Film Entries 2015

8th CMS VATAVARAN FILM ENTRIES

The 8th Competitive Edition of CMS VATAVARAN Environment and Wildlife Film Festival and Forum scheduled to be held from October 9-13, 2015 has received a total of 178 film entries from 27 countries.

  1. 178 film entries (117 Indian and 61 International)
  2. Total Award money ranges from Rs 50,000 – Rs 1,50,000/- for Indian filmmakers
  3. International awards carry a citation and a trophy.
  4. The 8th CMS VATAVARAN is scheduled from October 9-13, 2015 at New Delhi
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Sl No TITLE DIRECTOR
001 How Can Conservating Mangroves Tide Over Climate Change Rajendra Kondapalli
002 What will the future of agriculture look like? Rajendra Kondapalli
003 Acoustics Technology in Conservation of Ganges River Dolphin Rajendra Kondapalli
004 The Forgotten World Naina Jethalia and Aditya Koul
005 The Pad Piper Akanksha Sood Singh
006 People Ke Peepal, Peepal Baba (One Man, 10 Million Trees) Gaurav Kumar
007 Wo… Arpna Chandail
008 Nature’s Fury By Sumit Shammi Sumit Shammi
009 Yamuna Katha Mahadeb Shi
010 Call of The Climate Mahadeb Shi
011 When The Peacocks Sing: A Prequel to the Monsoons Shaz Syed
012 Swachh Gaon Swasth Gaon Ajit Singh
014 River Terns of Bhadra Amoghavarsha J S
015 Tigress Blood Praveen Singh and Akanksha Sood SIngh
016 Bottle Masala In Moile Vaidehi Chitre
017 Pratibimb Debanjan Nandy
022 Clean India Shila Datta
025 Phum Shang (Floating Life) Haobam Paban Kumar
026 Aaje Wagh Nahi Aave (The Tiger Wont Come Today) Suruchi Sharma
027 Kavadi – A Dying River Kiran Ghadge
028 Living With Elephants S U Saravana Kumar
029 Turning The Clock Back: The Bandhavgarh Gaur Anil Yadav
030 Jaivavividhata Vividhata Jeevanachi (Biodiversity… The Way of Life) Aniruddha Mane
031 Meri Ankahi Kahani (My Untold Story) V P Dhar
032 An Elegy for the Traditional Way of Life Priyanjana Dutta
033 Post Climate Change Snehasis Das
034 Birds of Narsinh Talav Umesh Kathad, Naresh Gohel, Vijay Kathad
035 Praner Prohori Gopal Bose
037 Unto The Dusk (Asthamayan Vare) Sajin Baabu
039 Walking with Wolves Senani Hegde
013 Harvesting The Seas (The Shell Story) Himanshu Malhotra
018 Shesham Kadhabhagam Bhagyanatha. C G
019 The Forgotten Tigers Krishnendu Bose
020 Missing Krishnendu Bose
021 Three characters in Search of a Forest Krishnendu Bose
023 Environment Friendly Handmade Paper Fibre Industry Jagadish Banerjee
024 Morning Visitors Jaya Jose Raj
036 The Referendum (Janamata) Tarun Kumar Mishra
038 Tiger’s Revenge S Nallamuthu
040 Shrinking Shores Ashish Rao
041 Poop On Poverty Vijay S Jodha
042 The Tales of Tiger Land Ajoy Roy
043 Save Our Tigers Promo Richa Arora
044 Carry Your Own Bag Sunil Bhondge
045 Chewing Gum Sunil Bhondge
046 Follow Instructions Sunil Bhondge
047 Garbage vs Nature Sunil Bhondge
048 Noise Pollution Sunil Bhondge
049 Unknown Water Sunil Bhondge
050 Flight To Freedom – The Amur Falcon Story Rita Banerji
051 Turtle Diaries – The Olive Ridley Turtle Rita Banerji
052 Turtle Diaries – Leatherback Turtle Rita Banerji
053 Turtle Diaries – Green Turtle Rita Banerji
054 God On The Edge Ashok Patel
055 Gharat : Revival of Watermills Shriniwas Oli
056 My Little Wings Maheshwarappa
057 On Losing Ground Asif Khan
058 Water Untouched Makarand Purohit
059 … to be titled (a film on clean-cook stoves) Gurmeet Sapal
060 Ground Beneath My Feet: Changing Climate, Moving People Saransh Sugandh
061 Following The Light Kanishka Singh
063 Lets Build Homes Saransh Sugandh
064 Losing Ground Rishu Nigam
062 Fueling Change Ahona Datta Gupta
065 Solar Karanwan Kanishka Singh
066 The Vanguards of Angul Ahona Datta Gupta
067 Ring the Changes Rishu Nigam and Kanishka Singh
068 Redemption : A REDD+ Story From India Rishu Nigam and Ahona Datta Gupta
069 Promise to Be Saransh Sugansh
070 Mera Gao Power Kanishka Singh
071 Aranmula P R Sreekumar
072 Kutch-Fragile Frontier Shanthi Chandola
073 Eastern Himalaya – Ancient Risks Future Threats Sandesh Kadur
074 Creche Behavior in Indian Fox Shivam Tiwari
075 A Commons Sense Chintan Gohil
076 The Battle Begins… Sunrendra Manan
077 Ganga Tera Pani Arvind Kumar
078 Ecosan Village Devendra Shukla
079 Toxic in My Veins Ashish Dutta
080 India’s Disappearing Beaches – A Wake Up Call Shekar Dattatri
081 Visarjan Mujeeb Qureshi
082 Borhxaranya (The Rainforest) Diganta Mazumdar
083 Angioplasty of Streams Aditya Seth
084 Take Me To The River Chitvan Gill
086 The Air That I Breathe Misha Dutta
085 Shifting Tides Aakash Doshi
087 Annashree Sounak Chakravarty
088 Candles in the Wind Kavita Bahl and Nandan Saxena
089 First Cry Ajay T. G
090 g2G: From Grassroots to Global Neela Venkatraman
091 The Hunt Biju Toppo
092 Wetlands: A Question Mark Janvi Bhambri
093 Wat (er) We Doing? Alima Tigga
094 “O Bhai Sahab” (Air Pollution and its ‘Side Effects’) Dipansh Sharma
095 Locals Become Geohydrologists in Rapar Usha Dewani and Nilutpal Das
096 My Disappearing Land Usha Dewani
097 Bihar’s Great Walls of Destruction Usha Dewani
098 Jhini Jhini Bini Chadariya (The Silk Route To Freedom) Tanuja Shankar Khan
099 Springs of hope Ashok Maridas
100 Swachh Jal Behtar Kal Rambha Tripathy
103 If You Love Your Children Sanjay Patel
105 In Deep Coma Yatin Sharma
106 A Stitch in time Nandan Saxena and Kavita Bahl
107 I cannot give you my Forest Nandan Saxena and Kavita Bahl
108 Tribal Farmers Trade Carbon Credits K N T Sastry
109 India’s Wandering Lions Praveen Singh and Martin Dohrn
110 Kung Fu Nuns In Mystic Ladakh Sangeeta Gupta
111 Return of Ranjitsinh’s Deer Divya Bhardwaj
112 Pakkhe Nu Chhadnu Nai (My Nomad Soul) Harsimran Kaur and Siddharth Govindan
113 For You Sanyog Mohite
114 My Name is Salt Farida Pacha
115 Appunte Lokam Roshni Rose
116 Plastic Roads Aarti Shrivastava
117 Nano Ganesh Aarti Shrivastava
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Sl No

