three-five kilometres in the hills to collect fuelwood and
water.
Synopsis: The film surveys the wide spectrum of work
carried out at the Centre for Science for Villages — this
includes paper made from banana pulp, biogas
technologies, mud-brick making, earthenware pottery etc.
Contact Details:
Plan India
New Delhi 110 049
P: 011-26962605, 26968432-34; F: 011-26863417
English Title: Call of the Forest
Language: English
Duration: 25 min
Subject Focus: Women’s initiatives to save the
environment
Synopsis: This film documents the successful struggle
of the tribal women of Bastar — led by the middle-aged
Mitkbai — to save their traditional sal forests from the state
government’s commercial forestry programme.
Contact Details:
Technology (CAPART)
P: 011-24642391,24642393,24642395
F: 011-24648607, 24625822
Contact Details:
Technology (CAPART)
New Delhi 110 003
P: 011-24642391,24642393,24642395
F: 011-24648607, 24625822
English Title: Changing Destiny – Best Practices
Original Title: Changing Destiny – Best Practices
Language: English
Duration: 25 min
Format: Betacam SP
Subject Focus: Government initiatives in ecodevelopment, health and information management
Synopsis: In the film, case studies from different parts of
the country illustrate how the government’s initiatives and
people’s participation can bring about dramatic change
in the quality of life.
Director: Chandromouli Basu
Producers: Niret Alva and Nikhil J. Alva
Production Company: Miditech Pvt. Ltd.
Contact Details:
Miditech Pvt. Ltd.
P: 0124-2397001 – 10; F: 0124-2397011
W: www.miditech.org
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English Title: Changing Destiny – Best Practices II
English Title: Chhakda
Original Title: Changing Destiny – Best Practices II
Language: English
Duration: 25 min
Format: Betacam SP
Original Title: Chhakda
Language: Hindi, English and Gujarati
Duration: 25 min
Subject Focus: Access to resources
Subject Focus: The Chhakda, a local public transport
option
Synopsis: Access to land and water resources is vital for
improving the economic status of the poor and the
marginalized. Several Indian states have launched
innovative programmes in partnership with development
agencies to provide this access. The film highlights three
case studies: the Rajiv Gandhi Watershed Management
Mission in Jhabua, the waste management system in
Ludhiana, and Swajal Dhara, a programme, in which the
community takes care of its water needs near Dehradun.
Synopsis: The Chhakda is a source of livelihood for its
owner, the driver, the mechanic and even the police —
and an indispensable means of transport for the urban
commuter in the absence of anything more efficient. The
film suggests that completely banning the Chhakda, which
is illegal, is not the solution — instead, its potential should
be harnessed for the benefit of the common man.
Director: Tanusree Banerjee
Producer: Manira Alva
Contact Details:
P: 011-26537456/26521882; F: 011-26512347
Contact Details:
Miditech Pvt. Ltd.
P: 0124-2397001 – 10; F: 0124-2397011
W: www.miditech.org
English Title: Changing Winds
Language: English
Duration: 2 hr 30 sec
Format: 16 mm
Subject Focus: The Aravallis
Synopsis: The film highlights the barren, dry and desolate
environs of the Aravalli ranges, the result of excessive
denudation by man and beast. It also shows how new
agricultural practices and improved water management
are making this landscape greener.
Technology (CIET)
Contact Details:
P: 011-26864801, 26864802, 26864803; F: 011-26864141
W: www.ciet.nic.in
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Director: Ipsit Patel
Livelihood
English Title: Climb Every Mountain
English Title: Co-Existence
Date/Month/Year of Production: March-August 2001
Language: English
Original Title: Co-Existence
Language: English
Format: DV
Subject Focus: Women’s empowerment — activities of
PEDO in Bicchiwara, Rajasthan
Synopsis: Dungarpur district in south Rajasthan is a hilly
region where more than 80% of the population comprises
of Bhil tribals. Environmental degradation has compelled
the tribals — who used to depend on forests — to turn to
agriculture and animal husbandry for survival. The area
is drought-prone, and these conditions made the tribals
fair game for moneylenders; women suffered the most.
But now the efforts of the People’s Educational and
Developmental Organization (PEDO) has brought about
seeds of change, beginning with Bicchiwara block, one of
the five administrative blocks in the district. Some of the
major developmental activities initiated by PEDO here
have been the eradication of guineaworm, installation of
the hand-pumps, schools for tribal children, soil
conservation work and the women’s programme, a
highlight of which is the Women’s Savings Groups. This
programme is aimed at developing the land resources to
fulfill community needs for fuel, fodder and timber and to
make the villagers aware of their rights.
Directors: Shivendra Singh & Karan Bali
Producer: Shivendra Singh
Contact Details:
Shivendra Singh/Karan Bali
Dungarpur Films, A-5, Ananta Apts., Dr. Rajabali Patel Road,
Breach Candy, Mumbai 400 026
P: 022-235 19715/ 2352 0519
Synopsis: The film talks about how killing a tree can
threaten our own extinction.
Directors: Shravan Hegde & Prathamesh Desai
Producer: Swati Chandgadkar
Contact Details:
Shravan Hegde
5/157, Bhagyalaxmi, Sir Bhalchandra Road, Dadar
Mumbai 400 014
P: 022-24143500; M: 09869086908
English Title: Colours of the Earth
Original Title: Colours of the Earth
Language: English
Duration: 28 min
Format: Mini DV
Subject Focus: Empowerment of dalit women — Medak
Synopsis: The film travels to villages of dalit women in
Medak, Andhra Pradesh, where these women are in
control of their own lives with the help of a local NGO,
Deccan Development Society. Their Alternative Public
Distribution System is ensuring access to subsidized
foodgrains at village-level grain banks. Completely
decentralized, this system is managed entirely by women.
Commissioning Agency: Winrock International India
Contact Details:
Krishnendu Bose
New Delhi 110 024
P: 011- 24334171, 24332005; M: 9811843111
F: 011- 24334068
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English Title: Common Property Resources
Original Title: Common Property Resources
Format: Betacam
Duration: 30 min
Subject Focus: Common property resources
Synopsis: The film examines the life of adivasis displaced
by a tiger sanctuary in Kanha, Madhya Pradesh, and
explores a more holistic approach to conservation, where
people are a part of the environment.
Synopsis: Dr. Vijay Paranjpye and Dr. Rajendra Jagdale
discuss common property resources in this film, and
whether village communities are getting marginalised in
today’s world.
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
Subject Focus: Displacement — people-animal
coexistence
Contact Details:
Krishnendu Bose
New Delhi 110 024
P: 011- 24334171, 24332005; M: 9811843111
F: 011- 24334068
English Title: Coping to Survive
English Title: Dance with Hands Held Tight
Original Title: Coping to Survive
Language: English
Duration: 20 min
Format: Betacam
Original Title: Dance with Hands Held Tight
Language: Local Indian languages (with English subtitles)
Duration: 62 min
Format: DV CAM
Subject Focus: Responses of women and communities
to environment protection
Synopsis: This film looks at micro-level coping strategies
used by women to counter degrading of the environment
in Meghalaya.
Contact Details:
Krishnendu Bose
New Delhi 110 024
P: 011- 24334171, 24332005; M: 9811843111
F: 011- 24334068
Subject Focus: Women and the politics of their natural
resouce-based livelihoods
Synopsis: Eighty-six per cent of rural women are engaged
in agriculture. In 92 per cent of rural households, energy
needs are met by firewood. The landless and the poor —
mostly women among them — procure 90 per cent of this
firewood from the forest commons. The sea supports
livelihoods of 400,000 women just along the short 300 km
coast of Karnataka. This intense relationship of women and
natural resources across the country throws up a whole
range of issues and questions. Does policy recognize this
intensity? Do we at all value the knowledge systems which
may have developed among these women? How have
women coped with coercion from State in their accessing
of natural resources? The film tries to find answers.
Producer: Earthcare Films
Contact Details:
Krishnendu Bose
New Delhi 110 024
P: 011- 24334171, 24332005; M: 9811843111
F: 011- 24334068
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Livelihood
English Title: Dawn to Dusk Further… A Story of
Horse-cart Pullers
Language: English
Duration: 13 min
Format: DV
Subject Focus: Horse-cart pullers of Delhi
Synopsis: This film, produced by students, is about the
dying profession of Tangawalas on the roads of Delhi.
Director: Anshul A. Ojha
Contact Details:
P: 011-26537456/26521882; F: 011-26512347
English Title: Delta Force
Original Title: Delta Force
Language: English
Duration: 52 min
English Title: Desounen: Dialogue with Death
Duration: 50 min
Format: DVD
Subject Focus: Environmental crisis and turmoil in Haiti
Synopsis: Years of economic and political chaos in Haiti,
the Caribbean’s poorest country, have led to environmental
devastation, crushing poverty and mass exodus of Haitians
trying to reach United States. The documentary takes the
form of journey through Haiti. Guiding the viewer along
the way is the narrator — a fictional, wise old countryman
who draws on his ancestral knowledge of life and death
to provide a running commentary on the plight of the
Haitians he encounters on his travels.
Director: Raoul Peck
Production Company: KS Vision for TVE/BBC for the
One World Group of Broadcasters
Contact Details:
P: 011-26134103, 26890380; F: 011-26130817
W: www.devalt.org
English Title: Development at Gun Point
Subject Focus: The struggle of the Ogoni in Nigeria
Synopsis: Made before the judicial murder of the Nigerian
writer and human rights activist Ken Saro-Wiwa in November
1995, Delta Force tells the story of the non-violent efforts of
the Ogoni people to halt 30 years of environmental damage,
suffering and inequality on the Niger delta. The Ogoni have
been paying a terrible price for their opposition to the Nigerian
military regime and to the policies of the petrochemical giant
Shell. This film opens with the arrest of Saro-Wiwa and the
subsequent implementation of ‘Operation Restore’ in
Ogoniland — the military’s campaign of terror against the
Ogoni to suppress their environmental movement.
Director: Glen Ellis
Contact Details:
P: 011-29955124, 29956110, 29956394; F: 011-29955879
W: www.cseindia.org
Original Title: Development at Gun Point
Duration: 36 min
Format: DV
Subject Focus: Bauxite mining in Orissa — its impacts
and people’s protests
Synopsis: India has opened up its mining sector to global
capital. Investments are flowing in, but pollution,
deforestation and displacement have been the results. In
this context, this documentary talks about the social and
environmental impacts of bauxite mining in Kashipur,
Orissa, and the struggle of the adivasis against it.
Director: K. P. Sasi
Producer: K. P. Sasi
Production Company: K. P. Sasi
Contact Details:
K. P. Sasi
103, May Flower Laxmi Apartment, 63, Sulthan Palya Main
Road, R T Nagar, Bangalore 560 032, Karnataka
P: 080-26553117, 23650916; M: 09945282056
W: www.visualsearch.org
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English Title: Development Flows from the Barrel
of the Gun
English Title: Doodhatoli
Original Title: Vikas Bandook ki Naal se
Duration: 54 min
Original Title: Doodhatoli
Language: Hindi
Format: Betacam
Subject Focus: State-sponsored violence on people
affected by development projects
Subject Focus: Womens’ empowerment through
environmental regenaration and sustainable development
Synopsis: This is a film on human right violations
committed on indigenous people in India. It documents
the violence the State perpetrates on people affected by
development projects, and calls for a more sustainable
development that is “not at the cost of people”.
Synopsis: Doodhatoli is the story of the village women of
Pauri Garwhal, who over the years have organized
themselves to protect local forests. The remarkable thing
about this effort is that the movement is entirely led and
managed by local — mostly illiterate — women. They are
primarily guided by their own experiences and traditional
wisdom about local resources and environment.
Awards Received by the Film: ‘Star Award’, CMS
VATAVARAN 2005 in Forest for Life category
Directors: Biju Toppo/Meghnath
Producer: Meghnath (Akhra)
Production Company: Akhra
Contact Details:
AKHRA
Sastri Nagar, Kanke Road, Ranchi 834 008, Jharkhand
P: 0651-2231693
English Title: Discovery of God
Original Title: Discovery of God
Language: English
Duration: 28 min
Format: Betacam
Synopsis: This film makes an attempt to attract the
attention of people towards conservation through
mythology: by trying to prove the oneness of Nature and
God, as propounded in global mythology.
Producer: Jagdish Vasant Kulkarni
Commissioning Agency: Yashwantrao Chavan
Maharashtra Open University
Contact Details:
Yashwantrao Chavan Maharashtra Open University (YCMOU)
Dhyan Gangotri, Gangapur Road, Nasik 422 222, Maharashtra
P: 0253-2231481/2231714/15; F: 0253 2231716
W: www.ycmou.com
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Producer: K. Bikram Singh
Commissioning Agency: Council for Advancement of
Contact Details:
Technology (CAPART)
P: 011-24642391,24642393,24642395
F: 011-24648607, 24625822
English Title: Down the Drain
Original Title: Down the Drain
Language: Tamil, English
Subject Focus: Sanitary workers of Chennai
Synopsis: This is a film on manual sanitary workers of
Chennai.
Director: Gayathri N.
Contact Details:
P: 011-26537456/26521882; F: 011-26512347
Livelihood
English Title: Down to Earth
Duration: 26 min
Format: VHS
Subject Focus: Mud as a viable construction material
Synopsis: The work of an NGO, Development Alternatives
(DA), offers mud as a practical solution for housing
problems. The film shows a mud-based building under
construction and the various methods devised to
overcome any necessity of concrete.
Production Company: CENDIT
Contact Details:
Technology (CAPART)
P: 011-24642391,24642393,24642395
F: 011-24648607, 24625822
English Title: Drops of Hope
English Title: Earth Report V (Hands On):
On the Move
Original Title: Earth Report V (Hands On): On the Move
Language: English
Duration: 27 min
Subject Focus: Transportation — green alternatives
Synopsis: As world populations grow, so does pressure
on local transport. This Hands On looks at a variety of
solutions to the transport problem. It investigates
hydrogen-powered vehicles in Germany, rent-a-bike
schemes in the Netherlands and electric car hire
alternatives in France. We visit rural road-building projects
in Mozambique where local communities are redeveloping
transport links destroyed during the civil war. Finally, the
camera comes to Nepal where there has been an boom
in the electric tempo market.
Contact Details:
P: 011-29955124, 29956110, 29956394; F: 011-29955879
W: www.cseindia.org
Original Title: Boond
Director: Nila Madhab Panda
Contact Details:
Nila Madhab Panda
Filmmaker, 12,Uday Park, 2nd floor, Khelgaon Marg
New Delhi 110049
P: 011-5164 5940/ 3991, 011-26520491, M: 9811320557
W: www.eleanoraimages.org
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English Title: Earth Report VI: Uphill Struggle —
Where Families and Mountains Meet
Original Title: Earth Report VI: Uphill Struggle — Where
Families and Mountains Meet
Language: English
Duration: 27 min
Subject Focus: Environmental issues and livelihoods in
Kyrgistan and Tajikistan
Synopsis: Eking a living on the slopes is never easy at
the best of times. For the people of the former Soviet
republics of Kyrgistan and Tajikistan, economic collapse
meant that food and fuel subsidies have gone. One result
has been the stripping bare of the once thickly forested
hillsides for fuel. An intimate portrait of three families
documents their hardships. But aid from the Aga Khan’s
foundation is getting through in the form of soil conserving
farming methods and rural hydro schemes.
Contact Details:
P: 011-29955124, 29956110, 29956394; F: 011-29955879
W: www.cseindia.org
English Title: Exodus
Language: English
Duration: 50 min
Format: DVD
Subject Focus: Global refugee policy
Synopsis: In April 1994, 250,000 people fleeing Rwanda’s
bloody war set up camp across the border in Tanzania.
Almost overnight, Bamako refugee camp had effectively
become Tanzania’s second largest city. With 50,000 families
requiring fuelwood and drinking water, this ‘city’ soon began
to have a devastating effect on the surrounding forests and
local water supply. Facing a catastrophe, representatives
of the aid charity CARA ordered an environmental impact
assessment to find ways to reduce the destruction and
establish a blueprint for future refugee policy.
Producer: Mick Rhodes
Production Company: TV 6 for the BBC/TVE
Contact Details:
P: 011-26134103, 26890380; F: 011-26130817
W: www.devalt.org
English Title: Expressway
Language: English, Hindi and Marathi (with English
subtitles)
Duration: 10 min
Format: Mini DV
Subject Focus: The Mumbai-Pune Express Highway
Synopsis: The Mumbai-Pune Expressway is touted as
one of the major achievements in the development chart
of Maharashtra. But the story which villagers, ecologists,
doctors and economists narrate, is quite different. The
film, an exploration of the fallouts of the Expressway,
questions the politics of development.
Director: Sanju Surendran
Producer: Mr. Tripurari Sharan, Director, Film and
Television Institute of India (FTII)
Production Company: Film and Television Institute of
India (FTII)
Contact Details:
Film and Television Institute of India, (FTII)
T: 020-020-25457037, 25431817, 25433016, 25430017
M: 09422351508
W: www.ftiindia.com
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English Title: Fight for Survival
English Title: Fish Tales
Language: Gujarati-Hindi
Duration: 20 min
Format: Mini DV
Language: English
Duration: 30 min
Subject Focus: Traditional fishing industry of Kerala
Subject Focus: Livelihoods — the case of the Madaris
of Gujarat
Synopsis: Gujarat has approximately three lakh members
of the nomadic Madari community. The Madaris’ are
traditional snake catchers and charmers. They follow their
own Panchayat system, which lays down strict rules about
catching, keeping, performing with and releasing snakes
back into the jungle. Now, the Animal Cruelty Act and other
laws have outlawed the Madaris’ traditional profession and
placed their survival at stake.
Director: Dakxin Nandlal Bajarange
Production Company: Dakxin Nandlal Bajarange
Contact Details:
P: 011-26537456/26521882; F: 011-26512347
English Title: First Harvest/Changing Valleys
Synopsis: This film explores developmental and
environmental issues by focusing on traditional fishery in
Kerala. Thirty years of top-down development policies have
failed to address the needs of fisherfolk and their special
relationship with the sea. Today, fishing communities are faced
with the crisis of declining fish stocks. Fish Tales is cautionary
— it underlines the need to initiate development policies that
are sustainable and beneficial to the communities involved.
Directors: Ritu Sarin and Tenzing Sonam
Contact Details:
The Foundation for Universal Responsibility,
Of His Holiness The Dalai Lama, UGF, Core 4 A
India Habitat Centre, Lodhi Road, New Delhi 110 003
T: 011-24648450; F: 011-24648451
W: www.furhhdl.org
English Title: Fish Wars
Language: English
Duration: 58 min
Format: DVD
Language: English
Duration: 46 min
Format: DVD
Subject Focus: Rejuvenating rural economy
Subject Focus: Commercial fishing
Synopsis: In north Pakistan, the inhospitable mountain
terrain has kept local villages isolated for centuries. To feed
their growing populations, villagers have cut down the trees
and overgrazed the land. First Harvest looks at the
remarkable success of a scheme initiated by the Agha Khan
Rural Support Programme which is helping local village
organizations in over 800 villages in the region. Farmers
meet to formulate common policies, build roads and
irrigation channels, and start a programme of tree-planting,
while women gain confidence and status as they learn how
to process and market fruit and vegetables. The film shows
how village organizations can become the driving force not
just for economic but also for social change.
Synopsis: This film presents an examination of the impact
of commercial fishing operations in British Columbia.
Contact Details:
P: 011-26134103, 26890380; F: 011-26130817
W: www.devalt.org
Directors: Nicholas Kendall & Jack Silberman
Producer: David Yager
Production Company: Northern Lights Media Corp. &
The Agha Khan Foundation
Contact Details:
P: 011-26134103, 26890380; F: 011-26130817
W: www.devalt.org
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English Title: Fishing in the Sea of Greed
English Title: Freedom
Language: Marathi, Hindi, Tamil and English
Duration: 47 min
Original Title: Freedom
Language: Multiple Indian languages (with English
subtitles)
Duration: 58 min
Format: Digital
Subject Focus: The fishing industry and fishing rights
Synopsis: This is a film on fishermens’ fight against large
foreign factory ships that are depleting the seas, and
shrimp aquaculture that is destroying coastal lands. Led
by the National Fishworkers Forum (NFF), fishermen
across India are uniting to fight these twin problems. But
the crisis in the fisheries is worldwide and so must be the
fight of the fishermen.
Director: Anand Patwardhan
Contact Details:
Anand Patwardhan
2nd Floor, 27, Lokmanya Tilak Colony Marg, No. 2
Dadar (East), Mumbai 400 014
P: 022-24143782; F: 022-24142946
English Title: Five Realities of the Future
Language: English
Duration: 42 min
Format: DVD
Subject Focus: Community initiatives for control over
resources
Synopsis: The five vignettes that make up Damien Rea’s
film together demonstrate the power of community action
in helping people take control of their own lives. In Costa
Rica, the Bribri people have fought a successful battle to
win back the ancestral lands wrested from them by Spanish
settlers. On the Japanese island of Ishigaki, the villagers
of Shiraho staged a campaign to stop the government
building an airport which would destroy their priceless coral
reef. In India, the villagers of Dhanawas have built their
own gas generators to provide cheap energy. And in
Hungary, a local group on the outskirts of Budapest has
set up a community scheme to monitor and cleanup the
heavy metal contamination of the soil that is the legacy of
40 years of unregulated industrial development.
Director: Damien Rea
Producer: Damien Rea
Contact Details:
P: 011-26134103, 26890380; F: 011-26130817
W: www.devalt.org
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Subject Focus: Local communities’ control over natural
resources
Synopsis: This is a documentary film about protection and
conservation of natural resources, and about communities
resisting an onslaught on their livelihoods. In a journey that
traverses several states in India, the film documents attempts
by local people to protect and control their natural resources.
Producer: A K Productions
Contact Details:
Amar Kanwar
P: 011-26516088, 26534712; M: 9810216088
F: 011-26513556
English Title: Gadia Lohar: A Life and Livelihood
in Question?
Language: English
Duration: 24 min
Format: Mini DV
Subject Focus: Gadia lohars of Rajasthan
Synopsis: This film is an effort to understand the reasons
behind the failures of government initiatives in providing
better life and livelihood to Gadia lohars, a nomadic
community of Rajasthan. The film clearly brings out that
understanding the culture context is vital before formulating
policies for any segment of the society.
Contact Details:
Leoarts Communication
A-103, LGF, Amar Colony, Lajpat Nagar–IV
New Delhi 110 024
P: 26488898; F: 26216536
Livelihood
English Title: Galleria Sepultura
English Title: Gene Hunters
Original Title: Galleria Sepultura
Language: English
Duration: 35 min
Format: Digital
Language: English
Duration: 54 min
Format: DVD
Subject Focus: Rights of indigenous peoples
Subject Focus: The tribal spirit and its imminent death at
the hands of society
Synopsis: The indigenous people depicted in this film
are from the forests of Kerala, the hills of Nagaland,
Myanmar and the river islands of Assam. Though
seemingly diverse, they share the fate of enforced
disassociation from their traditional legacy of water and
spirit. In doing so, our larger society is shown to
metaphorically assume the role of a modern cannibal, the
worst hunter — one that feeds upon its own.
Producer: Switchblade & Silverspoon
Synopsis: Could DNA from the blood of indigenous people
hold the secret of new drugs to treat ravaging human
diseases like AIDS or motor neurone disease? Genetic
scientists working on the worldwide Human Genome
Biodiversity Project believe it’s possible, and in the remote
rainforests of northern Colombia they’re collecting blood
from the Ahuaco and Asario Indians to get the DNA for
their labs. They aim to gather the genetic blueprint of 700
pure-blooded tribal people before they become extinct or
lose their unique genetic make-up through intermarriage.
But, as the film underlines, there is a dilemma. New drugs
can earn massive profits and, community leaders ask,
who will benefit?
Contact Details:
Switchblade & Silverspoon,
A-11 B, 2nd Floor, Sanwal Nagar, New Delhi 110 049
M: 9811122060
Director: Ian Taylor
Producer: Luke Holland
Production Company: ZEF Productions, TVE for channel 4
English Title: Gavari-Samajik Prasthabhoomi
Contact Details:
P: 011-26134103, 26890380; F: 011-26130817
W: www.devalt.org
Original Title: Gavari-Samajik Prasthabhoomi
Language: Hindi
Format: Betacam
Subject Focus: Tribal folk theatre of Rajasthan
Synopsis: The film celebrates the form of tribal folk theatre
of south Rajasthan which conveys a message of keeping
the environment healthy.
Contact Details:
P: 0291-2513734; F: 0291-2513733
CMS ENVIS Centre
English Title: Guardians of the Forest
Language: English
Duration: 18 min
Format: Digital
Director: Ahmad Azeem
Contact Details:
P: 011-26537456/26521882; F: 011-26512347
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English Title: Hands On — Out of Asia
English Title: Hands On: Do it Herself
Language: English
Duration: 26 min
Original Title: Hands On: Do it Herself
Language: English
Duration: 25 min
Subject Focus: Credit initiatives to empower people
Synopsis: The movie recounts stories of how credit
initiatives can boost more than just incomes, and how
innovative fishing methods combined with new practices
can improve people’s livelihoods and safeguard the
environment. In Maharashtra, a group of women
entrepreneurs are benefiting from a new credit scheme,
which has helped them out of poverty and introduced them
to the thriving business world. Meanwhile, in Thailand,
fishing communities are working to restore depleted fish
stocks by replanting mangrove and sea grass beds to act
as spawning grounds, and by phasing out the destructive
push nets.
Contact Details:
P: 011-26134103, 26890380; F: 011-26130817
W: www.devalt.org
English Title: Hands On: Cash – No Question
Language: English
Duration: 26 min
Subject Focus: Innovative micro-credit schemes
Synopsis: Banking with a difference: this is what this
movie is all about, with stories on innovative micro-credit
schemes that are putting profits from green enterprise
back into the community.
Contact Details:
P: 011-26134103, 26890380; F: 011-26130817
W: www.devalt.org
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Subject Focus: Women entrepreneurs using alternate
technologies
Synopsis: This is a part of a worldwide series of 52 fiveminute programmes featuring the use of appropriate
technologies. Introduced by Annie Lennox, Do it Herself
features five stories looking specifically at the solutions
which women are using to tackle environmental problems,
set up sustainable enterprises and adapt to a changing
world.
Contact Details:
P: 011-29955124, 29956110, 29956394; F: 011-29955879
W: www.cseindia.org
Livelihood
English Title: Hell in the Pacific
English Title: Highway to the Hidden Valleys
Original Title: Hell in the Pacific
Language: English
Duration: 55 min
Language: English
Duration: 52 min
Format: DVD
Subject Focus: Environmental conflicts in Papua New
Guinea
Synopsis: When China and Pakistan cemented their
strategic alliance in the early 1970s by building the
Karakorum highway, centuries of isolation in the valleys
of northern Pakistan came to an end. Ruled for decades
by the Mirs, or feudal princes, the people had survived by
a precarious agricultural system which began to
disintegrate after 1972. The Aga Khan Rural Support
Programme has now helped set up over 2,000 village
organizations to oversee new projects from irrigation to
food preservation. But, as the film makes clear, progress
has also brought tensions. The road is exacting demands
from the people of Gilgit, Hunza and Narag as surely as
their feudal lords once did, remorselessly changing
patterns of life established over centuries.
Synopsis: Defending land has always been a way of life
in Papua New Guinea. But today, it’s not just quarrelsome
neighbours the Pacific islanders are having to fight off,
but multinational predators keen to cash in on their rich
tropical forests and mineral resources. Hell in the Pacific
investigates three separate conflicts between local Papuan
landowners and subsidiaries of the mining conglomerate,
Rio Tinto Zinc (RTZ). Clashes between police and villagers
over gold extraction rights in one remote region led to
RTZ’s abrupt departure — together with most of the gold.
Pollution from RTZ’s copper mine on the island of
Bougainville has been a focus of seething resentment
since 1988. And now, overriding local objections,
extractors have moved in, unannounced, to develop a new
island gold mine using cyanide.
Contact Details:
P: 011-29955124, 29956110, 29956394; F: 011-29955879
W: www.cseindia.org
CMS ENVIS Centre
Subject Focus: Development and its impacts
Director: Paul Cleary
Producer: Paul Cleary
Production Company: Farthest North Productions, TVE
Contact Details:
P: 011-26134103, 26890380; F: 011-26130817
W: www.devalt.org
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English Title: Honey Hunters of the Blue Mountains
English Title: I AM
Language: English
Duration: 33 min
Language: English
Subject Focus: Youth
Subject Focus: Kurumba tribals of the Nilgiri Biosphere
Reserve
Synopsis: One of the last havens of untouched forest
land – the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve in south India — is
home to the hunter-gatherer Kurumba tribals. These tribals
scale precipitous cliffs using ladders made from vines, to
collect honey. This film is the first to document their
extraordinary livelihood.
Awards Received by the Film: Second prize, Earth
Vision, Santacruz, USA
Director: Mike H. Pandy
Contact Details:
P: 011- 5163 2890, 2641 0684; F: 011- 26216508
English Title: Humanitas — The Disappeared,
Refugees and the Prior Nations
Original Title: Humanitas — The Disappeared, Refugees
and the Prior Nations
Language: English
Duration: 75 min
Synopsis: This is a look at the lives of some young people
from different backgrounds – the privileged, the not-so
privileged, and the tribal artisan — as they explore their
roles, identities and their own sense of self.
Director: Puneeta Roy
Contact Details:
P: 011-24355941; F: 011-24353825
W: www.psbt.org
English Title: I, Fisherman
Original Title: Mee Koli
Language: Hindi and Marathi (with English subtitles)
Format: Betacam SP
Subject Focus: Indigenous fishing community’s efforts
to preserve its traditional livelihood
Subject Focus: Global humanitarian issues — Refugees
and indigenous peoples
Synopsis: This is a story of an indigenous fishing
community: the Kolis, the original inhabitants of Mumbai,
and today, a community pushed to the fringes of India’s
commercial capital. From here, they wage their brave war
to protect the resources of the sea and their livelihood.
Fierce environmentalists, they are the conscience of a
city hell bent on shortsighted urbanization.
Synopsis: The film is in three instalments, covering global
humanitarian issues: how indigenous communities are
finding a new pride in their culture, how ‘disappearance’
is used as a technique of terror and repression, and the
plight of 13 million refugees all over the world.
Director: Miriam Chandy Menacherry
Producer: PSBT and Prasar Bharati Corporation
Production Company: Filament Pictures Pvt. Ltd.
Trust (PSBT)
Contact Details:
Miriam Chandy Menacherry, Filament Pictures Pvt. Ltd.
6/5 Hillside D, Raheja Vihar, Powai, Mumbai 400 072
P: 022-28576119, M: 9892644163
Contact Details:
P: 011-29955124, 29956110, 29956394; F: 011-29955879
W: www.cseindia.org
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Livelihood
English Title: Images of Development
English Title: In the Forest Hangs a Bridge
Original Title: Images of Development
Language: Bengali (with English subtitles)
Duration: 25 min
Format: Mini DV
Original Title: In the Forest Hangs a Bridge
Language: English
Duration: 39 min
Original Format: 16 mm (available in Digibeta/Betacam/
DVD/VCD)
Subject Focus: Urban poor and their displacement
Subject Focus: The Adi tribals of Arunachal Pradesh
Synopsis: The film examines the process of urban
planning and development and what it means to the poor,
powerless and marginalized sections of a metropolitan
city like Kolkata. Through its portrayal of the eviction of
slum dwellers on 10 December (ironically, the World
Human Rights Day), the film shows how the process of
urban environment planning and development works by
excluding the poor and marginalized.
Synopsis: The film is about the building of a 1,000-feet
suspension bridge by the people of an Adi village, an
evocation of the tribal community that makes it possible,
and a reflection on the strengths — and fragility — of the
idea of community. Located deep in the forested hills of
Siang Valley of Arunachal Pradesh, these elegant
structures of cane and bamboo are the distinctive mark
of the Adi tribe. Sometimes as long as 1,500 feet, these
bridges have traditionally been built by the community
members. Their only tool is the dao, a machete.
Contact Details:
Pramod Gupta
P: 033-25778061; M: 9830411525
English Title: In Search of Greener Pastures
Duration: 35 min
Awards Received by the Film: Swarna Kamal (Golden
Lotus) for Best Documentary Film, 1999 National Film
Awards; Asian Gaze Award, Pusan Short Film Festival, Korea
Director: Sanjay Kak
Producer: Sanjay Kak
Production Company: Octave Communications Pvt Ltd
People’s Action and Rural Technology (CAPART)
Contact Details:
Sanjay Kak
Octave Communications, C4/4048, Vasant Kunj
New Delhi 110 070
P: 011-26893893; M: 9820139960; F: 011-26123828
Subject Focus: Gaddis of Himachal Pradesh
Synopsis: The film covers the lifestyle and struggles of
the nomadic Gaddis of Himachal Pradesh.
Producer: Praveen Kumar
Production Company: M/s Andaaz Communications
Contact Details:
The Secretary
New Delhi - 110 003
P: 91-11-2436 1896, 2436 0721
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English Title: Islands of Individuality
English Title: Jagriti
Language: English
Duration: 30 min
Language: Hindi
Duration: 30 min
Subject Focus: Man-nature coexistence — the case of
the Nicobar Islands
Subject Focus: Women and environment conservation
Synopsis: This is a film on the unique success story of
Nicobar Islands. In addition to the protection of aboriginal
tribes by restricting entry of non-tribals into the Nicobars,
the tribal ethos of respect for nature and coexistence with
flora and fauna has created a life in harmony with the sea
and forests for the Nicobaris.
Producer: Mrs. Ranjana Kaul
Production Company: M/s Leburnum Communications
Contact Details:
The Secretary
New Delhi - 110 003
P: 91-11-2436 1896, 2436 0721
English Title: It can be Done
Duration: 20 min
Subject Focus: Tribal rehabilitation
Synopsis: The tribal rehabilitation programme conducted
by the Banvasi Seva Ashram forms the main content of
this film. In this programme, indigenous irrigation systems
were used to rejuvenate drought-prone areas.
Contact Details:
P: 011-26864801, 26864802, 26864803; F: 011-26864141
W: www.ciet.nic.in
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Synopsis: This docu-drama shows how women can
contribute to environment conservation in rural areas.
Producer: M/s Vibhor Video Vision
Contact Details:
The Secretary
New Delhi - 110 003
P: 91-11-2436 1896, 2436 0721
English Title: Jardhar Diary
Original Title: Jardhar Diary
Language: English
Duration: 29 min
Format: Mini DV
Subject Focus: Community control over natural resources
Synopsis: The film is about a village called Jardhar tucked
away in the hills of the Garhwal Himalayas. The villagers
have revived their forests, are fighting limestone mining
on their hill slopes, staving off power lines which will
decimate their pine and sal cover, and reclaiming
traditional seeds and putting them back into circulation.
Producer: Krishendu Bose
Commissioning Agency: Winrock International, India
Contact Details:
Krishnendu Bose
New Delhi 110 024
P: 011- 24334171, 24332005; M: 9811843111
F: 011- 24334068
Livelihood
English Title: Jeevika — Struggle for Existence
Original Title: Jeevika — Struggle for Existence
Language: Hindi
Original Title: Jungle Pharmacy
Language: English
Duration: 52 min
Subject Focus: Livelihood problems — Palamau
Synopsis: This documentary is about the livelihood
struggles of the people of Palamu district in Jharkhand.
Subject Focus: Traditional medicine
Contact Details:
P: 011-26537456/26521882; F: 011-26512347
Synopsis: This film explores the commercial potential of
plant remedies in Brazil and the United States. It also
explores the traditional knowledge of the Shamans — the
tribal healers of Peru and Brazil. The film suggests that
an amalgamation of traditional medicine and modern
scientific development can bring in a breakthrough in
modern healing systems.
English Title: Jhilmili’s Story
Director: Jamie Hartell
Director: Kumar Yugant
Original Title: Jhilmili ki Kahani
Duration: 22 min
Format: VHS
Contact Details:
P: 011-29955124, 29956110, 29956394; F: 011-29955879
W: www.cseindia.org
Subject Focus: Empowerment of women
Synopsis: It is an account of the transformation of Jhilmili
village in West Bengal through empowerment of its
women. The film depicts how women, democratically
organized and given the power of decision-making access
to resources, can become catalytic agents for
development.
English Title: Kandal Pokkudan
Language: English
Subject Focus: Kandal Pokkudan, the ecological activist
Contact Details:
Technology (CAPART)
P: 011-24642391,24642393,24642395
F: 011-24648607, 24625822
CMS ENVIS Centre
Synopsis: This is a biographical film about Kandal
Pokkudan, an ecological activist.
Contact Details:
P: 011-26537456/26521882; F: 011-26512347
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English Title: Khamoshi ke Swar
English Title: Kora Rajee
Subject Focus: The handicapped and their welfare
Duration: 51 min
Synopsis: There are nearly one crore handicapped people
in India, a large number of whom are deaf and dumb.
‘Silence’ is an organization in Kolkata, which is training
these people in self-promoted income generation activities
like making greeting cards, wax lamps, screen prints and
paintings. The film touches on sensitive issues like how
attitudes towards the deaf and dumb affect their families
and marriage.
Director: Biju Toppo
Production Company: AKHRA
Contact Details:
AKHRA
P: 0651-2231693
English Title: Ladhakh – A Fragile Heritage
Contact Details:
P: 011-26134103, 26890380; F: 011-26130817
W: www.devalt.org
English Title: Kipdow
Language: English
Duration: 19 min
Format: VHS
Subject Focus: Watershed development and the
activities of MYRADA
Synopsis: The film is an account of the work done by
MYRADA, a voluntary organization, in the field of
watershed development, leading to all-round progress of
an impoverished area.
Contact Details:
Technology (CAPART)
P: 011-24642391,24642393,24642395
F: 011-24648607, 24625822
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Original Title: c – A Fragile Heritage
Language: English
Duration: 21 min
Format: Betacam SP
Subject Focus: Wetland conservation in Tibet
Synopsis: This is a documentation of a conservation
initiative by the World Wide for Nature-India in the Ladakh
region: the focus of these initiatives is on the high altitude
wetlands of the Tibetan steppe region. The film explores
the natural heritage of the region, and describes the
various conservation strategies that are being
implemented in cooperation with various stakeholders like
the army, the nomadic Changpas, the local administration,
schools, tour operators etc. The film also highlights the
relationship that the local community shares with the
environment.
Commissioning Agency: World Wide Fund for Nature
(WWF)-India
Contact Details:
Freshwater & Wetlands Conservation Programme
World Wide Fund for Nature-India
172-B, Lodhi Estate, New Delhi 110003
P: 011-4150 4815; F: 011-4150 4795
W: www.wwfindia.org
Livelihood
English Title: Ladhakh — Desert in the Skies
Subject Focus: Life in the Chang Thang plateau
Synopsis: The film is a documentation of the harsh life of
nomads and the rare wildlife of their lands — the Tibetan
black-necked cranes, Ladakhi wild dogs and wolves, etc.
English Title: Life II: Patently Obvious
Original Title: Life II: Patently Obvious
Language: English
Duration: 27 min
Subject Focus: Benefits of intellectual property protection
Production Company: Bedi Ji Productions Pvt. Ltd.
Contact Details:
Bedi Films, E-19, Rajouri Garden, New Delhi 110 027
P: 011- 25439939, 25441864, 51444332, F: 011-25430850
W: www.bedibrothers.com
English Title: Lakshmi and Vishwakarma
Language: Oriya
Synopsis: The film explores a folktale about the goddess
of wealth and artisans struggling for survival.
Contact Details:
Vasudha Joshi
Top Floor, 189 Sarat Bose Road, Kolkata 700029 West Bengal
English Title: Life & Livelihood
Synopsis: Protection of intellectual property is the
lifeblood of the new knowledge economy. But while the
benefits to the multinational pharmaceutical or
telecommunication giants are plain, what relevance do
World Trade Organization patent regulations have for
developing countries? Patently Obvious explores the
benefits of intellectual property protection in the Indian
state of Gujarat. Karimbhai practises herbal medicine from
his home. Ten years ago, he lived in a tiny hut, charged
nothing for treating patients, and — as his sons had no
interest in learning his skills — his knowledge looked likely
to die with him. By contrast, Karimbhai today makes a
good living — with people travelling for miles for treatment
and advice. He even has a patent application out for one
of his medicines. His change of fortune came about after
he joined the Honeybee Network, which protects and
strengthens rural innovators and traditional knowledge
keepers by documenting their work and protecting its
patents.
Contact Details:
P: 011-29955124, 29956110, 29956394; F: 011-29955879
W: www.cseindia.org
Language: English
Duration: 14 min
Contact Details:
Snehasis Das
M: 9811156383
CMS ENVIS Centre
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English Title: Life II: Pavements of Gold
English Title: Life on Four Wheels
Original Title: Life II: Pavements of Gold
Language: English
Duration: 30 min
Format: DV
Subject Focus: Mumbai’s taxi drivers
Subject Focus: Migration and urban poverty
Synopsis: Urban poverty is one of the biggest challenges
facing the world today. The figures are stark: in 1950, the
number of people living in urban areas amounted to 300
million. At the start of the new century, that figure had
multiplied almost 10-fold, to 2.85 billion. And the flow of
rural migrants arriving in the world’s megacities shows no
signs of slowing down. With the backdrop of the growing
urban slums surrounding Lima, capital of Peru, this
programme examines the enduring magnetism of big cities
— and asks whether the migrants who’ve moved here
now feel that city life is the answer to their dreams.
Contact Details:
P: 011-29955124, 29956110, 29956394; F: 011-29955879
W: www.cseindia.org
English Title: Life IV: Helping Ourselves
Original Title: Life IV: Helping Ourselves
Language: English
Duration: 24 min
Subject Focus: Empowerment initiatives in India
Synopsis: This programme explores changes in two
Indian states that have succeeded in giving previously
powerless people some control over their lives. In
Karnataka, the IT revolution has allowed farmers to access
the land deeds so vital to obtaining the credit with which
they can sow next year’s harvest. In Andhra Pradesh,
women’s self-help groups have enabled rural women to
change aspects of their lives they were unhappy with, and
given them a voice in local government.
