Green Brigade Submissions Desham Presents Kolkata International Wildlife & Environment Film Festival - India Souvenir 2 0 1 6 Vikramaditya N. Bag, Class IX Subham Sinha Roy, Class XII Sagar Debnath, Class VII Arkadeep Mal Class VII Koulik Das, Class IX Souvik Maity, Class IX cygnusadvertising.in Powered by Solace Group Green Brigade From The Festival Director's Desk Submissions Minister in charge of Fire and Environment KIWEFF has posted a lot of responsibilities on 2nd December 2016. Noted in our soldier, we have learnt a lot of things conservationist Belina Wright will be the from the mistakes too. Guest of Honour. The inauguration will take We are all set for the 2nd Kolkata place at historic Star Theatre. International Wildlife & Environment Film The organizing committee have received Festival. This year we are coming again on 1910 films from 115 countries. This year 2nd December with one more day and the India tops the list with 307 films, however festival will come to an end on 4th participation from the third world countries December 2016. Our target is to make this is need to be mentioned, as Iran is the world more greener and towards this target, second largest contributor, 218 films came we are going to take lot of initiatives, we from this country, USA sent 150 films. Italy solicit your support. This year we are trying and Spain contributed 83 films each. So to organize more talk shows, seminars and world film on Wildlife and Environment are interactions too. not only Hollywood property anymore. From KIWEFF has announced Green Brigade, a these huge number of entries the screening Amazing! There are around 200 countries new initiative to connect school students in Neelanjan Chakraborty, Class VII committee led by noted actor and wildlife Aryan Laskar, Class IX in the world, among them 115 countries are wild life, nature and environment Nafisha Mullick, Class XI enthusiast Mr. Sabyasachi Chakraborty, coming to Kolkata this winter! The second awareness. More than 200 schools are Debashree Roy and veteran Indian cricketer edition of Kolkata International Wildlife and connected to this movement. This way a Arun Lal finalized of 200 films for Environment Film Festival have created a green initiative can be pass on to the future screening. So from screening 60 films to new history, this year we have received citizens of the Nation. 200 films is a huge jump by the organizer. 1910 submissions from 115 countries, that is two third of the world is with us. This is KIWEFF has a human face too. This festival Aditya Lal Mukherjee more than overwhelming response. was for all, not mentioning to any special community. Students from various schools, Director DESHAM, a non-governmental organization orphanage were brought to this festival Kolkata International Wildlife & works on Nature and Environment ground is arena. Kids fighting with Thalassemia and Environment Film Festival bringing this film festival to Kolkata. cancer were also regular visitor of this This year film festival will be inaugurated festival. Now we want to extend this human by Mr. Shovan Chatterjee, Mayor, Kolkata face in such a way that it will create Municipal Corporation and Honorable awareness among all. The success of First Akash Chari, Class VIII Arghyadip Roy, Class IX 01 Shashwata Chatterjee, Class IX Inaugural Film The details of festival Committee as hereunder Chairman : Mr. Soumitra Chattopadhyay Board of Advisors (Noted actor, Dada Saheb Phalke award winner) Ms. Sandhya Roy, Actress & Member of Parliament Festival Director : Mr. Aditya Mukherjee Mr. Tapas Pal, Actor & Member of Parliament (Social Activist) Mr. Chiranjit Chakraborty, Actor & Member of Legislative Assembly Vice-Chairman : Mr. Arun Lal Mr. Sandip Roy, Noted Film Director (Former Indian Cricketer) Ms. Shatabdi Roy, Actress & Member of Parliament Chief Advisor & Face of the Festival : Ms. Debasree Roy (Animal Activist, National Award Mr. Chandan Sen, Noted Film personality & Critic winning Actress & Member of Mr. Udayan Guha, Chairman, West Bengal Forest Development Corporation Synopsis Legislative Assembly) SIROCCO There are only 125 Kakapo parrots left on planet Earth today. So few, that all of them have been individually named. But Mr. Arun Kumar Gupta, IPS one name among these is a world famous celebrity called Sirocco. A parrot so popular, that the government of New Chairman Screening Committee : Mr. Sabyasachi Chakraborty Mr. S. K. Pattanyak, IFS (Retd.) (Noted Actor & Wildlife Activist) How a dud became a stud Zealand gave him a job. Sirocco - How a Dud Became a Stud, is the delightful rags-to-riches story of a bird that shot to superstardom. Mr. Subrata Dutta, AIFF President : Mr. Gitanath Ganguly Country : India Mr. Aswini Choudhury Sirocco is the only bird in the world with a Government Job. The film unfolds the story of a parrot catapulted, by a strange (Environmental Legal Specialist) chain of events, to phenomenal fame and recognition. Today this bizarre New Zealand bird has his own PR team that