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‘There is a hunger among the audience for more green content’

Nila Madhab Panda, director of forthcoming movie on climate change, ‘Kadvi Hawa’, says film-makers have a duty to bring green content …

Two new Bollywood films and a message

Contemporary Hindi films get real, hitch-hike to success

Man behind scientist

Film>> Stephen Hawking • UK

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No a los papelones a film on Argentine activists' fear over pulp mill

Nature strikes back

Film>> The Happening written & directed by Manoj Night Shyamalan

In UN's books

Fleetingly scary

Film>> Tobacco, Threat to Life and Development directed by Mike Pandey 12 minutes

Eco-thriller

Film>> Ozone Killers directed by Heinz Greuling and Thomas Weidenbach

Cochin needs to preserve its green lungs

Documentary Haritham Director Rajendra Prasad Producer Jaycee Foundation and Gothrabhumi films

Review of the film, Sicko

Film>>Sicko, Produced and directed by Michael Moore, 125 minutes, USA

Darfur pays for its water

In 2006, Slovenian president Janez Drnov?ek sent filmmaker and political activist Tomo Kriznar as a peace envoy to war-torn Darfur. US pressure …

"Mahua memoirs", a documentary

DOCUMENTARY>> MAHUA MEMOIRS directed by Vinod Raja produced in collaboration with Equations and HIVOS regional office

The Dalit experts

Multimedia Publication >> Affirming Life and Diversity Rural Images and Voices on Food Sovereignty in South India 60 pages (book/report) + …

Film review Birth In The Squatting Position

Films>> Birth in the Squatting Position by Polymorph Films 1979 (10 mins, Brazil) The business of being born by Abby Epstein (83 mins, USA) …

Review of film 'Wasted'

Film>> Wasted Swecha Productions directed by Anshul Uniyal and Vimalendu Jha 16 minutes

Piecing together problems with conservation in India

Documentaries>> The Great Indian Tiger Crisis directed by Arindam Mitra and Chandramohan Puppala, producer, Arindam Mitra 77 mins Tiger The …

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Death by inaction

Book>>Death by inaction