Contact Details:
P: 011-29955124, 29956110, 29956394; F: 011-29955879
W: www.cseindia.org
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Synopsis: Life on Four Wheels is a first hand account of
the lives of Mumbai’s taxi drivers. It reveals how very few
of these men are actually living the life they once aspired
to. Through a series of interviews, the documentary delves
deeper not just into their existence but also gives the
viewer a sense of Mumbai as seen through the eyes of
these people.
Director: Anshuman Jha
Production Company: August 6th Productions
Contact Details:
P: 011-26537456/26521882; F: 011-26512347
English Title: Manhole Workers Union
Original Title: Manhole Workers Union
Language: Gujarati-Hindi-English
Duration: 20 min
Format: VCD
Synopsis: They are called manhole workers; they work
below the manhole, invisible. With the haphazard ways
our gutter system has built, Ahmedabad may have to be
evacuated if the manhole stopped work! Yet they get a
very raw deal. Most of them belong to the so – called
‘outcastes’. Indian constitution not with standing, they are
still very much ill-treated and discriminated against. Their
working conditions are terrible. Sometime they have to
drive into the filthy gutters, with no protective gear. They
are exposed to all kinds of diseases; the threat of death
from poisonous gas is ever present.
KSSM (Kamdar Swasthya Surakhsa Mandal) the union has enhanced their self – respect and self – confidence.
They have a long way to go, but the journey has begun.
Director: Rappai Poothokaren
Contact Details:
P: 011-26537456/26521882; F: 011-26512347
Livelihood
English Title: Of Hawks and Hawkers
English Title: Sea City
Original Title: Of Hawks and Hawkers
Language: English
Duration: 3 min
Format: DVD
Original Title: Sea City
Language: English
Duration: 30 min
Format: DVD
Synopsis: For over two decades, the pavements of
Calcutta were the lifeline for hawkers. Most of them operated through structures, though technically temporary, de
facto permanent. Then towards the end of 1996 came
‘Operation Sunshine’. All structures were bulldozed to
clean up the city. And there was more sunshine… Sunshine for whom?
Subject Focus: Coastal ecology
Post Operation Sunshine the hawkers used to come and
go but were always on their toes. There were only two
colours dominating the locale, brown and grey. In the year
2005 the hawkers appear to have come up with new colour
and dimension which goes to show that “Sunshine or no
Sunshine, survive we must”
Director: Shankar S.
Contact Details:
P: 011-26537456/26521882; F: 011-26512347
Synopsis: The film takes a look at the life of the Kolis, the
original inhabitants of the islands that constitute Mumbai, and
their relationship with the city that has grown around them.
Director: Lalitha Krishna
Production Company: Public Service Broadcasting
Trust (PSBT)
Trust (PSBT)
Contact Details:
P: 011-24355941; F: 011-24353825
W: www.psbt.org
English Title: Streetwise — A View from the
People
English Title: Pretty Dyana
Original Title: Pretty Dyana
Language: Serbia
Duration: 45 min
Format: DV
Synopsis: An intimate look at gypsy refugees in a Belgrade
suburb who make a living by transforming Citroen’s classic
2cv and Dyana cars into Mad-Max-like recycling vehicles,
which they use to collect cardboard, bottles and scrap metal.
These modern horses are much more efficient than the
cart- pushing competition, but even more important – they
also mean freedom, hope and style for their crafty owners.
Even the car batteries are used as power generators in
order to get some light, watch TV and recharge mobiles!
Almost an alchemist’s dream come true! But the police
doesn’t always find these strange vehicles funny…
Language: English
Duration: 24 min
Subject Focus: Urban poor and their initiatives to better
their lives
Synopsis: Today, more than half the world’s population
lives in towns and cities — and billion urban residents are
poor. The film takes to the streets and goes ‘down and
out’ in some of the world’s most deprived city districts —
to find that the urban poor are very far from seeing
themselves as ‘down’ or ‘out’. Across the world, it’s clear
that poor people are far from helpless. Where
government’s are lacking, grassroots cooperatives are
finding solutions.
Director: Boris Mitic
Contact Details:
P: 011-26537456/26521882; F: 011-26512347
CMS ENVIS Centre
Contact Details:
P: 011-26134103, 26890380; F: 011-26130817
W: www.devalt.org
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English Title: The Desert’s Edge
English Title: The Prior Nation
Language: English
Duration: 60 min
Format: VHS
Original Title: The Prior Nation
Language: English
Format: DVD
Subject Focus: Desertification and its impact on nomads
Subject Focus: Indigenous peoples
Synopsis: In western Sudan, Egypt and Libya, the desert
is turning drier and lifestyles are changing because of
ongoing ‘development’. The film records the problems
faced by nomads due to the disappearance of whatever
little natural green that is available in the desert.
Environment (CSE)
Contact Details:
P: 011-29955124, 29956110, 29956394; F: 011-29955879
W: www.cseindia.org
English Title: The Fire Within
Original Title: Buru Sengal
Duration: 57 min
Format: Digital
Subject Focus: Impact of the exploitation of natural
resources on the Oraon tribe
Synopsis: The Fire Within draws a portrait of the
transformation of the land of the ‘Tana Bhagats’, a sect of
the Oraon tribe, who were believers of non-violence and
Gandhian philosophy, into a land which is enduring the
violent Naxalite movement today. The film also talks about
the corruption, mafia, energy politics, displacement and
issues of tribal identity in an area where coal mining has
been going on for more than 100 years.
Producer: Shriprakash
Commissioning Agency: Ramnika Foundation
Contact Details:
Shriprakash
C/o Ramnika Foundation, A-221, Defence Colony
New Delhi 110 024
and
KRITIKA, 30, Randhir Pd. Street, Upper Bazaar
Ranchi 834001, Jharkhand
P: 0651-2317461; M: 9835327661, 9811565551
W: www.misatoya.net
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Synopsis: This film deals with key issues concerning
indigenous people, whose existence is being threatened
by the dominant cultures. There are over 200 million
indigenous people all over the world. Tourism,
consumerism, big dams and evangelism have been used
against them in an effort to civilize them. They have been
displaced from their land, robbed of their forests and
exploited for money. But now the indigenous cultures are
fighting back.
Producers: Bruno Sorrentino/Robert Lamb & Zira Rizvi
Production Company: TVE & Jorden Radio and TV Corp.
Contact Details:
P: 011-26134103, 26890380; F: 011-26130817
W: www.devalt.org
English Title: The Village Republic
Language: English
Duration: 50 min
Format: VHS
Subject Focus: Community initiatives to manage environment
Synopsis: This film is about a few villages of India where
villagers have dared to take control of their own
environment. Through selected examples, the film
demonstrates how to face the challenge of meeting high
productivity needs sustainably.
Production Company: Centre for Science and Environment (CSE)
Contact Details:
P: 011-29955124, 29956110, 29956394; F: 011-29955879
W: www.cseindia.org
Livelihood
English Title: Treacling Down
English Title: Virus in the Antidote
Original Title: Treacling Down
Language: Sinhalese
Duration: 14 min
Original Title: Virus in the Antidote
Language: Virus in the Antidote
Duration: 42 min
Format: DV Format
Synopsis: The remote village “Meemure” surrounded by a
range of mountains is a place famous for the production of
jaggery. This village is rural setting still retains old cultural habits
mainly because of the poor facilities there. Meemure in certain
respects is self sufficient, but its excess production is sold
after, a tiresome journey from the village. Highly
commercialized town bags their cherished products for a mere
pittance and sold in luxury supermarkets at exorbitant prices.
This production attempts to generate a total feeling on
the Meemure villager using only a combination of the
rhythm of the nature and the economic shape and the
cultural angle and expression interwoven with nature. The
film shows the villagers tapping the “Kithul tree” to make
jaggery and the bees, wasps and butterflies collecting
nectar from flowers. The bee does a lot of works, an
outsider reaps the benefit. The bee gets no honey. The
bee and the Kithul taper suffer the same late.
Director: Upali Gamlath, Sri Lanka
Contact Details:
P: 011-26537456/26521882; F: 011-26512347
Synopsis: The Dokras are one of the tradionally nomadic
tribes who have been engaged in the craft of metal casting
for centuries. The dokra smiths have now settled down in
different parts of West Bengal, such as Dariapur, in the
district of Burdwan. This extremely poor craft community
of West Bengal are also most interesting and highly
creative. In the recent years, because of the pressures of
all embracing industrialization and changing social values,
they have been forced, by the loss their art is facing.
Greedy dealers in handicrafts take advantage of this
predicament.
Director: Sukriti Saha Kolkata/ National Institute of
Design, Ahmedabad
Contact Details:
National Institute of Design (NID)
Paldi, Ahmedabad 380007, Gujarat
P: 079-2662 3692; F: 079-2662 1167
E: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected],
[email protected]
W: www.nid.edu
English Title: Violence of the Blue Revolution
Language: English
Subject Focus: Shrimp farming and coastal ecology
Synopsis: This film documents the destruction caused to
the ecology, environment and livelihoods of Third World
fishermen and farmers by export-oriented aquaculture farms
— the impact of intensive shrimp farming on fragile coastal
ecology, people’s health and livelihoods. The film also
examines the peoples’ protests aimed at protecting India’s
coasts as well as the livelihoods of millions of fisherfolk and
farmers who depend on the rich coastal ecosystems.
Director: Navdanya
Contact Details:
Dr. Vandana Shiva
P: 011- 26968077, 26853772; F: 26856795
CMS ENVIS Centre
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Livelihood
English Title: (In)Visible City
English Title: 3..2..1..0..? Who Can Change Me?
Original Title: (In)Visible City
Language: Bengali
Duration: 48 min
Format: Mini DV
Original Title: 3..2..1..0..? Who Can Change Me?
Language: Tamil
Subject Focus: Urban encroachments; right to land and
livelihoods
Synopsis: This film is based on a true story of an old
rickshaw-puller in the city of Chennai. As the name of the
film suggests, the rickshaw-puller’s life has progressively
degenerated. With a decreasing demand for this ecofriendly mode of transport, the rickshaw-puller has become
unwanted and practically jobless. Can he survive in this
pathetic condition?
Synopsis: This is a documentary on the life and struggles
of 4,000 families of the Gobindopur Rail Colony, who have
been living for decades along a stretch of railway tracks
in south Kolkata. They are encroachers in the eyes of the
law. In 2002, an environmental group filed a petition in
the Kolkata High Court, claiming that these people were
polluting a lake called Robindra Sarovar. The Court
ordered their eviction, but these people have launched a
legal and political struggle to resist their eviction without
any alternative plan for rehabilitation.
Contact Details:
Pramod Gupta
P: 033-25778061, M: 9830411525
English Title: …and Nomads Took Root
Original Title: Aur Ghumantu Thahar Gaye
Language: Hindi
Subject Focus: Urban poverty and crisis of livelihoods
— the case of a rickshaw-puller
Director: Biju K. C.
Contact Details:
Father Biju K. C.
Pastoral Centre, 25, Rosary Church Road, Santhome,
Chennai, 600 004 Tamil Nadu
M: 9840120610
English Title: A Cooperative for Snake Catchers
Duration: 17 min
Format: VHS
Synopsis: The film demonstrates how the special skills
of the Itulas tribe can be used to meet modern needs and
also provide means of livelihood for them.
Subject Focus: Nomadic peoples of India
Synopsis: Ghumantu is the name given to wanderers and
nomads. Independent India denies theses nomads
citizenship rights — simply because their lifestyles have
never allowed them to belong to a place which they can
call their own. The film addresses the struggles of
culturally-rich nomads in this era of globalization and
industrialization. It brings to light the efforts of a lawyer,
Ratan Katyayni, towards settling these groups, and
questions the viability of the Habitual Offender Act, still in
force in many states.
Contact Details:
Vinay Rai & Meenakshi Rai
Leoarts Communication, A-103, LGF, Amar Colony,
Lajpat Nagar–IV, New Delhi 110 024
P: 011-26488898; F: 011-26216536
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Contact Details:
Technology (CAPART)
P: 011-24642391,24642393,24642395
F: 011-24648607, 24625822
Livelihood
English Title: A Life of Motion and Commotion
English Title: A New Deal
Language: English
Format: DV CAM
Subject Focus: Women’s empowerment
Subject Focus: Urban livelihoods — the case of auto
rickshaw drivers of Vadodara
Synopsis: This documentary film takes a closer look at
the lives of auto rickshaw drivers in the city of Vadodara.
It highlights the tedium of their daily toil, looks at the
obstacles, which the local road transport bureaucracy puts
in their way, and at the control exercised over them by
traffic police — and salutes the indomitable spirit of these
auto rickshaw drivers.
Director: Nimesh Desai
Contact Details:
P: 011-26537456/26521882; F: 011-26512347
English Title: A Magic Mystic Marketplace
Language: English
Contact Details:
Vasudha Joshi
Top Floor, 189 Sarat Bose Road, Kolkata 700029,
West Bengal
English Title: A Maritime Livelihood
Original Title: A Maritime Livelihood
Language: Koli, Marathi
Subject Focus: Fishermen
Synopsis: This is a film on a maritime fishermen’s
community in Mumbai.
Synopsis: Barbara Pyle travels to a rural Filipino village
to see innovative loan programmes that enable women
to overcome poverty and powerlessness. She meets a
young mother, Lala, who uses her loan to raise and sell
pigs. Earning her own income has given Lala new
confidence. Her husband now values her opinion on
everything from finances to family size.
Contact Details:
P: 011-26134103, 26890380; F: 011-26130817
W: www.devalt.org
English Title: A Page from the Red Data Book
Duration: 15 min
Format: DV
Subject Focus: Urban livelihoods — hand-pulled
rickshaws of Kolkata
Synopsis: The hand-pulled rickshaw, a heritage vehicle
of Kolkata, would be abolished soon from the city. The
documentary explores the emotions of one rickshawpuller, Rambahadur, and examines whether the ideological
principle behind the abolition — ‘man carrying man is
unacceptable’ — holds true for the people who do it
themselves. Is it a mere loss of occupation that
Rambahadur is afraid of, or will the ‘abolition’ have a much
greater psychological impact on his being? The Red Data
Book keeps an account of all the endangered species of
the world — the rickshaw-puller is on the brink of entering
its pages.
Director: Saurav Dey
Contact Details:
P: 011-26537456/26521882; F: 011-26512347
Director: Rosalyn Fiona D’Mello
Contact Details:
P: 011-26537456/26521882; F: 011-26512347
CMS ENVIS Centre
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English Title: A Question of Tomorrow
English Title: A Win-Win Solution
Language: English
Language: English
Duration: 15 min
Format: Mini DV
Subject Focus: The tribe of Brogpas in the Himalayas
Synopsis: This is a story of the vanishing tribe of Brogpas
of the Himalayas, whose members claim descent from
Alexander the Great’s army — its threatened lifestyle and
future prospects in the modern world.
Director: Mohi-ud-Din Mirza
Contact Details:
P: 011-24355941; F: 011-24353825
W: www.psbt.org
Subject Focus: Resettlement of people from protected
forests
Synopsis: Dozens of families marooned deep inside the
Bhadra Tiger Reserve and the Nagarahole National Park
have elected to move out of the parks and settle in land
provided to them by the government. This film documents
how government officers and NGOs such as Wildlife First
collaborated to ensure that the people opting for
resettlement got the best deal possible.
Production Company: Trust for Environmental Education
Commissioning Agency: Wildlife Conservation Society
English Title: A Season Outside
Original Title: A Season Outside
Language: English
Duration: 30 min
Subject Focus: Conflict, violence and non-violence
Synopsis: There is, perhaps, no border outpost in the
world quite like Wagah, where this film begins its
exploration about conflict, violence and non-violence. This
is an outpost where everyday, divided people are drawn
to a thin white line, a fait accompli bequeathed to them by
history. A Season Outside is a personal and philosophical
journey through the shadows of past generations,
conflicting positions, borders and time zones — a nomad
wandering through lines of separation, examining the
scars of violence and dreams of hope scattered among
nameless people, communities and nations.
Awards Received by the film: Golden Gate Award, 1999
— Golden Spire Trophy, 41st San Francisco International
Film Festival; Golden Conch, Best Film/Video, Mumbai
International Documentary Film Festival, 1998; Best
Programme, Script, Camera & Sound, All India CEC UGC
Film Festival, 1998
Producer: Amar Kanwar
Contact Details:
Amar Kanwar
P: 011-26516088; M: 9810216088; F: 011-26513556
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Contact Details:
Shekar Dattatri
Chennai 600041 Tamil Nadu
P: 044- 24415744, 2491 4802; M: 0 9841015997
F: 044-2491 0910, 2491 8747
Livelihood
English Title: A World of Her Own
English Title: Aamchi Kasauti
Original Title: A World of Her Own
Language: English
Duration: 29 min
Format: DVD/VCD
Language: Hindi, Marathi
Duration: 12 min
Format: DV
Subject Focus: Dust scavengers of Pune
Subject Focus: Women and their right to livelihoods
Synopsis: In India, 80 percent of rural women are
engaged in livelihoods based on natural resources. This
intense relationship throws up a whole range of issues
and questions. Does policy recognize it? Do we value the
knowledge systems which may have developed among
these women? How have women coped with coercion from
State in their accessing of natural resources? The film
tries to explore these questions through four focused
engagements: with fisherwomen of Karnataka, the Apatani
women of Arunachal Pradesh, and the adivasi and dalit
women of Orissa.
Commissioning Agency: UNDP, DFID and MOEF
Contact Details:
Krishnendu Bose
New Delhi 110 024
P: 011- 24334171, 24332005; M: 9811843111; F: 011- 24334068
Synopsis: Aamchi Kasauti or ‘Our Test’ is the story of the
dust scavengers of Pune, a rare breed of traders. They
scavenge dust from daybreak to dusk and take their harvest
at the end of the day to the gold traders, who mark it against
a kasauti or a testing stone to evaluate the harvest.
Director: Rrivu Laha, Film and Television Institute of India,
Pune
Production Company: Rrivu Laha
Contact Details:
Film and Television Institute of India
T: 020-25431817,25433016, 25430017
W: www.ftiindia.com
English Title: Aftershocks: The Rough Guide to
Democracy
Language: Gujarati, Kutchi, Hindi and English
Duration: 66 min
Subject Focus: Displacement
English Title: Aahad Sanskriti Sthal – Ojhiana
Language: English
Format: Betacam
Subject Focus: The Ojhian civilization/habitation
Synopsis: The Ojhian civilization is believed to have lasted
some 1,500 years. Excavations indicate that the people
lived in mud houses and used utensils of painted blackred mud in the early stages; in the second stage, they
built houses of stones — remains of a granary stand
testimony to the skills of these people.
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
CMS ENVIS Centre
Synopsis: A devastating earthquake strikes Gujarat; the toll
is 20,000 dead and over 100,000 homes destroyed. A
government-controlled mining company — the Gujarat Mineral
Development Corporation (GMDC) — sees the quake as a
God-sent opportunity to acquire two quake-hit villages to further
its mining operations. The film documents this process of
acquisition and displacement and its impact. It engages in
the ongoing debate of environment vs. development and
examines the fate of marginal citizens in a welfare state making
its transition into the new economy of the new millenium.
Awards Received by the Film: Le Prix Da Le Presse
Politique Award for Best Film, 16th Fribourg Film Festival,
Switzerland
Director: Rakesh Sharma
Contact Details:
Rakesh Sharma
Lighthouse, Sita Niwas, 12th Road, Khar, Mumbai 400052,
Maharashtra
P: 044-26485604; F: 26485604
W: www.rakeshfilm.com
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English Title: Aleesha
Original Title: Aleesha
Language: Konkani
Duration: 118 min
Format: 35 mm
Synopsis: Aleesha is an artist and photographer and an
ardent environmentalist. Married into the family of an
industrialist, she finds herself in a situation where her
beliefs are in contradiction to the business interests of
her family. The film shows how Aleesha achieves a
balance, overcoming all odds.
Director: Rajendra Talak
Producer: Rajendra Talak Creations
Contact Details:
Government of India
P: 022-23515422, 23513176, 23516931, 23513633
F: 022-23515308, 23511008
English Title: Ancient Futures: Learning from
Ladakh
Original Title: Ancient Futures: Learning from Ladakh
Language: English
Duration: 60 min
Subject Focus: Development; traditional resource
management
Synopsis: Perched in the Himalayas on the edge of the
Tibetan plateau, Ladakh has one of the harshest climates
on earth. For over 1,000 years, Ladakhis have managed
to survive and prosper by husbanding resources and by
protecting their land from overuse. But the Ladakh’s culture
and environment are being systematically eroded now in
the pursuit of Western-style progress. Shops are filled with
luxury goods but the water is contaminated by pesticides,
sanitation is almost non-existent, and squalid housing
colonies sprawl towards the desert from the overcrowded
capital Leh. What is happening in Ladakh, claims John
Page, is a microcosm of social and environmental
breakdown in the West. It challenges assumptions about
the nature and value of progress.
Director: John Page
Contact Details:
P: 011-29955124, 29956110, 29956394; F: 011-29955879
W: www.cseindia.org
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Livelihood
English Title: Aruvacode Diary
Language: English
Duration: 20 min
Format: 35 mm
Original Title: Aruvacode Diary
Language: English/Malayalam
Duration: 28 min
Format: Beta/Digital
Subject Focus: Bamboo flowering and its impacts
Synopsis: The film is a study on the relationship between
tribals in northeast and bamboo. The flowering of bamboo
which occurs once in a 40-120 year life span depending
on the species, is a time of devastation. The rodent
population multiplies uncontrollably (bamboo seeds are
presumably aphrodisiacs), devouring crops and leaving
the farmer bereft of a livelihood.
Contact Details:
Government of India
P: 022-23515422, 23513176, 23516931, 23513633
F: 022-23515308, 23511008
Subject Focus: Women and empowerment
Synopsis: This is a story of grit and determination of the
women of Aruvacode, a small village near Kozhikode in
Kerala. This erstwhile community of potters had struggled
hard to find a foothold in the modern world — and women
had suffered the most. Economic deprivation had forced
them to sell their bodies. These women have now
reorganized themselves into a co-operative, and are
making beautiful pottery and other clay items that have
found new markets in major cities in India. An earlier
attempt to document their condition had ended
disastrously: the co-operative was shut down, family
members refused to allow their women to continue work.
This film attempts to do things differently — without
jeopardizing the on-going process of rehabilitation.
Directors: Sanjay Maharishi and Anuradha Maharishi
English Title: Arrows Against the Wind
Language: English
Duration: 53 min
Format: DVD
Contact Details:
Sanjay Maharishi and Anuradha Maharishi
FA-338, Mansarover Garden, New Delhi 110 015
P: 011-25431627, 25534890; F: 011-25437230
[email protected]
Subject Focus: Indigenous peoples — Papua New
Guinea
Synopsis: Known as ‘The Amazon of Asia’, West Papua, a
part of the largest island in the Asia-Pacific region, is home to
some of the world’s most ancient cultures. In 1963, when the
Dutch colonists finally left, Indonesia seized control of the
territory, declared West Papua its 26th province, and launched
a controversial transmigration policy to move Indonesians into
West Papua. Outlawing cultural individualism, the Indonesian
government instead promotes the forced assimilation of
indigenous groups to make “one kind of mankind” and
ruthlessly suppresses any opposition. The result is that the
70,000 Asmat people who inhabit the world’s largest alluvial
swampland have had their territory confiscated by the state,
while the 200,000 strong Dani people face extinction as the
government presses ahead with road development.
Director: Tracey Groome
Producer: Tracey Groome
Production Company: Land Beyond Productions
Contact Details:
P: 011-26134103, 26890380; F: 011-26130817
W: www.devalt.org
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English Title: At the Distant Horizon
English Title: Ban on Ragpickers by MCD Delhi
Original Title: Door Digante
Language: Oriya
Duration: 2 hr
Format: 35 mm to VCD/Beta
Language: English
Duration: 30 min
Subject Focus: Environment vs development — in the
context of the fishing industry
Synopsis: The Municipal Corporation of Delhi has
imposed a ban on ragpicking. For lakhs of peole, their
only source of livelihood is threatened.
Synopsis: The film is about the conflict between
modernization and human existence, set in the backdrop
of traditional fishermen’s resistance to mechanized fishing.
The protagonist Manua, a young deaf and dumb
fisherman, fights against all odds as mechanized trawlers
throw him out of his traditional professional and force him
into the big, bad world of the city.
Director: Santanu Mishra
Producer: A. K. Rath
Production Company: Smruti Productions
Contact Details:
Santanu Mishra
Plot No. 656, Nayapali (near Mangala Temple), Behera Sahi
M: 9861013867, 9861013867, 9337112386
English Title: Backstage Boys
Language: English
Duration: 30 min
Format: Beta
Subject Focus: Migration — the case of Punjabi farmers
Synopsis: The film reflects the impact of globalization on
immigration from Punjab to the West. Marginal Punjabi
farmers, unable to survive on small land holdings, are
lured by the promise of plenty abroad. Despite the
increasingly tough immigration laws there and the inherent
risks involved in illegal international travel, there is a
constant stream of brave, adventurous and perhaps
foolhardy young man willing to take chances. The film
maps this journey, fraught as it is with danger, deportation
and even death.
Contact Details:
Meera Dewan
South View Productions, 73 Poorvi Marg, Vasant Vihar
New Delhi 110 057
P: 011-26144782; F: 011-26151908
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Subject Focus: Urban livelihoods — ragpickers of Delhi
Contact Details:
P: 011-26134103, 26890380; F: 011-26130817
W: www.devalt.org
English Title: Baphlimali 173
Language: English, Hindi and Oriya
Duration: 28 min
Format: VCD
Subject Focus: Resistance of Kashipur tribals against
bauxite mining and aluminum companies
Synopsis: This is a film about globalization and tribal
consciousness, a brief glimpse into an eight-year long
struggle that is pushing out powerful Indian and
international companies from the tribal lands in the Eastern
Ghats in Orissa.
Contact Details:
Amar Kanwar
P: 011-26516088; M: 9810216088; F: 011-26513556
Livelihood
English Title: Because of Our Rights
English Title: Beijing Shorts
Language: Hindi
Duration: 42 min
Original Title: Beijing Shorts
Language: English
Duration: 6 min
Subject Focus: Forest dependent communities and their
struggles
Synopsis: The film documents the struggle of the baan
rope workers of Utter Pradesh for their rights. Over the
years, these people have been denied the right of entry
and use of forests.
Environment (CSE)
Contact Details:
P: 011-29955124, 29956110, 29956394; F: 011-29955879
W: www.cseindia.org
Subject Focus: Women and their empowerment
Synopsis: In Andra Pradesh, rural women attending a
literacy class discovered they all suffered from their
husband’s addiction to arak, the local alcohol. So they
launched a campaign to ban it. In Guatemala, 45,000
women widowed as a result of decades of political violence
joined forces to campaign against human rights violations.
And in the Carribbean, a new movement using drama and
‘rap’ music has sprung up to combat widespread domestic
violence.These are just three of six inspirational stories in
this series made to mark the 1996 Beijing Conference on
Women. Filmed entirely on location by women directors,
they feature women from five different continents who are
fighting environmental neglect, discrimination, poverty,
illiteracy and violence — and learning to take control of
their own lives.
English Title: Behind the Glitter
Language: English
Duration: 45 min
Format:
Contact Details:
P: 011-29955124, 29956110, 29956394; F: 011-29955879
W: www.cseindia.org
Subject Focus: Mining and its impact on environment
and livelihoods
Synopsis: Narsipatnam was a non-descript small town
in Vizag district of Andhra Pradesh. In it were the
predominantly tribal villages of Karaka, Kasimi,
Donepalem and K. Yellavaram — remote, surviving by
selling their produce in the small market at Narsipatnam.
Alexandrite, the precious stone, was unearthed in Karaka
hill — and the entire region underwent a transformation.
With modernization has come its attendant malaise, such
as AIDS. Behind the Glitter tells the story of how in a bid
to gain control on the mining areas, mining syndicates
have played havoc with the lives of innocent villagers.
Director: Saraswati Kavula
Production Company: Key Lite Studio, Hyderabad
English Title: Bhuj 40
Original Title: Bhuj 40
Language: Hindi-Kutchhi
Subject Focus: Mining and its impact on livelihoods
Synopsis: In Kutch, Gujarat, mining is one of the biggest
industries — almost 2,000 truckloads of bauxite leave the
region every day. And most of these trucks are driven by
Debariya Rabaris, a sub-group of the Rabari nomadic
community, which resides in and around this region. Innercity Debars have left their traditional herding occupation for
other forms of work, the most common being truck driving.
Director: Dhanya Pilo
Contact Details:
P: 011-24355941; F: 011-24353825
W: www.psbt.org
CMS ENVIS Centre
Contact Details:
P: 011-26537456/26521882; F: 011-26512347
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English Title: Blowpipes and Bulldozers
English Title: Breathing Without Air
Language: English
Duration: 52 min
Format: DVD
Original Title: Breathing Without Air
Language: Oriya/English
Subject Focus: Indigenous peoples and their rights over
resources — the Penan tribe of Malaysia
Synopsis: The Penan tribe of Malaysia is among the few
remaining nomadic forest people left in Asia. Now their
way of life is threatened by the relentless encroachment
of logging companies, clear-felling the Sarawak forests
to provide hardwood for luxury goods in Japan and the
West. This Australian film tells the story of Bruno Manser,
a young Swiss shepherd and artist who went to live with
the Penan — and was forced to become an outlaw in the
forest as a result of his campaign to save the forest, and
the Penan people, from extinction.
Directors: Jeni Kendell & Paul Tait
Producers: Jeni Kendell & Paul Tait
Production Company: National Geographic Society
Channel Four
Contact Details:
P: 011-26134103, 26890380; F: 011-26130817
W: www.devalt.org
English Title: Brazil Roadshow
Original Title: Brazil Roadshow
Language: English
Duration: 26 min
Subject Focus: Environmental issues in Brazil
Synopsis: The Earth Report goes to Curitiba,
environmental city of the future; onto the set of ZaZa, the
latest soap opera; to the Amazonian floodplains to see
community action helping the fisheries regenerate; and
onto the football pitch where youngsters find an escape
from their shanty towns. In 1992, TVE visited a fisherman
and his family in Rio’s slums — the Earth Report also
returns to see how they are faring five years on.
Directors: Janet Boston, Marc De Beaufort
Contact Details:
P: 011-29955124, 29956110, 29956394; F: 011-29955879
W: www.cseindia.org
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Subject Focus: Indigenous communities — the
Mundapotas of Orissa
Synopsis: The Mundapotas, a nomadic group in south
Orissa, survive by collecting honey and capturing animals
like snakes, porcupines and rats etc., which menace
granaries. Another source of their livelihood is the rustic
roadshow called Mundapota, the most thrilling item of
which consists in a performer burying his head under the
ground to provide macabre entertainment. Breathing
Without Air is the tale of a father-son duo of this community.
The son buries his head, while the father accompanies
the show beating his drum. The film is a metaphor for the
soul-killing deprivation of the working children of India.
Director: Kapilas Bhuyan
Contact Details:
P: 011-26537456/26521882; F: 011-26512347
English Title: Bugyal (Pastures)
Original Title: Bugyal
Language: Hindi
Duration: 8 min
Format: Betacam
Subject Focus: Traditional systems of conservation in
the Himalayas — the bugyal grasslands of Uttaranchal
Synopsis: The lush green pastures of Uttaranchal, known
locally as bugyal, have been preserved and cared for by
local communities for years. These communities,
equipped with traditional knowledge about the importance
and fragility of the ecosystem, have developed ways and
means to conserve them.
Producer: Sandeep Bhatt
Contact Details:
Sandeep Bhatt
563A, Sector 3, R. K. Puram, New Delhi 110 022
P: 011-23782018
Livelihood
English Title: Burdened Existence
English Title: Centre for Science for Villages,
Wardha
Original Title: Burdened Existence
Duration: 8 min
Format: Betacam
Duration: 13 min
Format: VHS
Subject Focus: Life and struggles of the girl-child in
Garhwal
Subject Focus: The Centre for Science for Villages,
Gujarat
Synopsis: For a Garhwali girl, life is fraught with difficulty
and despair. She goes to school, but also has to trudge
three-five kilometres in the hills to collect fuelwood and
water.
Synopsis: The film surveys the wide spectrum of work
carried out at the Centre for Science for Villages — this
includes paper made from banana pulp, biogas
technologies, mud-brick making, earthenware pottery etc.
Contact Details:
Plan India
New Delhi 110 049
P: 011-26962605, 26968432-34; F: 011-26863417
English Title: Call of the Forest
Language: English
Duration: 25 min
Subject Focus: Women’s initiatives to save the
environment
Synopsis: This film documents the successful struggle
of the tribal women of Bastar — led by the middle-aged
Mitkbai — to save their traditional sal forests from the state
government’s commercial forestry programme.
Contact Details:
Technology (CAPART)
P: 011-24642391,24642393,24642395
F: 011-24648607, 24625822
Contact Details:
Technology (CAPART)
New Delhi 110 003
P: 011-24642391,24642393,24642395
F: 011-24648607, 24625822
English Title: Changing Destiny – Best Practices
Original Title: Changing Destiny – Best Practices
Language: English
Duration: 25 min
Format: Betacam SP
Subject Focus: Government initiatives in ecodevelopment, health and information management
Synopsis: In the film, case studies from different parts of
the country illustrate how the government’s initiatives and
people’s participation can bring about dramatic change
in the quality of life.
Director: Chandromouli Basu
Producers: Niret Alva and Nikhil J. Alva
Contact Details:
Miditech Pvt. Ltd.
P: 0124-2397001 – 10; F: 0124-2397011
W: www.miditech.org
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English Title: Changing Destiny – Best Practices II
English Title: Chhakda
Original Title: Changing Destiny – Best Practices II
Language: English
Duration: 25 min
Format: Betacam SP
Original Title: Chhakda
Language: Hindi, English and Gujarati
Duration: 25 min
Subject Focus: Access to resources
Subject Focus: The Chhakda, a local public transport
option
Synopsis: Access to land and water resources is vital for
improving the economic status of the poor and the
marginalized. Several Indian states have launched
innovative programmes in partnership with development
agencies to provide this access. The film highlights three
case studies: the Rajiv Gandhi Watershed Management
Mission in Jhabua, the waste management system in
Ludhiana, and Swajal Dhara, a programme, in which the
community takes care of its water needs near Dehradun.
Synopsis: The Chhakda is a source of livelihood for its
owner, the driver, the mechanic and even the police —
and an indispensable means of transport for the urban
commuter in the absence of anything more efficient. The
film suggests that completely banning the Chhakda, which
is illegal, is not the solution — instead, its potential should
be harnessed for the benefit of the common man.
Director: Tanusree Banerjee
Producer: Manira Alva
Contact Details:
P: 011-26537456/26521882; F: 011-26512347
Contact Details:
Miditech Pvt. Ltd.
P: 0124-2397001 – 10; F: 0124-2397011
W: www.miditech.org
English Title: Changing Winds
Language: English
Duration: 2 hr 30 sec
Format: 16 mm
Subject Focus: The Aravallis
Synopsis: The film highlights the barren, dry and desolate
environs of the Aravalli ranges, the result of excessive
denudation by man and beast. It also shows how new
agricultural practices and improved water management
are making this landscape greener.
Technology (CIET)
Contact Details:
P: 011-26864801, 26864802, 26864803; F: 011-26864141
W: www.ciet.nic.in
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Livelihood
English Title: Climb Every Mountain
English Title: Co-Existence
Date/Month/Year of Production: March-August 2001
Language: English
Original Title: Co-Existence
Language: English
Format: DV
Subject Focus: Women’s empowerment — activities of
PEDO in Bicchiwara, Rajasthan
Synopsis: Dungarpur district in south Rajasthan is a hilly
region where more than 80% of the population comprises
of Bhil tribals. Environmental degradation has compelled
the tribals — who used to depend on forests — to turn to
agriculture and animal husbandry for survival. The area
is drought-prone, and these conditions made the tribals
fair game for moneylenders; women suffered the most.
But now the efforts of the People’s Educational and
Developmental Organization (PEDO) has brought about
seeds of change, beginning with Bicchiwara block, one of
the five administrative blocks in the district. Some of the
major developmental activities initiated by PEDO here
have been the eradication of guineaworm, installation of
the hand-pumps, schools for tribal children, soil
conservation work and the women’s programme, a
highlight of which is the Women’s Savings Groups. This
programme is aimed at developing the land resources to
fulfill community needs for fuel, fodder and timber and to
make the villagers aware of their rights.
Directors: Shivendra Singh & Karan Bali
Producer: Shivendra Singh
Contact Details:
Shivendra Singh/Karan Bali
Dungarpur Films, A-5, Ananta Apts., Dr. Rajabali Patel Road,
Breach Candy, Mumbai 400 026
P: 022-235 19715/ 2352 0519
Synopsis: The film talks about how killing a tree can
threaten our own extinction.
Directors: Shravan Hegde & Prathamesh Desai
Producer: Swati Chandgadkar
Contact Details:
Shravan Hegde
5/157, Bhagyalaxmi, Sir Bhalchandra Road, Dadar
Mumbai 400 014
P: 022-24143500; M: 09869086908
English Title: Colours of the Earth
Original Title: Colours of the Earth
Language: English
Duration: 28 min
Format: Mini DV
Subject Focus: Empowerment of dalit women — Medak
Synopsis: The film travels to villages of dalit women in
Medak, Andhra Pradesh, where these women are in
control of their own lives with the help of a local NGO,
Deccan Development Society. Their Alternative Public
Distribution System is ensuring access to subsidized
foodgrains at village-level grain banks. Completely
decentralized, this system is managed entirely by women.
Commissioning Agency: Winrock International India
Contact Details:
Krishnendu Bose
New Delhi 110 024
P: 011- 24334171, 24332005; M: 9811843111
F: 011- 24334068
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English Title: Common Property Resources
Original Title: Common Property Resources
Format: Betacam
Duration: 30 min
Subject Focus: Common property resources
Synopsis: The film examines the life of adivasis displaced
by a tiger sanctuary in Kanha, Madhya Pradesh, and
explores a more holistic approach to conservation, where
people are a part of the environment.
Synopsis: Dr. Vijay Paranjpye and Dr. Rajendra Jagdale
discuss common property resources in this film, and
whether village communities are getting marginalised in
today’s world.
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
Subject Focus: Displacement — people-animal
coexistence
Contact Details:
Krishnendu Bose
New Delhi 110 024
P: 011- 24334171, 24332005; M: 9811843111
F: 011- 24334068
English Title: Coping to Survive
English Title: Dance with Hands Held Tight
Original Title: Coping to Survive
Language: English
Duration: 20 min
Format: Betacam
Original Title: Dance with Hands Held Tight
Language: Local Indian languages (with English subtitles)
Duration: 62 min
Format: DV CAM
Subject Focus: Responses of women and communities
to environment protection
Synopsis: This film looks at micro-level coping strategies
used by women to counter degrading of the environment
in Meghalaya.
Contact Details:
Krishnendu Bose
New Delhi 110 024
P: 011- 24334171, 24332005; M: 9811843111
F: 011- 24334068
Subject Focus: Women and the politics of their natural
resouce-based livelihoods
Synopsis: Eighty-six per cent of rural women are engaged
in agriculture. In 92 per cent of rural households, energy
needs are met by firewood. The landless and the poor —
mostly women among them — procure 90 per cent of this
firewood from the forest commons. The sea supports
livelihoods of 400,000 women just along the short 300 km
coast of Karnataka. This intense relationship of women and
natural resources across the country throws up a whole
range of issues and questions. Does policy recognize this
intensity? Do we at all value the knowledge systems which
may have developed among these women? How have
women coped with coercion from State in their accessing
of natural resources? The film tries to find answers.
Producer: Earthcare Films
Contact Details:
Krishnendu Bose
New Delhi 110 024
P: 011- 24334171, 24332005; M: 9811843111
F: 011- 24334068
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Livelihood
English Title: Dawn to Dusk Further… A Story of
Horse-cart Pullers
Language: English
Duration: 13 min
Format: DV
Subject Focus: Horse-cart pullers of Delhi
Synopsis: This film, produced by students, is about the
dying profession of Tangawalas on the roads of Delhi.
Director: Anshul A. Ojha
Contact Details:
P: 011-26537456/26521882; F: 011-26512347
English Title: Delta Force
Original Title: Delta Force
Language: English
Duration: 52 min
English Title: Desounen: Dialogue with Death
Duration: 50 min
Format: DVD
Subject Focus: Environmental crisis and turmoil in Haiti
Synopsis: Years of economic and political chaos in Haiti,
the Caribbean’s poorest country, have led to environmental
devastation, crushing poverty and mass exodus of Haitians
trying to reach United States. The documentary takes the
form of journey through Haiti. Guiding the viewer along
the way is the narrator — a fictional, wise old countryman
who draws on his ancestral knowledge of life and death
to provide a running commentary on the plight of the
Haitians he encounters on his travels.
Director: Raoul Peck
Production Company: KS Vision for TVE/BBC for the
One World Group of Broadcasters
Contact Details:
P: 011-26134103, 26890380; F: 011-26130817
W: www.devalt.org
English Title: Development at Gun Point
Subject Focus: The struggle of the Ogoni in Nigeria
Synopsis: Made before the judicial murder of the Nigerian
writer and human rights activist Ken Saro-Wiwa in November
1995, Delta Force tells the story of the non-violent efforts of
the Ogoni people to halt 30 years of environmental damage,
suffering and inequality on the Niger delta. The Ogoni have
been paying a terrible price for their opposition to the Nigerian
military regime and to the policies of the petrochemical giant
Shell. This film opens with the arrest of Saro-Wiwa and the
subsequent implementation of ‘Operation Restore’ in
Ogoniland — the military’s campaign of terror against the
Ogoni to suppress their environmental movement.
