Delhi bags eight Awards in green film festival
Kerala wins seven awards in the Indian category
US bags 3 awards in international category, Germany gets two awards, New Zealand wins one award
Indian filmmakers get wards worth Rs 15 lakh
Yogesh Mishra
New Delhi, Dec 09, 2011
Environment protection is a joint effort and it requires public participation. The attempts made by wildlife filmmakers in this direction are really appreciable. The words were expressed by Union Minister for Information and Broadcasting Ambika Soni during the award ceremony of sixth environment and wildlife film festival of CMS VATAVARAN at Convention Centre at New Delhi on Friday.
During the award ceremony, films made by Delhi-based directors swept eight awards in different categories including best of the festival award. Delhi topped the list with Kerala bagged seven awards.
The award ceremony was attended by eminent filmmakers Basu Chatterjee and Prakash Jha, environmentalist Chandi Prasad Bhatt, counselor of Climate Change and Energy Royal Norwegian Embassy Havard Hugas and several other environmentalists and filmmakers.
Indian category
Films from Delhi bagged awards in important categories like Water for all, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Best story, Best Cinematography and Best of the Festival. Filmmakers whose films have won include Vishal Nityanand , Akanksha Joshi, Rishu Nigam, Amar Kanwar, Rintu Thomas and others. Vishal Nityanand’s film ‘Kosi: Injustice with Millions of Villagers and Revolt by Kosi River’, Akanksha Joshi’s film ‘Earth Witness: Reflections on the Times and the Timeless’, Amar Kanwar;s Public Service Announcements have won two awards each.
International category
In the International category 9 awards were presented. Three film from USA have won awards. These are Chasing Water, Dog in the Manger (El Perro Del Hortelano) and SoLa: Louisiana Water Stories. Germany bagged two awards for Poppy's Promise: Secret Life in the Cornfield (Das Kornfeld: Dschungel fur einen Sommer) and Amazon Alive: Hidden Secrets. One award each has been won by New Zealand, Canada, Japan and France.
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