There is an increasing awareness about the need to protect ecology and environment. There is green fashion from natural fibres, ‘green’ music like the recent ‘Live Earth”, the concerts for a climate in crisis in which 100 artistes participated in seven continents for 24 hours. And now it is time for Green Films in Bangalore and other parts of the country.
Green Films is a environmental-educative-entertaining (EEE) campaign between the lesser privileged and privileged children to contribute towards healthy and safe environment in and around the community.
PVR Nest (Network for enablement and social transformation) in association with Agilent Technologies and National Geographic Channel on Wednesday (July 11) launched the Bangalore edition of Green Films at PVR at Forum Mall.
At the launch the movie, “A life among whales” was screened for underprivileged and privileged students of Bangalore. The schools included Parikrama's Centre for Learning, Vidya Niketan School, Hebbal, National Public School, Hebbal. The film focused on various tips associated with environmental conservation for the children.
Eminent environmentalist Zafar Futehally, winner of the Salim Ali International Award for Nature Conservation, who launched the Green Films said, “We must cease relying on government to provide us a clean and healthy environment. Each one of us develops personal ethics to use natural resources sustainably and protect the eco-systems. All the technology in the world cannot create a single drop of water, but we now have the technology through which we can renew the five renewable natural resources - air, water, soil, flora and fauna.”
PVR Nest plans to screen films produced across the world on the issue of environment.Some of the forthcoming films are Planet Earth 2006, Violent Planet, Green Car, A Hunter’s Tale, Birds through my windows, Faecal Attraction, Political economy of defecation, Bandits and backhanders among other films.