Contact Details:
P: 011-29955124, 29956110, 29956394; F: 011-29955879
W: www.cseindia.org
Original Title: Development at Gun Point
Duration: 36 min
Format: DV
Subject Focus: Bauxite mining in Orissa — its impacts
and people’s protests
Synopsis: India has opened up its mining sector to global
capital. Investments are flowing in, but pollution,
deforestation and displacement have been the results. In
this context, this documentary talks about the social and
environmental impacts of bauxite mining in Kashipur,
Orissa, and the struggle of the adivasis against it.
Producer: K. P. Sasi
Production Company: K. P. Sasi
Contact Details:
K. P. Sasi
103, May Flower Laxmi Apartment, 63, Sulthan Palya Main
Road, R T Nagar, Bangalore 560 032, Karnataka
P: 080-26553117, 23650916; M: 09945282056
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English Title: Development Flows from the Barrel
of the Gun
English Title: Doodhatoli
Original Title: Vikas Bandook ki Naal se
Duration: 54 min
Original Title: Doodhatoli
Language: Hindi
Format: Betacam
Subject Focus: State-sponsored violence on people
affected by development projects
Subject Focus: Womens’ empowerment through
environmental regenaration and sustainable development
Synopsis: This is a film on human right violations
committed on indigenous people in India. It documents
the violence the State perpetrates on people affected by
development projects, and calls for a more sustainable
development that is “not at the cost of people”.
Synopsis: Doodhatoli is the story of the village women of
Pauri Garwhal, who over the years have organized
themselves to protect local forests. The remarkable thing
about this effort is that the movement is entirely led and
managed by local — mostly illiterate — women. They are
primarily guided by their own experiences and traditional
wisdom about local resources and environment.
Awards Received by the Film: ‘Star Award’, CMS
VATAVARAN 2005 in Forest for Life category
Directors: Biju Toppo/Meghnath
Producer: Meghnath (Akhra)
Production Company: Akhra
Contact Details:
AKHRA
P: 0651-2231693
English Title: Discovery of God
Original Title: Discovery of God
Language: English
Duration: 28 min
Format: Betacam
Synopsis: This film makes an attempt to attract the
attention of people towards conservation through
mythology: by trying to prove the oneness of Nature and
God, as propounded in global mythology.
Producer: Jagdish Vasant Kulkarni
Commissioning Agency: Yashwantrao Chavan
Maharashtra Open University
Contact Details:
Yashwantrao Chavan Maharashtra Open University (YCMOU)
Dhyan Gangotri, Gangapur Road, Nasik 422 222, Maharashtra
P: 0253-2231481/2231714/15; F: 0253 2231716
W: www.ycmou.com
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Producer: K. Bikram Singh
Contact Details:
Technology (CAPART)
P: 011-24642391,24642393,24642395
F: 011-24648607, 24625822
English Title: Down the Drain
Original Title: Down the Drain
Language: Tamil, English
Subject Focus: Sanitary workers of Chennai
Synopsis: This is a film on manual sanitary workers of
Chennai.
Director: Gayathri N.
Contact Details:
P: 011-26537456/26521882; F: 011-26512347
Livelihood
English Title: Down to Earth
Duration: 26 min
Format: VHS
Subject Focus: Mud as a viable construction material
Synopsis: The work of an NGO, Development Alternatives
(DA), offers mud as a practical solution for housing
problems. The film shows a mud-based building under
construction and the various methods devised to
overcome any necessity of concrete.
Production Company: CENDIT
Contact Details:
Technology (CAPART)
P: 011-24642391,24642393,24642395
F: 011-24648607, 24625822
English Title: Drops of Hope
English Title: Earth Report V (Hands On):
On the Move
Original Title: Earth Report V (Hands On): On the Move
Language: English
Duration: 27 min
Subject Focus: Transportation — green alternatives
Synopsis: As world populations grow, so does pressure
on local transport. This Hands On looks at a variety of
solutions to the transport problem. It investigates
hydrogen-powered vehicles in Germany, rent-a-bike
schemes in the Netherlands and electric car hire
alternatives in France. We visit rural road-building projects
in Mozambique where local communities are redeveloping
transport links destroyed during the civil war. Finally, the
camera comes to Nepal where there has been an boom
in the electric tempo market.
Contact Details:
P: 011-29955124, 29956110, 29956394; F: 011-29955879
W: www.cseindia.org
Original Title: Boond
Contact Details:
Nila Madhab Panda
Filmmaker, 12,Uday Park, 2nd floor, Khelgaon Marg
New Delhi 110049
P: 011-5164 5940/ 3991, 011-26520491, M: 9811320557
CMS ENVIS Centre
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English Title: Earth Report VI: Uphill Struggle —
Where Families and Mountains Meet
Original Title: Earth Report VI: Uphill Struggle — Where
Families and Mountains Meet
Language: English
Duration: 27 min
Subject Focus: Environmental issues and livelihoods in
Kyrgistan and Tajikistan
Synopsis: Eking a living on the slopes is never easy at
the best of times. For the people of the former Soviet
republics of Kyrgistan and Tajikistan, economic collapse
meant that food and fuel subsidies have gone. One result
has been the stripping bare of the once thickly forested
hillsides for fuel. An intimate portrait of three families
documents their hardships. But aid from the Aga Khan’s
foundation is getting through in the form of soil conserving
farming methods and rural hydro schemes.
Contact Details:
P: 011-29955124, 29956110, 29956394; F: 011-29955879
W: www.cseindia.org
English Title: Exodus
Language: English
Duration: 50 min
Format: DVD
Subject Focus: Global refugee policy
Synopsis: In April 1994, 250,000 people fleeing Rwanda’s
bloody war set up camp across the border in Tanzania.
Almost overnight, Bamako refugee camp had effectively
become Tanzania’s second largest city. With 50,000 families
requiring fuelwood and drinking water, this ‘city’ soon began
to have a devastating effect on the surrounding forests and
local water supply. Facing a catastrophe, representatives
of the aid charity CARA ordered an environmental impact
assessment to find ways to reduce the destruction and
establish a blueprint for future refugee policy.
Producer: Mick Rhodes
Production Company: TV 6 for the BBC/TVE
Contact Details:
P: 011-26134103, 26890380; F: 011-26130817
W: www.devalt.org
English Title: Expressway
Language: English, Hindi and Marathi (with English
subtitles)
Duration: 10 min
Format: Mini DV
Subject Focus: The Mumbai-Pune Express Highway
Synopsis: The Mumbai-Pune Expressway is touted as
one of the major achievements in the development chart
of Maharashtra. But the story which villagers, ecologists,
doctors and economists narrate, is quite different. The
film, an exploration of the fallouts of the Expressway,
questions the politics of development.
Producer: Mr. Tripurari Sharan, Director, Film and
Television Institute of India (FTII)
Production Company: Film and Television Institute of
India (FTII)
Contact Details:
Film and Television Institute of India, (FTII)
T: 020-020-25457037, 25431817, 25433016, 25430017
M: 09422351508
W: www.ftiindia.com
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Livelihood
English Title: Fight for Survival
English Title: Fish Tales
Language: Gujarati-Hindi
Duration: 20 min
Format: Mini DV
Language: English
Duration: 30 min
Subject Focus: Traditional fishing industry of Kerala
Subject Focus: Livelihoods — the case of the Madaris
of Gujarat
Synopsis: Gujarat has approximately three lakh members
of the nomadic Madari community. The Madaris’ are
traditional snake catchers and charmers. They follow their
own Panchayat system, which lays down strict rules about
catching, keeping, performing with and releasing snakes
back into the jungle. Now, the Animal Cruelty Act and other
laws have outlawed the Madaris’ traditional profession and
placed their survival at stake.
Director: Dakxin Nandlal Bajarange
Production Company: Dakxin Nandlal Bajarange
Contact Details:
P: 011-26537456/26521882; F: 011-26512347
English Title: First Harvest/Changing Valleys
Synopsis: This film explores developmental and
environmental issues by focusing on traditional fishery in
Kerala. Thirty years of top-down development policies have
failed to address the needs of fisherfolk and their special
relationship with the sea. Today, fishing communities are faced
with the crisis of declining fish stocks. Fish Tales is cautionary
— it underlines the need to initiate development policies that
are sustainable and beneficial to the communities involved.
Directors: Ritu Sarin and Tenzing Sonam
Contact Details:
The Foundation for Universal Responsibility,
Of His Holiness The Dalai Lama, UGF, Core 4 A
India Habitat Centre, Lodhi Road, New Delhi 110 003
T: 011-24648450; F: 011-24648451
W: www.furhhdl.org
English Title: Fish Wars
Language: English
Duration: 58 min
Format: DVD
Language: English
Duration: 46 min
Format: DVD
Subject Focus: Rejuvenating rural economy
Subject Focus: Commercial fishing
Synopsis: In north Pakistan, the inhospitable mountain
terrain has kept local villages isolated for centuries. To feed
their growing populations, villagers have cut down the trees
and overgrazed the land. First Harvest looks at the
remarkable success of a scheme initiated by the Agha Khan
Rural Support Programme which is helping local village
organizations in over 800 villages in the region. Farmers
meet to formulate common policies, build roads and
irrigation channels, and start a programme of tree-planting,
while women gain confidence and status as they learn how
to process and market fruit and vegetables. The film shows
how village organizations can become the driving force not
just for economic but also for social change.
Synopsis: This film presents an examination of the impact
of commercial fishing operations in British Columbia.
Contact Details:
P: 011-26134103, 26890380; F: 011-26130817
W: www.devalt.org
Directors: Nicholas Kendall & Jack Silberman
Producer: David Yager
Production Company: Northern Lights Media Corp. &
The Agha Khan Foundation
Contact Details:
P: 011-26134103, 26890380; F: 011-26130817
W: www.devalt.org
CMS ENVIS Centre
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English Title: Fishing in the Sea of Greed
English Title: Freedom
Language: Marathi, Hindi, Tamil and English
Duration: 47 min
Original Title: Freedom
Language: Multiple Indian languages (with English
subtitles)
Duration: 58 min
Format: Digital
Subject Focus: The fishing industry and fishing rights
Synopsis: This is a film on fishermens’ fight against large
foreign factory ships that are depleting the seas, and
shrimp aquaculture that is destroying coastal lands. Led
by the National Fishworkers Forum (NFF), fishermen
across India are uniting to fight these twin problems. But
the crisis in the fisheries is worldwide and so must be the
fight of the fishermen.
Director: Anand Patwardhan
Contact Details:
Anand Patwardhan
P: 022-24143782; F: 022-24142946
English Title: Five Realities of the Future
Language: English
Duration: 42 min
Format: DVD
Subject Focus: Community initiatives for control over
resources
Synopsis: The five vignettes that make up Damien Rea’s
film together demonstrate the power of community action
in helping people take control of their own lives. In Costa
Rica, the Bribri people have fought a successful battle to
win back the ancestral lands wrested from them by Spanish
settlers. On the Japanese island of Ishigaki, the villagers
of Shiraho staged a campaign to stop the government
building an airport which would destroy their priceless coral
reef. In India, the villagers of Dhanawas have built their
own gas generators to provide cheap energy. And in
Hungary, a local group on the outskirts of Budapest has
set up a community scheme to monitor and cleanup the
heavy metal contamination of the soil that is the legacy of
40 years of unregulated industrial development.
Producer: Damien Rea
Contact Details:
P: 011-26134103, 26890380; F: 011-26130817
W: www.devalt.org
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Subject Focus: Local communities’ control over natural
resources
Synopsis: This is a documentary film about protection and
conservation of natural resources, and about communities
resisting an onslaught on their livelihoods. In a journey that
traverses several states in India, the film documents attempts
by local people to protect and control their natural resources.
Producer: A K Productions
Contact Details:
Amar Kanwar
P: 011-26516088, 26534712; M: 9810216088
F: 011-26513556
English Title: Gadia Lohar: A Life and Livelihood
in Question?
Language: English
Duration: 24 min
Format: Mini DV
Subject Focus: Gadia lohars of Rajasthan
Synopsis: This film is an effort to understand the reasons
behind the failures of government initiatives in providing
better life and livelihood to Gadia lohars, a nomadic
community of Rajasthan. The film clearly brings out that
understanding the culture context is vital before formulating
policies for any segment of the society.
Contact Details:
Leoarts Communication
A-103, LGF, Amar Colony, Lajpat Nagar–IV
New Delhi 110 024
P: 26488898; F: 26216536
Livelihood
English Title: Galleria Sepultura
English Title: Gene Hunters
Original Title: Galleria Sepultura
Language: English
Duration: 35 min
Format: Digital
Language: English
Duration: 54 min
Format: DVD
Subject Focus: Rights of indigenous peoples
Subject Focus: The tribal spirit and its imminent death at
the hands of society
Synopsis: The indigenous people depicted in this film
are from the forests of Kerala, the hills of Nagaland,
Myanmar and the river islands of Assam. Though
seemingly diverse, they share the fate of enforced
disassociation from their traditional legacy of water and
spirit. In doing so, our larger society is shown to
metaphorically assume the role of a modern cannibal, the
worst hunter — one that feeds upon its own.
Producer: Switchblade & Silverspoon
Synopsis: Could DNA from the blood of indigenous people
hold the secret of new drugs to treat ravaging human
diseases like AIDS or motor neurone disease? Genetic
scientists working on the worldwide Human Genome
Biodiversity Project believe it’s possible, and in the remote
rainforests of northern Colombia they’re collecting blood
from the Ahuaco and Asario Indians to get the DNA for
their labs. They aim to gather the genetic blueprint of 700
pure-blooded tribal people before they become extinct or
lose their unique genetic make-up through intermarriage.
But, as the film underlines, there is a dilemma. New drugs
can earn massive profits and, community leaders ask,
who will benefit?
Contact Details:
Switchblade & Silverspoon,
A-11 B, 2nd Floor, Sanwal Nagar, New Delhi 110 049
M: 9811122060
Director: Ian Taylor
Producer: Luke Holland
Production Company: ZEF Productions, TVE for channel 4
English Title: Gavari-Samajik Prasthabhoomi
Contact Details:
P: 011-26134103, 26890380; F: 011-26130817
W: www.devalt.org
Original Title: Gavari-Samajik Prasthabhoomi
Language: Hindi
Format: Betacam
Subject Focus: Tribal folk theatre of Rajasthan
Synopsis: The film celebrates the form of tribal folk theatre
of south Rajasthan which conveys a message of keeping
the environment healthy.
Contact Details:
P: 0291-2513734; F: 0291-2513733
CMS ENVIS Centre
English Title: Guardians of the Forest
Language: English
Duration: 18 min
Format: Digital
Director: Ahmad Azeem
Contact Details:
P: 011-26537456/26521882; F: 011-26512347
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English Title: Hands On — Out of Asia
English Title: Hands On: Do it Herself
Language: English
Duration: 26 min
Original Title: Hands On: Do it Herself
Language: English
Duration: 25 min
Subject Focus: Credit initiatives to empower people
Synopsis: The movie recounts stories of how credit
initiatives can boost more than just incomes, and how
innovative fishing methods combined with new practices
can improve people’s livelihoods and safeguard the
environment. In Maharashtra, a group of women
entrepreneurs are benefiting from a new credit scheme,
which has helped them out of poverty and introduced them
to the thriving business world. Meanwhile, in Thailand,
fishing communities are working to restore depleted fish
stocks by replanting mangrove and sea grass beds to act
as spawning grounds, and by phasing out the destructive
push nets.
Contact Details:
P: 011-26134103, 26890380; F: 011-26130817
W: www.devalt.org
English Title: Hands On: Cash – No Question
Language: English
Duration: 26 min
Subject Focus: Innovative micro-credit schemes
Synopsis: Banking with a difference: this is what this
movie is all about, with stories on innovative micro-credit
schemes that are putting profits from green enterprise
back into the community.
Contact Details:
P: 011-26134103, 26890380; F: 011-26130817
W: www.devalt.org
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Subject Focus: Women entrepreneurs using alternate
technologies
Synopsis: This is a part of a worldwide series of 52 fiveminute programmes featuring the use of appropriate
technologies. Introduced by Annie Lennox, Do it Herself
features five stories looking specifically at the solutions
which women are using to tackle environmental problems,
set up sustainable enterprises and adapt to a changing
world.
Contact Details:
P: 011-29955124, 29956110, 29956394; F: 011-29955879
W: www.cseindia.org
Livelihood
English Title: Highway to the Hidden Valleys
Original Title: Hell in the Pacific
Language: English
Duration: 55 min
Language: English
Duration: 52 min
Format: DVD
Subject Focus: Environmental conflicts in Papua New
Guinea
Synopsis: When China and Pakistan cemented their
strategic alliance in the early 1970s by building the
Karakorum highway, centuries of isolation in the valleys
of northern Pakistan came to an end. Ruled for decades
by the Mirs, or feudal princes, the people had survived by
a precarious agricultural system which began to
disintegrate after 1972. The Aga Khan Rural Support
Programme has now helped set up over 2,000 village
organizations to oversee new projects from irrigation to
food preservation. But, as the film makes clear, progress
has also brought tensions. The road is exacting demands
from the people of Gilgit, Hunza and Narag as surely as
their feudal lords once did, remorselessly changing
patterns of life established over centuries.
tropical forests and mineral resources. Hell in the Pacific
investigates three separate conflicts between local Papuan
Bougainville has been a focus of seething resentment
Contact Details:
P: 011-29955124, 29956110, 29956394; F: 011-29955879
W: www.cseindia.org
CMS ENVIS Centre
Subject Focus: Development and its impacts
Director: Paul Cleary
Producer: Paul Cleary
Production Company: Farthest North Productions, TVE
Contact Details:
P: 011-26134103, 26890380; F: 011-26130817
W: www.devalt.org
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English Title: Honey Hunters of the Blue Mountains
English Title: I AM
Language: English
Duration: 33 min
Language: English
Subject Focus: Youth
Subject Focus: Kurumba tribals of the Nilgiri Biosphere
Reserve
Synopsis: One of the last havens of untouched forest
land – the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve in south India — is
home to the hunter-gatherer Kurumba tribals. These tribals
scale precipitous cliffs using ladders made from vines, to
collect honey. This film is the first to document their
extraordinary livelihood.
Awards Received by the Film: Second prize, Earth
Vision, Santacruz, USA
Director: Mike H. Pandy
Contact Details:
P: 011- 5163 2890, 2641 0684; F: 011- 26216508
English Title: Humanitas — The Disappeared,
Refugees and the Prior Nations
Original Title: Humanitas — The Disappeared, Refugees
and the Prior Nations
Language: English
Duration: 75 min
Synopsis: This is a look at the lives of some young people
from different backgrounds – the privileged, the not-so
privileged, and the tribal artisan — as they explore their
roles, identities and their own sense of self.
Director: Puneeta Roy
Contact Details:
P: 011-24355941; F: 011-24353825
W: www.psbt.org
English Title: I, Fisherman
Original Title: Mee Koli
Language: Hindi and Marathi (with English subtitles)
Format: Betacam SP
Subject Focus: Indigenous fishing community’s efforts
to preserve its traditional livelihood
Subject Focus: Global humanitarian issues — Refugees
and indigenous peoples
Synopsis: This is a story of an indigenous fishing
community: the Kolis, the original inhabitants of Mumbai,
and today, a community pushed to the fringes of India’s
commercial capital. From here, they wage their brave war
to protect the resources of the sea and their livelihood.
Fierce environmentalists, they are the conscience of a
city hell bent on shortsighted urbanization.
Synopsis: The film is in three instalments, covering global
humanitarian issues: how indigenous communities are
finding a new pride in their culture, how ‘disappearance’
is used as a technique of terror and repression, and the
plight of 13 million refugees all over the world.
Director: Miriam Chandy Menacherry
Producer: PSBT and Prasar Bharati Corporation
Production Company: Filament Pictures Pvt. Ltd.
Trust (PSBT)
Contact Details:
Miriam Chandy Menacherry, Filament Pictures Pvt. Ltd.
6/5 Hillside D, Raheja Vihar, Powai, Mumbai 400 072
P: 022-28576119, M: 9892644163
Contact Details:
P: 011-29955124, 29956110, 29956394; F: 011-29955879
W: www.cseindia.org
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Livelihood
English Title: Images of Development
English Title: In the Forest Hangs a Bridge
Original Title: Images of Development
Language: Bengali (with English subtitles)
Duration: 25 min
Format: Mini DV
Original Title: In the Forest Hangs a Bridge
Language: English
Duration: 39 min
Original Format: 16 mm (available in Digibeta/Betacam/
DVD/VCD)
Subject Focus: Urban poor and their displacement
Subject Focus: The Adi tribals of Arunachal Pradesh
Synopsis: The film examines the process of urban
planning and development and what it means to the poor,
powerless and marginalized sections of a metropolitan
city like Kolkata. Through its portrayal of the eviction of
slum dwellers on 10 December (ironically, the World
Human Rights Day), the film shows how the process of
urban environment planning and development works by
excluding the poor and marginalized.
Synopsis: The film is about the building of a 1,000-feet
suspension bridge by the people of an Adi village, an
evocation of the tribal community that makes it possible,
and a reflection on the strengths — and fragility — of the
idea of community. Located deep in the forested hills of
Siang Valley of Arunachal Pradesh, these elegant
structures of cane and bamboo are the distinctive mark
of the Adi tribe. Sometimes as long as 1,500 feet, these
bridges have traditionally been built by the community
members. Their only tool is the dao, a machete.
Contact Details:
Pramod Gupta
P: 033-25778061; M: 9830411525
English Title: In Search of Greener Pastures
Duration: 35 min
Awards Received by the Film: Swarna Kamal (Golden
Lotus) for Best Documentary Film, 1999 National Film
Awards; Asian Gaze Award, Pusan Short Film Festival, Korea
Producer: Sanjay Kak
Production Company: Octave Communications Pvt Ltd
Contact Details:
Sanjay Kak
Octave Communications, C4/4048, Vasant Kunj
New Delhi 110 070
P: 011-26893893; M: 9820139960; F: 011-26123828
Subject Focus: Gaddis of Himachal Pradesh
Synopsis: The film covers the lifestyle and struggles of
the nomadic Gaddis of Himachal Pradesh.
Producer: Praveen Kumar
Production Company: M/s Andaaz Communications
Contact Details:
The Secretary
New Delhi - 110 003
P: 91-11-2436 1896, 2436 0721
CMS ENVIS Centre
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English Title: Islands of Individuality
English Title: Jagriti
Language: English
Duration: 30 min
Language: Hindi
Duration: 30 min
Subject Focus: Man-nature coexistence — the case of
the Nicobar Islands
Subject Focus: Women and environment conservation
Synopsis: This is a film on the unique success story of
Nicobar Islands. In addition to the protection of aboriginal
tribes by restricting entry of non-tribals into the Nicobars,
the tribal ethos of respect for nature and coexistence with
flora and fauna has created a life in harmony with the sea
and forests for the Nicobaris.
Producer: Mrs. Ranjana Kaul
Production Company: M/s Leburnum Communications
Contact Details:
The Secretary
New Delhi - 110 003
P: 91-11-2436 1896, 2436 0721
English Title: It can be Done
Duration: 20 min
Subject Focus: Tribal rehabilitation
Synopsis: The tribal rehabilitation programme conducted
by the Banvasi Seva Ashram forms the main content of
this film. In this programme, indigenous irrigation systems
were used to rejuvenate drought-prone areas.
Contact Details:
P: 011-26864801, 26864802, 26864803; F: 011-26864141
W: www.ciet.nic.in
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Synopsis: This docu-drama shows how women can
contribute to environment conservation in rural areas.
Producer: M/s Vibhor Video Vision
Contact Details:
The Secretary
New Delhi - 110 003
P: 91-11-2436 1896, 2436 0721
English Title: Jardhar Diary
Original Title: Jardhar Diary
Language: English
Duration: 29 min
Format: Mini DV
Subject Focus: Community control over natural resources
Synopsis: The film is about a village called Jardhar tucked
away in the hills of the Garhwal Himalayas. The villagers
have revived their forests, are fighting limestone mining
on their hill slopes, staving off power lines which will
decimate their pine and sal cover, and reclaiming
traditional seeds and putting them back into circulation.
Producer: Krishendu Bose
Commissioning Agency: Winrock International, India
Contact Details:
Krishnendu Bose
New Delhi 110 024
P: 011- 24334171, 24332005; M: 9811843111
F: 011- 24334068
Livelihood
English Title: Jeevika — Struggle for Existence
Original Title: Jeevika — Struggle for Existence
Language: Hindi
Original Title: Jungle Pharmacy
Language: English
Duration: 52 min
Subject Focus: Livelihood problems — Palamau
Synopsis: This documentary is about the livelihood
struggles of the people of Palamu district in Jharkhand.
Subject Focus: Traditional medicine
Contact Details:
P: 011-26537456/26521882; F: 011-26512347
Synopsis: This film explores the commercial potential of
plant remedies in Brazil and the United States. It also
explores the traditional knowledge of the Shamans — the
tribal healers of Peru and Brazil. The film suggests that
an amalgamation of traditional medicine and modern
scientific development can bring in a breakthrough in
modern healing systems.
English Title: Jhilmili’s Story
Director: Jamie Hartell
Director: Kumar Yugant
Original Title: Jhilmili ki Kahani
Duration: 22 min
Format: VHS
Contact Details:
P: 011-29955124, 29956110, 29956394; F: 011-29955879
W: www.cseindia.org
Subject Focus: Empowerment of women
Synopsis: It is an account of the transformation of Jhilmili
village in West Bengal through empowerment of its
women. The film depicts how women, democratically
organized and given the power of decision-making access
to resources, can become catalytic agents for
development.
English Title: Kandal Pokkudan
Language: English
Subject Focus: Kandal Pokkudan, the ecological activist
Contact Details:
Technology (CAPART)
P: 011-24642391,24642393,24642395
F: 011-24648607, 24625822
CMS ENVIS Centre
Synopsis: This is a biographical film about Kandal
Pokkudan, an ecological activist.
Contact Details:
P: 011-26537456/26521882; F: 011-26512347
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English Title: Khamoshi ke Swar
English Title: Kora Rajee
Subject Focus: The handicapped and their welfare
Duration: 51 min
Synopsis: There are nearly one crore handicapped people
in India, a large number of whom are deaf and dumb.
‘Silence’ is an organization in Kolkata, which is training
these people in self-promoted income generation activities
like making greeting cards, wax lamps, screen prints and
paintings. The film touches on sensitive issues like how
attitudes towards the deaf and dumb affect their families
and marriage.
Director: Biju Toppo
Production Company: AKHRA
Contact Details:
AKHRA
P: 0651-2231693
English Title: Ladhakh – A Fragile Heritage
Contact Details:
P: 011-26134103, 26890380; F: 011-26130817
W: www.devalt.org
English Title: Kipdow
Language: English
Duration: 19 min
Format: VHS
Subject Focus: Watershed development and the
activities of MYRADA
Synopsis: The film is an account of the work done by
MYRADA, a voluntary organization, in the field of
watershed development, leading to all-round progress of
an impoverished area.
Contact Details:
Technology (CAPART)
P: 011-24642391,24642393,24642395
F: 011-24648607, 24625822
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Original Title: c – A Fragile Heritage
Language: English
Duration: 21 min
Format: Betacam SP
Subject Focus: Wetland conservation in Tibet
Synopsis: This is a documentation of a conservation
initiative by the World Wide for Nature-India in the Ladakh
region: the focus of these initiatives is on the high altitude
wetlands of the Tibetan steppe region. The film explores
the natural heritage of the region, and describes the
various conservation strategies that are being
implemented in cooperation with various stakeholders like
the army, the nomadic Changpas, the local administration,
schools, tour operators etc. The film also highlights the
relationship that the local community shares with the
environment.
Commissioning Agency: World Wide Fund for Nature
(WWF)-India
Contact Details:
Freshwater & Wetlands Conservation Programme
World Wide Fund for Nature-India
172-B, Lodhi Estate, New Delhi 110003
P: 011-4150 4815; F: 011-4150 4795
W: www.wwfindia.org
Livelihood
English Title: Ladhakh — Desert in the Skies
Subject Focus: Life in the Chang Thang plateau
Synopsis: The film is a documentation of the harsh life of
nomads and the rare wildlife of their lands — the Tibetan
black-necked cranes, Ladakhi wild dogs and wolves, etc.
English Title: Life II: Patently Obvious
Original Title: Life II: Patently Obvious
Language: English
Duration: 27 min
Subject Focus: Benefits of intellectual property protection
Production Company: Bedi Ji Productions Pvt. Ltd.
Contact Details:
Bedi Films, E-19, Rajouri Garden, New Delhi 110 027
P: 011- 25439939, 25441864, 51444332, F: 011-25430850
W: www.bedibrothers.com
English Title: Lakshmi and Vishwakarma
Language: Oriya
Synopsis: The film explores a folktale about the goddess
of wealth and artisans struggling for survival.
Contact Details:
Vasudha Joshi
Top Floor, 189 Sarat Bose Road, Kolkata 700029 West Bengal
English Title: Life & Livelihood
Synopsis: Protection of intellectual property is the
lifeblood of the new knowledge economy. But while the
benefits to the multinational pharmaceutical or
telecommunication giants are plain, what relevance do
World Trade Organization patent regulations have for
developing countries? Patently Obvious explores the
benefits of intellectual property protection in the Indian
state of Gujarat. Karimbhai practises herbal medicine from
his home. Ten years ago, he lived in a tiny hut, charged
nothing for treating patients, and — as his sons had no
interest in learning his skills — his knowledge looked likely
to die with him. By contrast, Karimbhai today makes a
good living — with people travelling for miles for treatment
and advice. He even has a patent application out for one
of his medicines. His change of fortune came about after
he joined the Honeybee Network, which protects and
strengthens rural innovators and traditional knowledge
keepers by documenting their work and protecting its
patents.
Contact Details:
P: 011-29955124, 29956110, 29956394; F: 011-29955879
W: www.cseindia.org
Language: English
Duration: 14 min
Contact Details:
Snehasis Das
M: 9811156383
CMS ENVIS Centre
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English Title: Life II: Pavements of Gold
English Title: Life on Four Wheels
Original Title: Life II: Pavements of Gold
Language: English
Duration: 30 min
Format: DV
Subject Focus: Mumbai’s taxi drivers
Subject Focus: Migration and urban poverty
Synopsis: Urban poverty is one of the biggest challenges
facing the world today. The figures are stark: in 1950, the
number of people living in urban areas amounted to 300
million. At the start of the new century, that figure had
multiplied almost 10-fold, to 2.85 billion. And the flow of
rural migrants arriving in the world’s megacities shows no
signs of slowing down. With the backdrop of the growing
urban slums surrounding Lima, capital of Peru, this
programme examines the enduring magnetism of big cities
— and asks whether the migrants who’ve moved here
now feel that city life is the answer to their dreams.
Contact Details:
P: 011-29955124, 29956110, 29956394; F: 011-29955879
W: www.cseindia.org
English Title: Life IV: Helping Ourselves
Original Title: Life IV: Helping Ourselves
Language: English
Duration: 24 min
Subject Focus: Empowerment initiatives in India
Synopsis: This programme explores changes in two
Indian states that have succeeded in giving previously
powerless people some control over their lives. In
Karnataka, the IT revolution has allowed farmers to access
the land deeds so vital to obtaining the credit with which
they can sow next year’s harvest. In Andhra Pradesh,
women’s self-help groups have enabled rural women to
change aspects of their lives they were unhappy with, and
given them a voice in local government.
Contact Details:
P: 011-29955124, 29956110, 29956394; F: 011-29955879
W: www.cseindia.org
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Synopsis: Life on Four Wheels is a first hand account of
the lives of Mumbai’s taxi drivers. It reveals how very few
of these men are actually living the life they once aspired
to. Through a series of interviews, the documentary delves
deeper not just into their existence but also gives the
viewer a sense of Mumbai as seen through the eyes of
these people.
Director: Anshuman Jha
Production Company: August 6th Productions
Contact Details:
P: 011-26537456/26521882; F: 011-26512347
English Title: Manhole Workers Union
Original Title: Manhole Workers Union
Language: Gujarati-Hindi-English
Duration: 20 min
Format: VCD
Synopsis: They are called manhole workers; they work
below the manhole, invisible. With the haphazard ways
our gutter system has built, Ahmedabad may have to be
evacuated if the manhole stopped work! Yet they get a
very raw deal. Most of them belong to the so – called
‘outcastes’. Indian constitution not with standing, they are
still very much ill-treated and discriminated against. Their
working conditions are terrible. Sometime they have to
drive into the filthy gutters, with no protective gear. They
are exposed to all kinds of diseases; the threat of death
from poisonous gas is ever present.
KSSM (Kamdar Swasthya Surakhsa Mandal) the union has enhanced their self – respect and self – confidence.
They have a long way to go, but the journey has begun.
Director: Rappai Poothokaren
Contact Details:
P: 011-26537456/26521882; F: 011-26512347
Livelihood
English Title: Of Hawks and Hawkers
English Title: Sea City
Original Title: Of Hawks and Hawkers
Language: English
Duration: 3 min
Format: DVD
Original Title: Sea City
Language: English
Duration: 30 min
Format: DVD
Synopsis: For over two decades, the pavements of
Calcutta were the lifeline for hawkers. Most of them operated through structures, though technically temporary, de
facto permanent. Then towards the end of 1996 came
‘Operation Sunshine’. All structures were bulldozed to
clean up the city. And there was more sunshine… Sunshine for whom?
Subject Focus: Coastal ecology
Post Operation Sunshine the hawkers used to come and
go but were always on their toes. There were only two
colours dominating the locale, brown and grey. In the year
2005 the hawkers appear to have come up with new colour
and dimension which goes to show that “Sunshine or no
Sunshine, survive we must”
Director: Shankar S.
Contact Details:
P: 011-26537456/26521882; F: 011-26512347
Synopsis: The film takes a look at the life of the Kolis, the
original inhabitants of the islands that constitute Mumbai, and
their relationship with the city that has grown around them.
Director: Lalitha Krishna
Trust (PSBT)
Trust (PSBT)
Contact Details:
P: 011-24355941; F: 011-24353825
W: www.psbt.org
English Title: Streetwise — A View from the
People
English Title: Pretty Dyana
Original Title: Pretty Dyana
Language: Serbia
Duration: 45 min
Format: DV
Synopsis: An intimate look at gypsy refugees in a Belgrade
suburb who make a living by transforming Citroen’s classic
2cv and Dyana cars into Mad-Max-like recycling vehicles,
which they use to collect cardboard, bottles and scrap metal.
These modern horses are much more efficient than the
cart- pushing competition, but even more important – they
also mean freedom, hope and style for their crafty owners.
Even the car batteries are used as power generators in
order to get some light, watch TV and recharge mobiles!
Almost an alchemist’s dream come true! But the police
doesn’t always find these strange vehicles funny…
Language: English
Duration: 24 min
Subject Focus: Urban poor and their initiatives to better
their lives
Synopsis: Today, more than half the world’s population
lives in towns and cities — and billion urban residents are
poor. The film takes to the streets and goes ‘down and
out’ in some of the world’s most deprived city districts —
to find that the urban poor are very far from seeing
themselves as ‘down’ or ‘out’. Across the world, it’s clear
that poor people are far from helpless. Where
government’s are lacking, grassroots cooperatives are
finding solutions.
Director: Boris Mitic
Contact Details:
P: 011-26537456/26521882; F: 011-26512347
CMS ENVIS Centre
Contact Details:
P: 011-26134103, 26890380; F: 011-26130817
W: www.devalt.org
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English Title: The Desert’s Edge
English Title: The Prior Nation
Language: English
Duration: 60 min
Format: VHS
Original Title: The Prior Nation
Language: English
Format: DVD
Subject Focus: Desertification and its impact on nomads
Subject Focus: Indigenous peoples
Synopsis: In western Sudan, Egypt and Libya, the desert
is turning drier and lifestyles are changing because of
ongoing ‘development’. The film records the problems
faced by nomads due to the disappearance of whatever
little natural green that is available in the desert.
Environment (CSE)
Contact Details:
P: 011-29955124, 29956110, 29956394; F: 011-29955879
W: www.cseindia.org
English Title: The Fire Within
Original Title: Buru Sengal
Duration: 57 min
Format: Digital
Subject Focus: Impact of the exploitation of natural
resources on the Oraon tribe
Synopsis: The Fire Within draws a portrait of the
transformation of the land of the ‘Tana Bhagats’, a sect of
the Oraon tribe, who were believers of non-violence and
Gandhian philosophy, into a land which is enduring the
violent Naxalite movement today. The film also talks about
the corruption, mafia, energy politics, displacement and
issues of tribal identity in an area where coal mining has
been going on for more than 100 years.
Producer: Shriprakash
Commissioning Agency: Ramnika Foundation
Contact Details:
Shriprakash
C/o Ramnika Foundation, A-221, Defence Colony
New Delhi 110 024
and
KRITIKA, 30, Randhir Pd. Street, Upper Bazaar
Ranchi 834001, Jharkhand
P: 0651-2317461; M: 9835327661, 9811565551
W: www.misatoya.net
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Synopsis: This film deals with key issues concerning
indigenous people, whose existence is being threatened
by the dominant cultures. There are over 200 million
indigenous people all over the world. Tourism,
consumerism, big dams and evangelism have been used
against them in an effort to civilize them. They have been
displaced from their land, robbed of their forests and
exploited for money. But now the indigenous cultures are
fighting back.
Producers: Bruno Sorrentino/Robert Lamb & Zira Rizvi
Production Company: TVE & Jorden Radio and TV Corp.
Contact Details:
P: 011-26134103, 26890380; F: 011-26130817
W: www.devalt.org
English Title: The Village Republic
Language: English
Duration: 50 min
Format: VHS
Subject Focus: Community initiatives to manage environment
Synopsis: This film is about a few villages of India where
villagers have dared to take control of their own
environment. Through selected examples, the film
demonstrates how to face the challenge of meeting high
productivity needs sustainably.
Production Company: Centre for Science and Environment (CSE)
Contact Details:
P: 011-29955124, 29956110, 29956394; F: 011-29955879
W: www.cseindia.org
Livelihood
English Title: Treacling Down
English Title: Virus in the Antidote
Original Title: Treacling Down
Language: Sinhalese
Duration: 14 min
Original Title: Virus in the Antidote
Language: Virus in the Antidote
Duration: 42 min
Format: DV Format
Synopsis: The remote village “Meemure” surrounded by a
range of mountains is a place famous for the production of
jaggery. This village is rural setting still retains old cultural habits
mainly because of the poor facilities there. Meemure in certain
respects is self sufficient, but its excess production is sold
after, a tiresome journey from the village. Highly
commercialized town bags their cherished products for a mere
pittance and sold in luxury supermarkets at exorbitant prices.
This production attempts to generate a total feeling on
the Meemure villager using only a combination of the
rhythm of the nature and the economic shape and the
cultural angle and expression interwoven with nature. The
film shows the villagers tapping the “Kithul tree” to make
jaggery and the bees, wasps and butterflies collecting
nectar from flowers. The bee does a lot of works, an
outsider reaps the benefit. The bee gets no honey. The
bee and the Kithul taper suffer the same late.
Director: Upali Gamlath, Sri Lanka
Contact Details:
P: 011-26537456/26521882; F: 011-26512347
Synopsis: The Dokras are one of the tradionally nomadic
tribes who have been engaged in the craft of metal casting
for centuries. The dokra smiths have now settled down in
different parts of West Bengal, such as Dariapur, in the
district of Burdwan. This extremely poor craft community
of West Bengal are also most interesting and highly
creative. In the recent years, because of the pressures of
all embracing industrialization and changing social values,
they have been forced, by the loss their art is facing.
Greedy dealers in handicrafts take advantage of this
predicament.
Director: Sukriti Saha Kolkata/ National Institute of
Design, Ahmedabad
Contact Details:
National Institute of Design (NID)
Paldi, Ahmedabad 380007, Gujarat
P: 079-2662 3692; F: 079-2662 1167
E: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected],
[email protected]
W: www.nid.edu
English Title: Violence of the Blue Revolution
Language: English
Subject Focus: Shrimp farming and coastal ecology
Synopsis: This film documents the destruction caused to
the ecology, environment and livelihoods of Third World
fishermen and farmers by export-oriented aquaculture farms
— the impact of intensive shrimp farming on fragile coastal
ecology, people’s health and livelihoods. The film also
examines the peoples’ protests aimed at protecting India’s
coasts as well as the livelihoods of millions of fisherfolk and
farmers who depend on the rich coastal ecosystems.
Director: Navdanya
Contact Details:
Dr. Vandana Shiva
P: 011- 26968077, 26853772; F: 26856795
CMS ENVIS Centre
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Solid
Waste
Management
English Title: Aahvan
English Title: Anak Hilang (The Lost Child)
Original Title: Aahvan
Language: Hindi
Duration: 133 min
Format: 35 mm
Language: English, Indonesian
Duration: 75 min
Format: DVD
Subject Focus: Anna Hazare and his work on watershed
and waste conservation management
Synopsis: Basri is 12 years old and lives with his family
in a kampong — a shanty town — built on stilts over an
estuary in Jakarta, Indonesia. Blocked off by urban
development, the estuary has become choked with
sewage, plastic refuse and other debris. Depressed by
his mother’s death at the hands of a hit-and-run driver
and frustrated by life in the kampong, Basri leaves his
father and runs away from home. He dreams of becoming
a musician and joins a group of street magicians, hoping
that his new skills will provide a means of changing his
fate. But, he discovers, hope for the future lies in family
solidarity and facing the truth.
Synopsis: The film documents the life and works of Anna
Hazare, the well-known political-social activist of
Maharashtra. It demonstrates how he, against all odds,
transformed the village of Ralegaon into an oasis.
Contact Details:
Government of India
P: 022-23515422, 23513176, 23516931, 23513633
F: 022-23515308, 23511008
English Title: Abattoir Waste in Hapur
Language: English
Duration: 30 min
Subject Focus: Urban poverty and livelihood
Director: Slamet Rahardjo Djarot
Producer: Slamet Rahardjo Djarot
Production Company: John Hopkins University
Contact Details:
P: 011-26134103, 26890380; F: 011-26130817
W: www.devalt.org
Subject Focus: Abattoir waste and an initiative to
recycle it
English Title: Bio-medical Waste — Problems and
Solutions
Synopsis: The operation of slaughter houses generates
an enormous amount of waste, which ends up
contaminating the soil and groundwater. This was the
situation in Hapur, a bustling town in Uttar Pradesh, till
local residents decided to do something about it. They
joined hands with the divisional forest department in an
initiative to recycle the organic waste into manure.
