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Wildlife film festival ends

Staff Reporter

Ten filmmakers awarded in seven categories for brilliant works

NEW DELHI: The four-day Vatavaran Environment and Wildlife Film Festival ended here on Thursday with ten filmmakers being awarded in seven categories for their brilliant works. While Praveen Singh's film "Indian Leopards -- The Killing Field'' won the Best of Vatavaran-2005 Festival award, Nutan Manmohan's "A Second-Hand Life'' bagged the Delhi Chief Minister's Award for the best documentary and Sanjay Barnela's "River Taming Mantras'' received the best film award in the environment category.

The awards were given away by the Union Minister of State for Environment and Forests, Namo Narian Meena, and Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit, in the category of public service message, wildlife conservation, environment, student, animation and forest for life. Honoured with the Prithvi Ratna award for his lifetime dedication to the cause of environment and wildlife filming was veteran filmmaker Naresh Bedi. Also announced this year were four CMS-UK Environment Film Fellowship of Rs. 6 lakhs each to produce films on climate change. The British High Commissioner to India, Michael Arthur, presented the fellowship awards to Geeta Singh, Vijay Singh Jodha, Nila Madhab Panda and Syed Fayaz. The CMS Film Fellowship Awards were presented to Mr. Ajaz Rashid and Prayaz Abhinav.

With the last day of the festival witnessing the best of environment films, screened on the concluding day were the best of Windscreen films and the award-winning films from this year's festival. Giving a peek into the underwater world and the right way to go about filming it was ace award winning British cinematographer Doug Allan, who conducted a workshop in the afternoon. Organised by the Centre for Media Studies (CMS), the festival also saw various seminars and discussions being held on important environment and wildlife issues.

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