*Press Release:* *ViBGYOR Vilambaram-Kodiyettam Function*
Wednesday, December 28, 5.30pm Venue: *BEd College* (Model Boys School) *Premises* On December 28th, the `World Cinema Day’, the ViBGYOR Film Collective, Thrissur is organizing a major curtain raiser event of its 7th Annual Film Festival (*ViBGYOR-Mazhavilmela-2012*). The event includes a Public Meeting presided over by Mr. I.P.Paul, the worshipful mayor, Thrissur Municipal corporation and screening of two recent short films that is making news in a big way. The films are *A Pestering Journey*, a documentary that bagged the National Award (2011) for the Best Documentary, the `Vasudha Award’ for the Best Environmental documentary in the International Film Festival of India (IFFI) and many other laurels. The other film is a short music video *Neythalin Paadal*, made by Sreemith Shekhar, a film that openly declares its solidarity with the anti-Nuclear Energy campaign at Koodamkulam; the screening in Thirissur will be the premiere show of *Neythalin Paadal*. Mr. M.R.Rajan, National Award winning Filmmaker and the Vice-Chairman of Asianet will be the chief guest, who will inaugurate the `Vilambaram-Kodiyettam’ function. There will be inauguration of the Festival pass distribution, Releasing of the ViBGYOR Festival News Bulletin (`Mazhavillu’) and the flag off ceremony of the `Rail-to-ViBGYOR’ study tour of young people to Koodamkulam. Filmmakers and other ignitaries from the socio-cultural spheres like K.R.Mohanan, I.Shanmugadas, Sreebala Menon, C.R.Neelakantan, P.Baburaj, K.P.Sasi, P.P.Ramachandran, Shamshad Hussein, Someetharan, Aditya Kunigal and Council members of Thrissur Municipal Corporation and Zilla Panchayat will attend the function/address the gathering. For details, contact, ViBGYOR Film Festival Office: 9447000830/9809477058 ________________________________________________________________ Synopses of films screened: *A Pestering Journey*/Dir. K.R.Manojkumar/2010 A voyage through two pesticide tragedies in post independent India, *A Pestering Journey* is an attempt to interrogate the legitimate forms and technologies of killing available in a culture. It unravels the many interwoven layers of culture and agriculture and foregrounds the logic of green revolution. In an atypical move it challenges and changes the idioms of pesticide and genocide and reveals the claims over knowledge and expertise which pushes a pesticide like Endosulfan to a dubious position between poison and medicine. script & research: ranjini krishnan, k r manoj , image: shehnad jalal , montage: mahesh narayanan, ajay kuyiloor , location sound & sound design : harikumar madhavan nair, music: a.s ajithkumar *Neythalin Paadal *(Song of the Coastal Lillies)/ Dir. Sreemith Shekhar/2011 Tamil/English with subtitles/7:31 Mnts, Camera & Direction: Sreemith Editing: Subin Babu, Music, Lyrics & Vocal : Pepsi Ganesh The Atomic Energy Regulation Board has said, that there should be no tourism site within a radius of 20 km from a Nuclear plant. But Kudankulam is only 14 kms from Kanyakumari and only 60 kms by air from Thiruvananthapuram. An accident at Kudankulam will be unmanageable because of the high density of population. The functioning of this Nuclear Power Plant will destabilise the livelihood of the people living in the vicinity, pollute the environment in an unimaginable magnitude; and in case of an accident, the fallout will be beyond boundaries and uncountable! This music video is a protest song, pledging its solidarity with those ordinary people of Koodankulam who try to make their voices heard and who still hope that their right to life and livelihood will be respected by the government and other forces. -- "[It is not] possible to distinguish between 'numerical' and 'nonnumerical' algorithms, as if numbers were somehow different from other kinds of precise information." - Donald Knuth -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Green Youth Movement" group. To post to this group, send an email to greenyouth@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to greenyouth+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/greenyouth?hl=en-GB.