Format: Betacam
Contact Details:
P: 011-26134103, 26890380; F: 011-26130817
W: www.devalt.org
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Subject Focus: Bio-medical waste
Synopsis: The programme intends to create awareness
about the proper management and disposal of bio-medical
waste. In the process, it answers questions like what
constitutes bio-medical waste and how the various
components are separated.
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
English Title: Bio-waste Management – A Silent
Revolution
Original Title: Jaiva Malin Ya Samskaranam – Oru
Misabda Viplavam
Duration: 25 min
Format: Betacam SP
Subject Focus: Involvement of local bodies in bio-waste
management
Synopsis: A silent revolution is sweeping through Kerala
in the field of bio-waste management. Local bodies are
coming forward to manage waste through decentralized
methods.
English Title: City Sewage Treatment
Duration: 12 min
Format: U-Matic
Subject Focus: Urban sewage treatment
Synopsis: This programme attempts to explain the
process of managing city sewage and its treatment.
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
Director: Sree Krishnan K. P.
Producer: Co-operative Hospital Kakanadu
English Title: Clean Up Kodagu
Contact Details:
Sree Krishnan K. P.
SNRA-102-A, Soorya Nagar, Kachami P. O. Trivandrum
Kerala
P: 0471-5574195; M: 09847984732
Language: English
Duration: 13 min
Subject Focus: Clean-up campaign undertaken by school
children in Kodagu
English Title: Ceeing Green: Ceeing Clean
Language: English
Duration: 27 min
Synopsis: The film depicts the efforts of school children
of Kodagu in Karnataka to clean up their district — by
managing the waste generated in the district.
Director: Centre for Environment Education (CEE)
Subject Focus: Environmental awareness and
management of solid waste in Bangalore
Synopsis: The film documents a successful Centre for
Environment Education (CEE) pilot project: using effective
low-cost scientific technology to handle and dispose
garbage in a city. In Bangalore, garbage is segregated
into biodegradable and non-biodegradable wastes. The
biodegradable waste is put into pits and converted into
manure using very simple low-cost techniques. The
manure is sold to residents for use in their gardens. The
non-biodegradable waste is sold to recyclers. In addition
to other benefits, the project has created jobs for
unemployed young people.
Contact Details:
CEE Delhi
P: 011-26262878, F: 011-26497050
W: ceeindia.org
Contact Details:
CEE Delhi
P: 011-26262878, F: 011-26497050
W: ceeindia.org
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English Title: Cute Bunny
English Title: Don’t be Dirty Fellow
Original Title: Cute Bunny
Original Title: Don’t be Dirty Fellow
Language: English
Format: DV
Subject Focus: Basic civic sense and cleanliness
Subject Focus: Civic sense and cleanliness
Synopsis: The film is about basic civic sense and
responsibility towards your environment. Its protagonist,
Cute Bunny, eats a banana and throws the peel on the
road even though he sees a litter bin. But he himself steps
on the peel and falls down, and realizes his mistake.
Synopsis: This film demonstrates how the most
insignificant things can make a city dirty and dangerous.
A person throws a banana peel on the road instead of the
dustbin, and people slip because of it. In the end, a small
child picks the peel up and throws it in the dustbin,
highlighting the film’s message: keeping the city clean is
the duty of every citizen.
Award’, CMS VATAVARAN 2005
Director: Ashish Jadhav
Director: Dhimant Vyas
Producer: P. Jayakumar
Production Company: Toonz Animation India Pvt. Ltd
Contact Details:
P. Jayakumar
Toonz Animation India Pvt. Ltd., 731-739, Nila Technopark
Campus, Trivandrum 695 081, Kerala
P: 0471-2700928/29; M: 098461 37017 F: 0471-2700954
W: www.toonzanimationindia.com
Contact Details:
Ashish Jadhav and Nitesh Jain
12, Vishwarup Darshan Co-Housing Society
Kalyan 421 306 Maharashtra
P: 05251-2333855, M: 09819054595
English Title: Eco Friendly-1 (Malabar Christian
College Initiative)
English Title: Dirty Business: Basant Lok Jagriti
Committee
Format: Betacam
Language: English
Duration: 30 min
Subject Focus: Plastics — an initiative to free the
environment of them
Subject Focus: A local initiative towards a clean
environment
Synopsis: Plastic waste has become one of the ugly
facets of modern urban life. Though polybags have been
banned in several places across India, they continue to
be used. The students of Malabar Christian College in
Calicut have come forward with eco-friendly paper bags
as an alternative to plastic bags. The college authorities
have supported this initiative by declaring the campus a
plastic-free zone.
Synopsis: Located in south-west Delhi, the Basant Lok
business complex used to be a dirty and disgusting place.
The picture is somewhat different today with the formation
of Basant Lok Jagriti Committee, which aims to improve
the immediate environment of the complex with
participation from all the offices in the vicinity.
Production Company: ACLT
Contact Details:
P: 011-26134103, 26890380; F: 011-26130817
W: www.devalt.org
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Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
English Title: Eco Friendly-2 (KVIC Initiative)
Format: Betacam
Subject Focus: Using fibre-based products in place of
plastics
Synopsis: Many plastic products which are nonbiodegradable, cannot be recycled; the only solution lies
in propagation of eco-friendly alternatives. Some such
alternatives which have been a part of traditional crafts in
villages have been revived to replace plastic products. Th
film highlights the revival of eco-friendly products in Kerala
due to the efforts of the fibre design-cum-development
centre of the Khadi and Village Industries Commission
(KVIC), Trivandrum. The centre has developed new
products and designs from fibres drawn from banana and
agave plants.
English Title: Ecosystem in India-2
(Ecomechanics-B)
Format: U-Matic
Synopsis: Plastic waste has become one of the ugly
facets modern urban life. Every where it has become more
than an eye sore, a pollutant degrading the environment.
Though poly bags have been banned all over India it
continues to be used. The only solution is the propagation
of eco friendly alternatives. The students of the Malabar
Christian College in Calicut has come forward with eco
friendly paper bags as an alternative to plastic carry bags.
The college authorities support the activities of the Eco
friendly club by declaring the campus as plastic free zone.
This program portrays the eco friendly initiatives of the
Malabar Christian college students.
Production Company: ACLT
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
English Title: Efficient Garbage Disposal
English Title: Eco-city Vrindavan
Original Title: Eco-city Vrindavan
Format: DV-CAM
Subject Focus: Pollution at religious places (Vrindavan)
Synopsis: Vrindavan, associated with Krishna, has visitors
from all over the world. It is a very small town, but garbage
has become a constant feature in many of its sacred
spaces. Tonnes of solid waste are generated in Vrindavan
every day by a population of 40,000 residents and about
1,50,000 pilgrims. The Vrindavan experience is also the
story of most holy cities and pilgrim places in India.
Director: Satyen Wanchoo
Producer: Satyen Wanchoo
Production Company: Avifauna Films
Language: English
Duration: 30 min
Subject Focus: Waste disposal
Synopsis: How can urban waste separation be made
more systematic? Do we, who are mainly responsible for
generating this inorganic waste, have a role to play? The
film offers a few suggestions.
Contact Details:
P: 011-26134103, 26890380; F: 011-26130817
W: www.devalt.org
Contact Details:
Satyen Wanchoo
E-122, G K – II, II Floor, New Delhi 110 048
P: 011-51639318; M: 9811178881
W: www.avifaunafilms.com
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English Title: Environmental Sciences-10 (Solid
Waste Management)
Duration: 18 min
Format: Betacam
Subject Focus: Solid waste management
Synopsis: Environmental Sciences is a series that covers
the syllabus on the subject for degree courses. The aim
of the series is to provide an audio-visual experience to
students. Part 10 of the series focuses on the techniques
of solid waste management practised by various
municipalities. Today, items that we no longer need or
cannot reuse are generally thrown away and turned into
waste materials. With rising urbanization and changes in
lifestyles and food habits, the amount of solid waste
generated has been increasing rapidly. It has become very
necessary that we master the techniques of handling this
waste.
English Title: Fly-ash Bricks as Building Material
Language: English
Duration: 30 min
Subject Focus: Recycling waste — using fly-ash
Synopsis: Chimneys of thermal power plants emit an
environmental hazard called fly-ash. But this waste can
be used in making building bricks.
Contact Details:
P: 011-26134103, 26890380; F: 011-26130817
W: www.devalt.org
English Title: Flying Menace
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
Format: Betacam
English Title: Exnora: Setting an Example
Language: English
Duration: 30 min
Subject Focus: Local initiative in urban waste and
pollution management
Synopsis: The cleaning up of the filth and pollution in our
surroundings is often regarded as the job of the
government. Exnora, a civic body in Chennai, has involved
local people in an effort to keep their cities clean.
Contact Details:
P: 011-26134103, 26890380; F: 011-26130817
W: www.devalt.org
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Subject Focus: Fly-ash generation and reuse
Synopsis: Power is a major ingredient in economic
development. In India, it is the thermal power stations that
supply most of the power. In the process, they generate a
by-product called fly-ash — which becomes a problem
not only for the thermal power stations, but also for the
people living around.
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
English Title: Gandki
English Title: Golden Garbage of Calcutta
Language: Gujarati
Duration: 7 min
Language: English
Duration: 25 min
Subject Focus: Municipal waste management
Subject Focus: Solid waste management in Kolkata
Synopsis: Leelaben, a vegetable vendor and producer
of Video SEWA, decides to intervene and clean up the
growing garbage dump in her locality in Ahmedabad. Her
only way of articulating her concern is through her video.
With its help, she succeeds in forcing the authorities to
take note and improve the situation.
Synopsis: This film deals with the tug-of-war between
garbage generators and garbage disposers and highlights
the methods the corporation uses for the disposal of
garbage in the eastern fringe of Kolkata.
Producer: Mr. Gul Bahar Singh
Contact Details:
Vedio Sewa
P: 079-26580474; F: 079-26587708
W: www.sewa.org
Contact Details:
The Secretary
New Delhi - 110 003
P: 91-11-2436 1896, 2436 0721
English Title: Garbage
English Title: Green Mounds: Fly-ash Disposal
Language: English, Hindi and Gujarati
Language: English
Duration: 30 min
Subject Focus: Disposal and reuse of fly-ash
Subject Focus: Urban waste management
Synopsis: The film was developed as part of Rochak, a
project that involved college students in waste
management in Ahmedabad.
Director: Sanjay Joshi
Contact Details:
Karnataka
P: 080-22869094/9907; F: 080-22868209
CMS ENVIS Centre
Synopsis: Fly-ash is a pollutant containing toxic elements,
but new methods are being developed for recycling it into
mainstream products. The public sector National Thermal
Power Corporation’s power project at Ghaziabad is
currently experimenting with a completely different and
innovative ash disposal system.
Contact Details:
P: 011-26134103, 26890380; F: 011-26130817
W: www.devalt.org
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English Title: Gujari Bazaar
English Title: Hands On 3 — Lifting the Lid
Original Title: Gujari Bazaar
Language: Gujarati and Hindi (with English subtitles)
Duration: 17 min
Format: DV/VCD/DVD
Original Title: Hands On 3 — Lifting the Lid
Language: English
Duration: 24 min
Subject Focus: Waste recycling
Subject Focus: Sewage control and management
Synopsis: Since 1411, every Sunday, on the banks of
the Sabarmati River, Ahmedabad hosts a unique market.
Many of the sellers here are artisan-entrepreneurs who
recycle waste into very useful things. Everything needed
to furnish a poor man’s house can be found there. Gujari
Bazaar discards the very concept of waste; people here
find some creative use for what others may consider
waste. This market plays a prophetic role in a world rushing
headlong into unbridled consumerism.
Synopsis: Ask anyone who is fortunate enough to live in
a household with a flush toilet, what happens to their
sewage — and the answer would most likely be: “I don’t
know and don’t want to”. But with six billion people in the
world each producing 550 litres of excreta a year, the
world’s waste is going to waste. This Hands On
programme lifts the lid on the world’s toilets: we go down
the drain in Karachi, get a worm’s eye view in Ireland and
sit with the Swedes in Stockholm.
Director: Rappai Poothokaren S. J.
Producer: Rappai Poothokaren S. J.
Contact Details:
Rappai Poothokaren S. J.
Gurjarvani, St. Xavier’s College Campus, Ahmedabad 380 009
P: 079-26300127, 26303114
Contact Details:
P: 011-29955124, 29956110, 29956394; F: 011-29955879
W: www.cseindia.org
English Title: Hands-on 8 — Waste Watchers
English Title: Gumar Katha
Language: Oriya
Duration: 45 min
Original Title: Hands-on 8 — Waste Watchers
Language: English
Duration: 24 min
Subject Focus: Open air defecation and how to stop it
Subject Focus: Waste recycling and management
Synopsis: Open air defecation is common in many places
in India. The practice is the root cause of the prevalence
of many water-borne diseases. The film examines the
reasons and puts forth some solutions.
Director: Rural Welfare Institute (RWI)
Contact Details:
Rural Welfare Institute (RWI)
At. Hansapaa Ro. Chanarapada, Via. Nimapara Dist
Puri 752 106, Orissa
P: 06758-252604
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Synopsis: Recycling may be the answer to dealing with
garbage — a survey shows that it is five times more
energy-efficient than burning plastic. This ‘Hands-on’ looks
at recycling incentives for both companies and consumers:
Norwegian vending machines are programmed to refund
the committed recycler and Venetians are turning canalclogging weeds and sky-choking smog into paper.
Contact Details:
P: 011-29955124, 29956110, 29956394; F: 011-29955879
W: www.cseindia.org
English Title: Hands-on: City Scope
English Title: Hands-on: Waste Watchers
Language: English
Duration: 26 min
Language: English
Duration: 24 min
Subject Focus: Waste management — local initiatives
Synopsis: Burning rubbish in the backyard can be as
polluting as using a municipal waste incinerator, and, as
landfill sites become harder to find, the hunt is on to
discover alternative ways of dealing with rubbish.
Recycling may be the answer — a recent survey showed
that it is five times more energy efficient than burning
plastic. The movie looks at recycling incentives for both
companies and consumers: Norwegian vending machines
are programmed to refund the committed recycler and
Venetians are turning canal-clogging weeds and skychoking smog into paper.
Synopsis: In slums and shantytowns, local services for
sewage, housing and waste barely exist. The film features
five stories from around the world where citizens groups
and neighborhood committees are finding ways of working
with cash-strapped local councils.
Contact Details:
P: 011-26134103, 26890380; F: 011-26130817
W: www.devalt.org
English Title: Hands-on: Waste to Wages
Production Company: Earth Report VI /TVE
Contact Details:
P: 011-26134103, 26890380; F: 011-26130817
W: www.devalt.org
Language: English
Duration: 26 min
English Title: Hatya
Subject Focus: Reaping profits by recycling waste
Original Title: Hatya
Language: Hindi
Format: 16 mm
Synopsis: Take two sisters, a heap of bicycle tyres, and
a passion for ‘way out’ fashion – and you have the ‘tubular
belles’, the latest in rubberware from the Netherlands!
Rubber isn’t the only waste from the throwaway society
which can be turned into wages. Two Thai scientists have
come up with biodegradable food containers made from
cassava. The movie reports on how a new breed of
entrepreneurs is seeing riches in rubbish.
Production Company: Earth Report VI/TVE
Contact Details:
P: 011-26134103, 26890380; F: 011-26130817
W: www.devalt.org
CMS ENVIS Centre
Subject Focus: Animal welfare, against the backdrop of
communal harmony
Synopsis: The film moves through a story: a cow has
died, and Hindus and Muslims are blaming each other for
her death. Finally, a post-mortem is done and the killer is
discovered — polythene bags. The film goes on to
advocate the messages of humanity and communal
harmony, besides saying ‘no’ to plastic bags.
Producer: AVVM Films, Mr. Vikas Bali
Contact Details:
AVVM Films
Producer, 31, Juhu Supreme Shopping Centre, Gulmohar
Cross Road No. 9, Vile Parle (West), Mumbai 400 049
Maharashtra
P: 022-26705863/64; F: 26205487
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English Title: Integrated Waste Management
Format: Betacam
Subject Focus: Integrated waste management
Synopsis: Conventional methods of waste management
in our country are inadequate to handle the problem of
waste generated in our environment. The film advocates
an alternative solution: through low-cost sanitation
technologies, the basis of integrated waste management.
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
English Title: It is not Garbage
Format: Betacam
English Title: Japan’s Lessons on Economy and
Environment — Our Pollution Experience’
Original Title: Shoonya Utsarjan ki Chunauti — Japani
Udyog Dwara ek Pahal
Language: Hindi
Duration: 29 min
Subject Focus: Japanese industry and its eco-friendly
initiatives
Synopsis: Farsightedness, will power and a firm commitment
towards preserving the environment has prompted Japanese
industry to take up the zero emissions challenge. Premier
Japanese companies like Ebara Corporation, Tokyo Electric,
Kirin Brewary, Koa Corporation etc have taken innovative
steps to reduce waste, reuse and recycle material.
Director: Hitori Kamanaka
Contact Details:
P: 011-29955124, 29956110, 29956394; F: 011-29955879
W: www.cseindia.org
English Title: Jeevan Chalne ka Naam
Synopsis: Solid waste management is a major challenge
in most cities. The film documents the efforts of some
professionals who have taken up the challenge. They have
designed and developed a process for turning
biodegradable mixed solid waste into manure.
Original Title: Jeevan Chalne ka Naam
Language: Hindi
Duration: 7 min
Format: Betacam SP
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
Subject Focus: Household waste management — a
success story
Synopsis: This film documents the real life success story
of a young household maid, Shuchita, who manages to
reduce the overall household garbage production in the
place she works to just 20% of what it used to be. She
converts the wet garbage into organic manure, and
disposes of other wastes including plastics by giving them
to garbage pickers for recycling.
Director: Kanu Priya
Producer: Ankit Jain
Production Company: Gul Guncha Arts
Contact Details:
Kanu Priya/ Ankit Jain
309, Shikha Apartments, 48, Patparganj, New Delhi 110 092
P: 011-55256990; M: 9810009406, 9212096333
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English Title: Kaagda Peeth — ‘The Crow’s Back’
Language: Gujarati-English
Duration: 27 min
Format: Mini DV
Subject Focus: Waste disposal and management
Synopsis: The movie is aimed at generating awareness
about how garbage travels through a city and where it
finally reaches. Woven in are stories of sweepers,
municipal workers and the indispensable rag-pickers. The
movie ends with a discussion on ways and means of
changing the prevailing conditions.
Production Company: Ipsit Patel
Contact Details:
P: 011-26537456/26521882; F: 011-26512347
English Title: Kaash
Language: Hindi
Duration: 18 min
Subject Focus: Life of a sanitary worker
Synopsis: This video film captures the life of a sanitary
worker, and attempts to sensitize the viewer about the
relationship between the day-to-day practices of the
sanitary worker and his/her health.
Contact Details:
Asian Centre for Organization Research And Development
(ACORD), C-126, Greater Kailash-I, New Delhi 110 048
P: 011-26410616, 26238495
English Title: Kachra: Jeevika Banam Vyavasaya
(Hindi version of Earth Report VIII: Pulp Aid)
Original Title: Earth Report VIII: Pulp Aid
Language: Hindi
Duration: 26 min
Subject Focus: Waste recycling industry and trade in
recycled products
Synopsis: Europeans generate an average of 300 kg of
waste per person per year. Across Europe, 45 million
tonnes of waste paper is recycled each year. Most of it
goes back into Europe’s paper mills. But around 7% is
exported to the developing world. Are these exports
harming local enterprise in poorer countries? Or is it a
sensible way to recycle and stimulate new business on a
global scale?
Contact Details:
P: 011-29955124, 29956110, 29956394; F: 011-29955879
W: www.cseindia.org
English Title: Khilte Hain Gul Yahan
Original Title: Khilte Hain Gul Yahan
Language: Hindi
Duration: 10 min
Format: Betacam SP
Subject Focus: Household garbage segregation — a
success story
Synopsis: This film documents the real life success story
of a young household maid, Shuchita, who manages to
reduce the overall household garbage production in the
place she works to just 20% of what it used to be. She
converts the wet garbage into organic manure, and
disposes of other wastes including plastics by giving them
to garbage pickers for recycling.
Directors: Kanu Priya/Ankit Jain
Producers: Kanu Priya/Ankit Jain
Production Company: A Suraj Vision
Contact Details:
Kanu Priya / Ankit Jain
309, Shikha Apartments, 48, Patparganj, New Delhi 110 092
P: 011-55256990; M: 9810009406, 9212096333
CMS ENVIS Centre
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English Title: Let’s Build Paradise
English Title: Mahadaan
Language: English
Duration: 12 min
Original Title: Mahadaan
Language: Nepali (with English subtitles)
Duration: 56 min
Subject Focus: Solid waste management in Bangalore
— a citizens’ initiative
Synopsis: In the film, CEE interns organize civic meetings
to explain how the public can cooperate in segregating
and managing waste. Residents pay a nominal fee, and
citizens’ committees in each area use the money to
bankroll the waste management initiative. In the process,
ragpickers and unemployed youth are provided
employment.
Contact Details:
CEE Delhi
P: 011-26262878, F: 011-26497050
W: ceeindia.org
Synopsis: The film shows how deforestation, construction
work and generation of garbage can damage the
environment.
Director: Chunilal Ghimirey
Producer: Member Secretary, State Pollution Control
Board
Production Company: Siva Enterprise (P.) Ltd.
(Film Production House)
Contact Details:
Chunilal Ghimirey
Bodhi Griha, Nam Nang, Gangtok 737 101, East Sikkim
P: 03592-204228, M: 9832054984
English Title: Manage Karo Garbage Zara-1
English Title: Life Goes On…
Original Title: Life Goes On…
Format: Digital Beta
Subject Focus: Violation of bio-medical waste disposal
regulations
Synopsis: The film is a documentation of what goes on
in the name of disposing hazardous bio-medical waste.
The narrative revolves around a ragpicker couple, who
narrate how a local hospital dumps bio-medical waste in
the neighborhood. There is no municipal corporation or
police authority to check this violation of environmental
laws. The ragpickers are forced to work in this hazard;
they have no other means of survival.
Director: Ms. Suparna Gangal
Producer: Ms. Suparna Gangal
Production Company: SMS Producations
Contact Details:
Ms. Suparna Gangal
161, Madhu Manjiri Apartment, Lane # 4, Dahanukar Colony
Pune 411 038, Maharashtra
P: 020-2539381, M: 09822887822
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Language: English
Format: Betacam
Subject Focus: Waste management
Synopsis: Garbage is choking Delhi up. But there are
initiatives like Dr. Iqbal Malik’s environmentally friendly
garbage disposal scheme, that have made a difference.
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
English Title: Metal Magic
Original Title: Metal Magic
Language: Gujarati and Hindi (with English subtitles)
Duration: 13 min
Format: DV/VCD, DVD
English Title: Modern Society Plastics and
Recycling
Format: Betacam
Subject Focus: Recycling of plastic waste
Subject Focus: Recycling of waste
Synopsis: This film is a tribute to those little-known people
who make this earth a better place to live in: the women
and men who recycle metal waste. They are artisanentrepreneurs who keep the free of metal-litter, and cater
to poor people’s needs.
Synopsis: The programme explains how plastic waste
generated at factories and at the level of consumers can
be recycled. It also attempts to show how recycling of
plastics helps in environmental protection and
conservation of plastic resources.
Director: Rappai Poothokaren, S. J.
Producer: Rappai Poothokaren, S. J.
Contact Details:
Rappai Poothokaren, S. J.
P: 079-26300127, 26303114
English Title: Metamorphosis
Original Title: Urumattram
Language: Tamil
Duration: 32 min
Format: 35 mm
Subject Focus: Impact of the divide between generations
on the environment
Synopsis: Revolving around a grandfather, his son and
grandson, the film tells the story of the son who is in a
hurry to escape to the U. S. He is convinced that he has
tied up all the loose ends, like securing the future of his
family and taking proper care of his old father. The
grandfather is shocked by the easy translation of the
ancestral home into money, and completely shattered by
the irresponsibility of maximizing gains in turning it over
to a plastics factory.
Producers: Friendship Scripts Pvt. Ltd. & Adhi Bahavaan
Talkies
Contact Details:
Friendship Scripts Pvt. Ltd. & Adhi Bahavaan Talkies
Producers, F-4, Komal Apartments, 18-Jagadeeswaran Street,
T. Nagar, Chennai 600 017
P: 044-24831981; F: 044-28206455
CMS ENVIS Centre
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
English Title: Nagara Nyrmalya
Original Title: Nagara Nyrmalya
Language: Kannada
Duration: 11 min
Format: Betacam
Subject Focus: Ubran solid waste management
Synopsis: Through a human drama, the film attempts to
convince communities that the problem of solid waste
management is not one of ‘dump-and-forget’ by using
‘pourakarmikas’ (safai karmacharis) as “mere extensions
of brooms”. The real problem is how to creatively engage
individuals and communities with pourakarmikas in finding
sustainable solutions.
Producer: Environment Support Group
Commissioning Agency: Indo-Norwegian Environment
Programme
Contact Details:
Environment Support Group
Non-government Organisation, S-3, Rajashree Apartments
18/57, 1st Main Road, S. R. K. Gardens, Jaynagar
Bannerghatta Road, Bangalore 560 041
P: 080-26531339; F: 080-26341977
W: www.altindia.net
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English Title: Nirula’s and Recycling
English Title: Plast-I — City
Language: English
Duration: 30 min
Original Title: Plast-I — City
Language: Hindi
Format: Digital
Subject Focus: Environment-friendly measures
undertaken by Nirula’s
Synopsis: Nirula’s, the fast food chain, is trying to do its
bit in promoting environment-friendly measures like using
recycled bags, composting etc. in its day-to-day work.
Contact Details:
P: 011-26134103, 26890380; F: 011-26130817
W: www.devalt.org
English Title: Organizing for a Better Livelihood:
Waste Paper Pickers in SEWA
Original Title: Organizing for a Better Livelihood: Waste
Paper Pickers in SEWA
Language: Gujarati and English
Duration: 21 min
Subject Focus: Plastic wastes
Synopsis: The film raises awareness about the hazards
of generating plastic waste, and calls for following the
strategy of the three Rs – reduction, reuse and recycle.
The film does not take any sides, but takes a definite stand
in favour of reuse and re-cycling of plastics. It also provides
alternative solutions to the problem.
Producer: Xavier Institute of Communications
Commissioning Agency: The Orchird — An Ecotel Hotel
Contact Details:
Xavier Institute of Communications
St. Xavier’s College, Mahapalika Marg, Mumbai 400 001
P: 022-22621366; F: 022-22658546
English Title: Plastic
Language: Hindi
Duration: 60 sec
Subject Focus: Plastics
Subject Focus: Wastepaper-pickers of Ahmedabad
Synopsis: There are more than 30,000 wastepaperpickers in Ahmedabad. A majority of them have taken up
this occupation following the decline of the textile industry
in the city. The film dwells on the paper-picker’s groups
organised by SEWA, and the lives of the group members.
Contact Details:
Vedio Sewa
Krushna Bhavan, Opp. Sakar-II, Ellisbridge
P: 079-26580474; F: 079-26587708
W: www.sewa.org
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Synopsis: The PSM shows the harmful effects of plastics
and alternatives to plastic use.
Contact Details:
The Secretary
New Delhi - 110 003
P: 91-11-2436 1896, 2436 0721
English Title: Plastic Pollution
English Title: Plastics — Dangerous Disposables
Format: Betacam
Format: Betacam
Subject Focus: Plastic
Synopsis: Plastics have become a part of our life today.
Their excessive use is creating a problem for the
environment. The programme documents the uses of
plastics, their demerits and solutions.
Synopsis: The film focus on the hazards of plastic due to
its mismanagement.
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
English Title: Pulp Aid
English Title: Plastic Truth
Language: English
Subject Focus: The uses of plastics
Producer: M/s Independent Television Co. Pvt. Ltd.
Production Company: M/s Independent Television Co.
Pvt. Ltd.
Language: English
Duration: 26 min
Subject Focus: The politics of wastepaper recycling
Synopsis: Wastepaper from Europe comes to India for
recycling. But this has generated a flurry of charges in
India — mainly to the effect that this waste dumping is
disrupting local recycling efforts.
Production Company: Earth Report VIII/TVE
Contact Details:
The Secretary
New Delhi 110 003
P: 91-11-2436 1896, 2436 0721
CMS ENVIS Centre
Contact Details:
P: 011-26134103, 26890380; F: 011-26130817
W: www.devalt.org
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English Title: Recycled Paper: The TARA Initiative
English Title: Recycling the Waste
Language: English
Duration: 30 min
Format: Betacam
Subject Focus: An initiative to produce hand-made paper
Subject Focus: Recycling urban solid waste
Synopsis: The initiative of Development Alternatives in
setting up hand-made paper units has been a success. It
not only produces paper from rags and used paper, but
also offers employment to unskilled women.
Contact Details:
P: 011-26134103, 26890380; F: 011-26130817
W: www.devalt.org
Synopsis: Hundreds of tonnes of solid waste and garbage
is generated daily in our urban areas. This solid waste
can be treated and reused — and the film offers some
suggestions.
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
English Title: Sewage Recycling in Karnal
English Title: Recycling Myths – Plastic Petrol
Language: English
Duration: 30 min
Language: English
Duration: 30 min
Subject Focus: Recycling sewage water
Subject Focus: Recycling plastics
Synopsis: The whole problem of plastic use arises from
the fact that it is not biodegradable and therefore, not easy
to dispose off. Recycling has been a preferred solution.
Recycling is advantageous because it saves on energy
and resource use.
Contact Details:
P: 011-26134103, 26890380; F: 011-26130817
W: www.devalt.org
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Synopsis: In Karnal, Haryana, the experiment of recycling
sewage water and using it for plantations has been a
success. This success story can be replicated in other
Indian towns and cities.
Contact Details:
P: 011-26134103, 26890380; F: 011-26130817
W: www.devalt.org
English Title: Sharam Nahi Ati-I
English Title: Solid Waste Treatment
Language: Hindi
Duration: 30 sec each
Format: U-Matic
Subject Focus: Spitting
Subject Focus: Mining waste
Synopsis: The film is an effort to discourage the nasty
habit of spitting on roads.
Synopsis: Every industrial act, apart from producing the
desired product, also produces unwanted residues. Mining
is one such industry. With every mineral produced, a huge
amount of earth is dug out which creates an equally large
amount of solid waste. This programme discusses how to
stop mining waste from polluting the environment.
Contact Details:
Development (ACORD)
P: 011-26410616, 26238495
English Title: Sharam Nahi Ati-II
Language: Hindi
Duration: 30 sec
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
English Title: Tale of Trash
Synopsis: In the film, a child ridicules a man for littering,
and thus sends out a message against the practice.
Original Title: Tale of Trash
Language: English
Duration: 30 min
Format: Betacam
Director: Ms. Kiron Wadhera
Contact Details:
Development (ACORD)
P: 011-26410616, 26238495
Synopsis: This is a documentary made for the Central
Pollution Control Board on solid waste management.
Subject Focus: Littering
Commissioning Agency: Central Pollution Control
Board (CPCB)
Contact Details:
Krishnendu Bose
New Delhi 110 024
P: 011-24625896, 24654221; M: 9811843111
F: 011-24647310
CMS ENVIS Centre
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English Title: The Adventures of Ecogirl and
Environman
Original Title: The Adventures of Ecogirl and Environman
Language: English
Duration: 3 min
Format: Digital
Subject Focus: Waste disposal and air pollution
Synopsis: The Adventures of Ecogirl and Environman is
a series of two environmental movies made by students
of classes VII-X. Story-based and aiming to drive home a
message, these movies focus on proper disposal of
garbage and waste at public places and air pollution
caused due to callous attitude of industry.
English Title: The Green Dustbin
Original Title: The Green Dustbin
Language: English
Duration: 29 min
Subject Focus: Household waste recycling
Synopsis: Most of the refuse an average citizen throws
out as garbage is made up of toxic materials which
decompose slowly, often combining to form highly toxic
compounds that diffuse in the soil and eventually
contaminate groundwater supplies. The solution, says the
film, lies in recycling waste. Plastic, glass and paper can
all be sorted out at home. Bottles can be reused to save
energy cost, and organic waste can be turned into
beneficial compost.
Producer: Jiva Public School,
Director: Lars Brydesen
Contact Details:
Jiva Public School
Jiva Marg, Sector 21B, Faridabad, Haryana
P: 0129-2429640, 2431198, 4041539, 4041540
F: 0129-2431198, 2296174
W: www.jiva.com
Contact Details:
P: 011-29955124, 29956110, 29956394; F: 011-29955879
W: www.cseindia.org
English Title: The Dew Drop & the River…
English Title: The Parallel
Original Title: The Dew Drop & the River…
Language: English
Duration: 30 min
Format: DVD
Original Title: Samantharam
Format: Betacam SP
Subject Focus: Excreta management through Sulabh
Shauchalayas
Synopsis: This film looks at the environmentally safe,
affordable and easily adoptable toilet technology — Sulabh
Shauchalayas — a solution put forward by Dr. Bindeshwar
Pathak to end the menace of defecation in public spaces.
Director: Umesh Aggarwal
(PSBT)
Trust (PSBT)
Contact Details:
P: 011-24355941; F: 011-24353825
W: www.psbt.org
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Subject Focus: Community waste management initiatives
in Kerala
Synopsis: ‘Zero Waste’ is a holistic concept of resource
management which comprises of resource conservation,
building relations, extended producer responsibility, clean
production and community building. The importance of
the Zero Waste Kovalam programme — which the film
documents — is that it has generated more than 100
permanent jobs in the locality, created small eco-friendly
enterprises, launched three self-sustainable waste
management systems and revived organic farming.
Director: Suneetha T. V.
Producer: Amrita T. V.
Production Company: Amrita T. V.
Contact Details:
Suneetha T. V.
Program Producer, Amrita T. V., Gandhi Nagar, Vazhuthacaud,
P: 0471-2333403; M: 09847171137; F:0471-2328900
English Title: The Realisation
Original Title: The Realisation
Language: English
Subject Focus: Keeping the environment clean
Synopsis: Through the toy characters of Barbie and Ken,
the film gives its message of keeping the environment
clean. Barbie believes in a clean and green world, but
Ken wrecks her toy world, knocking down garbage bins
and throwing garbage all over the place. However, he soon
slips and falls on the very garbage that he was spreading.
He realizes his mistake and cleans up the toy world.
Director: Vanita Jain
Producer: Maya Academy of Advanced Cinematics
English Title: Towards Cleaner and Greener
Environment-2
Original Title: Towards Cleaner and Greener
Environment-2
Language: English
Format: Betacam
Subject Focus: Initiatives undertaken by ExnoraInternational
Synopsis: This is the second part of the series on ExnoraInternational, and deals with the NGO’s other activities
like solid waste management, environment programmes
for students and the WAMP (Waterways Management
Programme). Exnora-International tries to involve the
youth in all these activities.
Contact Details:
Jasmeet Singh Bhasin
Maya Academy of Advanced Cinematics, 23, Shah Industrial
Estate, Off Veera Desai Road, Andheri (W) Mumbai 400 053
P: 022-26731145-48; F: 022-26730961
W: www.maacindia.com
English Title: Towards Cleaner & Greener
Environment-1
English Title: Trade Toxic – International Toxic
disposal
Original Title: Towards Cleaner & Greener Environment-1
Language: English
Format: Betacam
Language: English
Duration: 30 min
Subject Focus: Initiatives undertaken by ExnoraInternational
Synopsis: This programme highlights the activities of an
NGO called Exnora-International, which is working towards
a cleaner and greener environment with peoples’
participation. Among the initiatives covered are
civicExnora, vermiculture and the peoples’ toilets.
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
CMS ENVIS Centre
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
Subject Focus: Dumping of toxic wastes
Synopsis: Toxic dumping is the new environmental whip
for the North to be used on the people of the South. The
rich industrialised nations produce about 98% of the
world’s hazardous waste. India has been receiving huge
quantities of potentially damaging metal wastes, lead acid
batteries, plastic scrap, ashes and residues.
Contact Details:
P: 011-26134103, 26890380; F: 011-26130817
W: www.devalt.org
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English Title: Tukang Sampah — Masters of
Waste
Original Title: Tukang Sampah — Masters of Waste
Language: English
Duration: 45 min
Synopsis: Forty thousand people in Indonesia earn their
living from rubbish. It’s a US $50 million a year business.
Recycling municipal waste has transformed Surabaya into
Indonesia’s cleanest city. The film follows the practitioners
of this recycling industry — Slabat, a bottle-picker; Suley,
his glass collector, who supplies local recycling factories;
and the yellow-suited ‘waste masters’ of Surabaya now
financing their own literacy and re-employment
programmes. But successful recycling depends on a
delicate balance of supply and demand, one all too easily
upset by the relentless dumping of waste from industrialized
countries; as an exasperated environment minister asks in
the film:”Why don’t you exploit your own waste?”
Director: Boris Terpinc
Contact Details:
P: 011-29955124, 29956110, 29956394; F: 011-29955879
W: www.cseindia.org
English Title: Use Me
Language: English
Duration: 36 sec
Subject Focus: Keeping the city clean
Synopsis: The film attempts to sensitize people to use
garbage bins for disposing off their garbage.
Director: Reena Ashok
Production Company: Crest Communication Ltd.
Contact Details:
Crest Communication
A-1/307, Safdurjung Enclave, New Delhi 110 029
P: 011-26183478, 26186116, 26177994, 26183480
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English Title: Useful Domestic Garbage
Language: English
Duration: 30 min
Subject Focus: Recycling domestic biodegradable waste
Synopsis: Srishti, a non-profit organization working for a
cleaner and greener Delhi, has been involved in a project
that not only takes care of domestic wastes but, in the
process, generates something useful out of it — by
recycling domestic biodegradable wastes into manure.
Contact Details:
P: 011-26134103, 26890380; F: 011-26130817
W: www.devalt.org
English Title: Utilization of Fly-ash
Format: Betacam
Subject Focus: Using fly-ash
Synopsis: Fly-ash is the by-product of burning coal in
thermal power plants. Every year, more and more fly-ash
is accumulated in the country. What are some ways of
dealing with this problem? The film looks at efforts to use
this waste.
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
English Title: Vam Organics: Making Recycling
a Habit
Language: English
Duration: 30 min
Subject Focus: Waste recycling business
Synopsis: Vam Organics is an example of an industry
which has proved that setting up effluent treatment plants
and recycling wastes can be a profitable venture.
Contact Details:
P: 011-26134103, 26890380; F: 011-26130817
W: www.devalt.org
English Title: Wait Until Dark
Language: English
Duration: 13 min
Subject Focus: Improving living conditions in the slums
of Bangalore
Synopsis: The film shows that with a little sensitivity and
planning men, women and children who live in inhuman
conditions in slums, can have access to basic
infrastructure which makes for a healthier, cleaner life.
Based on a project in Bangalore for creating awareness
of sound methods of waste treatment and disposal, the
film aimed at increasing the awareness of slum dwellers
about the relevance of health and hygiene, using literacy
as a tool of intervention.
Awards Received by the Film: Best Film on Waste
Management, Environment India ’99, a film festival on
“Corporate Environmental Excellence”
English Title: Victims of Garbage Dump
Original Title: Victims of Garbage Dump
Duration: 10 min
Format: Betacam
Contact Details:
CEE Delhi, Centre for Environment Education (CEE)
P: 011-26262878, F: 011-26497050
W: ceeindia.org
Subject Focus: Ragpickers
Synopsis: Through the story of Rabia, an eight-year-old girl
from the Bhalaswar slum of Delhi, the film focuses on the
cycle of poverty, illness and deprivation that governs the lives
of people who make their living out of sorting garbage at
Delhi’s largest garbage dump. Barefoot, the children, who
search for things they can sell — like iron, glass, plastic,
rubber, copper, packaged food etc — face several health
hazards: injuries, infectious diseases and accidents.
Contact Details:
Plan India
New Delhi 110 049
P: 011-26962605, 26968432-34; F: 011-26863417
CMS ENVIS Centre
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English Title: Waste
English Title: Waste Management
Original Title: Waste
Language: No spoken language (with English subtitles)
Format: DV
Format: U-Matic
Subject Focus: Waste recycling and recyclers
Synopsis: This documentary sees environment through
the voice of one of the most vulnerable groups in urban
India — children ragpickers. The story revolves around
children living under a bridge, along a stinking drain, in
Nizamuddin in Delhi, as part of a much-derided community
that ‘dirties’ rather than cleans the city. Their livelihoods
come from waste picking around Delhi. The film calls upon
the public to include this community in all waste recycling
efforts. It also appeals to producers of toxics like pesticides
and users of toxic products to follow the idea of Extended
Producer Responsibility. Waste recycling cannot be
termed as a green activity unless the waste recycling
community is given healthy and safe working conditions.
The film is based on the work Chintan Environmental
Research and Action Group has done at the grassroots
level with the waste recycling sector.
Directors: Ashish Paliwal & Tarun Bhartiya
Producer: World Health Organization
Production Company: Splits End Media Group
Contact Details:
Chintan Environmental Research and Action Group (CHINTAN)
C-14, Lajpat Nagar III, 2nd Floor New Delhi 110 024
Phone : +91-11-46574171, 46574172, 46574173
Fax : +91-11-46574174
E-mail : [email protected]
http://www.chintan-india.org/
English Title: Waste Disposal
Format: U-Matic
Subject Focus: Waste disposal and management
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
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Synopsis: This programme describes the pollution control
measures adopted in U. S. A. — the procedures for
disposal of solid wastes, regulations and measures that
can be adopted in Indian conditions.
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
English Title: Waste Management
Format: Betacam
synopsis: The film highlights waste management
technique and process.