Mr. Niladri Sekhar Gangopadhay, Media Relation Consultant Chairperson (Reception) : Mrs. Keya Mukherjee Special Mention manages his public image. He has a social media following (almost two hundred thousand) that has surpassed that of (Makeup Artist) Mr. Swapan Mukherjee, Programme Co-ordinator This film has bagged Green Oscar in a Global many human celebrities. He even gets his own VIP seat in the airplane that flies him on official tours. And this is Category, popularly known as the Panda Awards unforgettable story of his life. Coordinators : Mr. Manas Banerjee and has been viewed in over 78 countries. Mr. Pratap Ghosh About the Director Ashwika Kapur is from our own city Kolkata. She is a Wildlife & Natural History Filmmaker and is India's youngest and only woman to win the Green Oscar in a Global Category. Ashwika also has achieved worldwide recognition as a filmmaker for being selected at America's biggest Nature Film Awards - The Grand Teton Awards at the prestigious Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Festival. Last year, Ashwika also received Save the Tiger Award at our 1st Kolkata International Wildlife and Environmental Film Festival. 02 03 Official Selection Category : Animation Film Animation Film Tree DIFFERENT Imagination Smiley Our Wonderful DEATH TO Runtime : 1 minute 40 seconds Runtime : 6 minutes 5 seconds Runtime : 1 minute 20 seconds Runtime : 4 minutes 30 seconds Country : Iran, Islamic Republic of Country : Uzbekistan Country : Uruguay Country : Iran, Islamic Republic of Nature - The Common LIFE Directed by : sadeg akbari Directed by : Dante Rustav Directed by : florentina Pérez Directed by : Shahin hekmatkhah Synopsis Chameleon Runtime : 4 minutes 15 seconds Despite of what we are what species Country : United Kingdom we belong to and where we live - the H.P Directed by : Roger Bell depletion of habitat depletes us too .... Runtime : 3 minutes 32 seconds Complex forms, past evolution once, Germany "obey to" the circumstances, "adapt" ... Runtime : 5 minutes 7 seconds Country : and "exist" ... Country : Afghanistan Directed by : Tomer Eshed Directed by : hesam pirqadam Synopsis The Lost Jungle This animation is about a family of trees. They have a good life but someone is Runtime : 2 minutes 30 seconds cutting down the trees one by one. Only Country : India the child of the tree family remains. The child wants to find his family and know Directed by : Pushkar Chatterjee what has happened to them. On the way he travels through a jungle without trees because someone has cut all of those trees as well. Finally he finds a bridge and all of his family is there but they have been turned into the bridge. The bad guy comes and the child tree completes the bridge and the man crosses the bridge 04 05 Animation Film Animation Film The Plastic cloud ecology O+AB- Habitat Runtime : 1 minute Runtime : 3 minutes 30 seconds Runtime : 4 minutes 22 seconds Runtime : 2 minutes 20 seconds Country : Ukraine Country : Iran, Islamic Republic of Country : Egypt Country : Switzerland Directed by : Hasan Tvarinamoungou Directed by : Reza Hadiani Directed by : Marwa Abd Elmoneim Directed by : Marcel Barelli Synopsis We live in a society dominated by consumerism, a social and economic system that stimulates the purchase larger than needed quantities, and all this happens Scapegoat through TV ads that offer miraculous ways to our minds, the aim of our call to buy without thinking until we become like toxic or force a person who appear in the ad, Runtime : 8 minutes 30 seconds so I suppose in the film that the TV screen, which sit in front of him it is only the Robinson's forest is made of a lot of perishable plastic materials, Forest are trying to discover, Country : Israel The Awakening we find out a lot of mania such as Mania slim and lengthen the hair and the purchase and acquisition of what we see, even if without the need of. Directed by : Gal Haklay Dream Runtime : 6 minutes 38 seconds Synopsis Country : Bulgaria Ben is struggling to find his place in Runtime : 11 minutes 24 seconds Directed by : Stella Taneva the world. He has problems with his wife and he is a violent alcoholic who Country : Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of doesn't care about anything. He even gets tossed out of a pub. When he has Directed by : Sebastian Noguera nowhere left to go, he finds his way to a place where he thinks he could belong – Azazel. In Azazel he learns that the only way for him to fit in is self-sacrifice. 06 07 Animation Film Animation Film RASPBERRY Save the Tiger What A Different The Ark DAGNY Runtime : 40 seconds Runtime : 5 minutes Runtime : 14 minutes 23 seconds PLAIN Peaceful Worlds Country : India Country : Germany Country : Denmark Directed by : Olga Guse Directed by : Peter Lopes Andersson Directed by : Dheeraj Jindal Runtime : 2 minutes 12 seconds Runtime : 12 minutes Day Country : Turkey Country : Iran, Islamic Republic of Synopsis Synopsis The concept of blasphemy against the Gods has a complex history in Hinduism.