Humlog in association with STEPS is organizing 'Green Film Festival' on 13th and 14th June at Auditorium, Govt Museum and art Gallery Auditorium,Sector 10.
Timings are 5:30 - 8 pm.
Entry is free and is on first come first serve basis.

Aim of the festival is to sensitize the citizens to various Environmental issues which somehow affect their lives directly or indirectly. The films to be screened in the 2 day festival are critically acclaimed films on topics ranging from :
wildlife conservation,Urban environmental conservation and indigenous farming techniques.

Worth mentioning here is that Humlog has been using the tools of development communications specially through the medium of low budget films to raise voice against local Environmental and health issues. Screening films from other parts of the country helps the people realize the importance of the
Environmental conservation.

August shall see 'Chhota Mooh Badi Baat-2' ,the festival of Humlog again in collaboration with STEPS that shall bring cinema of activism to the city once again like last year but in much bigger format.

Schedule for 'Green Film Festival'
Day - 1 (13th June ,Saturday )
Tiger the Death Chronicles ( 5:30 pm)
A film by Krishnendu Bose
English (with subtitles)
63 minutes / 2007
Commissioned by PSBT-India

Synopsis :
Tiger, the symbol of India. One of the most charismatic animals to walk the face of the earth. Faces its most severe crisis today. Its prey, habitat and the animal itself are being decimated. Tiger–the death chronicles, explores this crisis.
Traveling through tiger hotspots like Sariska, Panna and Buxa, the film attempts to unravel the nuts and bolts of the crisis. It looks at states such as Madhya Pradesh, Orissa and Goa and how they maybe trading their tigers and their forests for greater economic revenue. The film maps the curious case of a mining project in the heart of a tiger habitat in Orissa. It also highlights the positive work being done in reserves like Corbett and up in the BR Hills of Karnataka.

Tiger–the death chronicles, in 63 minutes, encapsulates 30 years of conservation attitude in this country. For the first time ever, a film joins diverse voices, from tiger scientists and conservationists to ordinary citizens, to attempt a brutal and an honest assessment of the present and the future of the Indian tiger and it's habitat. The film is presented and directed by Krishnendu Bose, an internationally awarded film-maker, who has
been making conservation films for the past 20 years.

Details : http://www.earthcarefilms.com/ tiger.htm


2. ) Delhi - Work in Progress. ( 6 : 45 pm )
A Film by Krishnendu Bose
English (with subtitles)
38 minutes / 2008
Supported by WWF - India

Synposis :
Delhi, known as one of the greenest capital in the world is changing fast. This 2500 year old city's history and greens are being transformed for a globalised look. This process is being rushed up, in the run up to the Commonwealth Games in 2010, hosted by Delhi. As Delhi's face is changing beyond recognition, what is the price we are paying in destroying the green lung of our city? What is the vision of this change? Who is planning the change and for whom? Is this change inclusive?

This film made over 2007-2008, captures the key milestones of this transformation. City's leading academics, urban planners, environmentalists and activists, debate the nature of this change. The ridge, the Yamuna, the city trees, city's poor and powerless – all have come under this axis of change. Commercialisation of land, seems to be the mantra fueling this new vision for the Delhi.
While we debate, resist and make films on this 'new' Delhi, Delhi is being
transformed forever.

Details : http://www.earthcarefilms.com/ docu/delhi.html




3. Mother Earth ( 7:30 pm )
30 min | Eng. Subtitles.
Producer : Deccan development society

Synopsis :
The film is a film about a voyage of discovery of peace and harmony by serving Mother Earth through ecological practices of farming. Since 1985, the women of DDS sanghams have used between them about 1.2 million eco-employment days to bring back under active cultivation over ten thousand acres of degraded agricultural lands. Consequently, they have been raising over three million kilos of grain every year, which is six times more than half a million kilos of grains they used to produce earlier.

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Day 2 ( 14th June,Sunday )
Repeat screenings of the films screened on day 1 with same schedule.