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
English Title: Waste not Want not
Format: Betacam
Synopsis: While style and comfort have become the order
of the day, the leftovers of modern living are piling up to
frightening heights. This film cautions against it and
focuses on waste management, garbage disposal,
treatment and recycling of waste, and using waste to
produce manure and power.
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
English Title: Waste not Want not
Original Title: Waste not Want not
Language: English
Duration: 31 min
English Title: Wealth of Waste (Microbial and
Vermi-composting)
Language: English
Format: Betacam
Subject Focus: Waste recycling
Subject Focus: Composting
Synopsis: While many cities in the world generate
mountains of garbage, there are others which regard
rubbish as a resource which can be recycled and provide
much-needed employment. Focusing on recycling projects
in India, the Philippines and Thailand, this film argues that
rather than just employing children and scavengers,
recycling industries can be formalized to provide support
and welfare for underprivileged urban communities.
Director: Peter Swan
Contact Details:
P: 011-29955124, 29956110, 29956394; F: 011-29955879
W: www.cseindia.org
English Title: Wealth from Waste
Language: English
Duration: 12 min
Subject Focus: Recycling used lubricating oil
Contact Details:
Sanrakshan Bhavan, 10-Bhikaiji Cama Place
New Delhi 110 066
P: 011-26198856; F: 011-26109668
W: www.pcra.org
CMS ENVIS Centre
Synopsis: Waste management is a serious problem that
confronts today’s cities. This film introduces a technique
called composting that helps convert garbage into high
quality manure.
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
English Title: Wealth of Waste (Segregation of
Waste)
Language: English
Format: Betacam
Subject Focus: Waste segregation
Synopsis: This is a part of a series on waste management.
This programme deals with the laws enacted to overcome
the problem of waste, and ways and means of waste
segregation.
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
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English Title: Welcome Waste
English Title: Why Not?
Language: English
Duration: 30 min
Original Title: Why Not?
Language: English
Format: Betacam SP
Subject Focus: Waste treatment by Western Paques
Synopsis: Pollution prevention pays – this is what
Western Paques believes. This company, with an
elaborate system of waste treatment and recycling, has
reaped rich dividends. Part of the waste is even recycled
to generate power.
Contact Details:
P: 011-26134103, 26890380; F: 011-26130817
W: www.devalt.org
English Title: What a Load of Rubbish
Original Title: What a Load of Rubbish
Language: English
Duration: 26 min
Subject Focus: Recycling wastes for profit
Synopsis: Every day, the people on this planet produce
five billion tonnes of rubbish, and the majority of it goes
into landfills or is left to rot and fester. This film features
some entrepeneurs who are recycling rubbish for a profit.
In Bangladesh, one man has set up a daily rubbish
collection system for his neighbourhood, and on the
beaches of Uruguay there’s a clean-up campaign which
is recycling discarded soft drinks cans. In South Africa,
over 4,000 shipping containers, used to carry cargo, have
found a new lease of life: they have been converted into
small shops, community centres and even school rooms.
A Finnish entrepeneur has created a new material from
waste products which can help keep topsoil in place and
so prevent erosion, and in China, plastic waste is being
recycled to produce gasoline and diesel fuel.
Contact Details:
P: 011-29955124, 29956110, 29956394; F: 011-29955879
W: www.cseindia.org
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Subject Focus: Basic concepts of conservation and urban
environment
Synopsis: A group of children begin to notice that their
bus-stop is not quite what it used to be. They decide their
whole city needs some cleaning up! Why Not? is an
educational film communicating basic concepts in
conservation to four-to-seven year old urban children. It
is intended for use in schools to initiate dialogue on urban
environmental problems and their appropriate solutions.
Awards’, CMS VATAVARAN 2005
Director: Anitha Balachandran
Producer: Environment Protection Training Research
Institute (EPTRI)
Production Company: Environment Protection Training
Research Institute (EPTRI)
Contact Details:
Anitha Balachandran
S-364, G K II, New Delhi 110 048
M: 9811396735
Toxics
and
Climate Change
English Title: A Degree of Concern
English Title: A Green Agony
Language: English
Duration: 12 minutes
Original Title: A Green Agony
Language: English
Duration: 22 min
Format: DV CAM
Synopsis: A Degree of Concern”- is about melting glaciers
in Ladakh. The film takes a very close look at how climate
change has hit Ladakh. The in-depth research, scientific
inputs and the climate related data from resources like
FRL - DRDO makes this film very unique. The film also
shot another human tragedy that unfolded on the Zanskar
River this year (2006), adding a new dimension to an
already grave problem. 95 people were stranded as
Zanskar River melted ahead of its normal schedule in
February.
Director: Syed Fayaz
Producer: UK High Commission
Production Company: RGB Films
Commissioning Agency: The British Government
Contact Details:
Syed Fayaz
B-2/40, II Floor, Safadarjung Enclave, New Delhi 110029
P: 011-2610 1307, M: 98107 38452
English Title: A Devastating Dawn
(News Magazine No. 132)
Original Title: A Devastating Dawn
Language: English
Duration: 10 min
Format: 35 mm
Subject Focus: Impact of global warming on the
Sundarbans
Synopsis: The film explores the impact of climate change
and global warming on one of the most vulnerable
ecosystems in the world — the Sundarbans in India. The
impacts are severe on all residents of this home of the
Royal Bengal Tiger. The film’s aim is to force people to
think of the urgency that the Sundarbans deserves.
Awards Received by the Film: Nominated for the ‘Panda
Award’, International Wildscreen Film Festival, 2006;
entered in the ‘Jules Verne Films Festival’, 2006, Los
Angeles and Paris; entered in the Toxics Link Film Festival,
New Delhi, 2006
Director: Geeta Singh
Producer: I STYLUS
Production Company: UK High Commission
Commissioning Agency: The British government
Contact Details:
Geeta Singh and Avinash Kumar Singh
I STYLUS, i-39, second floor, Jungpura Extension,
New Delhi 110 014
P: 011-41823821, 011-65655223; M: 9810340949 (Geeta),
9810339494 (Avinash); F: 011-41823820
E: [email protected], [email protected],
[email protected]
Subject Focus: Natural disaste; and disaster relief
Synopsis: This is a report on the devastating earthquake,
which shattered the early morning calm in Bihar, West
Bengal and Nepal on 21 August, 1988. Measuring 6.5 on
the Richter Scale, it killed hundreds and devastated many
buildings. The film also documents the relief measures.
Contact Details:
Government of India
P: 022-23515422, 23513176, 23516931, 23513633
F: 022-23515308, 23511008
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English Title: A Matter of Life and Death
Production Company: Central Pollution Control Board
(CPCB)
Contact Details:
Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB)
Parivesh Bhawan, CBD-Cum Office Complex
East Arjun Nagar, New Delhi 110 032
P: 011-2230 8902, 2230 6128, 2230 1932
F: 011-2230 7233, 2230 4948
W: www.cpcb.nic.in
English Title: A Mercedes for Ashish
English Title: A Threat to Environment
Language: English
Language: English
Subject Focus: Urban planning and its impacts
Subject Focus: Causes and remedies of pollution
Synopsis: This is a documentation of how the modern
urban space degrades the human mind and body — roads,
walls, constructions-in-progress, drains overflowing with
sewage, billboards, etc impact us severely.
Director: Ruchir Joshi
Commissiong Agency: Public Service Broadcasting
Trust (PSBT)
Contact Details:
P: 011-24355941; F: 011-24353825
W: www.psbt.org
English Title: A Silent Killer
Original Title: A Silent Killer
Duration: 23 min
Format: DV CAM
Subject Focus: Arsenic contamination in groundwater in
West Bengal
Synopsis: Groundwater drawn through tube-wells in 75
blocks of eight districts in West Bengal shows arsenic
levels well above the permissible limits. Of the state’s 80
million people, about 28 million are facing arsenic
poisoning through drinking water. With no antidote or cure
for arsenic, arsenic-free drinking water is the only
preventive solution. As a long-term measure, treated
surface water supply schemes can also be introduced.
Director: Dhananjoy Mandal
Producer: Dhananjoy Mandal
Production Company: Mou Films
Synopsis: This documentary highlights the impacts of air
pollution on environment. The film is divided into three
parts: the first takes us back to the days when India was
pollution-free, and compares it to the situation today. The
second part identifies the various causes and effects of
air pollution, while the third defines possible solutions. A
major part of the film has been made by students.
Director: Jiva Public School
Contact Details:
Jiva Public School
P: 0129-2429640, 2431198, 4041539, 4041540
F: 0129-2431198, 2296174
W: www.jiva.com
English Title: Acid Rain
Duration: 18 min
Format: U-Matic
Subject Focus: Acid rain
Synopsis: The film attempts to answer questions like what
is acid rain, what are dry and wet depositions, what are
the causes and effects of acid rain etc.
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
Contact Details:
Mou Films
South Duilya (Opp. Christian School), P. O. Duilya
Howrah 711 302, West Bengal
P: 033-26791724; M: 09433392836
CMS ENVIS Centre
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English Title: AD 2048: The Greenhouse Effect
English Title: AD 2048: The Ozone Alarm
Original Title: AD 2048: The Greenhouse Effect
Language: English
Duration: 46 min
Language: English
Duration: 50 min
Format: DVD
Subject Focus: Global environmental crisis and ozone
depletion — the scenario for future
Subject Focus: Global warming and our future
Synopsis: Set in the fictional future of the year 2048,
the two films in this package focus on the damage human
activity and man-made chemicals inflict on the
environment and look at what the world may be like if
ozone depletion and global warming continue
unchecked. They juxtapose two pictures — a
documentary shot in 1988 with the news bulletins of 2048
— to bring out the horror. The films end on a positive
note, though: world leaders still have time to ward off
the catastrophe.
Directors: Torbjorn Morvik & Petter Nome
Contact Details:
P: 011-29955124, 29956110, 29956394; F: 011-29955879
W: www.cseindia.org
Synopsis: Set in the fictional future of the year 2048, these
two Norwegian films focus on the damage human activity
and man-made chemicals are inflicting on the atmosphere
— specifically, on what the world may look like if depletion
of the ozone layer and global warming continue unchecked.
The scenario paints an appalling thesaurus of disaster
stories: epidemics of ‘supertyphus’ spread by rats, plagues
of grasshoppers devouring food crops, and famine relief
camps in Europe, while in the Middle East hundreds are
killed fighting over the last remaining freshwater supplies.
But the films end on an optimistic note, with the suggestion
that world leaders still have the time to forge common
policies to head off ecological catastrophe.
Awards Received by the Film: Prix Italia for Ecological
Films, 1988
Directors: Torbjorn Morvik & Petter Nome
Producer: Torbjorn Morvik
Production Company: NRK
Contact Details:
P: 011-26134103, 26890380; F: 011-26130817
W: www.devalt.org
English Title: Air Check
Format: Betacam
Subject Focus: Air pollution
Synopsis: This film demonstrates how a low-cost method,
using an air pollution sampler, can be used for checking
air pollution.
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
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English Title: Air Pollution
English Title: Air Pollution-1
Language: English
Duration: 11 min
Format: 16 mm, 35 mm
Format: Betacam
Subject Focus: Vehicular air pollution
Synopsis: This film talks about how the wholesomeness
and purity of air are essential for healthy living. Any
degradation in the natural quality of air not only affects
human beings, but also animals, plants, buildings etc.
Synopsis: As population grows in India, so does the
numbers of vehicles on its roads. The air in its cities and
towns is choking under a thick fog of petrol and diesel
fumes. The results are ailments ranging from serious
respiratory troubles to cardiovascular complications.
Production Company: Film Division
Contact Details:
Government of India
P: 022-23515422, 23513176, 23516931, 23513633
F: 022-23515308, 23511008
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
English Title: Air Pollution-2
English Title: Air Pollution
Duration: 1 min
(CPCB)
Contact Details:
P: 011-2230 8902, 2230 6128, 2230 1932
F: 011-2230 7233, 2230 4948
W: www.cpcb.nic.in
Format: Betacam
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
English Title: Amal Varsha
Language: Hindi
Format: Betacam
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
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English Title: An Epoch without summer
English Title: Asbestos: A Health Hazard
Original Title: An Epoch without summer
Language: English
Duration: 43 min
Format: 35 mm
Language: English
Duration: 30 min
Subject Focus: Nuclear holocaust
Synopsis: The manufacture and use of asbestos has
been banned in some countries. The film discusses the
health hazards associated with asbestos.
Synopsis: The film highlights the eternal winter following
a nuclear holocaust.
Contact Details:
Government of India
P: 022-23515422, 23513176, 23516931, 23513633
F: 022-23515308, 23511008
Subject Focus: Asbestos
Contact Details:
P: 011-26134103, 26890380; F: 011-26130817
W: www.devalt.org
English Title: Asbestos: A Lethal Legacy
English Title: Anti Pollution
Duration: 60 sec
(CPCB)
Contact Details:
P: 011-2230 8902, 2230 6128, 2230 1932
F: 011-2230 7233, 2230 4948
W: www.cpcb.nic.in
Language: English
Duration: 57 min
Format: 16 mm, 35 mm
Subject Focus: Asbestos
Synopsis: The film focuses on the adverse health effects
of using asbestos, referred to as the ‘magic mineral’.
Taking up the case of an asbestos mining town in Canada,
it reveals the dangerous diseases (like cancer and
asbestosis) that affect the population.
Environment (CSE)
Contact Details:
P: 011-29955124, 29956110, 29956394; F: 011-29955879
W: www.cseindia.org
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English Title: Atomic Energy
English Title: Awaaz
Language: English
Duration: 11 min
Format: 16 mm
Language: Hindi
Subject Focus: Atomic energy
Subject Focus: Pollution
Synopsis: The video explains the basic concepts of atomic
energy. It defines and constrasts the three known forms
of atomic energy release: natural radioactivity, nuclear
synthesis and nuclear fission. It also illustrates the
relationship between atomic energy from the sun and
chemical energy stored in plants.
Synopsis: Awaaz is a public grievance programme where
the complainant and the overseeing authority are brought
together on the same platform. Anchored by Rajat Sharma,
the programme has empowered the common man and
covered topics like environment, crime, police atrocities,
education and medical negligence.
Technology (CIET)
Director: Ritu Dhawan
Producer: Star India Pvt. Ltd.
Contact Details:
P: 011-26864801, 26864802, 26864803; F: 011-26864141
W: www.ciet.nic.in
Contact Details:
Star India Pvt.Ltd
1st Floor, Central Wing, Thapar House, 124 Janpath
New Delhi 110 001
T: 011-5249 4900; F: 011-5104 9490
W: www.star.co.in
English Title: Battery Operated Vehicles
English Title: Automobile Emissions
Format: Betacam
Subject Focus: Automobile emissions
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
Language: English
Duration: 30 min
Subject Focus: Battery-operated vehicles — a solution
for air pollution
Synopsis: Delhi is the fourth most polluted city in the
world. About 60% of the total emissions which pollute the
Delhi air, stem from automobile exhausts. The alternative
lies in battery-operated vehicles, zero emission vehicles
that do not emit exhaust fumes.
Contact Details:
P: 011-26134103, 26890380; F: 011-26130817
W: www.devalt.org
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English Title: Bhopal – The Survivor’s Story
English Title: Blowing in the Wind
Original Title: Bhopal – The Survivor’s Story
Duration: 25 min
Original Title: Blowing in the Wind
Language: English
Duration: 30 min
Format: High Band
Subject Focus: Bhopal gas tragedy and after
Subject Focus: Flyash pollution
Synopsis: On the night of 2nd December 1984, Methyl
Isocyanate, a lethal gas used in making Sevin, a pesticide,
leaked from the Union Carbide factory in Bhopal. More than
2,000 were killed instantly. Conservative estimates of the
death toll today have mounted to more than 20,000. Wanton
and criminal negligence continues to kill more people each
day. More than 500,000 have been affected and at least
50,000 people are left too sick to work. Survivors of this
disaster still await justice and continue to suffer: the film
explores their grim reality, and also looks at the environmental
impacts of thousands of tonnes of toxic wastes that lie
abandoned by the company and the frightening reality of
the continued migration of these chemicals into the soil, the
groundwater, the vegetation and the people who live there.
Synopsis: This is an environment documentary on flyash
pollution.
Director: Rumah Rasaq
Producer: E. Deenadayalan
Production Company: Other Media Communication
Contact Details:
Other Media Communications
139/9, Domlur Layout, Bangalore 560 071, Karnataka
P: 080- 51151589; M: 09845535421
W: www.othermediacommunications.com
Contact Details:
Krishnendu Bose
New Delhi 110 024
P: 011-24625896, 24654221; F: 011-24647310
W: www.earthcarefilm.com
English Title: Breathless
Original Title: Breathless
Format: VCD
English Title: Bio-methanation Plant
Original Title: Bio-methanation Plant
Language: Hindi
Format: Betacam SP
Subject Focus: Pollution control
Director: Chaman Gupta
Production Company: Srishti Pictures
Contact Details:
Sanrakshan Bhawan, 10, Bhikaji Cama Place,
New Delhi 110 066
P: 011-26198809; M: 9810548249; F: 011-26109668
W: www.pcra.org
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Synopsis: Made by a student, the film highlights the
impact that choking air pollution has on us.
Director: Ayush Raizada
Contact Details:
Ayush Raizada
4th Floor, Thakur Cinema, Thakur Village, Kandivali (E)
Mumbai 400 101
P: 022-28870125, M: 09892188616
English Title: Breathless
English Title: Buddha Weeps in Jaduguda
Language: English
Original Title: Ragi: Kana: Ko: Bonga Buru
Language: Santhali, Hindi (with English subtitles)
Duration: 55 min
Format: Betacam
Synopsis: The film moves from lush forests to the village,
tracing the destruction wrought on the land by human
hand. In the city, smoky, dusty habitats appear, and it is
impossible to breathe.
Director: Sanjay Sahare
Producer: Bankim, Films Division
Contact Details:
Government of India
P: 022-23515422, 23513176, 23516931, 23513633
F: 022-23515308, 23511008
English Title: Bruno Bozzetto Spots
Language: Animation
Duration: 16 min
Format: DVD
Subject Focus: Pollution and waste management
Synopsis: In this animation film, a man and his baby stand
next to Planet Earth. As the baby looks on, the man puts
up factories, wells, power plants and motorways across
the face of the globe. The noise of traffic and machinery
builds to a crescendo, and a dense cloud of pollution
descends from the sky, blocking out the sun, until it
reaches the man and he collapses. Another spot shows
the earth used as a dustbin, accommodatingly opening
up to receive generations of waste. Once full, it is wrapped
up with a bow and presented to a child – whereupon it
explodes in his face.
Environment (TVE)
Contact Details:
P: 011-26134103, 26890380; F: 011-26130817
W: www.devalt.org
CMS ENVIS Centre
Subject Focus: Uranium mining and its impact on tribals
of Jaduguda, Jharkhand
Synopsis: Made amidst threats and harassment by UCIL
and the district administration, the film attempts to depict
the gross misuse of power by these authorities in
displacing the original inhabitants in the region, their utter
lack of concern for internationally accepted norms and
safety precautions in the handling of uranium and its byproducts; and their callousness towards its disastrous
impact on the people and the region.
Director: Shriprakash
Producer: Kritika Birsa
Contact Details:
Shriprakash
Producer, 30, Randhir Pd, Street, Upper Bazaar
Ranchi 843 001, Jharkhand
P: 0651-2317461; M: 9835327661, 9811565551
W: www.misatoya.net; www.jadugoda.net
English Title: Bulgaria Roadshow
Original Title: Bulgaria Roadshow
Language: English
Duration: 26 min
Subject Focus: Environmental issues in Bulgaria
Synopsis: Bulgaria’s economic transition continues to have
significant effects on the country’s environment and people.
This Roadshow features the efforts of the Wilderness Fund
to conserve the brown bears of the Rodopi mountains and
their natural habitat. We also visit remote vulture feeding
grounds in Madzharavo, which have thrived since the
closure of lead and zinc mines in the area. A closer look is
taken at the country’s power stations, which are a vital
source of revenue, but pose the threats of acid rain and
potentially disastrous nuclear leaks. Measures are being
taken to reduce these and poisonous car emissions — but
will Bulgaria be able to strike the essential balance between
environmental protection and economic growth?
Contact Details:
P: 011-29955124, 29956110, 29956394; F: 011-29955879
W: www.cseindia.org
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English Title: Can Polar Bears Tread Water?
Language: English
Duration: 53 min
Format: DVD
Subject Focus: Climate change
English Title: Catalytic Converter — A Hope for
Green Air
Format: Betacam
Synopsis: As the Cold War recedes, the world is
beginning to grapple with new and more insidious threats
posed by climate change. At a time when the world
population is expanding rapidly, a warmer climate
threatens to reduce grain production from the US, which
supplies over 100 countries, by as much as 17 per cent.
Shortfalls in world food supplies will lead to whole
communities uprooting themselves to move to more
propitious climates in search of food. Climate change could
even trigger wars over scarce resources.
Subject Focus: Vehicular pollution and catalytic
converters
Director: Lawrence Moore
Producer: Lawrence Moore
Production Company: Global Weather Watch in
association with Central TV, Television Trust for the
Environment (TVE) & Better World Society
Contact Details:
P: 011-26134103, 26890380; F: 011-26130817
W: www.devalt.org
Synopsis: The problem of vehicular pollution in urban
areas has reached catastrophic levels. To control the
situation, it has been made mandatory for all new cars
sold from 1st April 1995 to be fitted with a catalytic
connector. Will this help in controlling pollution? The file
explores.
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
English Title: Chain Reactions
English Title: Catalytic Converter
Format: Betacam
Language: English
Duration: 30 min
Subject Focus: Resource depletion and how recycling
can help stop it
Subject Focus: Controlling air pollution through catalytic
converters
Synopsis: The demands of livelihood lead to exploitation
of natural resources, which in its turn generates byproducts called waste. This creates pollution — that is
one way of looking at the question of pollution. But there
is another: recycling, which not only reduces the pollution,
but also creates new material out of the waste.
Synopsis: Cities are becoming unliveable due to vehicular
emissions. Using catalytic converters in vehicles can be
one way of cleaning up the air.
Contact Details:
P: 011-26134103, 26890380; F: 011-26130817
W: www.devalt.org
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Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
English Title: Change in the Air
English Title: Changing Climates: The Politics
Original Title: Change in the Air
Language: English
Duration: 22 min
Original Title: Changing Climates: The Politics
Language: English
Duration: 27 min
Subject Focus: Climate change and pollution
Subject Focus: The politics of climate change
Synopsis: Though accounting for just four per cent of the
world’s population, the US produces close to a quarter of
the world’s greenhouse gases. Not surprisingly, it is the
target of bitter criticism from other nations that claim they
are adhering to the Kyoto targets — the US dosn’t seem
to care. However, that indifference may change. The US
is preparing to publish the most comprehensive scientific
survey ever into the impacts of climate change. Benefiting
from advance knowledge of the report’s findings, this film
travels throughout the US to examine the link between
unwanted environmental changes and pollution.
Synopsis: 2001 was not an auspicious year for
international agreements on climate change. First,
governments failed to emerge from the Hague climate
conference with even a compromise. Next, the new US
President, George W. Bush, reneged on his campaign
commitment to curb CO2 emissions. This was followed
by news that, as far as the new US administration is
concerned, the Kyoto Accord — designed to reduce
greenhouse gas emissions — is dead. In the second of
four films on climate change, Earth Report takes a look at
how difficult it is to align what science indicates must be
done with what the international community is prepared
to do.
Director: Ken Pugh
Contact Details:
P: 011-29955124, 29956110, 29956394; F: 011-29955879
W: www.cseindia.org
Contact Details:
P: 011-29955124, 29956110, 29956394; F: 011-29955879
W: www.cseindia.org
English Title: Changing Climates: The Impact
Original Title: Jalvayu Parivartan: Prabhav
Language: Hindi
Duration: 27 min
Subject Focus: The impact of climate change
Synopsis: Is there concrete evidence that the greenhouse
effect is changing our climate? This video travels to Africa,
Asia and North America to find out if the long predicated
change is already having an impact on society and the
economy.
Contact Details:
P: 011-29955124, 29956110, 29956394; F: 011-29955879
W: www.cseindia.org
CMS ENVIS Centre
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English Title: Changing Climates: The Science
Original Title: Changing Climates: The Science
Language: English
Duration: 27 min
English Title: Chemical Foundations of
Physiology Solutions, PH, PK and Buffers:
Lecture-2
Language: English
Format: Betacam
Subject Focus: The science of climate change
Subject Focus: Chemistry and physiology
Synopsis: Ever since the industrial revolution sparked
the widespead burning of fossil fuels, climatologists have
been preoccupied with measuring the effect of carbon
dioxide (CO2) on the earth’s climate. In this film, Earth
Report takes a look back over 200 years of evolving
scientific thought — sometimes confusing and
contradictory — that has shaped the global warming
debate.
Contact Details:
P: 011-29955124, 29956110, 29956394; F: 011-29955879
W: www.cseindia.org
Synopsis: This lecture-based programme explains the
definitions of terms in chemistry such as Solutions, PH,
PK and Buffers, which are related to Physiology. We come
across solutions everyday in some form of the other. This
programme defines solutions and discusses about the
types of solutions and the criteria of true solutions. The
solubility of a solute is also explained. PH and PK, the
two common chemical scales, have been discussed too
with respect to the Henderson-Hasselbalch equation. The
programme also explains the Biological Buffer Systems
of our body. These buffer systems help to maintain a
balance between acids and bases within the physiological
systems. Graphic cards and animated visuals have been
used to enrich the programme and make it easily
comprehensible for students.
English Title: Charminar: Plagued by Pollution
Language: English
Duration: 30 min
Subject Focus: Impact of pollution on historical
monuments
Synopsis: It is not only our animals and the planet that
are under the threat of extinction; another species that is
highly endangered in the country is our historical
monuments. The Charminar in Hyderabad is bearing the
brunt of a constant attacks by corrosive chemicals in the
highly polluted air of the city.
Contact Details:
P: 011-26134103, 26890380; F: 011-26130817
W: www.devalt.org
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Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
English Title: Children of Chernobyl
Original Title: Children of Chernobyl
Language: English
Duration: 52 min
Subject Focus: Impact of Chernobyl disaster on local
residents
Synopsis: When unit four of the power station at
Chernobyl exploded on 26 April 1986, it released 90 times
as much nuclear radioactivity as the Hiroshima bomb. This
documentary was one of the first to assess the full impact
of the explosion on the families living in the contaminated
region. Children are more susceptible to radiation ills than
adults. As a result of damage to their immune systems,
doctors witnessed a massive increase in recurrent
infections in children, a state of affairs known locally as
“Chernobyl aids”. The Soviet authorities denied huge
increases in Leukemia and other cancers, but medical
files were confiscated and classified as secret.
Director: Clive Gordon
Contact Details:
P: 011-29955124, 29956110, 29956394; F: 011-29955879
W: www.cseindia.org
English Title: Children of Tsunami
Original Title: Children of Tsunami
Language: English
Duration: 50 min
Subject Focus: Life after the Tsunami
Synopsis: They have never met each other. Some have
never travelled beyond their native village. They all belong
to statistically average families in their communities. Five
girls and three boys — aged eight to 16 — living in the
coastal areas of India, Indonesia, Sri Lanka and Thailand.
Each family hit by the Asian Tsunami of 2004. Now, as
they cope with the many challenges of rebuilding lives
and livelihoods, these children of Tsunami tell us their
personal stories of anguish and survival, courage and
resilience.
Producer: TVE Asia Pacific
Contact Details:
P: 011-29955124, 29956110, 29956394; F: 011-29955879
W: www.cseindia.org
English Title: Children of the New Millennium
English Title: Circle of Death
Original Title: Children of the New Millennium
Language: English
Duration: 26 min
Original Title: Mrityuchakra
Duration: 16 min
Subject Focus: Industrial pollution and its impact
Subject Focus: Impact of environmental degradation on
children
Synopsis: At the Rio Earth Summit, the UN had warned
that “environmental degradation is killing children”. Today,
though children make up only 12 per cent of the world’s
population, they bear over half the burden of the world’s
environmental diseases. This programme investigates why
children suffer disproportionately from pollution and
environmental degradation.
Synopsis: The film takes a look at how industrialsation
takes place at the cost of water. Maval, a sleepy subdivision of Pune has experienced frantic industrialisation
in the last decade. The cost of this progress is being paid
in health by the local villagers and tribal population. People
have little option but to drink the water of the grossly
polluted Pauna river. The polluting industries don’t believe
they are responsible.
Director: CASP Plan, Pune
Production Company: TVE/Earth Report VI
Contact Details:
P: 011-26134103, 26890380; F: 011-26130817
W: www.devalt.org
CMS ENVIS Centre
Contact Details:
Plan India
New Delhi 110 049
P: 011-26962605, 26968432-34; F: 011-26863417
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English Title: Cities under Siege
English Title: Cityscapes Delhi
Original Title: Cities under Siege
Language: English
Duration: 28 min
Language: English
Subject Focus: Urban management initiatives
Synopsis: By the year 2000, predictions show that there
will be 23 cities in the world with populations over 10
million. Eighteen of these ‘megacities’ will be in the
developing world — in poorer countries less able to deal
effectively with the problems of massive urban expansion.
Cities under Siege looks at some innovative urban
management efforts — tackling urban poverty in New
Delhi, India; improving traffic congestion in Bangkok,
Thailand; and the ‘clean and green’ movement in the
Philippines.
Subject Focus: Delhi’s urban environment
Synopsis: The film documents Delhi’s collapsing urban
environment and recalls the city’s best-loved 19th century
chronicler, Mirza Ghalib.
Commissiong Agency: Public Service Broadcasting
Trust (PSBT)
Contact Details:
P: 011-24355941; F: 011-24353825
W: www.psbt.org
Director: Matthew Westfall
English Title: Climate Change: Nature’s Revenge
Contact Details:
P: 011-29955124, 29956110, 29956394; F: 011-29955879
W: www.cseindia.org
English Title: City Pollution
Original Title: City Pollution
Language: Hindi
Duration: 12 min
Format: Betacam
Subject Focus: Responsibility of the society regarding
pollution and its hazardous impact
Synopsis: The film is about three school-going children
who are very conscious and aware about cleanliness, and
how their good habits and attitude are shaken and
shattered by the pollution all around them. It focuses on
the issue of responsibility of the society regarding pollution
Producer: Children’s Film Society, India
Contact Details:
Mumbai 400 026
P: 022-23526798, 23516136; F: 022-23522610
W: www.cfsindia.org
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Original Title: Climate Change: Nature’s Revenge
Language: English
Duration: 12 min
Synopsis: This report on climate change examines the
costs to the planet of the vicious North-South cycle of
developing country debt and unsustainable development.
Six billion tonnes of carbon dioxide are deposited into the
atmosphere every year and 3.2 million tonnes of oil are
spilled into the oceans. Humans are waging war on the
earth, but Nature is taking its revenge. Every year,
hurricanes and earthquakes devastate communities
around the world. In south India, the introduction of
renewable solar energy plants have paved the way toward
greater co-operation between North and South.
Contact Details:
P: 011-29955124, 29956110, 29956394; F: 011-29955879
W: www.cseindia.org
English Title: Climate Control-1
Format: Betacam
Subject Focus: Greenhouses
Synopsis: Climate plays a significant role in growth and
development of all organisms. By controlling the climate,
plants can be grown out of season and fresh fruits and
vegetables can be obtained. The ‘greenhouse’ is a place
where climate factors can be controlled to a large extent.
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
English Title: Climate Crisis
English Title: Climate’s First Orphans
Original Title: Climate’s First Orphans
Date/Month/Year of Production: 2005-2006
Language: English
Duration: 22 min
Format: DVCAM
Subject Focus: Impact of global climate change at the
local level (in Orissa)
Synopsis: As the world wakes up to the reality of climate
change, coastal Orissa is sure that global warminginduced sea level rise is already threatening the existence
of local residents. This documentary depicts the existential
dilemma of 20,000 homeless villagers who have lost their
houses to the Bay of Bengal, that has engulfed more than
half the villages in the district in a time span of just five
years. Global warming and its impact on climate change
has so far been limited as a topic of discussion in scientific
communities and intellectual circuits. Though all have
been talking about the scientific impacts of global warminginduced climate change through mathematical models,
this documentary brings in live examples and covers both
sides of the story — giving it a scientific relevance and
showing its direct impact on people.
Language: English
Duration: 16 min
Format: VHS
Awards Received by the Film: Officially nominated for
the San Francisco International Film Festival, 2006
Producer: UK High Commission
Production Company: Eleanora Images
Commissioning Agency: The British Government
Synopsis: The film seeks to drive home the point that
global climate is changing due to increased burning of
fossil fuels, and a solution must be found for this problem
before it’s too late.
(CSE)
Contact Details:
P: 011-29955124, 29956110, 29956394; F: 011-29955879
W: www.cseindia.org
CMS ENVIS Centre
Contact Details:
Nila Madhab Panda, Filmmaker
12, Uday Park, 2nd Floor, Khelgaon Marg, New Delhi 110 049
P: 011-4164 5938/4164 5940/2652 0491; M: 98113 02557
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English Title: CNG
English Title: Death in the Rain Forest
Original Title: CNG
Language: English
Format: Mini DV
Language: English
Duration: 42 min
Format: DVD
Subject Focus: The Amazon — conservation vs
development
Subject Focus: Compressed natural gas
Synopsis: This cell animation treated with water colours
is on CNG (Compressed Natural Gas) and its advantages.
It casts a happy-go-lucky character, who realizes
usefulness of this fuel as he drives his scooter up a hill.
Awards’, CMS VATAVARAN 2005
Director: Debanjan Nandy
Producer: Debanjan Nandy
Contact Details:
Debanjan Nandy
NID, Paldi, Ahmedabad 380 007, Gujarat
M: 9898383471
English Title: Cold Heart of the Ocean
Original Title: Cold Heart of the Ocean
Language: German (with English subtitles)
Duration: 48 min
Subject Focus: The Greenland Sea Project (GSP)
Synopsis: The film is based on the Greenland Sea Project
(GSP), which was aimed at observing and modelling the
atmospheric, ice, oceanic and biological processes relevant
to understanding the role of the Nordic Seas in the climate
system. The focus of the project is the thermohaline
circulation in the Greenland Sea, one of the most active
regions in the global oceans for deep water formation. The
formed water facilitates the global meridional overturning
circulation of the oceans and encourages the flow of warm
water into the region, which is largely responsible for the
relatively mild climate of Northwest Europe.
Contact Details:
P: 011-29955124, 29956110, 29956394; F: 011-29955879
W: www.cseindia.org
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Synopsis: Chico Mendes, leader of the Brazilian
rubbertappers, was assassinated in December 1988
because of his opposition to ranchers burning the Amazon
rainforest to provide pasture for their cattle. The burning
of the rainforest is estimated to account for about 20 per
cent of the gases currently contributing to global warming.
But the Brazilian economy is crippled by debt — and one
way for the government to earn foreign currency is to
exploit the wealth of the Amazon. This edited version of a
BBC investigative documentary analyses the conflict
facing Brazil: that between the imperatives of development
and the need to protect the environment.
Producer: Peter Molly
Production Company: BBC
Contact Details:
P: 011-26134103, 26890380; F: 011-26130817
W: www.devalt.org
English Title: Delhi Ridge: The Dying Lung
Language: English
Duration: 30 min
Subject Focus: Environmental pollution in Delhi — the
case of Delhi Ridge
Synopsis: Delhi is on its way to become the most polluted
city in the world. The city’s only lung — the Delhi Ridge —
is under the threat of encroachment from all sides. Will
the government have the political will and resources to
save it?
Contact Details:
P: 011-26134103, 26890380; F: 011-26130817
W: www.devalt.org
English Title: Earth Matters
Subject Focus: The state of the environment in India
Synopsis: The series takes a hard look at the state of the
environment in India: urban pollution, pressures on rural
India, stress on natural resources, and impact of
unthinking human development on India’s wildlife and
forests. It alerts the viewer, and examines his/her part in
these concerned issues and in solving them.
Commissioing Agency: Doordarshan
Contact Details:
Riverbank Studio
C-18, Chirag Enclave, New Delhi 110 048
P: 5163 2890, 2641 0684; F: 2621 6508
[email protected]
English Title: Earth Report II: After Kyoto
Original Title: Earth Report II: After Kyoto
Language: English
Duration: 27 min
Subject Focus: Global perceptions of climate change
post-Kyoto summit
Synopsis: Did the world emerge from the Kyoto summit
with an agreement that will mark the start of an effective
response to climate change? Or was it merely a political
fudge designed to appease the US Senate ? We get the
verdict from leading scientists, politicians and
environmental lobbyists. Some believe the Kyoto
agreement will be the starting point for a period of effective
action; others that of its own accord, buisness and industry
will go for clean energy without the ‘stick’ of government.
Director: Robert Lamb
Contact Details:
P: 011-29955124, 29956110, 29956394; F: 011-29955879
W: www.cseindia.org
English Title: Earth Matters — Noise Pollution
Original Title: Earth Matters — Noise Pollution
Language: English
Duration: 22 min
Format: Betacam
Subject Focus: Damaging effects of noise pollution
Synopsis: Earth Matters is an environmental series that
takes an in-depth and incisive look at the state of our
environment and wildlife, and attempts to educate and
sensitize people to the threats our environment is facing.
In this episode, the series looks into the damaging effects
of noise pollution. The most vulnerable victim is the unborn
child, though adults are equally susceptible and can suffer
permanent hearing loss.
Commissioing Agency: Doordarshan
Contact Details:
Riverbank Studio
C-18, Chirag Enclave, New Delhi 110 048
P: 5163 2890, 2641 0684; F: 2621 6508
[email protected]
CMS ENVIS Centre
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English Title: Earth Report VI: Baked Alaska
Original Title: Earth Report VI: Baked Alaska
Language: English
Duration: 27 min
Subject Focus: Environmental issues in Alaska
Synopsis: “The weather’s really changed. Every year,
we have mild weather,” says Alaskan elder Eleanor Sam
as she plucks the feathers from a freshly killed goose.
“When we were children, we all wore thick fur clothing.
We don’t wear clothes like that no more.” Stories like these
are pouring in from all over America’s last great wilderness.
And they’re backed by science: temperatures in Alaska
are rising 10 times faster than the rest of the world. Set
against this alarming example of climate change is a plan
for further oil development along the Arctic Refuge — an
issue that has divided the native Alaskan people. The
Inupiat people want the jobs and money. The Gwitchin
Indians think it will destroy the caribou reindeer on which
they depend. The oil industry has brought great prosperity
— every Alaskan citizen receives a yearly cheque from
oil profits — but each barrel of oil sent south and burned
comes back to Alaska as damage to the delicate balance
of Arctic life.
Contact Details:
P: 011-29955124, 29956110, 29956394; F: 011-29955879
W: www.cseindia.org
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English Title: Earth Report VI: Children of the
New Millennium
Original Title: Earth Report VI: Children of the New
Millennium
Language: English
Duration: 26 min
Subject Focus: Impact of environmental pollution on
children
Synopsis: Ten years ago at the Rio Earth Summit, the
UN warned that “environmental degradation was killing
children”. Today, while children make up only 12 per cent
of the world’s population, they still suffer over half the
burden of environmental diseases. This programme
investigates why children suffer disproportionately from
pollution and environmental degradation.
Contact Details:
P: 011-29955124, 29956110, 29956394; F: 011-29955879
W: www.cseindia.org
English Title: Earth Report VI: The Long Road to
Recovery
Original Title: Earth Report VI: The Long Road to
Recovery
Language: English
Duration: 27 min
Subject Focus: Chernobyl and after
Synopsis: It was the world’s worst nuclear accident: the
explosion and fire at Chernobyl’s No 4 reactor in April 1986.
Since then, 8,000 people have died, 2,000 have been
diagnosed with thyroid cancer, while another 8-10,000
cases are expected to develop in the next 10 years. A
new report from the UN claims the ‘psycho-social’ welfare
of those evacuated from the most contaminated areas
has also suffered; unemployment, depression and stressrelated illnesses are rife. The film introduces the viewer
to Ukrainian children who are seriously affected by thyroid
and other cancers, and exposes the everyday reality of
living with low-level radiation.
Contact Details:
P: 011-29955124, 29956110, 29956394; F: 011-29955879
W: www.cseindia.org
English Title: Earth Report VII (Hands On):
City Slickers
Original Title: Earth Report VII (Hands On): City Slickers
Language: English
Duration: 26 min
Subject Focus: Initiatives for urban management
Synopsis: In slums and shantytowns, local services for
sewage, housing and waste barely exist. This video
features five stories from around the world where citizens’
groups and neighbourhood committees are finding ways
of working with cash-strapped local councils.
English Title: Earth Report VII: Sky Pirates
Original Title: Earth Report VII: Sky Pirates
Language: English
Duration: 26 min
Subject Focus: Ozone depletion
Synopsis: Despite the rapid elimination of ozonedestroying chemicals, the hole in the ozone layer has not
been plugged. One reason is the illegal trade in CFCs
and other ozone-damaging chemicals.
Contact Details:
P: 011-29955124, 29956110, 29956394; F: 011-29955879
W: www.cseindia.org
English Title: Earth Report VIII: Before the
Tsunami-Part I
Original Title: Earth Report VIII: Before the Tsunami-Part I
Language: English
Duration: 23 min
Subject Focus: Disaster management
Synopsis: The scale of the death and destruction wrought
by the Tsunami in Asia has shocked the world. Though
earthquakes are difficult to predict, questions are being
asked. How many lives could have been saved if people
had been more aware and better prepared? The first part
of the two-part series takes viewers on a journey to the
world’s disaster hotspots. We assess what is being learned
from the natural disasters that affect the lives of some
200 million people every year. And we find that even in
the poorest nations, the loss of life and damage can often
be reduced by modest investment in early warnings and
public education.
