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.
- 178 film entries (117 Indian and 61 International)
- Total Award money ranges from Rs 50,000 – Rs 1,50,000/- for Indian filmmakers
- International awards carry a citation and a trophy.
- The 8th CMS VATAVARAN is scheduled from October 9-13, 2015 at New Delhi
| 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 |