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Thar: Secrets of the Desert Documentary on India’s environmental challenges. The film captures the diverse social and cultural practices of the hardy Marwaris which enabled large populations to survive in the harsh desert environment. The villages of Thar have amazing systems of water harvesting such as the kund or kundis; tankas; kuis; bawdis etc. Similarly the desert farmer has devised an ingenious system to grow and maintain three excellent sources of fodder- sewan, jharberi and khejari. Today, it is the villages that have not yet been "modernised' have water and fodder during periods of drought. The "developed' villages wait for water tankers and fodder trucks from Punjab. |
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Bandits and the Backhanders This video takes a look at how 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. 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; and demonstrates the results of such distorted practices. |
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A season outside, In the eye of the fish, A cats concert-Golden
Jubilee Despite the inevitable stresses and strains attendant to being a modern republic, is there a nascent sense of universal responsibility woven into the fabric that is India? This series of films on India's Quest does not seek to answer this and other questions. Rather, it seeks to question ready-made answers, in a vibrant spirit of enquiry. The films: Golden Jubilee, Season Outside & In the Eye of the Fish..look at some of the vital challenges the nation confronts. |
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The Cunene film project presents four films on the feasibility
study and environmental impact assessment of the Lower Cunene
Hydropower Dam Scheme This four part documentary series aims to bring a visual account of the Lower Cunene Hydropower Feasibility Study to the public forum. In Milestones viewers are introduced to a brief chronology of the feasibility study and the environmental impact assessment into the Europa Hydropower Dam Schem. Data, Development and Technology reveals the technical processes of the feasibility study into the dam sites along the Cunene River and situates the project in the context of the Namibian economy. Impacts on the River Wild is a journey traced along the river from catchment to mouth. Impacts on the flora, fauna and landscapes--regarded as having high wilderness and conservation value are discussed. Memory, Landscape and the River presents an overview of the complex social impacts that the proposed scheme could have on the people who will be most directly affected by the construction of the dam. |
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A Time for stories Documentary film captures Katha Utsav, a literary convention held in January 2004 in Delhi and through the participants explores the necessity of art and issues of communication and personal identity. |
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Wapsi: The Returning... For most Indians and Pakistanis a visit to each others' country is a journey of return of various kinds--to nostalgia, hate, metaphor and reality. This film is one such travelogue, a song of hope, love, longing and betrayal. |
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Bones of Contention (The Illegal Trade in Tiger Bones) In the early 1990s a sudden escalation in tiger poaching and the seizure of large quantities of tiger skins and bones confirmed conservationists worst fears. Far Eastern traditional medicine manufacturers, having decimated their own wild tiger populations, were now targeting India as their source of supply. Already critically endangered, the tiger is now threatened with extinction. BONES OF CONTENTION tells the story of the horrific illegal trade in tiger parts, from the small time poacher in India to the market places of China, in graphic detail. The video was produced by the Wildlife Protection Society of India with a grant from the Rufford Foundation. The WILDLIFE PROTECTION SOCIETY OF INDIA is a non-profit conservation organisation which was established in 1994 to help avert the Indian wildlife crisis. In particular the Society aims to provide the additional resources required to combat the illegal wildlife trade to tiger parts, ivory, musk and rhino horn. |
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Biodiversity (A Chance for Salvation) Over the last 30 years, Michael Tzyganov’s film claims, more than a million species of plants and animals have become extinct. BIODIVERSITY : A CHANCE FOR SALVATION is an emotional treatment of a now familiar issue: the interdependence of all species including human beings. With man at the top of a complex food chain, the film provides a timely warning that it is all too easy to overlook the complex web of life in keeping our economic interest intact and to ignore our dependence on plants and animals for food, shelter, medicine, industry and technology. |
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Call of the Forest “All you men are useless,” exclaims a Bastar woman, after trying in vain to persuade the village leader to call for demonstration to protect the local forest which provides the tribal people with most of their needs. And so the women of Asna-until recently, a densely forested village in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh – set about organising themselves to defend it. Together they confront the state forestry department’s officials, demanding that they stop digging trenches and laying barbed wire, unmoved by their vague promises of handing back the ‘improved’ forest to the villagers in five years time. Raman Mannn’s film re-enacts the women’s stirring protest – and their final triumphant victory. |
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The Last Show on Earth (Part-I) BRITISH ENVIRONMENTAL MEDIA AWARD AMERICAN FILM & VIDEO AWARD INTERNATIONAL MONITOR AWARDS, CALIFORNIA Over the last three centuries more than 400 known animal species and an unknown numbre of plant species have become extinct. Scientists predict that by the year 2000, if the current abuse of the planet continues, more than 100 species of fauna and flora will disappear every day. But the conservation of these species is inextricably linked, claims Philip Cayford, with the survival of the human race. From the plains of globe filming rare and endangered animals, interviewing well-known conservationists, and going undercover to observe illegal wildlife traffickers. With a stirring soundtrack produced by Micheal Kamen and featuring top western musicians, his film is a powerful plea to conserve the planet’s biodiversity. |
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The Last Show on Earth (Part-II) BRITISH ENVIRONMENTAL MEDIA AWARD AMERICAN FILM & VIDEO AWARD INTERNATIONAL MONITOR AWARDS, CALIFORNIA Over the last three centuries more than 400 known animal species and an unknown numbre of plant species have become extinct. Scientists predict that by the year 2000, if the current abuse of the planet continues, more than 100 species of fauna and flora will disappear every day. But the conservation of these species is inextricably linked, claims Philip Cayford, with the survival of the human race. From the plains of globe filming rare and endangered animals, interviewing well-known conservationists, and going undercover to observe illegal wildlife traffickers. With a stirring soundtrack produced by Micheal Kamen and featuring top western musicians, his film is a powerful plea to conserve the planet’s biodiversity. |
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Miracle in Calcutta Like so many megacities in developing countries, Calcutta can’t afford sophisticated water treatment, about polluted water is an all too real threat to the health of the Indian city’s two million inhabitants. But, as Bijon Vassness’ inspiring film shows, a local initiative by fishermen has become an environmental success story. A simple filteration technique allows sewage to pass through a whole series of man-made ponds and canals where naturally occurring algae and plants such as hyacinths cleanse the waste water. As a result, the now filtered water is suitable to farm fish. The ‘miracle’ in Calcutta is that recycling sewage reduces the risk of hazardous water-borne diseases, while offering employment, food and good health to its citizens through a now sustainable fishing industry. |
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