Contact Details:
P: 011-29955124, 29956110, 29956394; F: 011-29955879
W: www.cseindia.org
CMS ENVIS Centre
Contact Details:
P: 011-29955124, 29956110, 29956394; F: 011-29955879
W: www.cseindia.org
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English Title: Earth Report VIII: Before the
Tsunami-Part II
English Title: Earthquake in Garhwal Region
Original Title: Earth Report VIII: Before the Tsunami-Part II
Language: English
Duration: 28 min
Original Title: Earthquake in Garhwal Region
Language: English
Duration: 8 min
Format: 35 mm
Subject Focus: Earthquake in Garhwal, 1991
Synopsis: According to the UN, between 1980 and 2000,
75% of the world’s population lived in areas that were
affected at least once by earthquakes, cyclones, floods
or drought. But as each new disaster takes its toll, what
are the lessons that can be learnt? Part II of this two-part
series travels to Kobe in Japan, Bam in Iran and to the
Swiss Alps to see how communities are planning for the
next natural disaster.
Contact Details:
P: 011-29955124, 29956110, 29956394; F: 011-29955879
W: www.cseindia.org
English Title: Earthen Sphere Needs Care
Original Title: Earthen Sphere Needs Care
Language: English
Format: DVD
Subject Focus: State of our environment
Synopsis: This animation film is about Mother Earth, which
has been affected by hazards caused by the human race.
The film begins in a house where a boy is playing with his
ball. The ball goes out of the house accidentally, on to the
road — and into a dirty drainage outlet.
Director: Kiran C. Patil
Producer: Vishal R. Pedanekar
Production Company: Kiran’s Creation
Contact Details:
Kiran C Patil
Aditya Tower, Shop No. 9 Behind Gurukrupa Apartment,
Canada Corner, Nashik 422005 Maharashtra
P: 0253-2315598; M: 09422253774
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Synopsis: The News Magazine highlights the devastation
in Garhwal wrought by the earthquake of October 1991. It
also shows the rehabilitation efforts initiated for the affected
people.
Contact Details:
Government of India
24, Dr. G. Deshmukh Marg, Mumbai 400 026, Maharashtra
P: 022-23515422, 23513176, 23516931, 23513633
F: 022-23515308, 23511008
English Title: Eco-Fridge
Language: English
Duration: 30 min
Subject Focus: Eco-friendly refrigerators
Synopsis: Countries are being asked to phase out the
use of chemicals that threaten the ozone layer. Until
recently, most refrigerators used ozone-depleting
chemicals. A new eco-friendly refrigerator has now been
introduced in European markets.
Contact Details:
P: 011-26134103, 26890380; F: 011-26130817
W: www.devalt.org
English Title: Effects of Air pollution on Materials
Format: U-Matic
Subject Focus: Impact of air pollution on materials (such
as historical monuments and buildings)
Synopsis: We normally pay attention towards pollution
which affects the health of human beings or any living
organism. This programme discusses the effect of air
pollution on materials — monuments and buildings.
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
English Title: Ek Sandesh Swasthaya ke Naam
(SPOT)
Language: Hindi
Duration: 44 min
Synopsis: Environment is the essence of life. The spot
equates a clean environment with the tenderness of a
flower and life in humans. Emissions from different sources
leads to the loss of tenderness and vigour in a rose, and
it reduces into a lifeless bulb. The two conditions of the
rose are similar to two conditions in the life of humans –
healthy and unhealthy.
Director: Amar Nath ‘Amar’
Producer: Doordarshan Kendra, Delhi
Contact Details:
Doordarshan Kendra, Delhi
P: 011-23716852, 23715822; F: 011-23421144
English Title: Effects of Noise Pollution on Health
Format: U-Matic
Subject Focus: Noise pollution
Synopsis: The programme discusses the effects of noise
on health, as well as the reasons behind noise pollution.
English Title: Emission Impossible
Original Title: Emission Impossible
Language: English
Duration: 24 min
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
Synopsis: The film starts in the United States where a
fraction of the world’s population contributes a quarter of
the greenhouse gases. In South Carolina, Emission
Impossible finds that climate change is already having a
devastating impact on a poor — mostly African-American
— community, but a majority of Americans accustomed
to cheap energy appear to care little about global warming.
The film contrasts their attitude with those of Europeans
and Latin Americans, and finds that the latter have become
the leaders in carbon trading, a step towards a global
solution to the problem. In Costa Rica, farmers are already
trading carbon in a global market.
Contact Details:
P: 011-29955124, 29956110, 29956394; F: 011-29955879
W: www.cseindia.org
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English Title: Environment Impact Analysis
English Title: Environmental Pollution-8
(Noise Pollution)
Original Title: Environment Impact Analysis
Format: U-Matic
Duration: 18 min
Format: Betacam
Subject Focus: Environment impact assesments
Synopsis: The programme focuses on environment
impact assesments and their objectives.
Synopsis: Environmental Sciences is a series of
programmes aimed at covering the syllabus of degree
courses, by enabling the students to identify with the
problem of degeneration of the environment and think
seriously about the ways to protect it. In this episode, the
causes and effects of noise pollution have been looked
into.
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
English Title: Environmental Autogenesis —
Is Our Tomorrow Safe?
Format: U-Matic
Subject Focus: Impact of pollution on our future
generations — environmental mutagents
Synopsis: We are aware that our environment is polluted.
But are we aware that pollution can not only affect us, but
our future generations as well? Pollution can trigger a
change even in the DNA structure. These are called
environmental mutagents. Tests done on plants and
animal cells reveal that some pollutants can cause such
havoc that the future generations could be totally different
from their parents.
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
(Natural Hazards: Cyclones)
Original Title: Environmental Science Series (Natural
Hazards: Cyclones)
Format: Betacam
Subject Focus: Cyclones; disaster management
Synopsis: A cyclone is a large weather system of winds
that rotates around a centre of low atmospheric pressure
with a speed over 100 km per hour. High winds are a
primary cause of cyclone-inflicted loss of life and property
damage. Another cause is the flooding resulting from the
coastal storm surge of the ocean and the torrential rains,
both of which accompany cyclones. In the film, Dr. A.
Balasubramanian of the University of Mysore, talks on
cyclones.
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
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English Title:
(Air Pollution)
Environmental
Science
Original Title: Europe Stories 2: Europe on Air
Language: English
Duration: 20 min
Format: Betacam
Synopsis: Mining, industrial processing, population
growth, and increase in the numbers of transport vehicles
are key sources of air pollution — and the result is acid
rain, global warming, photochemical smog and ozone
layer distraction. In this film, Dr. A. Balasubramainan of
the University of Mysore explains the sources of air
pollution and the methods to control it.
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
English Title:
(Atmosphere)
Environmental
English Title: Europe Stories 2: Europe on Air
Science
Original Title: Environmental Science (Atmosphere)
Format: Betacam
Subject Focus: Air pollution and its control in Europe
Synopsis: In Western Europe, frequent urban air quality
alerts are testimony to the failure to control pollution from
cars. With exceptions such as Amsterdam and
Copenhagen, official efforts to get Europeans out of their
cars and on to trains, buses and cycles have not been a
success. But cars are only one part of the problem; the
prosperous and environmentally conscious European
Union is a long way from dealing with other sources of air
pollution, some located in neighbouring countries in the
East. Earth Report travels to Austria and southern
Germany to report strategies that could point the way to a
pollution-free future. And there’s some encouraging
scientific evidence from Finland that nature is recovering
from acid rain.
Contact Details:
P: 011-29955124, 29956110, 29956394; F: 011-29955879
W: www.cseindia.org
Subject Focus: Atmosphere and environmental
degradation
Synopsis: The atmosphere is an important environmental
segment that controls most of the bio-geochemical
processes on earth. Perennial factors like light,
temperature, humidity and wind act as limiting forces,
making the atmosphere dynamic. The knowledge of the
earth’s atmosphere is essential to understand the
interrelations of its components with other spheres. Due
to drastic industrialization, the composition of atmospheric
air has been changing at a fast rate, leading to problems
like global warming, acid rain, photochemical smog, ozone
hole, etc.
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
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English Title: Even Vehicle Smoke Kills
English Title: Fistful of Steel
Original Title: Even Vehicle Smoke Kills
Language: English
Duration: 30 sec
Format: DV
Original Title: Fistful of Steel
Format: DV CAM
Subject Focus: Effects of vehicular pollution on our health
Subject Focus: ‘Development’ of the Yamuna riverbed
in Delhi — distorted notions of development
Synopsis: Most people are aware of the harmful effects
of cigarette smoking on the human body. But few are aware
that inhaling vehicular smoke can be as deadly. This PSA
uses a disturbed cardiac pattern and a racking cough to
effectively demonstrate the effects of vehicular pollution
on our health and urges us to be aware of the damage we
are doing to ourselves.
Director: Surojit Sen
Producer: Aakash Gupta
Production Company: Earth Communications Office
India Association (Eco India)
Contact Details:
Eco India
C-2, Panchseel Enclave, New Delhi
F: 011-41748395
http://www.eco-india.org/index1.htm
Synopsis: The film questions the notions of development,
while highlighting the ecological imbalance caused due
to concrete construction on the banks of the river Yamuna
in Delhi — five power stations, massive structures like
the Akshardham Temple, the Delhi Secretariat etc. It also
documents the displacement of peasants who are pushed
to the fringes in the name of development.
Award, CMS VATAVARAN 2005 in student category.
Directors: Leena, Nidhi and Sabir
Producer: A J K MCRC, Jamia Millia Islamia
Contact Details:
A J K MCRC, Jamia Millia Islamia
Jamia Nagar, New Delhi 110 025
P: 011-26987285; F: 011-26982263
W: www.jmi.nic.in
English Title: Experiment with Truth
Original Title: Experiment with Truth
Format: Betacam SP
Synopsis: The film focuses on pollution through a ruthless
experiment conducted on an 18-month-old child. But is
the experiment so contrived? Is it really an experiment at
all? The questions remain long after the last frame has
dissolved into nothingness — what remains is the truth.
Director: Amish Srivastava
Producer: Amish Srivastava
Contact Details:
Mr. Amish Srivastava
Associate Executive Producer, B A G Films, FC-23, Sector 16,
Film City, Noida 201 301, Uttar Pradesh
M: 9871693525
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English Title: Flight of Death
Original Title: Flight of Death
Language: English
Synopsis: This film dwells on man’s thirst for supremacy,
which has resulted in inventions that cause destruction to
the environment. Inventions like the nuclear bomb are nails
on earth’s coffin.
Director: Shashank Vinayak Amburle
Producer: Crest Animation Studios
Production Company: Crest Animation Studios
Contact Details:
Anish H. Mulani
Crest Animation Studios Ltd., B-22, Nandadeep Society, N. G.
Acharya Marg, Khardevnagar, Chembur, Mumbai 400 071
P: 022-25217788, M: 09869302520
English Title: For a Breath of Fresh Air
English Title: Give us a Life Please!
Format: Betacam
Original Title: Give us a Life Please!
Format: DV Cam
Subject Focus: Vehicular pollution
Synopsis: One of the greatest problems faced by urban
populations is atmpospheric pollution. According to
statistics, 60% of total pollution is caused due to vehicular
emissions. The programme describes the problem and
suggests steps to control it.
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
English Title: Fumes
Original Title: Fumes
Duration: 1 min
Synopsis: The film opens with the sequence in which a
man is shown smoking; the smoke coming out from his
mouth, turns into a dragon and kills the man, who morphs
into a skeleton.
Director: Amit Kapoor
Producer: B. P. Kapoor
Production Company: Anitoons Production
Contact Details:
Amit Kapoor
H-14/11, Malviya Nagar, New Delhi 110 017
P: 011-26673462
W: www.anitoonsindia.com
Subject Focus: Dangers of exposing children to an
environment contaminated by toxic elements
Synopsis: Children are our hope, our future. However,
with an increasingly contaminated environment and
hazardous exposure to toxic elements, they are put to
serious risk. The film is a chronicling of this serious
situation. The documentary also discusses the inevitability
of living with this danger.
Director: Ramesh Menon
Producer: The Energy and Resource Institute (TERI)
& Cooperation
Contact Details:
The Energy and Resource Institute (TERI)
P: 011-24682100; F: 011-24682144, 24682145
W: www.teriin.org
English Title: Global Dumping Grounds
Language: English
Duration: 52 min
Format: DVD
Subject Focus: Dumping of hazardous wastes
Synopsis: The US produces 500 million tonnes of
hazardous waste every year. The high cost of disposal
within the country together with loopholes in US
environmental laws, mean that hazardous contaminants
are shipped abroad to developing countries like Taiwan.
The film is an expose of the vested interests, which
influence the US policy on hazardous waste.
Directors: Lowell Bergman and Sharon Tiller
Producer: David Fanning
Production Company: The Center for Investigative
Reporting and KaED
Contact Details:
P: 011-26134103, 26890380; F: 011-26130817
W: www.devalt.org
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English Title: Global Environment Series:
A Breath of Fresh Air
Original Title: Global Environment Series: A Breath of
Fresh Air
Language: English
Duration: 20 min
Subject Focus: Air pollution and acid rain
Synopsis: The film examines all aspects of air pollution
— its causes, consequences and possible solutions. It
also looks into the subject of acid rain in Europe.
Contact Details:
P: 011-29955124, 29956110, 29956394; F: 011-29955879
W: www.cseindia.org
English Title: Global Warming
Duration: 21 min
Format: U-Matic
Subject Focus: Global warming
Synopsis: The issue of global warming is examined from
the perspectives of forest policy, ozone chemistry
management and space technology by three eminent
scientists.
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
English Title: Global Warming (Filler 3)
Format: Betacam
Synopsis: This is a capsule version of Environmental
Pollution through Natural Degradation, the main culprit
being man, who abuses and misuses his own land and its
environs. He is infact out to kill animal life on earth to an
extent of almost eliminating it. The question is, can man
live alone? On this blue planet : Will it (Earth) remain blue
with man’s notorious activities?
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
English Title: Green Bucks
Language: English
Duration: 52 min
Format: DVD
Subject Focus: Principle of sustainable development and
industry’s response to it
Synopsis: The film sets out to explore the way the concept
of sustainable industrial development is changing the face
of businesses around the world. One of the world’s largest
chemical companies, DuPont has embraced a policy of
corporate environmentalism and is currently phasing out
production of chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) worth US $750
million a year. The film also looks at new initiatives to foster
sustainable practices in the South with a UNIDO (the
United National Industrial Development Organization)
project to help clean up poisoned water emissions from
small tanning businesses in Africa.
Directors: Gabrielle Kelly, Nick Hart Williams
Producers: Gabrielle Kelly, Nick Hart Williams
Production Company: Nexus Television
Contact Details:
P: 011-26134103, 26890380; F: 011-26130817
W: www.devalt.org
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English Title: Green Earth
English Title: Green Man
Original Title: Green Earth
Language: Gujarati/Hindi/English
Duration: 14 min
Format: U-Matic
Original Title: Green Man
Language: Voiceover
Subject Focus: Enviromental pollution
Synopsis: God has made the earth beautiful, with enough
resources to sustain human and all other life comfortably.
He made man the crown of creation. It is up to man to
develop or destroy the earth, and he seems increasingly
inclined to do the latter. The programme looks at air, water
and noise pollution, and their impact on life, and
environment. What kind of an earth are we going to
bequeath to our children?
Contact Details:
P: 079-26300127, 26303114
English Title: Green House
Language: Hindi
Format: Betacam
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
Synopsis: The film is about a unique superhero, Green
Man, who saves the earth from the fiery grasp of Lava
Monster, a symbol of environmental hazards posed to the
world. It also criticizes the way urban cities continue to
churn out pollutants that feed this monstrous hazard.
Director: Prosenjit Ganguly
Producer: P. Jayakumar
Production Company: Toonz Animation India Pvt. Ltd.
Contact Details:
P. Jayakumar
Toonz Animation India Pvt. Ltd., 731-739, Nila Technopark
Campus, Trivandrum 695 081, Kerala
P: 0471-2700928/ 29; F: 0471-2700954
W: www.toonzanimationindia.com
English Title: Green Refrigerators: Ozone
Friendly
Language: English
Duration: 30 min
Synopsis: The most viable alternative to a conventional
refrigerator – the vapor absorption technology – was
invented almost a century ago, but was long neglected. It
uses ammonia as the medium and a simple source of
heat is sufficient to drive it. One company in India is
currently attempting to make this device more efficient
and popular.
Production Company: Doordarshan, India National
Broadcasting
Contact Details:
P: 011-26134103, 26890380; F: 011-26130817
W: www.devalt.org
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English Title: Green Terrors – Closing Polluting
Industries in Calcutta
English Title: Hands On Special — From Vogue
to Vehicle
Language: English
Duration: 30 min
Original Title: Hands On Special — From Vogue to
Vehicle
Language: English
Duration: 26 min
Synopsis: A neighbourhood in Kolkata is the home of
about 500 manufacuring units. They provide employment
to thousands and contribute substantially to the
government’s exchequer. But local residents are now up
in arms against the industries for polluting the air and
water.
Contact Details:
P: 011-26134103, 26890380; F: 011-26130817
W: www.devalt.org
English Title: Hands On Omnibus-Part Two
Original Title: Hands On Omnibus-Part Two
Language: English
Duration: 52 min
Subject Focus: Environment-friendly technologies
developed in Europe
Synopsis: This Hands On Special reports on green
technologies around Europe — from Denmark, France,
Sweden, Finland and the UK. From fashion to fuel cells,
the programme features clothes made from pineapple
fibre, cathedrals made from mud and state-of-the-art
buoys which work around the clock to detect pollution in
rivers and waterways.
Contact Details:
P: 011-29955124, 29956110, 29956394; F: 011-29955879
W: www.cseindia.org
English Title: Heads Up
Subject Focus: Initiatives to save the environment
Synopsis: Hands On is a series designed to look at what
individuals around the world are doing to save the
environment. This part includes nine stories from Spain,
Germany, Somalia, Mexico, Papua New Guinea, Thailand,
India, Peru and the Netherlands. Among the technologies
and processes featured are how hydrocarbons can be
substituted for ozone-depleting CFCs in Germany and
China; how a new widely available grass might be the
answer to farmers suffering soil erosion; and how fish
farms are helping to create profits for local communities.
Contact Details:
P: 011-29955124, 29956110, 29956394; F: 011-29955879
W: www.cseindia.org
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Synopsis: Barbara Pyle travels to the world’s most remote
inhabited island to meet scientists studying the ancient
civilization that built mysterious 30-foot statues. They are
learning lessons about climate change, and a culture that
used up its natural resources, a microcosm of what’s
happening today globally.
Contact Details:
P: 011-26134103, 26890380; F: 011-26130817
W: www.devalt.org
English Title: Healing the Coast
Original Title: Healing the Coast
Language: English
Duration: 30 min
Format: DVD
Language: English
Duration: 56 min
Format: DVD
Subject Focus: Post-tsunami rehabilitation
Synopsis: Healing the Coast is a journey that explores
the environmental restoration along Tamil Nadu’s coastline
in the post-tsunami context. Many groups have been
working doggedly for decades – trying to protect and
conserve coastal eco-systems; it was only after the
tsunami of 2004 that their work gathered momentum and
importance. The film looks at the re-plantation of coastal
forests in Auroville, the restoration of fields in
Nagapattinam and the slow healing of people in
Nagapattinam. The film ends with an ode to the beauty of
mangroves and their importance in our ecosystem
Director: Nina Subramani
(PSBT)
Trust (PSBT)
Contact Details:
P: 011-24355941; F: 011-24353825
W: www.psbt.org
Subject Focus: Environment-development conflict —
Papua New Guinea islander’s vs mining sector
tropical forests and mineral resources. The film
investigates three separate conflicts between local
Bouganville has been a focus of seething resentment
Director: Glenn Ellis
Producer: Sylvia Stephens
Production Company: Catma Films
Contact Details:
P: 011-26134103, 26890380; F: 011-26130817
W: www.devalt.org
English Title: Himalaya
Language: Hindi
Duration: 30 sec
Subject Focus: Waste management for saving the
Himalayas
Synopsis: This public service message is about
conservation of Himalayas and their natural wealth through
waste management.
Contact Details:
The Secretary
New Delhi - 110 003
P: 91-11-2436 1896, 2436 0721
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English Title: Hitler
English Title: In Harmony with Nature
Original Title: Hitler
Language: English
Duration: 25 sec
Format: DV
Original Title: In Harmony with Nature
Language: English
Format: Betacam
Subject Focus: Pollution control in mining areas
Synopsis: Hitler killed thousands of innocent people in
gas chambers. Today, vehicles are polluting environment
by expelling toxic gases — and everyone responsible for
this pollution is as guilty as Hitler.
Synopsis: At Bailadila Iron Ore Project, the oldest
mechanized mine of NMDC Ltd, afforestation is done not
only as a protective measure to control dust and noise,
but also to enhance the aesthetics and to create the
required biodiversity and enhance infiltration. The second
goal is to create wind brakes for controlling air pollution.
With its continuous environmental upgradation works, the
project is moving up steadily in its competitiveness apart
from maintaining sustainable development.
Director: Rani Jeyaraj
Producer: Rani Jeyaraj
Production Company: Trends Adfilm Makers Pvt. Ltd
Contact Details:
Trends Adfilm Makers Pvt. Ltd
Brown Skins, 9/9, The Worli Shiv Sai CHS, Opp. Glaxo,
Dr. Annie Besant Road, Mumbai 400 025
P: 022-24930730; F: 022-24930731
W: www.brownskins.net
English Title: How to Lessen Noise Pollution
Language: English
Duration: 30 min
Synopsis: Noise in factories and workplaces can be
hazardous for our ears. To protect our hearing faculties,
certain measures can be adopted — these are highlighted
in this story.
Producer: C. J. Reddy
Commissioning Agency: National Mineral Development
Corporation Ltd.
Contact Details:
National Mineral Development Corporation Ltd.
Tarangini Video Studio, C Block, Shanti Shikara Apartments
Rajbhavan Road, Somajiguda, Hyderabad 500 082
Andhra Pradesh
P: 040-23322846; F: 040-55660181
http://www.nmdc-india.com/
English Title: India and Montreal Protocol
Language: English
Duration: 30 min
Subject Focus: India and the Montreal Protocol
Contact Details:
P: 011-26134103, 26890380; F: 011-26130817
W: www.devalt.org
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Synopsis: The Montreal Protocol was signed by India to
keep up with the norms of climate change mechanisms.
How far has India been able to keep up its obligations?
Contact Details:
P: 011-26134103, 26890380; F: 011-26130817
W: www.devalt.org
English Title: India Inhales
English Title: Inside the Poison Trade
Original Title: India Inhales
Language: English
Duration: 25 min
Language: English
Duration: 52 min
Format: VHS
Subject Focus: India as a smokers’ paradise
Synopsis: The film discusses the concern of developing
countries on the dumping of toxic wastes by the European
Community.
Synopsis: Every day in India, another 55,000 children start
smoking — compared to the 3,000 children who take up
the habit in the US, where the numbers are falling. Tobacco
is one of India’s favorite pastimes: Indians spit it, chew it,
smoke it, and roll it. And, inspired by advertising for Wills
cigarettes which sponsors the Indian cricket team, children
believe that smoking improves cricketing techniques. Hardly
surprising, then, that with declining markets in the West,
and 50% of India’s population under the age of 25, the
major tobacco companies are increasingly targeting India
as their new growth market. The film explores the cynicism
of the major global tobacco companies’ campaigns in India,
and the work of the activists who have pledged to try to
stop them — and halt the soaring increase in cancer cases
in India that result from smoking.
Director: Amanda Rudman
Contact Details:
P: 011-29955124, 29956110, 29956394; F: 011-29955879
W: www.cseindia.org
English Title: Indoor Plants as Air Purifiers
Language: English
Duration: 30 min
Subject Focus: Toxic waste dumping
Environment (CSE)
Contact Details:
P: 011-29955124, 29956110, 29956394; F: 011-29955879
W: www.cseindia.org
English Title: Is God Deaf?
Language: English
Duration: 28 min
Format: Beta
Synopsis: Increasing politicization and commercialization of religion and the consequent use of loudspeakers
has resulted in noise pollution. People are afraid to speak
out for fear of being targeted by vested interests and
branded communal. So the nuisance continues in the
name of tradition, culture and religion. The film is the story
of one man, senior citizen H. S. D’lima, who realized that
unless the fear of the law wasn’t instilled in the minds of
both law enforcers and lawbreakers, nothing would ever
change.
Subject Focus: Indoor plants as air purifiers
Synopsis: People who work in closed air-conditioned
offices often feel ill due to the exposure to objects and
machines which emit chemicals. The use of certain indoor
plants can actually de-poison the air and make people
feel a lot better.
Director: Sanjivan Lal
Contact Details:
P: 011-24355941; F: 011-24353825
W: www.psbt.org
Contact Details:
P: 011-26134103, 26890380; F: 011-26130817
W: www.devalt.org
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English Title: Jal Pradushan — Ek Samasya
English Title: Jhelum — Purity to Pollution
Language: Hindi
Format: Betacam
Format: Betacam
Subject Focus: Pollution of the river Jhelum
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
English Title: Japan’s Lessons on Economy and
Environment — Our Pollution Experience
Original Title: Japan’s Lessons on Economy and
Environment — Our Pollution Experience
Language: English
Duration: 29 min
Subject Focus: Japan’s initiatives on cleaning up its
environment
Synopsis: After the devastation that precipitated the end
of World War II, Japan embarked on a period of intense
economic reconstruction — with the result that, today,
Japan’s gross national production ranks second only to
that of the United States. But there was a downside to
Japan’s economic miracle. With so much effort devoted
to economic revival, the devastating impact on the
environment was negle
cted. Using shocking footage
of a whole range of pollution-related diseases that
appeared in the 1950s — Itai-Itai, Minamata and Yakkaichi
Asthma — the film explores the clean-up measures taken
by the Japanese government and industry. With the benefit
of hindsight, a cleaner, healthier Japan is now offering to
share the lessons it learned with other countries embarking
on rapid economic development.
Director: Katsunori Arai
Contact Details:
P: 011-29955124, 29956110, 29956394; F: 011-29955879
W: www.cseindia.org
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Synopsis: The film begins its journey at the very source
of the Jhelum, Verinag, and follows the track through its
various tributaries till the river reaches its destination.
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
English Title: Kala Pahaar
Language: Hindi
Duration: 27 min
Subject Focus: Industrial air pollution and its impact on
human health
Synopsis: In the film, the father of a school child owns an
extremely polluting factory. The factory affects the local
residents, but the owner does not take any corrective
measures — till his daughter convinces him.
Producer: Pashupati Sharma
Production Company: M/s P. P. Productions
Contact Details:
The Secretary
New Delhi - 110 003
P: 91-11-2436 1896, 2436 0721
English Title: Keeping the Promise: The GEF in
Action
English Title: Landscape Designing for Better
Environment (Osho Teeth)
Original Title: Keeping the Promise: The GEF in Action
Language: English
Duration: 32 min
Format: U-Matic
Subject Focus: Re-greening land
Subject Focus: The Global Environment Facility
Synopsis: The film showcases the different activities
undertaken by the GEF (Global Environment Facility) to
contain environmental degradation, in the backdrop of
disappearing rainforests and coral reefs, rising emissions
of greenhouse gases, and CFCs from refrigerators etc.
causing an ozone hole almost the size of the US. The film
looks at case studies from Thailand, Zimbabwe and
Ethiopia. For instance, it examines the EKOTEZ initiative
— designing a machine which can siphon out CFC into a
storage container while repairing. GEF is supporting
initiatives like this in their effort to reach the market.
Contact Details:
P: 011-29955124, 29956110, 29956394; F: 011-29955879
W: www.cseindia.org
English Title: Killer Quake (News Magazine No.
252)
Original Title: Killer Quake
Language: English
Duration: 22 min
Format: 35 mm
Synopsis: The film demonstrates how a small effort can
transform a polluted dirty nallah into a beautiful garden.
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
English Title: Lead in Environment
Duration: 21 min
(CPCB)
Contact Details:
Ministry of Environment & Forests, Government of India
Parivesh Bhawan, CBD-cum-Office Complex
East Arjun Nagar, Delhi - 110 032
P: 011-22307233; F: 22304948
W: http://www.cpcb.nic.in
Subject Focus: Latur earthquake
Synopsis: The film documents the aftermath of the killer
earthquake that struck Latur and Osmanbad districts of
Maharashtra, and records the relief operations.
Contact Details:
Government of India
P: 022-23515422, 23513176, 23516931, 23513633
F: 022-23515308, 23511008
CMS ENVIS Centre
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Science (Marine Pollution)
English Title: Little Girl
Language: English
Format: Betacam
Original Title: Little Girl
Language: English
Duration: 30 sec
Subject Focus: Marine pollution
Synopsis: Most human activities in and around seas and
oceans (such as construction of harbors and ports) have
severe impacts on marine environments. In addition to
these, the discharge of radioactive wastes from nuclear
power plants, washing of ships and boats, mining and
mineral processing along coastal zones, off-shore oil well
drilling, submarine transport and underwater exploration
are also serious concerns. The film explains the nature of
marine pollutants and the methods to control them.
Synopsis: This PSM works on the analogy that vehicular
pollution is as bad as smoking and should not be allowed.
Sitting in the back seat of a car, a young girl rolls down
her window and inhales deeply — and ends up with a
coughing spasm due to the smog-filled air. The film ends
with a message aimed at igniting the conscience of all
parents: reduce vehicular pollution.
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
Science (Natural Hazards – Floods)
Language: English
Format: Betacam
Subject Focus: Floods and their control
Synopsis: Dr. A. Balasubramanian of the University of
Mysore explains the nature of floods, their causes and
impact on the environment, and the various methods to
control them.
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
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Directors: Sonia Bhatnagar & Bhavna Gupta
Producer: Abhinandan Sekri
Production Company: Earth Communications Office –
Contact Details:
Eco India
F: 011-41748395
W: www.eco-india.org
English Title: Living in Fear
Language: English, Hindi, Kannada and Malayalam
Duration: 33 min
Format: U-Matic
Subject Focus: Nuclear pollution
Synopsis: The film is about the long-term effects of
nuclear pollution — with the focus on the Indian Rare Earth
factory situated on the banks of the Periyar river in Kerala.
It gives an account of the occupational health hazards
and the possibilities of an environmental disaster due to
callous dumping of nuclear waste in the water.
Environment (CSE)
Contact Details:
P: 011-29955124, 29956110, 29956394; F: 011-29955879
W: www.cseindia.org
English Title: Living with Disasters
English Title: Living with Noise
Original Title: Living with Disasters
Language: English
Duration: 4 min
Format: Betacam
Synopsis: Droughts, floods, earthquakes and hurricanes
have claimed four million lives over the past 20 years,
and disrupted the lives of close to half the population of
the planet. Living with Disaster casts aside the familiar
news headlines of misery and destruction to present the
untold story — how relatively inexpensive investment can
reap huge rewards, reducing the cost, both in
reconstruction and in human suffering. In drought-prone
Zimbabwe, farmers have developed their own methods
for coping in the harshly arid conditions while in the
Philippines, the programme looks at ways to prevent a
typhoon becoming a full-scale disaster.
Contact Details:
P: 011-29955124, 29956110, 29956394; F: 011-29955879
W: www.cseindia.org
English Title: Living with Drought
Original Title: Living with Drought
Language: English
Duration: 49 min
Format: DVD
Subject Focus: Community initiatives against
Synopsis: Living with Drought examines how rural
communities in the Niger and Kenya are responding to the
severe changes wrought in their environment by climate
change, poverty and population pressures. Soil and water
conservation projects, such as stone terracing and tree
wind-breaks, have helped improve crop yields by as much
as 25 per cent in some regions. Projects like these, the film
concludes, have helped make small but measurable
advances in the fight against environmental degradation.
Producer: Eleanor Morris
Production Company: BBC/Open University
Contact Details:
P: 011-26134103, 26890380; F: 011-26130817
W: www.devalt.org
CMS ENVIS Centre
Synopsis: Rapid industrialization and the growing
demand for automobiles have made our environment
extremely noisy. This film, while identifying the noise
machines and their effect on our lives, explains how noise
can be reduced with minimum efforts and how people
working in noisy environs can protect themselves.
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
English Title: Lucia
Duration: 90 min
Format: DVD
Subject Focus: Urban poverty and the right to one’s
homeland
Synopsis: The film is based on an original screenplay by
the late Filipino director Uno Brocka, and chronicles a
family’s struggle to stay together and build a home in their
own country — a country, ironically, which operates an
open door policy for tourism and foreign investors. Driven
to destitution by the activities of foreign multinationals, by
pollution and militarization, Lucia is powerless to stop the
disintegration of her family as they are forced into the
slums of Manila.
Director: Mel Chionglo
Producer: Peter Firstbrook
Production Company: Manila Inter-Filrn/BBC
Contact Details:
P: 011-26134103, 26890380; F: 011-26130817
W: www.devalt.org
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English Title: Man and Environment
English Title: Melody…Out of Tune
Duration: 20 min
Format: U-Matic
Original Title: Raag Viraag Bhaye
Language: Hindi
Format: Betacam SP
Synopsis: The programme deals with the relationship of
man and environment — population growth, failing village
economies, migration, food shortages and deforestation
and how all these lead to increasing contamination.
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
English Title: Matchbox City
Language: English
Duration: 8 min
Subject Focus: The relationship of man and nature
Synopsis: In this PSM, music is shown as a divine gift, but
without pure air to breathe, one cannot imagine singing even
a single note. Illustrating the intimate relationship between
human beings and nature, the film creatively grapples with
the filmmaker’s dilemma on a cleaner environment.
Director: Pankaj Tiwari
Producer: Pankaj Tiwari
Centre (EMRC)
Contact Details:
Dr. Harisingh Gour V. V., Sagar 470 003, Madhya Pradesh
P: 07582-264153; F: 07582-264153
Subject Focus: Urban environment of Delhi
English Title: Miles to Go
Synopsis: The film takes Delhi as a case study to depict
the problems faced by urban dwellers — lack of clean
water, electricity and housing are just some of them.
Travelling through the slums, the grime, and among the
various population segments — including children — the
film exhorts viewers to get over their civic apathy and
ignorance and come forward to safeguard the
environment.
Original Title: Miles to Go
Language: English
Duration: 58 min
Format: Digital
Synopsis: The film is about a bus journey across India –
seven states, 6,000 kilometers in just 60 days — which is
unlike any other journey. The chosen destinations do not
feature in a tourist brochure: instead, they are India’s
forgotten backyards, inhabited by people brushed under
the carpet of indifference and apathy. This is a story of
individuals fighting for their basic rights.
Contact Details:
New Delhi 110 003
P: 011-24682100, 41504900; F: 011-24682144, 24682145
W: www.teriin.org
Subject Focus: Environmental conflicts and communities’
rights to livelihoods
Producers: Rajani Mani & Nina Subramani
Commissioning Agency: Greenpeace India
Contact Details:
Elephant Corridor Films
022 Maria Mansions, viviani Road, Richards Town
P: 080-4152 6137; M: 09845241260, 9810331301,
9811007797
W: www.elephantcorridor.org
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English Title: Modern Society, Plastics &
Environment
Format: Betacam
English Title: No Doubt at All
Original Title: No Doubt at All
Language: English
Duration: 24 min
Synopsis: The programme explains whether plastics are
really a threat to environment.
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
English Title: Mucking up the Med
Language: English
Duration: 51 min
Format: DVD
Subject Focus: Pollution of the Mediterranean Sea
Synopsis: Only 300 Monk seals, it is estimated, are
now left in the Mediterranean Sea. Victims of
environmental degradation and angry fishermen who
blame them for their dwindling catches of fish, the Monk
seal’s tragic demise has become a symbol of what has
happened to the Mediterranean Sea over the last 25
years. Over-development, over-fishing and the
relentless dumping of industrial waste and sewage have
turned it into a dangerous, disease-ridden and often
dead sea. The influx of 100 million tourists a year, the
lack of regulations covering waste dumping, and the
geography of the Mediterranean itself, where water
exchange through the Straits of Gibraltar can take up
to 200 years, makes the prospect of cleaning up look
grim.
Director: Ashley Bruce
Producer: Ashley Bruce
Production Company: TVE & TV Espanola
Contact Details:
P: 011-26134103, 26890380; F: 011-26130817
W: www.devalt.org
CMS ENVIS Centre
Synopsis: The world’s nations emerged from Kyoto with
an agreement by industrialised nations designed to
stabilise and then reduce greenhouse gases. At the Bonn
meeting of 161 governments, we find that little progress
has been made, especially in the US where there is no
sign that its mighty 25 per cent share of the world’s energy
use is likely to be reduced. Meanwhile, there is a small
but vocal minority who argues that the case for climate
change is still unproven. Earth Report goes to the cloud
forests of Costa Rica, the highlands of Ethiopia and to
Chesapeake Bay in USA to find that the evidence for a
changing climate is overwhelming.
Contact Details:
P: 011-29955124, 29956110, 29956394; F: 011-29955879
W: www.cseindia.org
English Title: Noise Pollution
Format: U-Matic
Synopsis: Noise pollution is a growing menace in our
society. Modern technological development has
established beyond doubt its deleterious effects on us.
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
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English Title: Noise Pollution
English Title: NTPC Ash Mount
Original Title: NTPC Ash Mount
Language: Hindi
Format: Betacam SP
(CPCB)
Contact Details:
Ministry of Environment & Forests, Government of India
Parivesh Bhawan, CBD-cum-Office Complex
East Arjun Nagar, Delhi - 110 032
P: 011-22307233; F: 22304948
W: http://www.cpcb.nic.in
Subject Focus: Pollution control measures undertaken
by industry
English Title: Noise Pollution in Developing
Countries
Contact Details:
Sanrakshan Bhawan 10, Bhikaji Cama Place,
New Delhi 110 066
P: 011-26198809; M: 9810548249; F: 011-26109668
W: www.pcra.org
Duration: 21 min
Format: U-Matic
English Title: Numbers
Synopsis: In the film, Dr. Kameswaran begins by
explaining how human hearing has evolved over
thousands of years and then discusses the diseases that
occur due to unduly high levels of noise. It is finally
emphasized that education, legislation and controls like
noise-free zones are all necessary to minimise noise
pollution in developing countries.
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
Original Title: Numbers
Language: English
Duration: 25 sec
Synopsis: Fifty lakh premature deaths; four lakh asthma
patients — these are some of the startling figures of air
pollution’s fallouts. The film attempts to establish in a
simple way that the Number Plate is a powerful reminder
of the havoc caused by vehicular air pollution. Every time
people look at the digits on a Plate, they think of the
alarming proportions to which health hazards caused by
vehicular emissions have risen.
Director: Veneet Raj Bagga
Producer: Rediffusion DYR Pvt Ltd
Production Company: Onions Films
Contact Details:
Rediffusion DYR
Rediffusion DYR Pvt Ltd, Vasisht House 7/2 & 7/3
Kalu Sarai, Begampur, New Delhi 110 017
P: 011-26521940-47, 011-26858109, M: 9811226976
W: www.rediffusiondyr.com
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English Title: Oceans and Climate Change
English Title: Our Beautiful Planet
Original Title: Oceans and Climate Change
Language: English
Duration: 19 min
Original Title: Our Beautiful Planet
Language: English
Duration: 120 min
Subject Focus: Impact of global warming on marine
environments
Subject Focus: Environmental pollution
Synopsis: This video news release marks the release of
a report Turning up the heat: How global warming
threatens life in the sea produced by WWF and the Marine
Conservation Biology Institute. This new scientific study
highlights impacts from the Poles to the Tropics — affecting
a range of species from phytoplankton to polar bears, sea
birds and coral reefs. In particular, it warns that global
warming could destroy the salmon fishing industry in
Alaska and Canada’s British Columbia.
Contact Details:
P: 011-29955124, 29956110, 29956394; F: 011-29955879
W: www.cseindia.org
Synopsis: A consortium of public broadcasting
organisations from Asia, Europe, North America and
Australia join forces to produce this two hour programme
on the global environmental crisis and global initiatives
needed to solve the crisis. The film illustrates by giving
examples of different countries and environmental
problems faced by them. It also includes a computer
analysis of potential climate change and presents results
of an international questionnaire answered by more than
7,000 environmental NGOs.
Director: Television Trust for the Environment (TVE)
Producers: NHK, TVO, ZDF, MPT, SBS, SVT, TTV,TVT,
HKTV, Central Independent TV (U.K.)
Contact Details:
P: 011-29955124, 29956110, 29956394; F: 011-29955879
W: www.cseindia.org
English Title: One Child, One Voice
Original Title: One Child, One Voice
Language: English
Duration: 46 min
Format: DVD
Synopsis: Seven children from around the world share
their hopes and fears for the future of the planet. Each
talks about critical environmental issues such as global
warming or acid rain that affect their countries — and the
possible solutions open to them. The film uses the
dramatic device of an eerie, surrealistic fair-ground at
Santa Cruz, California, to illustrate the variety of threats
to the global environment. The fairground scenes and the
children’s views are intercut with documentary footage
from around the world and the film concludes by urging
viewers worldwide to make their own ‘leaf’ pledges to
support environmental legislation.
Director: Malcolm Clarke
Producer: Elliot Rosenblatt
Production Company: Turner Broadcasting/Exec.
Producer — Peter Wagg
Contact Details:
P: 011-26134103, 26890380; F: 011-26130817
W: www.devalt.org
CMS ENVIS Centre
English Title: Our Daily Air
Original Title: Our Daily Air
Language: English
Duration: 35 min
Synopsis: “We are not only what we eat, but what we
breath”, claims presenter Paulo Betta in this investigation
into the quality of the air in Rio de Janeiro. To underline
his point, Betta sits cross-legged inhaling the fumes of
the heavy traffic entering one of the major underpasses
that traverse Rio de Janeiro, and then goes on to contrast
the experience with breathing the air at the mountain-top
retreat of one of its wealthier inhabitants. Betta discovers
that the city’s air reflects the political dynamics of his
country: there’s enough for everyone — with the vital
distinction that it’s pure for some, and polluted for many.
