DISCLAIMER Although every precaution has been taken in compiling the Audio-visual Directory, CMS assumes no responsibility for errors or omissions, which might have crept in due to third party information. Neither is there any liability assumed for damage resulting from use of such information. © CMS ENVIS CENTRE First Edition 2005-2006 Published By CMS ENVIS Centre on Environment and Media, New Delhi with support of Ministry of Environment and Forests, Government of India Contributions CMS ENVIS TEAM - Alka Tomar, Rohit Singh, Shalini Sharma, Priya Verma, Sanjay Negi, Amrendra Pathak and Alok Singh Edited by: Souparno Banerjee Cover Page Design: Anita Nagulapalli Layout Design: Vikas Ahuja and Nalin Sharma Printed at: Bhawani Art Press, New Delhi We would also like to thank all those who have contributed, either directly or indirectly to making this Directory a reality. CMS ENVIS Centre The CMS ENVIS Centre is a premiere centre designated by the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests, Government of India, to facilitate information dissemination and further the cause of environmental awareness and sensitization. Since its inception, it has come a long way to establish itself as a key resource center, coordinating body and platform for information dissemination on environmental communication, strategies and media related activities. Today, the Centre reaches out to a large number of people through its various activities. The ENVIS quarterly newsletter, Green Voice – the gateway of information on environment and media — is received by more than 1,000 readers, while its daily e-newsletter, Green Media (on environmental issues in print media) has a circulation of over 3,000. From time to time, the Centre also undertakes focused studies of ‘green space’ in print and electronic media, and issues coverage analysis on different contemporary issues. The Clemenceau is one such highly acclaimed publication. CMS ENVIS also collates for its readers impressive databases of more than 12000 ‘green’ news from national and regional dailies, 800 advertising agencies and 2000 audio-visual programmes, thereby facilitating easy access to prominent and relevant media information. The Centre has been an active and dynamic channel for reaching out to people through different communication tools such as newsletters, publications, research studies, case studies and websites, and has striven to build public consensus on and a network for environment conservation. www.cmsindia.org/cmsenvis Environmental Information System — ENVIS, India Realizing the importance of environmental information and its dissemination, the Government of India, in December 1982, established an Environmental Information System (ENVIS) as a plan programme. The focus of ENVIS since inception has been on providing environmental information to decision-makers, policy planners, scientists, engineers and research workers all over the country. Since environment is a broad-ranging, multi-disciplinary subject, a comprehensive information system on environment would necessarily involve effective participation of the institutions/organizations in the country that are actively engaged in work relating to different areas of environment. ENVIS has, therefore, devoted itself to networking with such institutions/organizations. A large number of nodes, known as ENVIS Centres, have been established in the network to cover the broad subject areas of environment, under a Focal Point in the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests. The Focal Point as well as the ENVIS Centres has been assigned various responsibilities to achieve the long-term and short-term objectives. For this purpose, various services have also been introduced by the Focal Point. ENVIS, due to its comprehensive network, has been designed as the National Focal Point (NFP) for INFOTERRA, a global environmental information network of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). In order to strengthen the information activities of the NFP, ENVIS was designated as the Regional Service Centre (RSC) of INFOTERRA in 1985 for the South Asia Sub-Region countries. www.envis.nic.in Foreword The CMS ENVIS — short for Environmental Information System — Centre was set up with support from the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests. The aim of the Centre was to function as a state-of-the-art information disseminator on issues of environment and media. Through the past years, the Centre has been singularly focused on this vision, and this Green Films Directory is another expression of its commitment to the cause. Films are a strong tool for encouraging awareness on environment and development: with this belief, the CMS ENVIS Centre is delighted to introduce this first edition of the Directory – a complete