FILMS ON ECOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENT

 

Apna Aloo Bazaar Becha (30 min; 2007; English subtitles)

Director: Pankaj H. Gupta

 

Recipient of the Golden Deer Award, EcoFilms Festival, Greece; and John Abraham National Awards, SiGNS, Kerala

 

What happens when remote, isolated mountain communities come face to face with globalization? Jardhar, a village in the Hemval Valley of Garhwal, led an isolated, egalitarian existence until a series of events forced it into joining the market economy. This film based entirely on local perspectives, reflects on the process of change – what triggers the shift to modernization and what impact it has on personal, social and environmental spaces

 

Down the Drain (26 min; 2011; English)

Director: Tarun Jayaram

 

The film delineates the key issues being faced while providing water to the growing populace in India and its adverse effect on the land

 

(Collaboration: World Wide Fund for Nature- India)