Director: Tete Moraes
Contact Details:
P: 011-29955124, 29956110, 29956394; F: 011-29955879
W: www.cseindia.org
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English Title: Our Present, their Future
English Title: Ozzy Ozone
Original Title: Our Present, their Future
Language: English
Duration: 40 sec
Format: DV
Original Title: Ozzy Ozone
Language: English
Duration: 10 min
Subject Focus: Pollution and environmental degradation
Subject Focus: Ozone depletion
Synopsis: This film shows a young boy engrossed in
making a drawing, colouring small squares and drawing
smoke circles in the air. After completing the picture, he
reviews his work and labels it as ‘scenery’. The final picture
that emerges is one of closely packed buildings, chimneys,
cars and a skyline crowded by bill boards and highrises.
That the young boy could not imagine a greener scene to
draw, is the message at the end of the PSM: we decide
the future of our posterity, and thus have an enormous
responsibility towards using natural resources wisely.
Synopsis: Ozzy Ozone is an animated film for raising
awareness about ozone layer protection. This video takes
a voyage of discovery to find out exactly who and what is
attacking the ozone layer and how children can play an
important role in making a difference.
Director: Lavanya Selvam
Contact Details:
Lavanya Selvam
No. 99, 4th Avenue, Ashok Nagar, Chennai 600 083
Tamil Nadu
P: 044-24894177, M: 09840606333
English Title: Oxygen Radicals and Antioxidants8 (Environmental Pollution)
Language: English
Duration: 18 min
Format: Betacam
Subject Focus: How environmental pollution affects our
bodies
Synopsis: Our environment is increasingly getting
polluted with pesticides, heavy metals, automobile
exhausts, industrial wastes, smoke and even tobacco
products. These pollutants and environmental
contaminants are present in the air we breathe, the water
we drink, and the food we consume. But are we doing
anything to decrease the toxic effects of these pollutants?
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
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Contact Details:
P: 011-29955124, 29956110, 29956394; F: 011-29955879
W: www.cseindia.org
English Title: Ped – The Tree
Original Title: Ped – The Tree
Format: Mini DV
Synopsis: Through a short story of a Sardarji and his
tree, the film presents its message: save trees, stop
pollution, and switch to eco-friendly fuel.
Directors: Rohan Manchanda, Meghan Srivastav, Kirti
Pandey, Shweta Dutta, Sami & Amit
Producer: Wigan and Leigh
Contact Details:
Sangeeta Nigam
Wigan and Leigh Collge, HOD, A 86, Sainik Farms, Central
Avenue, New Delhi 110 062
P: 011-29552849-51, M: 9811757924, 9811170536
W: www.wiganindia.org
English Title: Performance on Environment
Protection
English Title: Plasma Emission Spectroscopy
and Metallic Pollutants-2
Original Title: Performance on Environment Protection
Language: Hindi
Format: Betacam SP
Language: English
Format: U-Matic
Subject Focus: Metallic pollutants and their impact on
environment
Director: Chaman Gupta
Producer: Executive Director, Pteroleum Conservation
Production Company: Srishti Pictures
Contact Details:
Sanrakshan Bhawan 10, Bhikaji Cama Place,
New Delhi 110 066
P: 011-26198809; M: 9810548249; F: 011-26109668
W: www.pcra.org
English Title: Plasma Emission Spectroscopy
and Metallic Pollutants-1
Language: English
Format: U-Matic
Subject Focus: Detecting metallic pollutants
Synopsis: The programme focuses on the detection
process of metals in air, water and food by plasma
emission spectroscope.
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
English Title: Poisonous Snakes and Ladders
Original Title: Poisonous Snakes and Ladders
Language: English
Duration: 24 min
Subject Focus: Hazardous products and control over their
dumping
Synopsis: The Basel agreement was signed by nations
to control transfrontier dumping of hazardous wastes. A
decade on, ‘Earth Report’ finds that world-wide, new
compounds are posing new risks and there’s still the
problem of who is responsible for clearing up poisonous
sites around the developing world.
Contact Details:
P: 011-29955124, 29956110, 29956394; F: 011-29955879
W: www.cseindia.org
English Title: Pollution Blood for God
Language: English
Duration: 15 min
Production Company: Central Pollution Control
Board (CPCB)
Contact Details:
P: 011-2230 8902, 2230 6128, 2230 1932
F: 011-2230 7233, 2230 4948
W: www.cpcb.nic.in
CMS ENVIS Centre
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English Title: Pollution Due to Social Practices
English Title: Pollution-1 (Water, Solids and Air)
Board (CPCB)
Language: English
Format: Betacam
Contact Details:
P: 011-2230 8902, 2230 6128, 2230 1932;
F: 011-2230 7233, 2230 4948
W: www.cpcb.nic.in
English Title: Pollution Hazir Ho!
Language: Hindi
Duration: 16 min
Synopsis: Set in the backdrop of a court of justice, this
comic satire’s characters include Pollution and Ganga.
Pollution is accused of polluting Ganga and Yamuna. At
the end of cross-examination, the judge rules that since
people in general are also responsible, the matter should
therefore be refered to the peoples’ court.
Director: Gauri Shankar Raina
Producer: Doordarshan Kendra, Delhi
Contact Details:
Doordarshan Kendra, Delhi
P: 011-23716852, 23715822; F: 011-23421144
Synopsis: What are the reasons behind pollution? How
do water, solid particles or air get polluted? Dr. Vijay Joshi
and Dr. Bhushan Patvardhan discuss some of these
problems in this programme.
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
English Title: Pollution-2 (Let us Save Ourselves)
Language: English
Format: U-Matic
Synopsis: The programme deals with noise and water
pollution — their causes and effects — and suggests some
remedies.
English Title: Pollution-1 (Let us Save Ourselves)
Language: English
Format: U-Matic
Synopsis: The programme deals with environmental
pollution, its causes and control measures. It also looks
at indoor and outdoor air pollution.
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
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Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
English Title: Pollution-2 (New Frontiers in
Pollution Control)
Language: English
Format: Betacam
Subject Focus: Pollution control and management
Synopsis: Pollution control is emerging as a new field of
technology in coming decades. What are the opportunities
in environmrnt protection and management? Dr. Bhushan
Patvardhan and Dr. Vijay Joshi discuss.
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
English Title: Protecting the Ecosystem
Duration: 20 min
Format: U-Matic
Subject Focus: Environmental activism in Delhi
Synopsis: This is a programme on young environmental
groups in Delhi, and on the issues they have taken up
with respect to the preservation of natural forest belts,
combating pollution etc.
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
English Title: Race to Save the Sky
English Title: Pradooshan Kya — Kuchh Neetiyon
ke Sawal
Language: Hindi
Duration: 27 min
Format: U-Matic
Original Title: Race to Save the Sky
Language: English
Duration: 25 min
Subject Focus: Ozone depletion and eco-friendly
chemicals
Subject Focus: Industrial pollution in Udaipur, Rajasthan
Synopsis: The film documents the contamination of water
resources by industries in the Udaipur canal area of
Rajasthan. These industries also release poisonous gases
and have affected the people of the area, who are now
trying to organise and resist.
Environment (CSE)
Synopsis: Brokered by the UNEP, the 1987 Montreal
Protocol was criticised by environmental groups for not
being tough enough. In this film, we find the world is on
course to end the threat from ozone-depleting chemicals.
But we also find that the first generation of alternatives
are potent greenhouse agents. Now the race is on to get
industry and consumers to adopt hydrocarbons — the
climate-friendly alternative.
Contact Details:
P: 011-29955124, 29956110, 29956394; F: 011-29955879
W: www.cseindia.org
CMS ENVIS Centre
Contact Details:
P: 011-29955124, 29956110, 29956394; F: 011-29955879
W: www.cseindia.org
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English Title: Reality Bites
English Title: Smog Inc.
Original Title: Reality Bites
Language: English
Duration: 1 min
Original Title: Smog Inc.
Language: English
Duration: 26 min
Subject Focus: Environmental pollution
Synopsis: The story revolves around a child who is
following a holographic image of a butterfly. Placed in an
urban industrial setting, the film documents the pollution
being generated by industries.
Synopsis: While we chase the American dream of a car
for everyone, we keep paying heavily with our health. Cities
across the country are choking from vehicle exhaust. This
short movie takes an incisive look at the science and
politics of vehicular pollution. While industry has a
lackadaisical attitude in terms of technological
development and cleaning up their emissions, the
government turns a blind eye and puts the onus on the
vehicle owner — take care of your tailpipe, it says. At the
same time it continues to sell dirty fuels, which interacts
with poor technology to spew toxic emissions. While it
sells the auto-dream, the industry and along with it the
government fails to see the discipline and massive
investments required to follow the extremely toxic Western
model. The citizens continue to suffer.
Director: Clinton Remedios
Producer: Maya Academy of Advanced Cinematics
Contact Details:
Maya Academy of Advanced Cinematics (MAAC)
23, Shah Industrial Estate, Off Veera Desai Road, Andheri (E)
Mumbai 400 053
P: 022-26731145-48; F: 022-26730961
W: www.maacindia.com
English Title: Save the Ozone Layer: Every Action
Counts
Original Title: Save the Ozone Layer: Every Action Counts
Language: English
Duration: 18 min
Subject Focus: Ozone depletion and global efforts to
check it
Synopsis: Ozone layer depletion in the upper atmosphere
may no longer be front-page news, but the threat to
ecosystems and human health it poses has not
disappeared. The film talks about what nations can do to
halt the damage. Ozone is destroyed, mainly, by two
groups of chemicals: halons, used in fire-fighting
appliances, and chloroflurocarbons (CFCs), used in dry
cleaning, aerosol sprays, air conditioners and refrigerators.
Following the well-published hole in the ozone layer over
Antarctica in the 1980s, concern had increased to such
an extent that governments signed the Montreal Protocol.
One result has been the supply of technical guidance and
aid to expanding economies like China, encouraging them
to adopt more ozone layer-friendly methods of production.
Directors: Deirdre O’connell & Charlotte Metcalf
Contact Details:
P: 011-29955124, 29956110, 29956394; F: 011-29955879
W: www.cseindia.org
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Director: Pradeep Saha
Contact Details:
P: 011-29955124, 29956110, 29956394; F: 011-29955879
W: www.cseindia.org
English Title: Smoke This
English Title: Soil Pollution
Original Title: Smoke This
Language: English
Duration: 30 min
Format: DVD
Subject Focus: Air pollution and transport planning
Synopsis: The film concentrates on the plight of the autorickshaw driver in the context of the efforts of the
government to ‘clean and decongest’ the city of Delhi.
Director: Varun Mathur
Trust (PSBT)
Trust (PSBT)
Contact Details:
P: 011-24355941; F: 011-24353825
W: www.psbt.org
Board (CPCB)
Contact Details:
Parivesh Bhawan, CBD-Cum Office Complex,
P: 011-2230 8902, 2230 6128, 2230 1932
F: 011-2230 7233, 2230 4948
W: www.cpcb.nic.in
English Title: Sonic Litter
Duration: 21 min
Format: Betacam
Synopsis: The film deals with noise pollution in urban
centres and emphasises on the need to control this
environmental nuisance and health hazard.
English Title: So Let’s Wait for the End (Filler)
Format: Betacam
Synopsis: The spot uses the metaphor of a circle as the
underlying theme for conveying the relationship that exists
between the sun, earth, man and the menace of pollution
that he has created.
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
English Title: Source of Life
Language: English
Duration: 26 min
Format: VHS
Subject Focus: Environmental change and conservation
Synopsis: The film presents a seven-point agenda for
environmental change.
Environment (CSE)
Contact Details:
P: 011-29955124, 29956110, 29956394; F: 011-29955879
W: www.cseindia.org
CMS ENVIS Centre
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English Title: Spot on Environmental Pollution
(Filler)
Format: Betacam
Synopsis: The film is a comic look at what happens when
one is constantly exposed to pollution of all kinds — noise,
water and air.
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
English Title: Status Quo
Language: English
Duration: 7 min
Synopsis: Recent studies show that cities are becoming
increasingly noisy. This film takes a satirical look at the
problem of noise pollution.
Producer: Kuldeep Sinha
Contact Details:
Government of India
P: 022-23515422, 23513176, 23516931, 23513633
F: 022-23515308, 23511008
English Title: Spot on Noise Pollution (Filler)
English Title: Taj Mahal… Beyond the Love Story
Duration: 1 min
Format: Betacam
Original Title: Taj Mahal… Beyond the Love Story
Duration: 22 min
Format: DV Cam
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
Subject Focus: Impacts of environmental pollution on
historical monuments
Synopsis: Taj Mahal, one of the world’s greatest architectural
wonders, is under threat. Situated in Agra, one of India’s
most chaotic and polluted cities, this majestic monument is
gradually being consumed by fumes and chemicals
emanating from vehicles, diesel generators, factories,
foundries and refineries. To protect the Taj, the government
is prepared to close these industrial units, threatening jobs
of millions. In a poor country like India, can protecting a
monument be more important than livelihood needs?
Awards Received by the Film: Best Documentary Award,
Olomouc Film Festival, the Czech Republic; Best documentary
nomination, Cries for Justice Category, Pennsylvania Film
Festival; Best Documentary, Citimac Film Festival, Pune
Institute (TERI)
& Cooperation
Contact Details:
New Delhi 110 003
P: 011-24682100, 41504900; F: 011-24682144, 24682145
W: www.teriin.org
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English Title: The Adventures of Ecogirl and
Environman
English Title: The Global Changes — A Lecture
by Prof. M. G. K. Menon
Original Title: The Global Changes — A Lecture by Prof.
M. G. K. Menon
Format: U-Matic
Subject Focus: Disposal of garbage and air pollution
Synopsis: The film is a series of two environmental movies
made by student from classes VIII-X. Based on stories,
they drive home a social message. In the first (The
Adventures of Ecogirl), a girl named Leela Litterbug is
convinced by Ecogirl that her habit of littering was wrong
and unethical. In the second movie (The Adventures of
Environman), an industrialist, Mr. Moneybags, owns
factory that throws out a lot of smoke. Environman
convinces him to install new filters in the chimneys of his
factory.
Subject Focus: Global environmental changes
Synopsis: An International Symposium on Evolution of
Deserts was held in Physical Research Laboratory,
Ahmedabad in 1992. This film covers the presidential
address at the symposium by Prof. M. G. K. Menon, who
discussed issues related to global changes and the factors
affecting them.
Director: Students of Jiva Public School
Contact Details:
Jiva Public School
P: 0129-2429640, 2431198, 4041539, 4041540
F: 0129-2431198, 2296174
W: www.jiva.com
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
English Title: The Green House Effect
English Title: The Global Atmospheric
Consequences of Nuclear War
Language: English
Duration: 55 min
Format: VHS
Subject Focus: Impact of a nuclear war
Synopsis: The film shows the devastating impacts that a
nuclear war can have.
Environment (CSE)
Contact Details:
P: 011-29955124, 29956110, 29956394; F: 011-29955879
W: www.cseindia.org
CMS ENVIS Centre
Language: English
Duration: 50 min
Format: DVD
Synopsis: Carbon dioxide and other so-called
‘greenhouse gases’ emitted from power stations, cars,
factories and agriculture are trapping the Earth’s heat.
The film finds new evidence to show that global warming
has already begun.
Producer: Peter Ceresole
Production Company: BBC, Scandinature Films, TVE
Contact Details:
P: 011-26134103, 26890380; F: 011-26130817
W: www.devalt.org
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English Title: The Living Word
English Title: The Thinker
Original Title: The Living Word
Language: English
Duration: 32 min
Original Title: The Thinker
Language: English
Duration: 10 min
Format: 35 mm
Subject Focus: Pollution and development
Synopsis: Anil Agarwal from India and Knud Vilby from
Denmark discuss the issue of environmental pollution.
Agarwal points out the horrifying fact that 7,500 people
die every year because of air pollution. The film shows
how CSE is working on its campaign against air pollution.
Development in a poor country like India can’t be cheap.
If we are not ready to pay the price for it, we indirectly pay
it through this process of slow murder. The film also
focuses on how international policy makers look at it: do
they stress on ecology, or only economy?
Director: Clyde Niven
Synopsis: This is an animated presentation of the problem
of pollution.
Contact Details:
Government of India
P: 022-23515422, 23513176, 23516931, 23513633
F: 022-23515308, 23511008
Contact Details:
P: 011-29955124, 29956110, 29956394; F: 011-29955879
W: www.cseindia.org
English Title: The Wailing Glaciers
English Title: The Long Road to Recovery
Subject Focus: The deteriorating condition of glaciers
Language: English
Duration: 26 min
Synopsis: The documentary brings out the deteriorating
condition of glaciers and the threat it poses for the world.
A study has shown that glaciers are receding at the speed
of 20 to 50 meters per year. By the year 2035, all glaciers
will disappear. With the retraction of glaciers, glacial lakes
are formed. When the water level in these lakes rises, it
breaches the dam of ice and boulders, unleashing floods.
The recent Sutlej-Beas floods in Kulu and Manali are an
example.
Subject Focus: The impacts of Chernobyl
Synopsis: It was the world’s worst nuclear accident – the
explosion at Chernobyl’s Reactor No 4 in April 1986; 8,000
people died, 2,000 people have been diagnosed with thyroid
cancer, while a further 8,000-10,000 cases are expected
to develop in future. Now, a report from the UN claims that
the ‘psycho-social’ welfare of those evacuated from the most
contaminated areas has also suffered. Unemployment,
depression and stress-related illnesses are rife.
Production Company: Earth Report VI/TVE
Contact Details:
P: 011-26134103, 26890380; F: 011-26130817
W: www.devalt.org
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Original Title: The Wailing Glaciers
Language: English
Format: DV
Director: Manmohan Singh
Producer: Manmohan Singh
Production Company: N. K. Creations
Contact Details:
Manmohan Singh
H. No. 3043, Sector 37 D, Chandigarh 160 036
P: 0172-2687082, M: 09417047082
English Title: The Weeping Apple Tree
English Title: Through the Smoke Screen
Original Title: The Weeping Apple Tree
Language: English
Duration: 12 min & 22 min (2 Versions)
Format: DV Pal
Original Title: Through the Smoke Screen
Language: English
Duration: 7 min
Format: DV
Subject Focus: Climate Change
Synopsis: The film addresses the issue of climate change
by focusing on the shifting apple-growing belt in Himachal
Pradesh.
Synopsis: This film is on cleaning up polluting industries
in Ferozabad.
Director: Vijay S. Jodha
Producer: The British Government
Production Company: Vijay S. Jodha Production
Commissioning Agency: U.K. Environment Film
Fellowship 2005
Contact Details:
Vijay S. Jodha
Film Director, B-001 Krishna Apra Residency, Sector 61
NOIDA 201301
T: 98100 68930
Director: Madhurima Sen Bose
Commissioning Agency: TERI
Contact Details:
Krishnendu Bose
New Delhi 110 024
P: 011-24625896, 24654221; F: 011-24647310
English Title: Time to Make a Choice
English Title: Thermax Chillers
Language: English
Duration: 30 min
Format: Betacam
Subject Focus: Eco-friendly lifestyle
Synopsis: Countries are being asked to phase out the
use of chemicals that threaten the ozone layer. Until
recently, most refrigerators used ozone-depleting
chemicals. Thermax is one company which is devoting a
lot of R&D to develop eco-friendly fridges.
Synopsis: Man has constantly abused his environment;
the sudden climatic changes, the depleting ozone layer
etc are all signs of environmental degradation. The time
has come to focus on not only the quality of the products
that we manufacture, but also the material used in making
them. Western influences have made us slaves to the
plastic-polythene culture; the Barbie Doll is an example.
It’s time we reverted to our traditional nature-friendly
lifestyle.
Contact Details:
P: 011-26134103, 26890380; F: 011-26130817
W: www.devalt.org
CMS ENVIS Centre
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
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English Title: Toothpaste: A Boon or a Curse?
English Title: Toxicity
Language: English
Duration: 30 min
Original Title: Toxicity
Subject Focus: Toothpastes as environmental and health
hazards
Synopsis: Toothpaste is considered a ‘cure-all’ for all our
dental problems. But are we aware of the presence of
chemicals in it which could have adverse effects on not
only the environment, but also our health?
Contact Details:
P: 011-26134103, 26890380; F: 011-26130817
W: www.devalt.org
Synopsis: Times are changing: we live in concrete
jungles, our breathing spaces have become tighter. We
cannot depend even on the free air that we breathe,
because it has turned toxic.
Director: Jason Jerome Lakiang
Contact Details:
Jason Jerome Lakiang
ZICA STUDIOS, ZICA, Essel World, Gorai Island, Borivali,
Mumabi 400 091, Maharashtra
P: 022 2845 2312 / 2197; F: 022 2845 2692
098198972341(Vaibhav Shah)
[email protected]
www.zica.org
English Title: Top Guns and Toxic Whales
Language: English
Duration: 52 min
Format: DVD
English Title: Toxicity of Paints
Language: English
Duration: 30 min
Subject Focus: The conservation-development debate
Subject Focus: Oil-based paints
Synopsis: Six thousand years of warfare, combined with
20th century technological prowess, have peaked in the
skill and sophistication of the F-14A TomCat, the phantomlike Stealth Bomber and the ‘Top Gun’ pilots who fly them.
Worldwide, over US $1 trillion dollar goes towards
sustaining that machine. Meanwhile, millions of people
suffer from poisoned air, water and land, and from the
forces of drought, flood and storms. And, in the estuary of
the St. Lawrence River, the Beluga Whales are so heavily
polluted by man-made chemicals that they are classified
— while still alive – as toxic waste.
Director: Robbie Stamp
Producer: Lawrence Moore and Robbie Stamp
Contact Details:
P: 011-26134103, 26890380; F: 011-26130817
W: www.devalt.org
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Synopsis: Oil-based paints and their by-products — says
the film — are highly toxic and contain heavy metals like
cadmium, lead and titanium dioxide.
Contact Details:
P: 011-26134103, 26890380; F: 011-26130817
W: www.devalt.org
English Title: Turning the Tide (I): The Chips are
Down
English Title: Unborn Child
Language: English
Duration: 30 min
Format: VHS
Original Title: Unborn Child
Language: English
Duration: 30 sec
Format: DV
Subject Focus: Environmental problems and their
solutions
Subject Focus: Vehicular pollution and its impact on
unborn children
Synopsis: The film discusses various environmental
problems and possible solutions.
Synopsis: Pollution from vehicles is a silent killer. It
impacts not only our health, but also that of the unborn
child.
Environment (CSE)
Contact Details:
P: 011-29955124, 29956110, 29956394; F: 011-29955879
W: www.cseindia.org
English Title: Turning the Tide (VII): Bright Green
Language: English
Duration: 30 min
Format: VHS
Synopsis: Apart from explaining the world’s environmental
problems, the film also investigates whether current
political stuctures can meet the challenge.
Environment (CSE)
Contact Details:
P: 011-29955124, 29956110, 29956394; F: 011-29955879
W: www.cseindia.org
CMS ENVIS Centre
Director: Sameer S. Murudkar
Producer: Sameer S. Murudkar
Production Company: Earth Communication Office –
Contact Details:
Eco India
F: 011-41748395
W: www.eco-india.org
English Title: Unleaded Petrol
Language: English
Subject Focus: Vehicular pollution and clean fuels
Synopsis: The film shows how using unleaded petrol in
vehicles fitted with catalytic converters can help reduce
vehicular pollution.
Producer: Manoj Raghuvanshi
Production Company: M/s Resonance Communication
Pvt. Ltd.
Contact Details:
The Secretary
New Delhi - 110 003
P: 91-11-2436 1896, 2436 0721
309
English Title: Unnat Swasthyaki aur Makkhi
Niyantran
Language: Hindi
Format: Betacam
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
English Title: Uranium
Language: English
Duration: 48 min
Format: DVD
Subject Focus: Uranium contamination in Canada
Synopsis: Uranium from Canada’s Radium City mines
was used to make the atomic bombs that destroyed
Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Today, the Canadian federal
government stipulates that its uranium should only be used
for peaceful purposes. But, claims this documentary, the
pollution from uranium waste has become a time bomb
for Canada’s native people, and threatens to be almost
as devastating as those dropped to end the Second World
War. By the year 2000, 300 tonnes of uranium waste,
containing radioactive by-products, which contaminate
local water supplies, will have been dumped on land
traditionally used by the Mohawk.
English Title: Use your Brain (Filler)
Format: Betacam
Synopsis: The spot reminds people about the everincreasing numbers of vehicles on our roads today, and
the resultant problem of vehicular pollution.
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
English Title: Vasundhra (Atmospheric Pollution)
Language: English
Format: Betacam
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
English Title: Vehicular Pollution
Directors: Dale Phillips and Magnus Isacsson
Producers: Dale Phillips and Magnus Isacsson
Production Company: National Film Board of Canada
(NFBC)
Contact Details:
P: 011-26134103, 26890380; F: 011-26130817
W: www.devalt.org
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Language: Hindi
Duration: 25 min
Synopsis: The film documents the impact of vehicular
pollution on health.
Contact Details:
New Delhi 110 066
P: 011-26198856; F: 011-26109668
W: www.pcra.org
English Title: Vehicular Pollution
English Title: Wapsi
Duration: 60 sec
Language: Hindi
Duration: 37 min
(CPCB)
Contact Details:
P: 011-2230 8902, 2230 6128, 2230 1932
F: 011-2230 7233, 2230 4948
W: www.cpcb.nic.in
English Title: Video Game
Original Title: Video Game
Language: English and Malayalam (with English subtitles)
Format: DV CAM
Subject Focus: Community initiatives to control
Synopsis: This film recounts the story of the return of an
ex-defence forces personnel to his native village, and his
involvement in environmental pollution control activities.
Producer: The Biscopewala
Contact Details:
The Secretary
New Delhi - 110 003
P: 91-11-2436 1896, 2436 0721
English Title: Warning for Warming
Subject Focus: Cultural interchanges of modern times
Synopsis: The film is a complex video journey on a Motor
Car, that incorporates mythic themes of questing and
searching, the need for being, for love, for a home and for
a promise of a different future, and yet also serves as a
map of current cultural desires, dreams and fears. It begins
its Fetch-Decode-Execute cycle as the subject enters
“suburbs of hell”, the psycho-geographical zone in
transition where the soft technologies of the interior (the
body) and the hard technologies of the exterior (the
environment) are thrown together in collision and almost
surgically cut each other up.
Director: Vipin Vijay
Production Company: Holigrail Film Studio
Contact Details:
Vipin Vijay
24/273, TSRA, 105, Sastam Kovil Street, Thykad P O,
M: 09847318777
W: www.psbt.org
CMS ENVIS Centre
Format: U-Matic
Synopsis: This programme discusses the problem of
global warming and the various factors responsible for it.
It also analyses the effects — such as melting of glaciers,
increase in earth’s atmosphere, depletion of the ozone
layer, etc.
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
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English Title: Warning Signal
English Title: What is the Greenhouse Effect?
Original Title: What is the Greenhouse Effect?
Language: English
Duration: 12 mins
(CPCB)
Contact Details:
P: 011-2230 8902, 2230 6128, 2230 1932
F: 011-2230 7233, 2230 4948
W: www.cpcb.nic.in
English Title: We Too are Culprits
Format: Betacam
Subject Focus: How an individual contributes to pollution
Synopsis: We normally blame factories and vehicals for
causing pollution. The truth, however, is that all of us are
contributing towards causing pollution through our
everyday activities. The film brings this to the viewer’s
notice and appeals for minimising this trend.
Subject Focus: Greenhouse effect
Synopsis: This is a beginner’s guide to the phenomenon
that affects us all: the greenhouse effect. In the film,
experts present their views, and graphics and a variety of
examples and illustrations combine to complete the
picture.
Contact Details:
P: 011-29955124, 29956110, 29956394; F: 011-29955879
W: www.cseindia.org
English Title: What to do about Carbon Dioxide?
Language: English
Duration: 39 min
Format: VHS
Subject Focus: The greenhouse effect
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
Synopsis: The film explores the main aspects of the
greenhouse effect, and also looks at a range of
experiments conducted on plants to study the impacts of
pollution on them.
Environment (CSE)
Contact Details:
P: 011-29955124, 29956110, 29956394; F: 011-29955879
W: www.cseindia.org
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English Title: Wild Weather
English Title: Wrath of Nature
Language: English
Duration: 231 min
Format: DVD
Original Title: Wrath of Nature
Language: English
Director: John Maguire and Ben Fox
Producer: John Maguire and Ben Fox
Contact Details:
P: 011-23711401, 51497237 (D), 23711401; F: 011-23710717
English Title: Women in Paradise
Original Title: Women in Paradise
Language: English
Duration: 53 min
Subject Focus: Development and the North-South divide
Synopsis: This four-part series shows how small countries
are becoming victims to the hazardous growth of
developed countries. Due to global warming, sea levels
in the Maldives are rising at a threatening pace. Appeals
to the international community elicits no response. It shows
how industrialisation has led to uprooting the local
population.
Director: Petter Nome
Contact Details:
P: 011-29955124, 29956110, 29956394; F: 011-29955879
W: www.cseindia.org
CMS ENVIS Centre
Subject Focus: Natural disasters and how to combat them
Synopsis: In this three-part film, environmentalist Anil
Agarwal presents the problem of India’s increasing
susceptibility to floods and droughts and seeks to
understand the relation they have with degradation of the
environment. Part I explores the increase in flood-affected
areas in the country and analyses the Himalayan floods.
Part II looks at the increased incidents of droughts and
the conditions which are leading to this, as also
deforestation and its impact on rainfall. Part III presents
an agenda for change and shows how the country can
combat these growing problems.
Contact Details:
P: 011-29955124, 29956110, 29956394; F: 011-29955879
W: www.cseindia.org
English Title: Zoology (UVLC) (Air Pollution)
Language: English
Duration: 30 min
Format: U-Matic
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
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Water
English Title: A Day in a Village
English Title: A Narmada Diary
Language: English
Duration: 10 min
Language: Marathi, Hindi, Tamil, English and Bhili
Duration: 57 min
Subject Focus: Water and sanitation campaign
Subject Focus: Narmada Bachao Andolan
Synopsis: The film documents a campaign on clean water
and sanitation in rural areas. School children, women and
other members of the community participated in this
campaign, which used games, rallies, competitions,
exhibitions, workshops, discussions, and even music and
dance to send out its message.
Synopsis: The film documents five years in the life of the
Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA), which has spearheaded
the agitation against the dam. In a situation where
government resettlement and rehabilitation programmes
have proved inadequate and inappropriate, the NBA has
emerged as one of the most dynamic struggles being
fought in India today. In the name of progress, a relatively
self-sufficient, egalitarian and environmentally sound
economy and culture will be destroyed and a proud people
reduced to the status of refugees and slumdwellers.
Contact Details:
143, Kamala Mansion, Infantry Road
P: 080-22869094/9907; F: 080-22868209
English Title: A Matter of Life and Death
Original Title: A Matter of Life and Death
Language: English
Duration: 20 min
Format: 35 mm
Subject Focus: Water pollution
Synopsis: The film looks at the mounting threat of pollution
of water resources through industrial advancement and
increasing population.
Directors: Ms. Simantini Dhuru and Mr. Anand
Patwardhan
Contact Details:
Ms. Simantini Dhuru & Mr Anand Patwardhan
P: 022-5720780, M: 9820192398
English Title: A New Time of Cholera
Original Title: A New Time of Cholera
Language: English
Duration: 24 min
Subject Focus: Cholera 0139, a new strain
Contact Details:
Government of India
P: 022-23515422, 23513176, 23516931, 23513633
F: 022-23515308, 23511008
Synopsis: There has always been cholera in the wetlands
of Bangladesh. As the annual floods recede, they leave
behind a layer of silt - a natural fertiliser which enriches
the fields. But the same floods destroy communities and
spill into sewage pools. Wherever that human waste meets
water, cholera thrives. In 1993, the waters brought cholera
0139, a robust new mutation. Nicknamed ‘Bengal’, it has
now begun to spread beyond Bangladesh.
Director: Ron McCullagh
Contact Details:
P: 011-29955124, 29956110, 29956394; F: 011-29955879
W: www.cseindia.org
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Water
English Title: A Place in the Sun
English Title: A Short Story about Water
Original Title: A Place in the Sun
Language: English
Duration: 11 min
Format: 35 mm
Original Title: A Short Story about Water
Language: English
Duration: 24 min
Subject Focus: Water pollution and rainwater harvesting
Synopsis: This film tells a story: a shoal of fish, in search
of a safe and unpolluted place, moves from the river to
the unfamiliar environs of the sea, and eventual death.
Through this tale, the film attempts to highlight the issue
of water pollution.
Producer: Yash Chaudhary
Contact Details:
Government of India
P: 022-23515422, 23513176, 23516931, 23513633
F: 022-23515308, 23511008
Synopsis: The video concentrates on water pollution, the
major types of water pollutants, and issues related to water
quality and its impact on nature and human beings. The
importance and process of rainwater harvesting has also
been described in brief. This video is useful for
undergraduate students.
Producers: Jadgish Kulkarni, Y. C. M. Open University,
Nashik
Contact Details:
Jadgish Kulkarni
Y. C. M. Open University, Nashik
W: www.ycmou.com
English Title: A Tale of the Jamuna River
English Title: A River’s Story: The Quest for the
Brahmaputra
Language: English
Duration: 54 min
Subject Focus: The Brahmaputra River and its people,
the ecosystems, its history, geography and the culture.
Synopsis: The film takes a sympathetic look at the river
and its people, the ecosystems that it nourishes, as well
as its history, geography and the cultures and livelihoods
of the communities who live thaere. One river, three
nations, many cultures. Filmed on location in Tibet, North
East India and Bangladesh, a River’s story tells the stories
of communities through their own perspectives. In a rare
voyage, the film takes viewers to colourful places and
exotic communities along the river, which have been
isolated for centuries by time and distance. The film treats
the river as its main character, as creator, sustainer and a
natural life force, which is a friend to the people and the
ecosystems, which flourish on either bank.
Director: Sanjoy Hazarika and Jahnu Barua
Production Company: Sanjoy Hazarika, Mimesha
Production
Original Title: Oi Jamuna
Language: English
Duration: 60 min
Format: Betacam
Synopsis: The filmmaker and his crew follow the path of
the Jamuna on a boat. The film looks at the different
aspects of the river — its extent, its erosion, its shoals, its
fishes, and the most interesting, the people living on its
banks. The film contains a series of interviews with
fishermen, farmers, weavers, boat makers and folk-singers
who recount the impact of the Jamuna on their lives.
Director: Tanvir Mokammel
Producer: Massranga Productions
Production Company: Mohammed Wasim, Kalyan Patra,
Nibash Chisim, Chand Mia
Contact Details:
Tanvir Mokammel
Flat-5C1, House-15, Road-10, Dhanmondi R/A
Dhaka-1205, Bangladesh
P: 0088-0175-157385; F: 0088-02-8619913
W: www.tanvirmokammel.com
Contact Details:
Sanjoy Hazarika
B/14, Press Enclace Saket, New Delhi 110 017
P: 011-26864120, 9818010222
CMS ENVIS Centre
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English Title: A Valley Refuses to Die
Original Title: A Valley Refuses to die
Language: English (with English subtitles and voiceover)
Duration: 41 min
Subject Focus: The case against large dams; Narmada
project
Synopsis: This film, the earliest made against large dams
in India, documents the social and ecological problems
caused by the Narmada dams in central India. Focusing
on the Sardar Sarovar and Narmada Sagar projects, the
film highlights the problems of deforestation, displacement,
health, siltation, salinity and the impact on people’s culture.
Documenting different stages of protest between 1988
and 1991, the film is narrated through interviews of affected
adivasis, local farmers and activists.
Producer: ALCOM
Contact Details:
K. P. Sasi
Flat No. D, Ground Floor, Mayflower Laxmi Apartments, 63,
Sultanpalya Main Road, R. T. Nagar, Bangalore 32, Karnataka
P: 080-23650916;M: 9945282056
English Title: Alternatives in Development —
Pani Panchayat (I & II)
Language: English and Marathi
Duration: 50 min
Subject Focus: Water cooperatives
Synopsis: This film documents a water cooperative
movement of small farmers in a drought-prone taluka of
Maharashtra.
Environment (CSE)
Contact Details:
P: 011-29955124, 29956110, 29956394; F: 011-29955879
W: www.cseindia.org
English Title: And Quietly Dies Vasundhari
Original Title: And Quietly Dies Vasundhari
Duration: 10 min
Format: 35 mm
English Title: Ab Nahin Roothengey Badal
Language: Hindi
Subject Focus: Water revolution in Alwar, Rajasthan
Synopsis: This is a documentary on a miracle that happened
in the dry parched land of Alwar district in Rajasthan. Here,
the groundwater table had fallen to irredeemable depths due
to excessive deforestation and mining. The state government
had declared this area a ‘Dark Zone’. Today, almost all the
villages in this belt are green, with dense forests and charged
wells. Dead rivers have sprung to life. Water has transformed
not just the landscape but also the lives of the men and
women. Villagers are the architects of this change, and they
have been guided and inspired by Rajendra Singh, the ‘Water
Man’.
Director: Anand Syal
Contact Details:
Station Director, Doordarshan Jaipur
Jhalana Institutional Area, Jhalana Doongri
Jaipur 302 004, Rajasthan
P: 0141-2511519
318
Subject Focus: The plight of a village located near a
polluted river
Synopsis: The film deals with the lives of the people of
Vasundhari, a village near the Kalu river on the outskirts
of Mumbai. The village is inaccessible except through the
river, which is polluted by the effluents of nearby factories
that manufacture dyes and paints. The entire village is
slowly dying of mercury poisoning.
Contact Details:
Government of India
P: 022-23515422, 23513176, 23516931, 23513633
F: 022-23515308, 23511008
Water
English Title: Another Bhagirath
English Title: Assignment
Format: Betacam
Language: English
Subject Focus: Narmada project
Subject Focus: The Narmada dam and its impact
Synopsis: The Narmada Project is an unique water supply
system in Asia: here, water is lifted from 70 km and after
crossing 1,800-feet hills, brought to the city of Indore. This
programme depicts the technology used and other unique
features of this enterprise.
Synopsis: Assignment features a series of social and
human-interest stories that are a part of ‘India Matters’, a
STAR network programme. The stories are topical and a
particular theme is chosen for a week. The programme
speaks on behalf of unsung heroes, of people whose slient
suffereing tends to get ignored and whose triumph is very
seldom applauded. This story of Assignment focuses on
the Narmada tangle.
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
English Title: Arvari
Original Title: Arvari
Language: English
Duration: 14 min
Subject Focus: Rebirth of the Arvari river
Synopsis: This is a story of a small river, the Arvari, which
originates in Thanegazi block of Alwar district in Rajasthan.
The river, which had remained dried-up for years, has
come back to life through the concerted efforts of villagers
assisted by Tarun Bharat Sangh (TBS), a local voluntary
group.
Director: New Delhi Television (NDTV)
Producer: STAR India Pvt. Ltd.
Contact Details:
STAR India Pvt. Ltd.
Star Plus, 205-206, Okhla Industrial Estate, Phase-III
New Delhi 110 020
P: 011-26316113; F: 011-26317225
English Title: Badlaav
Language: Hindi
Duration: 25 min
Subject Focus: Water pollution caused by industry
Synopsis: This is a docu-drama depicting effects of water
pollution by hazardous industry in a village, where the
people are not aware of the toxic impacts of the effluents.
A school teacher tries to inform the people.
Contact Details:
P: 011-29955124, 29956110, 29956394; F: 011-29955879
W: www.cseindia.org
CMS ENVIS Centre
Producer: Mr. Kanwar Narula
Production Company: M/s Ad-ventures
Contact Details:
The Secretary
New Delhi - 110 003
P: 91-11-2436 1896, 2436 0721
319
English Title: Begin the Ocean
English Title: Bin Paani Sab Soon
Original Title: Begin the Ocean
Language: English
Duration: 5 min
Subject Focus: Water conservation
Synopsis: The natural environment in cities — including
water — is under threat. The message this visual narrative
sends out is that our attitude towards conservation of water
is as important as the act of conservation itself.
Director: Parag Ahire
Producer: Parag Ahire
Contact Details:
Parag Ahire
A-2/22, Gitanjali Nagar, Jasmine Mill Road, Mahim (E)
Mumbai 400 019
P: 022-24023814, M: 986739086
English Title: Between the Devil and the Deep
River
Original Title: Dui Paatan ke Beech Mein
Language: Hindi
Duration: 65 min
Format: 16 mm films
Subject Focus: Water mismanagement in Bihar in the
name of ‘protection from floods’
Synopsis: Shot in north Bihar, this film looks at the existing
development models that have destroyed the livelihoods
of millions of people. Over the years, with each consequent
flood, people had developed their own coping
mechanisms, which soon became integral to their culture.
But man-made floods and waterlogging over vast
agriculture lands have pauperized the people of Bihar.
Ironically, all this was done to “protect people from floods”!
Producer: Arvind Sinha
Commissioning Agency: Arvind Sinha
Contact Details:
Arvind Sinha
Producer, 17-A, Anil Roy Road, Kolkata 700 029
M: 9433014102; F: 033-24667632
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Director: Poonam Pal
Contact Details:
P: 011-26537456/26521882; F: 011-26512347
English Title: Bin Paani Sab Sunn
Original Title: Bin Paani Sab Sunn
Language: Hindi
Format: 16 mm films
Synopsis: The film highlights the significance of water
and looks at issues of distribution, pollution and scarcity
of water. It invites people to collect and save the resource.
Producer: Manish Jain
Commissioning Agency: Manish Jain
Contact Details:
Manish Jain
C/o Mr. Rajendra Jain, Sadar Bazar, Kukreshwar
Neemuch 458 116, Madhya Pradesh
P: 07421-231349
Water
English Title: Birthday
English Title: Boond Boond se Ghat Bhare
Original Title: Piranthanaal
Language: Tamil (with English subtitles)
Format: MINI DV
Original Title: Harvest of Rain
Language: Hindi
Duration: 48 min
Subject Focus: Chennai’s water problem; relationship
between human behavior and environment
Subject Focus: Water management
Synopsis: This is a fictional film based on a story by
Basheer — in the form of a conversation about a writer
who is having existential problems. The everyday tensions
of the real world threaten to overwhelm the writer, but he
regains his balance through the story he writes. The
background of the story is Chennai city, with its severe
water problems.