repository of audio-visual resources in India on environment and wildlife. The Centre firmly believes that this seminal work will be a catalyst for promoting environmental concerns in the country. The Directory features 2000 entries, distributed over eleven major subjects. The films are categorised with appropriate cross-references. Subject-wise and title-wise indexes have been included to facilitate search for required information. We are thankful to all the concerned organizations and individuals for their prompt responses to our questionnaires. It would have been impossible to publish the Directory without their support. We are also thankful to the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests for its continued support and guidance. It has been an effort to compile and bring together this unique and comprehensive Directory. We hope that it will be an impetus to the environmental education movement in our country. P. N. Vasanti Director, CMS Directory of Green Films Films on environment and wildlife are not only relevant as works of art, but are also important as historical and scientific documentation and as instruments for bringing about change. This is the philosophy behind this Directory of Green Films. This Directory is the first-ever comprehensive compilation of audio-visual resources on environment and wildlife. A virtual treasure-trove of ‘green’ films, it is designed to satisfy the information requirements of academicians, civil society groups, government organizations, environmentalists, researchers, media professionals, conservationists, activists, filmmakers, public and private sector organizations, educational institutions, teachers and students. Thematically classified, the Directory provides details of documentaries, public service messages, animation films and feature presentations, along with contact details of the filmmakers and concerned organizations. The 2000 entries in the Directory have been categorized into eleven segments — arranged alphabetically — according to the availability of the films. These categories are Agriculture and Pesticides, Biodiversity and Forestry, Eco-tourism, Energy, Environmental Education, Industry and Environment, Livelihood, Solid Waste Management, Toxics and Climate Change, Water and Wildlife. Subject-wise and title-wise index have been included to facilitate search for required information. Contents Foreword v Directory of Green Films vi Agriculture and Pesticides 1 Biodiversity and Forests 29 Eco-tourism 109 Energy 115 Environmental Education 147 Industry and Environment 183 Livelihood 201 Solid Waste Management 235 Toxics and Climate Change 259 Water 315 Wildlife 377 Title Index 463 Agriculture and Pesticides Directory of Green Films English Title: A New Bullock Cart English Title: Agro Biodiversity – Key to Food, Health and Livelihood Security Original Title: Ek Nai Baelgadi Date/Month/Year of Production: 2003 Original Title: Agro Biodiversity – Key to Food, Health Languages: Hindi, English, Bangla, Gujarati, Kannada, and Livelihood Security Malayalam, Marathi and Oriya Date/Month/Year of Production: March 2005 Duration: 30 min Language: English (with English subtitles) Format: Betacam Duration: 10 min 6 sec Format: Betacam SP Subject Focus: A modified animal-friendly bullock cart. Subject Focus: Agro-biodiversity; community gene banks Synopsis: The film showcases the efforts of a Bangalore- based organization to re-model the existing bullock cart Synopsis: The film records the importance of agro- and make it more efficient and benign to the animals biodiversity and community gene banks in preserving pulling it. By introducing simple and low-cost modifications, traditional crop varieties. In 1994, a community gene bank it has managed to prolong the life spans of bullocks and was established by the M S Swaminathan Research saved cart-owners from buying a new pair every three- Foundation (MSSRF) and work in community biodiversity five years. The film attempts to encourage cart-owners management was begun in the Kolli hills, Wayanad and and artisans making carts to switch over to the new design. Jeypore. Directors: Amar Sharma/Rima Chibb Director: Dr. K. Bhanumathi Producers: Amar Sharma/Rima Chibb Production Company: The Hindu Media Resource Centre Production Company: Collage Teleimages Pvt. Ltd. Commissioning Agency: Collage Teleimages Pvt. Ltd. Contact Details: M S Swaminathan Research Foundation Contact Details: III Cross Street, Taramani Institutional Area, Chennai 600 013 Rima Chibb/Amar Sharma Tamil Nadu Collage Teleimages Pvt. Ltd., D-31 Oakwood Estate P: 044-25541229, 22542698; M: 09444018532 DLF City 2, Gurgaon, Haryana F: 044-22541319 P: 0124-2564304/4582; M: 9810073369, 9868104762 E: [email protected] E: [email protected], [email protected] W: http://www.mssrf.org/ W: