Saturday, June 8, 2013

Documentary making is a tough job: Mike Pandey

Documentary film making is a tough job but it can bring out crucial information to empower and educate people, says well known documentary film maker and environmentalist Mike Pandey. He was speaking in the ‘meet the directors’ programme held on the second day of sixth IDSFFK. He said that there should be more festivals like IDSFFK to spread the relevance of documentaries among society.  Pandey specially appreciated the interest taken by the media to cover this festival.
He also informed that a MoU with Doordarshan is confirmed with which, the channel will start telecasting a documentary per week for the next five years. The channels, at present, aren’t giving the same importance and screen space for documentaries as to that of other entertainment programmes, he opined. Also the president of Indian Documentary Producers’ Association (IDPA) Pandey said that Kerala chapter of IDPA will start soon to promote aspiring documentary makers in the state. “My dream project is a documentary film about Lion-tailed macaque of Kerala, which is and endangered species”, pandey opened up his mind.
Film makers Dawn Antony, Akash Arun, Debalina Majumdar and Piyush Pandey also spoke about their films which are in the festival. The social impact that his documentary have made was the topic on which Dawn Antony spoke about. Akash Arun, who expressed his gratitude towards the organizers for giving his documentary, about the life of people at the banks of Yamuna, the screen space in the festival. Debalina Majumdar detailed the plot of her documentary, ‘… And the unclaimed’, which is on the life and death of two lesbian girls at Nandigram. The fairy tale like story of a man who planted a forest is the theme of ‘Man who planted the Jungle’, said Piyush Pandey while speaking about his work. The programme was hosted by festival artistic director Smt. Beena Paul Venugopal.

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