NEW DELHI: Delhi will present a visual treat for nature lovers this October as the country’s premier environment and wildlife festival, Centre for Media Studies (CMS) Vatavaran, announced the much awaited nomination results on Monday.
As in previous years, this year too CMS Vatavaran-2009 received an overwhelming response from film-makers and nature lovers. The biennial competitive festival received 366 entries, including 276 (in 16 categories) from 20 different States. Also, 90 international entries (in nine categories) were received from 23 countries. Of the 366 films received, 106 (including 73 national and 33 international films) have been nominated for the prestigious CMS Vatavaran awards and screenings by the 31-member jury headed by M. Veda Kumar.
The film festival will be organised from October 27 to 31 at Habitat Centre here under the theme “Climate change and sustainable technologies”.
Nomination jury chairperson M. Veda Kumar said: “In a short span of time CMS Vatavaran has established itself as a popular and serious film festival on environment. The entire process of calling 31 experts from different parts of the country provides a great deal of credibility to the entire nomination process for the festival. During this nomination process we got to see some very good films made by both amateur as well as established film-makers.”
CMS chairman N. Bhaskara Rao said: “Environment has become a nodal issue for everyone. Through CMS Vatavaran several burning issues in our contemporary world pertaining to environment, wildlife, natural resources and health are highlighted and widely disseminated.”
There are attractive cash prizes to be won at the festival. The award will comprise cash entitlements between Rs.50,000 and Rs.1.50 lakh besides trophies and citations. The international winners will get trophies and a citation. The award winners will be announced on October 30.
