Organiser: Toxics Link and India International Centre
Venue: India International Centre
#40, Max Mueller Marg
New Delhi
Toxics Link is an information outreach and environmental advocacy organization set up in 1996. It has special emphasis on reaching out to grassroots groups and community based organizations. The areas of its engagements include research, outreach and policy advocacy on issues of communities and urban waste, toxics free healthcare, hazardous wastes, and pesticides. Toxics Link communicates with all stakeholders, from a civil society perspective. Its networks and partners are national, regional as well as international.
India International Centre is a non-government institution widely regarded as a place where statesmen, diplomats, policy makers, intellectuals, scientists, jurists, writers, artists and members of civil society meet to initiate the exchange of new ideas and knowledge in the spirit of international cooperation. Its purpose, stated in its charter, was ‘to promote understanding and amity between the different communities of the world’. In short, the Centre stands for a vision that looks at India as a place where it is possible to initiate dialogues in an atmosphere of amity and understanding.
About the festival
"Quotes from the Earth" has been the first of its kind in the Indian capital since 2004. This being the fifth, 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 happen to be one of the most powerful medium of communication and discussion. It also goes beyond viewing films. A panel discussion gathering eminent academicians, vibrant activists, media persons and filmmakers is planned every afternoon on the issues.
Since its inception the focus and aim of the film festival has been of awareness creation and is strictly non-commercial.
Key objectives
- Awareness creation
- Defining new possibilities for growth and dissemination
- Bringing out a particular issue/concern to a large number of audience
- Visibility of the works of the organisation
- Larger participation of the community in the issues
Format
The festival is proposed as an event, which goes beyond viewing films. Over a period of two days it aims to bring under one umbrella the persistent and persuasive, with each day culminating into a panel discussion on diverse theme with panelists from education, media, film-making and policy field, the festival aims to engage the audience for not only what exists but also what steps to take for future action toward environment conservation.
Registration
Registrations are now open for visitors, please register if you wish to participate/visit the film festival. Registration is a must for entry.
Contact details
Rambha Tripathy/Praveen Sharma
Toxics Link
H2, Jungpura Extension (Ground Floor)
New Delhi - 110014
Tel: +91-(11)-24328006, 24320711
Fax: +91-(11)-24321747
Email: info@toxicslink.org/rambha@toxicslink.org/praveen@toxicslink.org
Website: www.toxicslink.org
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