ENVIRONMENTAL COMPETITION
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Sr. No: 01
- Film Title (Original): The Ice Factor
- Film Title (English): The Ice Factor
- Country of Production: India
- Date of Completion: 19th October, 2008
- Running time: 29:55
- Director: Hari S. Upreti
- Producer: Poonam, Hari S. Upreti
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Synopsis: This film “THE ICE FACTOR” is an effort to bring
out the story of glaciers and the water crisis that stares us on the face. This
film shows the Himalayas in transition, A half hour documentary, shot over a
period of more than two year, the film looks at the reasons at adverse climatic
changes and seeks answers on the issue of importance of basic life sustaining
resource “Water”. The narrative is in the first person and follows the
river”Ganges” and river “Chandra” upstream to their glacial origin. It also
looks at the present state of our Glaciers. The film strives to come to an
understanding of the sensitive ecology of the high altitude areas.
As the narrative unfolds the filmmaker recounts this very transformation of
these mountains through his own eyes. He has been a witness to this change in
the last three decades. The film turns to experts, scientists, mountaineers,
environmentalists and planners to get a deeper insight into the crisis the
fragile Himalayan ecosystem faces.
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Sr. No: 02
- Film Title (Original): Consumo Cuidado
- Film Title (English): Consume Be Careful
- Country of Production: Germany, Venezuela
- Date of Completion: 2008
- Running time: 03:55
- Director: Octavio Van Praag
- Producer: Octavio Van Praag
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Synopsis:History that reflects nature´s harmony and the brutal attack that suffers from mankind, his dense organization and his industrial production, generating natural resources damage in exchange of consumable products and excessive waste. This causes an environmental crisis which could bring great catastrophes for our own recent habits.
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Sr. No: 03
- Film Title (Original): Hyperhelion
- Film Title (English): Hyperhelion
- Country of Production: Canada
- Date of Completion: 2008
- Running time: 26:52
- Director: Calvin Climie
- Producer: Calvin Climie
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Synopsis: Deh'ma Jow'say, an extraterrestrial herbalist, lives in Biosphere Nao'sin, a forested asteroid orbiting a distant sun. She tends the asteroid's flora and fauna and awaits the return of her friends. They left to investigate a distress call from Biosphere Kondoy, the largest of many such biospheres in the solar system, over a month ago. Using the Biosphere's solar sail, Deh'ma navigates the solar winds toward Kon'doy before she is intercepted by Speen Relco, arriving in his damaged spacecraft. He offers to speed her journey by using his ship's powerful engines to alter her trajectory if, upon their arrival, he can use their technical facilities to repair his navigation systems. She agrees. Soon, however, Speen's true motives are revealed. Upon confirming the mineral riches embedded in the asteroid's rock, he begins the takeover of her forested world. Actually a prospector for an interstellar mining corporation, he lays claim to the rock's platinum and prepares it for mining. He does not care if its nature is destroyed in the process; for without this metal, his society will not be able to continue enjoy its current way of life. Upon discovering pollution in the waterways, Deh'ma confronts him. Captured, she watches as her world withers. If she is to save it from obliteration, she must foil his plans. Soon the reality of their situation becomes clear: their existence is dependent on the very thing he carelessly destroys. Will she be able to stop him and will her world survive the outcome?
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Sr. No: 04
- Film Title (Original): Kaanam
- Film Title (English): The Story of Mid Land Hill
- Country of Production: India
- Date of Completion: 25th September 2008
- Running time: 28:01
- Director: Babu Kambrath
- Producer: SEA
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Synopsis: The documentary charts art faithfully the ecological changes that occurs through different seasons in a midland hill ecosystem with emphasis on the continuity of the rhythms of life in the area.
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Sr. No: 05
- Film Title (Original): Monday to Friday
- Film Title (English): Monday to Friday
- Country of Production: Portugal
- Date of Completion: 25th September 2008
- Running time: 15:30
- Director: Albert Bayona
- Producer: Albert Bayona
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Synopsis:An audiovisual about environment change and human interference in landscape by alien elements, digitally recreated which boost incoherence between scenes, captured in devastated surroundings located purposely with daily settings. Five accounts linked conceptually in their outcome, ironically set in the five weekdays.
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Sr. No: 06
- Film Title (Original): Liqt - Liquid State
- Film Title (English): Liqst - Liquid State
- Country of Production: Portugal
- Date of Completion: 2008
- Running time: 12:00
- Director: Anabela Costa
- Producer: Anabela Costa
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Synopsis: Between the artist's studio and the scientist's lab, we face two worlds that come together for the same liquid state. These worlds - painting and chemistry - are they so far? The colour, the movement and the textures from those worlds will fill the screen in a poetic and aesthetic dialogue.
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