Blog: Film festivals

“Quotes from the Earth” has been the first of its kind in the Indian capital since 2004. The environmental film festival aims at providing a discursive platform to highlight environmental challenges faced by people at the national and international level through films, which happens to be one of the most powerful medium of communication and discussion.

Format:
The festival is proposed as an event, which goes beyond viewing films. Besides showcasing around 20-25 films in a span of 2 days, there is also a Q&A session with the directors that happens after the completion of each of the films where they put light on the struggles/ challenges faced by them. The films screened are a mix of documentaries, animation films, and feature films made by renowned and the upcoming filmmakers around the world.

In the festival, there are films which are not screened to all like a commercial film so it provides a platform for the filmmakers to showcase and talk about the environmental issues prevailing at the ground level. A panel discussion with eminent journalists, environmentalists, academicians, film makers, policy makers, and personalities from civil society organizations, is also conducted on relevant topics during the film festival.