Eight offerings at climate change film fest on 8 December

NEW DELHI: Global Climate Campaign, a lobby group facilitated by Kriti Film Club, is organising a special evening of films on climate change in New Delhi on 8 December.

The micro-fest, which will be held at the Gulmohar Hall, Indian Habitat Centre, will screen eight shorts, and will be open to anyone interested in the issue of climate change.

The festival will start at 6.30 pm and will be followed by a chat session with the film makers – Madhab Panda, Pallava Bagla – Science Editor, NDTV and some others.

The films will include those by Nitin Das (Global Warming – a fable from the Himalayas), a tiny, eight minute film shot near Tibet, a magical tale about a young boy who finds the solution to Global Warming from a monk in the mountains.

The entire cast of the film is from Kaaza, a small town in Spiti Valley. The film was made possible by spitiecosphere, an NGO based out of Spiti. The main intention of this film is to spread the message of how fast Global warming is impacting the fragile ecosystems.

Then there is a science film, “Changing Climates: The Science“, by Television Trust For The Environment, which lasts 27 minutes.

It deals with the widespead burning of fossil fuels starting with the steam engine and industrial revolution.

In the first of films on climate change, Earth Report takes a look back over 200 years of evolving scientific thought – sometimes confusing and contradictory – that has shaped the global warming debate.

This is followed by Climate Change – an Untold Story, a series of four films, winners of the UK Environment Fellowships, 2005

Nila Madhav Panda‘s film, “Climate‘s First Orphans“, tells the story of 20,000 homeless villagers in the coastal districts of Orissa, whose existence has been wiped out by the rising sea level.

“The Weeping Apple Tree” is a film by Vijay S. Jodha, and illustrates the complex issue of climate change by focusing on the shifting apple-growing belt in Himachal Pradesh.

Syed Fayaz will then be presenting his film, “A Degree of Concern“, which looks at the implications of climate change on glaciers, and how artificial glaciers are improving the water supply of Ladakh for now.