Festival Schedule

“VATAVARAN 2003” SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

18-20, November 2003, India Habitat Centre, Lodhi Road, New Delhi

 

NOVEMBER 19, 2003-SCREENINGS

   
  TIME & VENUE PROGRAMME DETAILS
 

9.00 a.m.

The Stein Auditorium

 

Registration opens 

     
 

9.30 a.m. – 11.45 a.m.

The Stein Auditorium

Special Screening for Children 

  9.30 a.m. Magic of Life, Gautam Pandey, 6 mins, Environmental Awareness
     
  9.40 a.m. Victims of Garbage Dump, Plan International, 10  mins, Environmental pollution & hazards to health
     
  10.00 a.m. Birds Through My Window, Rudransh Mathur, 18 mins, About  birds watching and interrelation of birds and animals
     
  10.45 a.m. The Beauty of Dragon, Gurmeet Sapal, 25 mins, Role & beauty of dragonflies in the world
     
  11.15 a.m. A Brush with Death, Syed Fayaz, 16 mins , Barbaric killings of mongoose for their trading
     
 

12.00 p.m- 6.00 p.m.

The Stein Auditorium

Documentary Film Screenings Theme – “Water for Life”

  12.00 p.m. Words on Water, Sanjay Kak, 85 mins,  Rivers as a natural resource, their place in the present notion of "development", and the alternative notions of people and their rights over their resources
     
  2.30 p.m.

Unquiet Flow: The Chaliyar, Sanjay Mohan, 37 mins, The film documents the struggle of a village to protect the second largest river in Kerala

     
  3.15 p.m. Waterworks India : Four Engineers and a Manager, Pradip Saha, 22 mins, Management of traditional rainwater harvesting
     
  3.45 p.m.

From Birth to Salvation, Suman Ganguli, 11 mins, Conserving water resources & realizing their significance

     
  4.00 p.m.

Whose Water, Krishnendu Bose, 26 mins, Prevailing policies and community controlling water resources

     
  4.30 p.m. Hunting Down Water, Sanjay Bernela & Vasant Sarbharwal, 32 mins, Social dimensions of environmental crisis
     
  5.15 p.m.

Samudra Se Boond Tak…, Priyanka S, Siddharth S, Paricher, 7 mins, How water effects our daily lives and how we effect it?

     
  5.30 p.m. Lakes - Protecting & Preserving a Rich Natural Resource, Smt. Lakshmi Parthasarthy, 9 min, Conservation and restoration of lakes in and around Hyderabad
     
 

7.15 p.m.- 7.45 p.m. Gulmohar

Special Screening of a documentary film, A Brush with Death, Syed Fayaz, 16 mins , Barbaric killings of mongoose for their trading

* Subject to confirmation

 
PARALLEL EVENTS
     
 

TIME & VENUE

PROGRAMME DETAILS

 

9.30 a.m. – 12.30 p.m.

Basement Theatre

Use of Theatre: For Environmental Education for Teachers & Children by Theatre Artists from National School of Drama.

     
  9.30 a.m. – 12.30 p.m. Gulmohar

 

The Issue of water management : Thinking Beyond - A Panel Discussion 

Panelist - Shri Suresh P. Prabhu, Chairperson Taskforce on Interlinking of Water, Mr. Rajender Singh, Tarun Bharat Sangh, Ms. Medha Patkar*, Dr. B. Sengupta, Member Secretary, CPCB

     
 

3.00 p.m. - 5.30 p.m.

Gulmohar

Viability of Green Programmes on TV channels in India - A Panel Discussion

     

* Subject to confirmation


 
 


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