FILMS ON WILDLIFE AND ENVIRONMENT

 

Chilika Banks – Stories from India’s Largest Coastal Lake 1970-2007

(60 min; dvd; English)

Director: Akanksha Joshi

 

 

Recipient of the Best Film Award- Livelihood, 5th CMS Vatavaran Environment and Wildlife Film Festival 2009; and First Prize, Jeevika: South Asia Livelihood Documentary Film Festival 2008

 

In a canvas spread over four decades, a banyan tree on the banks of the lake Chilika silently whispers tales of the lake and her fisher folk. From the times when there was no export bazaar to the time when there may be no lake

 

(Collaboration: World Wide Fund for Nature-India)