[Reader-list] [Announcements] "Voices from Waters" 2nd International Film Festival
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Voices from the Waters 2007, 2nd International Film Festival on Water
Thursday 7th, Monday 11th, June 2007 10am to 8pm at Gurunanak Bhavan,
Bangalore.
Arghyam- safe, sustainable water for all, Bangalore Film Society and Films
for Freedom, Bangalore in collaboration with Water Journeys- Forum for the
Fundamental Right to Water, Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival, Ithaca
College (FLEFF) and Urban Research Centre are proud to present the second
edition of the International Film Festival on Water titled ‘Voices from the
Waters 2007’.
The festival, while attempting to cast light on the looming global water
crisis is a vibrant, colorful celebration of ‘water’ in all its liquid blue
glory. Featuring a stirring selection of full length films, short films,
animation and documentaries - from cinema classics of Ray, Sathyu and
Kasarvalli to early documentaries of Jahnu Barua and Aribam Shyam Sharma to
much-acclaimed and groundbreaking new works from film makers all across the
globe, the festival attempts to connect the public with everyday, mundane
‘water’ as the source of all life, as the platform for civilization and
society, as a precious natural gift, as culture and as pure poetry and as a
scarce resource increasingly commodified. The festival will also serve as a
platform to the voices of grassroots level water activists from Bihar,
Kerala, Rajasthan, Bengal and all across the nation who will narrate
evocatively, testimonies from lives lived and spent in the name of water.
Film-makers, present at the screening of their films will interact with the
audience and share their experience. The four days of the film festival and
storytelling will culminate with a conference which will allow the general
public, film-makers, policy markers and grassroots level activists to
interact on a common platform.
The Festival Conferences will focus on water equity and ecological issues.
Water Equity will address the issues of how the poor will access safe,
potable water for their daily necessities as well as for their livelihood,
while ecological issues primarily will focus on management of water
resources and sustainability.
Since its conception, the second edition of ‘Voices from the Waters’ has
been generating a lot of national and international interest. We have
received over 120 films from 30 countries across the globe for the 2007
edition. We invite you to participate in this celebration of life itself and
lend further color, noise and depth to the festival. The festival venue
provides you with an opportunity to exhibit/share your publications, films,
songs, posters on the water issues. The space for the stalls will be
provided free of cost. (first come, first serve basis)
"If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water"
-
Loran Eisley
For more information, please contact:-
Siddharth Pillai,
33/1-9, Thyagaraja Layout,
Jai Bharath Nagar,
M.S. Nagar P.O.,
Bangalore- 560 033, Karnataka,
India. Tel: 91- 80- 25493705/ 9886213516 Email: bfs at bgl.vsnl.net.in
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