Director: K. Muthu Kumar
Producer: K. Muthu Kumar
Contact Details:
K. Muthu Kumar
470, Nakkirar Street, Madurai 625 019, Tamil Nadu
P: 0452-2458809; M: 09323799865
Synopsis: This video is dedicated to India’s traditional
water harvesting systems. The camera wanders through
Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan and Tamil Nadu, recording the
profound science of the people. The video analyses a wide
variety of systems as a function of differing ecological
terrains.
Contact Details:
P: 011-29955124, 29956110, 29956394; F: 011-29955879
W: www.cseindia.org
English Title: Boond Jiwandhara
English Title: Blue Planet: A Natural History of
the Oceans
Language: English
Format: DVD
Producers: Martha Holmes and Andy Byatt
Contact Details:
P: 011-23711401, 51497237 (D), 23711401; F: 011-23710717
Language: Hindi
Format: Betacam
Subject Focus: Rainwater harvesting
Synopsis: This is a documentary on rainwater harvesting
systems, and gives brief accounts of the ancient and
present modes of rainwater harvesting prevalent in India.
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
CMS ENVIS Centre
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English Title: CAPART Watershed Guidelines
English Title: Chandi ka Samander
Language: English
Duration: 30 min
Original Title: Chandi ka Samander
Language: Hindi
Format: Betacam
Subject Focus: Developing water resources
Synopsis: Watershed development projects fail to achieve
their desired results on account of faulty programme
design, inappropriate management structures and
inadequate technical skills. The film outlines these themes
and addresses the subject of development of water
resources.
Production Company: Samaj Pragati Sahayog
Contact Details:
Technology (CAPART)
New Delhi 110 003
P: 011-24642391,24642393,24642395
F: 011-24648607, 24625822
Subject Focus: A lake which is facing environmental
degradation and ecological imbalance
Synopsis: This documentary feature is the story of a lake
which faces the threat of extinction due to environmental
degradation. Sambhar Lake is situated 80 km. from Jaipur.
About two decades ago, it was the only salt-producing unit
in the region. Unfortunately, with the coming up of about 100
private salt manufacturers and due to ecological disbalance,
this freshwater lake, one of the biggest in Asia, is dying.
Producer: Anand Syal
Contact Details:
Doordarshan Kendra
Jhalana Institutional Area, Jhalana Doongri
Jaipur 302 012, Rajasthan
P: 0141-3711491; F: 0141-3711519
English Title: Chaliyar — The Final Struggle
English Title: Changing Currents: Boiling Point
Original Title: Bakkiipathram
Language: Malayalam
Duration: 35 min
Format: Beta
Original Title: Changing Currents: Boiling Point
Language: English
Duration: 26 min
Subject Focus: Industrial pollution and human rights —
the case of Grasim rayon in Mavoor, Kerala
Synopsis: In 1958, the government of Kerala persuaded
the Birlas to open a factory in Mavoor, north Kerala. The
Grasim rayon pulp factory has been operating since then.
Here, thousands of workers earn their living trading their
futures for the present. Fumes from the factory wing their
way into the neighbourhood, spreading disease and death.
Effluents gurgle into the Chaliyar river poisoning everything
on its way to the sea. At a time when environmentalism
was unheard of, a man led his people to save their river
and their lives from the killer factory.
Awards Received by the Film: ‘Bronze Tree Award’—
CMS VATAVARAN 2002; Special Jury Citation Award,
MIFF 2000
Subject Focus: Conflicts over water
Synopsis: The film investigates three flashpoints: the
Okavango river system in Africa, the Rio Grande in North
America and West Bank in water-starved Middle East, all
veritable powder kegs. While the ecologically vibrant
Okavango basin is witnessing a struggle between
governments bent on using the river for economic gains
and local populations who fear that the move will destroy
the delta, farmers across the borders in the US and Mexico
are at loggerheads over the sharing of the waters of the
Rio Grande. In West Bank, in the volatile Middle East,
conflicts over water allocation between Israelis and
Palestinians has led the Israeli army to destroy age-old
rainwater storage reservoirs of Palestinians and forced
the hapless people out of their lands.
Directors: P. Baburaj & C. Sarathchandran
Producer: C. Sarathchandran
Directors: Charlie Savile and Bruno Sorrentino
Contact Details:
C. Sarathchandran
Third Eye Communications, 101, North Fort Garden
North Fort, Tripunithura, Ernakulam 682 301, Kerala
P: 0484-784333
Contact Details:
P: 011-29955124, 29956110, 29956394; F: 011-29955879
W: www.cseindia.org
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Water
English Title: Changing Currents: Dam Dam Dam
English Title: Changing Currents: Net Profits
Original Title: Changing Currents: Dam Dam Dam
Language: English
Duration: 26 min
Original Title: Changing Currents: Net Profits
Language: English
Duration: 26 min
Subject Focus: The case for and against big dams
Subject Focus: Fishing industry
Synopsis: Environmental campaigners contend that vast
schemes such as the Three Gorges in China or Narmada
in India are social and environmental catastrophes in the
making. But their backers have a different view: big dams
provide non-polluting energy and control flooding.
Synopsis: A staggering one-third of the world’s protein
comes from fish. But 11 of the world’s 15 major fishing
grounds are seriously depleted. With no slackening in the
pace at which the seas are being over-fished, inland
freshwater fisheries are increasingly taking up the slack.
But they depend on a reliable supply of water. This
programme looks at measures underway to sustain the
boom in fish farming.
Contact Details:
P: 011-29955124, 29956110, 29956394; F: 011-29955879
W: www.cseindia.org
English Title: Changing Currents: Land of the
Rising Water
Original Title: Changing Currents: Land of the Rising
Water
Language: English
Duration: 26 min
Subject Focus: Urban water management in Japan
Synopsis: Built on flood plains, most of Japan’s megacities have taken recourse to high-tech civil engineering
solutions to tackle floods and conserve the country’s
wetlands. The film points out that besides these largescale projects, Japan also offers numerous low-cost, userfriendly community initiatives. These initiatives — such
as Nobuo Tokunaga’s small-scale rainwater harvesting
systems — are drawn from the nation’s 400-year-old
tradition of managing and harvesting water.
Director: John D. Liu
Contact Details:
P: 011-29955124, 29956110, 29956394; F: 011-29955879
W: www.cseindia.org
CMS ENVIS Centre
Contact Details:
P: 011-29955124, 29956110, 29956394; F: 011-29955879
W: www.cseindia.org
English Title: Changing Currents: Not a Dirty
Word
Original Title: Changing Currents: Not a Dirty Word
Language: English
Duration: 26 min
Subject Focus: Community initiatives is water and
sanitation
Synopsis: Not a Dirty Word looks at the issue of access to
safe water and basic sanitation, and its centrality to any kind
of development process — from India’s Sulabh International’s
acclaimed low-cost, self-financed sanitation facilities that have
led to rehabilitation of scavengers, to the successful Orangi
project in Pakistan’s Karachi, which has used a grassroots
movement to create a self-financed sanitation grid.
Directors: Amber Delahooke and Rob Sullivan
Contact Details:
P: 011-29955124, 29956110, 29956394; F: 011-29955879
W: www.cseindia.org
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English Title: Changing Currents: Plumbing the
Rights Part I
English Title: Changing Currents: Pumping
Pressure
Language: English
Duration: 26 min
Language: English
Duration: 26 min
Subject Focus: The right to water
Subject Focus: Water crisis and its impact on food
security
Synopsis: Plumbing the Rights-1 focuses on the issue of
water as a common property and a right that is
indistinguishable from the right to life. The film documents
local communities from India and South Africa striving to
maintain this right in the face of official opposition. In the
Indian state of Rajasthan, where community efforts have
revived traditional water harvesting structures called
johads, villagers of Lava ka Baas are resisting the state
government’s move to destroy their johad. In South Africa,
official curb on access to water for people who cannot
pay for it is forcing communities take the water illegally.
Synopsis: What impact will dwindling water resources
have on our future ability to feed ourselves? Globally,
agriculture uses more than 70 percent of the fresh water
drawn from lakes, rivers and underground reserves. But
with a rising population and growing water demand, the
film asks whether there will be enough fresh water to grow
sufficient food, let alone provide enough to drink. While
underground reserves are being pumped dry, new ways
to catch rainfall could provide a solution to a future water
crisis.
Environment (TVE)
Contact Details:
P: 011-29955124, 29956110, 29956394; F: 011-29955879
W: www.cseindia.org
Contact Details:
P: 011-26134103, 26890380; F: 011-26130817
W: www.devalt.org
English Title: Changing Currents: Plumbing the
Rights Part II
Language: English
Duration: 26 min
Subject Focus: The right to water
Synopsis: Is water a gift from God, a human right, or just
a resource to be traded like any other? The World Health
Organization is using the concept of human rights to help
achieve clean water for all and to find remedies for the
crisis in governance which, they argue, denies people their
right to life. The film visits communities in Ghana and
Bolivia who are now fighting for their right to water.
Contact Details:
P: 011-29955124, 29956110, 29956394; F: 011-29955879
W: www.cseindia.org
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Water
English Title: Changing Currents: Pumping
Pressure
Original Title: Changing Currents: Pumping Pressure
Language: English
Duration: 26 min
Subject Focus: Scarce water resources and local innovations to conserve water
Synopsis: This short film documents the plight of miningaffected people in South Africa: a platinum mine there
has taken away the livelihood and water of the
Gamolekana community. For this community, hope could
lie in South Africa’s new Water Law, if it can be fully
enforced. The camera then visits the districts of Mehsana,
Bhavnagar and Rajkot in Gujarat, India where
communities have found new ways to catch rainwater.
Contact Details:
P: 011-29955124, 29956110, 29956394; F: 011-29955879
W: www.cseindia.org
English Title: Changing Currents: Tell-tale Signs
Original Title: Changing Currents: Tell-tale Signs
Language: English
Duration: 26 min
Subject Focus: Climate change and its impact on the
availability of water
Synopsis: Devastating floods and droughts — the film’s
tell-tale signs of changing hydrological processes — have
become common in regions such as Orissa in India and
Mozambique in Africa. In Orissa, the neglect of traditional
water management systems and the official policy of
dependence on large-scale development schemes have
compounded the problem, while in Mozambique, dams
over the Zambezi are the culprits. The worst hit, in both
cases, are the poorest of the poor. The film puts forth a
strong case for communities and official agencies to work
together to adapt to changing climate.
Contact Details:
P: 011-29955124, 29956110, 29956394; F: 011-29955879
W: www.cseindia.org
English Title: Changing Currents: Tunnel Vision
Original Title: Changing Currents: Tunnel Vision
Language: English
Duration: 26 min
Subject Focus: Reviving traditional water supply systems
Synopsis: Dutch film-maker Joshka Wessels records the
revival in Syria of a system of underground irrigation that
started to fall into disuse at the time of the Roman
occupation. The ‘Qanats’ are a membrane of tunnels
starting again to supply water to farmers in this arid country.
It is believed the Persians invented the system almost
three thousand years ago. A case of back to the future?
Contact Details:
P: 011-29955124, 29956110, 29956394; F: 011-29955879
W: www.cseindia.org
CMS ENVIS Centre
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English Title: Changing Currents: Water on the
Brain
Original Title: Changing Currents: Water on the Brain
Language: English
Duration: 26 min
Subject Focus: Global negotiations on water
Synopsis: The film is a curtain-raiser to the 3rd World
Water Forum in Japan. It features a cross-section of
experts, ministers and the people who live daily with the
struggle to find enough clean water to survive. What are
their expectations from the Forum? Will the world emerge
with a plan for meeting the water ‘crisis’?
English Title: Children of the Narmada
Language: English
Duration: 13 min
Subject Focus: Displacement; Narmada
Synopsis: This film looks at the people who face
displacement as a result of construction of dams on the
Narmada.
Director: Betwa Sharma
Contact Details:
Betwa Sharma
CII/125 Satya Marg, Chanakyapuri, New Delhi 110021
P: 011-26883988
Contact Details:
P: 011-29955124, 29956110, 29956394; F: 011-29955879
W: www.cseindia.org
English Title: Cherrapunji – Rain, Rain
Everywhere, But Not a Drop to Drink
Original Title: Cherrapunji – Rain, Rain Everywhere, But
Not a Drop to Drink
Language: English
Format: Betacam SP
Subject Focus: Severe drinking water crisis and failure
of agriculture in Cherrapunji
Synopsis: This film focuses on the severe drinking water
crisis in Cherrapunji, one of the wettest places on earth.
This irony of fate — people trekking long distances to fetch
drinking water even as the heavens pour — has been
brought about by indiscriminate felling of forests in this
area. Worse, even the rains, once the pride of Cherrapunji,
have decreased due to the felling.
Director: Madhumita Nag Chakraborty
Trust (PSBT)
Contact Details:
P: 011-24355941; F: 011-24353825
W: www.psbt.org
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English Title: Chilika, the Wonder Lagoon
Language: English
Duration: 18 min
Format: 35 mm
Subject Focus: The Chilika lake
Synopsis: Chilika, in Orissa, is the largest inland brackish
water reserve in Asia. One hundred and fifty species of
birds visit Chilika every year, making the place a birdwatchers’ paradise.
Director: R. Krishna Mohan
Contact Details:
Government of India
P: 022-23515422, 23513176, 23516931, 23513633
F: 022-23515308, 23511008
Water
English Title: Chilika: A Fragile Eco-System
English Title: Clean Water
Original Title: Chilika: A Fragile Eco-System
Language: English
Duration: 30 min
Format: DVD
Original Title: Clean Water
Format: Digital Video (DV)
Subject Focus: Degradation of Chilika
Synopsis: The film documents the degradation of the
fragile ecosystem of Orissa’s Chilika Lake due to the
increase in the population around it, a disregard for
conservation and the uncontrolled expansion of prawn
culture in its waters.
Director: Nirad N. Mohapatra
Trust (PSBT)
Trust (PSBT)
Contact Details:
P: 011-24355941; F: 011-24353825
W: www.psbt.org
English Title: Chilka
Language: English
Subject Focus: Degradation of Chilika’s ecosystem
Synopsis: Chilika has begun showing signs of
degradation — high sedimentation rate, decrease in
salinity concentration levels, prolific growth of aquatic
weeds, decrease in fish productivity and overall shrinkage
of wetland area. Some of the reasons behind these signs
are the increasing population in and around the lagoon,
disregard for conservation and especially uncontrolled
expansion of prawn culture in the lagoon.
Director: Nirad N. Mohapatra
Contact Details:
P: 011-24355941; F: 011-24353825
W: www.psbt.org
CMS ENVIS Centre
Subject Focus: Educating nomads and tribals about clean
water
Synopsis: The subject of the film is based on a study in a
nomadic camp of the Medhangijoshi tribe in Ambernath,
in Maharashtra. In the camp, most of the people suffer
from water-borne diseases. This film is to make them
aware of the need to use clean water and counsel them
on how to get clean water. The bull is used as a mascot to
drive home the moral: Don’t drink dirty water, drink only
clean water.
Director: Rajendra Sameer
Producer: Rajendra Sameer
Production Company: Media Lab Asia (Education
Project)
Contact Details:
Media Lab Asia
Kresit Dept., IIT Mumbai, Mumbai 400 076
P: 022-25764989, M: 09819620415
W: www.cfilt.iitb.ac.in/narajt
English Title: Clean Water is Our Basic Right
Original Title: Clean Water is Our Basic Right
Language: English
Duration: 23 min
Subject Focus: Local initiatives to solve water crisis
Synopsis: This film talks about how water brought job
opportunities for the residents of the waterless and
drought-prone areas of Gujarat. Women from the districts
of Surendranangar and Banaskantha share their
experiences on how the water campaign was initiated to
find out workable solutions to water-related problems.
Contact Details:
Sewa
P: 079-26580474; F: 079-26587708
W: www.sewa.org
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English Title: Coleridge’s Lament
English Title: Coral Triangle
Language: English
Original Title: Coral Triangle
Language: English
Duration: 45 min
Subject Focus: The Hussain Sagar lake, Hyderabad
Synopsis: Since the 18th century, the Hussain Sagar lake
in Hyderabad has served the city as its principal water
source. Built at a time when the city’s population was less
than five lakh, it has been a mute witness to Hyderbad’s
urbanization over the years. At a time when lakes are
turning into ponds and ponds into puddles, can any one
bet on the lake water remaining as pristine as ever?
Director: P. K. Sai Prakash
Producer: Audiovisual Research Centre, Hyderabad
Contact Details:
Audio Visual Research Centre (AVRC)
Osmania University, Hyderabad 500 007, Andhra Pradesh
P: 040-7098659
English Title: Conserving Water for Irrigation
Language: English
Duration: 20 min
Format: 16 mm
Subject Focus: Water conservation and sustainable
irrigation
Synopsis: The film demonstrates various methods of
irrigation and conserving water, and focuses on judicious
use of water for optimal growth of crops. Various water
sources and drip irrigation systems have been dealt with
in detail.
Technology (CIET)
Contact Details:
P: 011-26864801, 26864802, 26864803; F: 011-26864141
W: www.ciet.nic.in
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Subject Focus: Coral reefs of the Philippines
Synopsis: The coral reefs of the Philippines make up the
largest section of the Malay Triangle in Southeast Asia’s
seas. With 400 different types of corals, the coral triangle
is the most diverse coral ecosystem in tropical waters and
considered by some marine scientists to be the cradle of
coral evolution. The film finds that throughout the
Philippines, the living resources of the coral reef — the
fish, shells and coral itself — are being plundered. Further,
onshore deforestation is leading to siltation which is stifling
the living corals.
Director: Lenora Carey
Contact Details:
P: 011-29955124, 29956110, 29956394; F: 011-29955879
W: www.cseindia.org
English Title: Cursed by a Blessing
Language: English
Subject Focus: Environmental degradation due to
waterlogging in the Saryupaar region of Uttar Pradesh
Synopsis: This is a documentary on the problems of
waterlogging and flash floods being faced by people living
in the areas beyond the rivers Saryu, Gandak and Rapti.
The documentary is addressed to policy makers, and
shows how faulty planning can damage the environment,
deteriorate land and ecosystems and affect life.
Directors: Abha Dayal & Puneet Tandan
Contact Details:
Abha Dayal, Swati Visuals
A-6, Navbharat Times Appts., Delhi 110 091
P: 011-22750193, 22716380; F: 011-22716380
Water
English Title: Dal — Looking for Life
English Title: Depleting Water
Date/Month/Year of Production: Jluy 2000
Format: Betacam
Format: Betacam
Subject Focus: The Dal Lake
Subject Focus: Water crisis in Punjab
Synopsis: The Dal Lake in Kashmir is getting polluted;
the only thing that can save it is immediate retrieval
measures. Steps have been taken in this direction by
authorities. The film probes the cumulative effect of these
retrieval measures and examines whether these measures
are ecologically viable.
Synopsis: Punjab, the land of the five rivers, is facing an
acute shortage of water for irrigation. It is a matter of
serious concern in a society which depends on agriculture
for its prosperity. The film shows how large-scale paddy
sowing has led to severe depletion in reserves, and aims
to educate the people about the consequences of the
Green Revolution.
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
Production Company: APAT
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
English Title: Delhi — The Receding Waters
English Title: Do Your Bit
Original Title: Delhi – The Receding Waters
Language: English
Duration: 6 min
Format: DVD/VCD
Original Title: Do Your Bit
Language: English
Duration: 30 sec
Format: DV
Subject Focus: Delhi’s water crisis
Subject Focus: Individual efforts to conserve water
Synopsis: This film on the water problems faced by Delhi
was screened at the Manila conference of Water in Asian
Cities.
Synopsis: The film aims to inspire people to do their bit
to conserve water. In the film, while a man lets the washbasin tap run in his bathroom, his seven-year-old son
watches a documentary on TV which shows slum children
pumping a hand-pump in vain. The child closes the tap,
and to his surprise, finds water now flowing from the village
hand-pump in the documentary. The happiness on the
children’s faces in the documentary brings a smile to his
face as well.
Directors: Krishnendu Bose and Benoy Jha
Commissioning Agency: Asian Development Bank
Contact Details:
Krishnendu Bose
New Delhi 110 024
P: 011-24625896, 24654221; F: 011-24647310
Awards Received by the Film: Best Public Service
Message Spot Award — CMS VATAVARAN 2005
Director: Anand Thakur
Producer: Ogilvy & Mather Advertising Ltd
Production Company: Earth Communications Office
Contact Details:
Eco India
F: 011-41748395
W: www.eco-india.org/index1.htm
CMS ENVIS Centre
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English Title: Don’t Just Worship it – Rivers
English Title: Drinking the Sky
Original Title: Don’t Just Worship it – Rivers
Language: Hindi
Format: DV CAM
Original Title: Drinking the Sky
Language: English
Duration: 24 min
Subject Focus: How we worship and defile rivers at the
same time
Synopsis: This film tries to revive the real spirit of religion
and harness it for conservation. In Hinduism, rivers are
worshipped as goddesses. But at the same time, people
defile and pollute these very rivers.
Director: Mandakini Mathur
Contact Details:
Mandakini Mathur
Devrai, Panchgani Co-Op Housing Society
Satara/ Panchgani 412 805, Maharashtra
P: 02168-241220, M: 09422604440
Subject Focus: Water management
Synopsis: Dutch filmmaker Joost de Haas travels first to
the wettest place on earth, then the driest. In Cherapunjee
in north-east India, more than twice as much rain falls in
one day than what falls on Holland over an entire year. In
Chile’s Atacama desert, not a drop of rain falls from one
year’s end to the next. Both places are populated — and
therein lies the intrigue: how do you cope with life and
manage water in either of these two spots on earth?
Director: Joost M. De Haas
Contact Details:
P: 011-29955124, 29956110, 29956394; F: 011-29955879
W: www.cseindia.org
English Title: Drakhi
Duration: 60 min
Subject Focus: Drought and its management
Synopsis: Drakhi is the story of a young boy Somu and
his relationship with his cow, Drakhi. Somu lives in a
drought-stricken village, and is shocked when his mother
— unable to feed Drakhi — sends her away to a cattle
camp. Somu travels to the cattle camp, and realizes that
he cannot take Drakhi back until his village finds a way to
cope with drought. The film has been set in the Banni
region of Kuchh in northwest Gujarat — once a vast
expanse of natural grassland, and today vulnerable to
frequent droughts. Increasing pressures of grazing,
neglect of traditional water and soil management systems
and uncontrolled spread of exotic plant species have
transformed this area into a near desert.
Contact Details:
Karnataka
P: 080-22869094/9907; F: 080-22868209
330
English Title: Earth Report V: Hope and the Nile
Original Title: Earth Report V: Hope and the Nile
Language: English
Duration: 27 min
Subject Focus: The Nile River
Synopsis: Ten countries share the waters of the Nile today.
But in a region already beset with dispute, a population
predicted to double in 25 years and natural resources
already stretched to the limit, the potential for hostility over
water is huge. So now, the Nile Basin countries are
embarking on an international co-operation in an attempt
to head off the threat, provide much needed social and
economic development and protect the Nile itself. The
video travels down the river to uncover the social and
environmental problems facing the countries of the Nile
basin, and to see what hope there is on the horizon.
Contact Details:
P: 011-29955124, 29956110, 29956394; F: 011-29955879
W: www.cseindia.org
Water
English Title: Earth Report VI: Healing the Rift
English Title: Ek Shahar ka Dard
Original Title: Earth Report VI: Healing the Rift
Language: English
Duration: 26 min
Format: DVC (PRO), (Mini DV)
Subject Focus: Lake Baringo in Kenya
Synopsis: Land plus water equals food: an obvious
equation, but one all too frequently overlooked. But this is
the policy behind a project to revitalize Lake Baringo in
Kenya’s Rift Valley. Since the 1980s, the lake has been
rapidly turning into a swamp. As the lake has shrunk, its
fish population and the wildlife that lived around the shores
went into a sharp decline. Soil run-off from farmers’ fields
is a major cause of the crisis. Not only is it choking life in
the lake, but also the degraded land can no longer produce
sufficient food for the local population. Now, local farmers
are being encouraged to use techniques which stop the
soil being washed away. They’re already getting better
yields and hopes are growing that the lake itself will recover.
Contact Details:
P: 011-29955124, 29956110, 29956394; F: 011-29955879
W: www.cseindia.org
English Title: Earth Workers (Two People, One
Movement)
Format: Betacam
Synopsis: With more and more wetlands falling prey to
development and industrialization, it is time to sit up and
take note. The film highlights the ecological importance
of maintaining wetlands and two peoples’ movements that
have successfully done so. In the first, a movement around
the village of Hainburg along the Danube near Vienna
(Austria) led to the creation of the Donau Auen National
Park. In the second, the villagers of Alwar in Rajasthan,
India, regenerated six extinct rivers giving a new lease of
life to the farming community.
Subject Focus: Environmental crisis in Udaipur
Synopsis: Udaipur’s famed lakes and fountains are dying.
Extensive deforestation has left the region denuded. The
film exhorts the viewer to take immediate steps to save
the city’s water bodies and environment.
Director: Dr. Pradeep Kumawat
Producer: Alok Sanskar Vision Creative Society
Production Company: Alok Sanskar Vision Creative
Society
Contact Details:
Dr. Pradeep Kumawat
Alok Sansthan, Hiran Magri, Sector 11, Udaipur 313 001,
Rajasthan
P: 0294-2583488, M: 09414158880; F: 0294-2584745
W: www.aloksansthan.org
English Title: Environment and Engineers at Lake
Sonoma
Language: English
Duration: 38 min
Format: VHS
Subject Focus: Lake Sonoma — environmentallysustainable development
Synopsis: The film tells the story of how engineers —
while constructing dams on Lake Sonoma — carefully
preserved the environment around the region.
Environment (CSE)
Contact Details:
P: 011-29955124, 29956110, 29956394; F: 011-29955879
W: www.cseindia.org
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
CMS ENVIS Centre
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English Title: Environmental Science
(Coastal Elusion)
Format: Betacam
English Title: Fate Worse than Floods
Original Title: Fate Worse than Floods
Language: English
Duration: 48 min
Subject Focus: Coastal ecosystems
Subject Focus: Controlling floods in Bangladesh
Synopsis: The life and the environment of coastal
ecosystems are controlled by various abiotic and biotic
factors of both land and the sea. Coasts are not static but
dynamic environments involving mass and energy
transformations of waves and currents. In the film, Dr. A.
Balasubramanian, an environmental expert, explains the
geomorphology of coasts, causes of erosion etc.
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
(Estuaries as Marine Ecosystems)
Format: Betacam
Synopsis: This programme is based on the syllabus of
the undergraduate course in environmental sciences. It
deals with definition and description of estuaries,
ecological characteristics of estuaries, estuarine life,
productivity of estuaries and the protection of estuaries.
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
Synopsis: The annual monsoon rains arrive in
Bangladesh each June, flooding the world’s largest river
delta, fertilising the fields and replenishing fish-ponds. But
in 1987, exceptionally heavy monsoon rains led to the
worst flooding in 30 years, with widespread death and
destruction. Overseas donors were swift to respond, first
with emergency aid; later, with a new Flood Action Plan
(FAP) aimed at taming the great rivers. But, as Bjørn
Vassness’s documentary makes clear, the designers of
the FAP made a fundamental mistake: they failed to
consult the local people about their needs.
Director: Bjorn Vassnes
Contact Details:
P: 011-29955124, 29956110, 29956394; F: 011-29955879
W: www.cseindia.org
English Title: Floating Gardens
Format: Betacam
Subject Focus: The Dal Lake, Srinagar
Synopsis: The film is about the vegetable gardens of Dal
Lake, as well as the geography of the lake and its past
and present status. It introduces the vegetable-sellers
living on the lake, their economy and their culture.
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
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Water
English Title: From Birth to Salvation
English Title: Ganga
Original Title: From Birth to Salvation
Language: English
Duration: 11 min
Format: Betacam
Language: English
Format: VHS
Subject Focus: Conserving water resources
Synopsis: This dance drama depicts the beauty of river
Ganga. It also traces the story behind the river’s descent
to earth, its pollution and the efforts at cleaning it up.
Synopsis: This is a film on the use and misuse of water.
It is based on a success story in Burhanpura, and aims to
establish the crucial significance of water in human life.
Subject Focus: River Ganga
Environment (CSE)
Producer: Suman Ganguli
Contact Details:
ENTECAVE
87, Saraswati Kunj, 25, Patparganj, Delhi 110 092
P: 011-22476033; M: 9810840033
Contact Details:
P: 011-29955124, 29956110, 29956394; F: 011-29955879
W: www.cseindia.org
English Title: From the Sea to the Droplets…
English Title: Ganga-I
Original Title: Samudra se Boond Tak…
Language: Hindi
Duration: 7 min
Format: Digital
Language: Hindi
Subject Focus: Water and human beings
Synopsis: This is the first film in a two-parts series on the
river Ganga. It traces the evolution of the river from
Gomukh and takes the viewer through the plains to
Hardwar, highlighting the changing beauty of Ganga and
its spiritual and socio-economic aspects.
Synopsis: Samudra se Boond Tak… is an insight into
how human beings and water affect each other, an account
of how much water is a part of our lives — yet how much
it is apart from our lives. Through pictures, music and a
few words, the aim is to depict the reality and preciousness
of water in its different forms.
Producers: Priyanka S./Siddharth S./Paricher T.
Contact Details:
Priyanka S./Siddharth S./Paricher T.
D-46, Mahendru Enclave, Opp. Model Town-III
New Delhi 110 009
P: 011-27218536
CMS ENVIS Centre
Subject Focus: The river Ganga
Producer: Sudhir Saxena
Contact Details:
P: 011-26864801, 26864802, 26864803; F: 011-26864141
W: www.ciet.nic.in
333
English Title: Ganga-II
English Title: Gavri Gatha
Language: Hindi
Language: Gujarati (with English subtitles)
Duration: 45 min
Subject Focus: The river Ganga
Subject Focus: Water, health and sanitation
Synopsis: This is the second film in the series.
Synopsis: This video programme aims at creating
awareness about the linkages between water, health and
sanitation. Targeted at villagers in the fluoride-affected
villages of Lathi and Liliya taluka of Amreli district, the
programme highlights the importance of active
participation of people in resolving issues related to
drinking water, health and sanitation.
Producer: Sudhir Saxena
Contact Details:
P: 011-26864801, 26864802, 26864803; F: 011-26864141
W: www.ciet.nic.in
English Title: Gangasagar
Contact Details:
143, Kamala Mansion, Infantry Road, Bangalore 560 001,
Karnataka
P: 080-22869094/9907; F: 080-22868209
Language: Hindi
Duration: 56 min
Subject Focus: The Gangasagar Fair
English Title: Gilded Mirror
Synopsis: This is a film on the colourful and vibrant
Gangasagar Fair that takes place at the confluence of
the Ganga and the ocean on Makar Sankranti (15th
January).
Original Title: Gilded Mirror
Language: English
Duration: 19 min
Format: Betacam
Director: Dhananjoy Mandal
Production Company: Mou Films
Contact Details:
Dhananjoy Mandal
South Dulya (Oppsite Christian School), P. O. Dulya
Howrah 711 302, Kolkata
P: 033-26791724, 21193790; M: 094333 92836
Subject Focus: Sustainable development and water
resource management at Loktak Lake, Manipur
Synopsis: In Manipuri folklore, it is said that while the
Loktak Lake is like a mirror, Lord Thangjing is its gilding.
The characteristic feature of the Lake is its floating mats
of vegetation, known locally as Phoomdis. The Lake, one
of the biodiversity hotspots of the world, is also a great
reservoir of fish and a winter home for waterfowl. But its
existence is now under threat from the construction of the
Ithai hydropower project. Deforestation and deposition of
silt into the lake have added to its problems. The film
examines the project and its underlying issues in detail.
Producer: Satyen Wanchoo
Commissioning Agency: Mr. Ujwal choudhary
Contact Details:
Director, Avifauna Films
E-122, II Floor, Greater Kailash II, New Delhi 110 048
P: 011-51639318/19; F: 011-51639318
334
Water
English Title: Glimpses from the Dal
English Title: Hands On-1 — Water Ways
Original Title: Hay Valay
Language: Hindi
Original Title: Hands On-1 — Water Ways
Language: English
Duration: 24 min
Director: Anumita Dasgupta
Contact Details:
P: 011-26537456/26521882; F: 011-26512347
English Title: H2O
Original Title: H2O
Language: English
Format: Betacam
Synopsis: The theme of the film is using water wisely. If
all the world’s water supply was put in a bucket, the
moisture clinging to a finger dipped in it represents all the
freshwater available to the world’s six billion inhabitants.
Most of the stories in the film come from the developing
world: Malaysia, where a campaign is protecting forested
watersheds to keep streams clean and flowing all year
round; Nepal, where ram-pumps are becoming popular;
South Africa, where children playing on a roundabout
pump up water for a nearby vegetable garden; and
Greece, where water ‘cigars’ are coming to the rescue of
parched islands.
Subject Focus: Water and its importance for life
Synopsis: This is a film on water, a dynamic and key
natural resource. Seventy percent of the earth is covered
with water. Virtually everything that is living, survives on
this wonderful gift of God.
Contact Details:
P: 011-29955124, 29956110, 29956394; F: 011-29955879
W: www.cseindia.org
Producer: R. Ramsay
Contact Details:
Doordarshan Kendra
24, Ashok Marg, Lucknow 226 001, Uttar Pradesh
P: 0522-2205754
English Title: The Hard Edge
Original Title: The Hard Edge
Language: English
Duration: 30 min
Subject Focus: Saving the Zambezi river system
Synopsis: The film documents the efforts of southern
African nations to preserve the Zambezi river system and
its lagoons, lakes, wetlands and wildlife preserves,
reconciling the needs of the wildlife and people sharing
its waters.
Director: Peter Ceresole
Contact Details:
P: 011-29955124, 29956110, 29956394; F: 011-29955879
W: www.cseindia.org
CMS ENVIS Centre
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English Title: Harsud — The Making of a Ghost
Town
Original Title: Harsud — The Making of a Ghost Town
Duration: 45 min
Format: Mini DV
Subject Focus: Submergence of a town due to a large
dam
Synopsis: The film narrates the saga of destruction of a
town due to its submergence caused by the construction
of a large dam on river Narmada, and the plight of its
inhabitants due to the sorry state of rehabilitation and
viable livelihood sources.
Director: Pravin Pagare
Producer: Abhivyakti Media for Development
Production Company: Abhivyakti Media for Development
Contact Details:
Abhivyakti Media for Development
31 A, Anandvali, Gangapur Road, Nashik 422 013,
Maharashtra
P: 0253-2346128
English Title: Harvest of Rain
Original Title: Harvest of Rain
Language: English
Duration: 48 min
Subject Focus: Traditional water harvesting systems
Synopsis: This video is dedicated to India’s traditional
water harvesting systems. The camera wanders through
Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan and Tamil Nadu, recording the
profound science of the people.
Contact Details:
P: 011-29955124, 29956110, 29956394; F: 011-29955879
W: www.cseindia.org
English Title: Hunting Down Water
Original Title: Hunting Down Water
Duration: 32 min
Format: Digital
Subject Focus: Social dimensions of the water crisis
Synopsis: “These things look good only on television…
things about economy and saving water and all that,” say
Nidhi and Madhur looking fresh after a rain dance party.
Or take the case of Somabhai Patel of Memna village in
Gujarat, who owns 14 borewells on his agricultural land
and admits: “The water used to be at 100 feet below the
ground just a few years ago, now it has gone down to 500
feet.” These are quotes that reinforce the fact that the
present water crisis is largely of our own making. It is not
about failing monsoons or the fact that parts of India are
naturally dry. Water is diverted from the rural countryside
to meet the unending needs of India’s urban population –
not just for drinking, but also, to wash cars, fill swimming
pools, to water amusement parks or simply to flush. The
film studies the dynamics of this man-made crisis.
Producer: Moving Images
Commissioning Agency: Winrock International
Contact Details:
Moving Images
D-3, 3425, Vasant Kunj, New Delhi 110 070
P: 011-26893384, 26124317, 26524940; M: 09818299212
W: www.movingimagesindia.com
English Title: Importance of Water
Original Title: Paani ka Mahatva
Language: Hindi
Format: Digital
Subject Focus: The water crisis in Delhi
Synopsis: The film focuses on issues such as the water
crisis in Delhi, equal access to and distribution of water,
pollution of the Yamuna etc.
Producer: Gandhi Smriti and Darshan Samiti
Contact Details:
Gandhi Smriti and Darshan Samiti
Autonomus Body, Gandi Darshan, Rajghat, New Delhi 110 002
P: 011-23392278; F: 011-23392706
336
Water
English Title: Imrat Manthan
Language: Hindi
Synopsis: The film documents the implications of water
pollution and initiatives people have taken to find
alternatives.
Director: Pankaj Tiwari
Producer: Audio Visual Research Centre, Sagar
Contact Details:
Audio Visual Research Centre
Dr. H. S. Gour V. V., Sagar 470 003, Madhya Pradesh
P: 07582-22153; F: 07582-22153
English Title: In Troubled Waters
Format: Betacam
English Title: Indian Myth and Ecology-I, II & III
(Part I – Water; Part II — Earth; Part III – Air, Fire
and Space)
Language: Hindi
Duration: 23 min
Subject Focus: Mythology and its links to ecology
Synopsis: Through the five basic elements, the film traces
the linkages between mythological scriptures and ecology
and environment.
Producer: Mr. Bappa Ray
Production Company: M/s Bappa Ray Productions
Contact Details:
The Secretary
New Delhi - 110 003
P: 91-11-2436 1896, 2436 0721
English Title: India Roadshow
Subject Focus: River pollution
Synopsis: All major cities in the world are located on
riverbanks. Rivers have supported the life of the city and
have had a major share in its prosperity. But today, rivers
have been reduced to drainage lines. Is this the heritage
we are going to hand over to our future generations?
Contact Details:
P: 011-55645237, 26897418/19, 26130378, 26122605
W: www.cec-ugc.org
Original Title: India Roadshow
Language: English
Duration: 26 min
Subject Focus: Environmental issues in India; disaster
management in Jamaica
Synopsis: When India gained its freedom, the government
was convinced that big power projects and industries held
the key to rapid growth. The film visits one such project, a
dam at the foot of the Himalayas which — some say —
has caused more problems than it’s worth. Also featured
are a village in Uttar Pradesh, where high levels of fluoride
naturally occurring in the water are causing a debilitating
bone disease in the residents; the river Ganga which is
polluted from chemical effluents from tanneries, human
sewage and decomposing bodies; and elephants in West
Bengal which are becoming a nightmare for the locals,
trampling crops and their villages. In the Hands-On section,
we visit Jamaica, examining the devastating effects of
hurricanes and looking at what can be done to roofs and
banks to make them hurricane-resistant.
Contact Details:
P: 011-29955124, 29956110, 29956394; F: 011-29955879
W: www.cseindia.org
CMS ENVIS Centre
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English Title: Information of Three Districts
English Title: Jal hi Jeevan – Jal Sanrakshan
Original Title: Information of Three Districts
Language: English (subtitles)
Duration: 9 min
Format: PAL, Beta, Colour
Original Title: Jal hi Jeevan – Jal Sanrakshan
Language: Hindi
Format: Betacam SP
Subject Focus: Water conservation in Rajasthan
Subject Focus: Solving water crisis at local levels
Synopsis: This film is devoted to SEWA’s interventions
in solving the water crisis in the three districts of
Surendranagar, Kutch and Sabarkantha in Gujarat. It
demonstrates the various measures adopted by SEWA,
like rainwater harvesting, underground tanks, digging wells
and repairing and digging handpumps.
Contact Details:
SEWA
Krushna Bhavan, Opp Sakar-II, Ellisbridge, Ahmedabad 380
006, Gujarat
P: 079-26580474; F: 079-26587708
W: www.sewa.org
Synopsis: This is a story of people working together for
conserving water and forests. Water is a scarce and precious
commodity in western Rajasthan. The people here have
found out ways of storing and conserving water in tanks,
lakes, nadis, stepwells and khadin. The film also looks at
the connection water conservation has with protecting forests
— in the absence of forests, the environmental balance gets
disturbed, leading to the vicious cycle of drought.
Director: Vinod Sati
Centre
Contact Details:
Faculty of Engineering, J. N. V. University, Jodhpur, Rajasthan
P: 0291-2513734; F: 0291-2513733
English Title: Jal
Language: Hindi
Duration: 60 sec
Format: Betacam SP
Synopsis: Produced as part of the Fresh Water campaign,
this film highlights the relationship between water and
religion. Its underlying message is: we cannot conserve
water without understanding its significance. The film
documents efforts to conserve and maintain water
resources and the work done by government in involving
communities in these conservation initiatives.
Director: Ms. Kala Iyer
Producer: DAVP
Production Company: M/s Genesis Media (P.) Ltd.
Contact Details:
Genesis Media (P.) Ltd.
B-42, II Floor, Opp. Kargil Park, Jangpura-B
New Delhi 110 014
P: 011-24375120, 24375124, M: 9811075246
F: 011-24379598
338
English Title: Jal Swaraj (Hindi version of
‘Changing Currents: Plumbing the Rights-I’)
Original Title: Changing Currents: Plumbing the Rights-I
Language: Hindi
Duration: 26 min
Synopsis: Jal Swaraj or Plumbing the Rights-I focuses
on the issue of water as a common property and a right
that is indistinguishable from the right to life. The film
documents local communities from India and South Africa
striving to maintain this right in the face of official
opposition. In the Indian state of Rajasthan, where
community efforts have revived traditional water harvesting
structures called johads, villagers of Lava ka Baas are
resisting the state government’s move to destroy their
johad. In South Africa, official curb on access to water for
people who cannot pay for it is forcing communities take
the water illegally.
Contact Details:
P: 011-29955124, 29956110, 29956394; F: 011-29955879
W: www.cseindia.org
Water
English Title: Jal Tarang
English Title: Jheel aur Jeevan
Original Title: Jal Tarang
Language: Hindi
Duration: 30 min
Format: VCD
Original Title: Jheel aur

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