TITLE DIRECTOR
001 The New Environmentalists – from Ithaca to The Amazon John Antonelli, Tom Dusenbery and Will Parrinello
002 Of The Land Bryan Law
003 Abandoned? Geppe Monros
004 The Chikukwa Project Gillian Leahy
005 The Human Horses Marco Landini, Cristina Donno
006 Seven Waters Eberhard Spreng
007 Lhabja Kinga Penjor
008 Duh u mocvari (The Ghost in the Swamp) Branko Istvancic
009 Od zrna do slike (From Grain To Painting) Branko Istvancic
010 Bunarman (Wellman) Branko Istvancic
011 Onca, Mais Perto do que se Pode Imaginar Tulio Schargel
012 Sommer I Abenteuer Schwarzwald Simon Straetker
013 Agave is Life Meredith Dreiss
014 La Casa Ausente (The Absent House) Ruben Abruna
015 Ultima Chiamata (LAST CALL) Enrico Cerasuolo
016 The Sound of Road Barzan Rostami
017 Earth’s Children Diego Sarmiento
018 Bridge Walkers Kara Rhodes
019 Plundering Tibet: Scarring the Surface Michael Buckley
020 N+N Yan Chi Lai
021 Kirlangiclar Susamissa Muhammet Cakiral
022 Life Force 2: India’s Western Ghats Samantha Mckegg
023 Forest Secrets: Science and Soul Michael Noonan
024 Acid Ocean Sally Ingleton
025 Great Rift Expedition Loic and Geoffroy de La Tullaye
026 Salmo Trutta Lacustris Daniel Goz
027 Kaziranga Mariah Wilson
028 Wild Australia – Jurassic Jungle Jens Westphalen and Thoralf Grospitz
029 Wild Australia – Desert of the Red Kangaroo Jens Westphalen and Thoralf Grospitz
030 Satyagraha – Truth Force Lisa Sabina Harney
031 Hachaim Al Pi Ohad (Life According to Ohad) Eri Daniel Erlich
032 Tree People Geoffrey Cox
033 Das Tiger Experiment (The Tiger Experiment) Axel Gomille
034 Im Reich Des Schneeleoparden (Realm of The Snow Leopard) Axel Gomille
035 Le Semeur Julie Perron
036 Walking in Two Worlds Bo Boudart
037 Le Jardin d’Ewald Alexandra Pille
038 Baobabs between Land and Sea Cyrille Cornu
039 Icaros Georgina Barreiro
040 Divide In Concord Kris Kaczor
041 Revival Tetsu Shiratori
042 SHADOWS – Saving the Rain Forest Isaac Kerlow
043 Across the tracks: Steps towards Clean India Catherine Feltham
044 Rescuing The Stolen River Kristina Danka
045 A Quest for Meaning Nathanael Coste, Marc Dela Menardiere
046 Knowledge and Action – Climate Change Impacts in Asian Cities and Ways to adapt Ephraim Broschkowski and Bernd Hezel
047 Racing to Zero, In Pursuit of Zero Waste Christopher Beaver
048 The Man Who Fed His Shadow Mario Garefo
049 Revolution  Rob Stewart
050 2183 Days Natasha De Betak
051 Worse Than Poop! Vanessa Warheit
052 Africa’s Trees of Life: Sausage Tree Stefania Muller
053 Garbage or Resource? A Dominican Republic Experience Natasha Despotovic
054 Lago Enriquillo: Prelude of Climate Change Fernando Baez
056 Planetary Guy Reid
057 Robbers Barry Stone
058 Uhendatud Anumad (Communicating Vessels) Andres Tenusaar
059 Lucciole per lanterne Stefano Martone
060 Underground Taming of Floods for Irrigation (UTFI) Douglas Varchol
061 Eau Secours
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