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Audience Rating: (1) login to rate this Embed		Directed by Chinmaya Dunster Produced by Chinmaya Dunster Genre Documentary Music Environmental Runtime: 48 min Release Date: July 2007 Filmmaker's Website Send to Friends URL:
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Plot Outline
This documentary evokes feelings of reverence for the wonders of India’s nature, and respect for the peoples who have lived alongside them and preserved so much of them over countless generations. It blends footage from a series of multimedia concerts recorded live at the Bharati Vidyapeeth Institute of Environmental Education and Awareness (BVIEER), Pune, India in 2004 with:

• Poems on nature, composed and read by Indian schoolchildren
• Interviews with environmentalists and educators
• Stunning footage of scenery, wildlife and peoples from all over India.

11 minutes of extras are also available: an in-depth interview with the film’s presenter Dr Erach Bharucha (see below) and a short documentary on the work of BVIEER

Filmmaker Notes
This film was made entirely budget-free, with everybody concerned giving their time and skills for nothing.

Over three years in the making, it is based on the love of director/film cameraman Chinmaya Dunster for India’s wilderness and the wilderness peoples who live in it. The film takes a positive approach to the many serious environmental problems affecting India today, with the message that we can individually make a difference if we learn to appreciate Nature’s beauty. Individual scenes focus on environment education in schools, the role of women, the India-wide tradition of ‘devrai’ or Sacred Groves and wildlife-people conflicts.

The film’s presenter is Dr Erach Bharucha, Director of BVIEER. Interviews with him establish the basic issues and transmit his vibrant enthusiasm about the possibilities of change. The music is provided by Chinmaya Dunster (ten CD releases on www.newearthrecords.com) and his Celtic Ragas Band, and footage of them playing a multimedia benefit concert at BVIEER in 2004 plays an important role in forming the varied moods of the film. Location footage from Maharashtra, Uttaranchal, Goa, Ladakh, Madya Pradesh and Tamil Nadu provides an overview of the diversity of India’s ecosystems and peoples, while Indian schoolchildren, reading their own poems about nature, and talking about their feelings for it, give a heart-felt perspective on the future. The film’s aim is to inspire as well as inform.

Castlist
Adarsha Forest - Guitar
Bikram Singh - Bansuri
Chinmaya Dunster - Sarod & Guitar
Dinesh - Keyboards
Manish Vyas - Tabla
Paritosh - Tanpura
Prabodh Senger - Bass
Ramadhan Suisse - Drums
Shruti Banu - Vocals
Tanmayo - Violin

Music
Chinmaya Dunster

Film Editors
Chinmaya Dunster
Svargo

Crewlist
Svargo - Concert Cameraman
Avesh - Convert Cameraman
Chinmaya Dunster - Location Camera