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If global warming and saving the planet are on your mind,then spare some time,this World Environment Day,to watch the work of young filmmakers engaged in related fields. Film Booth,a community of short filmmakers and enthusiasts,will be screening 11 films,today,at India Habitat Centre,in a festival titled WED 11.
We have taken up issues in the past and since environment is a current topic of interest,we decided to organise a festival on it, says Gaurav,one of the co-founders of Film Booth. The screenings will we wrapped up in three hours and each film is under 30 minutes.
If Delhi-based filmmaker Nitin Dass 13-minute film,Superhero,has a a girl using solar power in her house,in Pune-based filmmaker Sanyog Mohites one-minute film,Do You,two young children teach how to save money to buy saplings and a pot. The film competed in the 2009 amateur film category of CMS Vatavaran Film Festival and at Ecofilm,the international film festival at Rhodos
Islands,Greece. In the 28-minute film,The Wild Meat Trail,Delhi-based filmmakers,Rita Banerji and Shilpi Sharma,give an account of the hunting traditions followed by some tribes in the Northeast.
The closing film will be a three-minute silent film,Mountain,which depicts time lapse and looks at the stars and milky way from the Teide Observatories in Spain. It was the official selection at the UN Convention of Climate Change,Cancun,Mexico,last year.
The festival will be held at India Habitat Centre,from 6.45 pm onwards.
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