FILMS ON WILDLIFE AND ENVIRONMENT

 

A Second Life (30 min; 2004; dvd; English)

Director: Nutan Manmohan

 

Recipient of the Delhi Chief Minister’s Special Award, CMS Vatavaran Film Festival

 

Through the experiences of two children, the film investigates the murky side of information technology, whereby tonnes of hazardous e-waste is seeping into developing countries like India

 

Ambi Jiji’s Retirement (30 min; 2006; dvd; English & with subtitles)

Director: Nandini Bedi

 

Recipient of the First Prize, Jeevika South Asia Right Livelihood Award; and Zee News Livelihood Award, CMS Vatavaran

 

Ambi Jiji always planted her crops on soil where forests have been burnt. This jhum field would then be abandoned and left to regenerate into a forest and a new one burnt. However, increasingly, jhum fields are being turned into orchards which provide cash and food security. Through Ambi Jiji and her daughters, we witness the passing of a way of life in a remote village in Meghalaya

 

(Collaboration: World Wide Fund for Nature-India)