Collaborators of "Voices from the Waters" 2007
Arghyam- safe, sustainable water for all, Bangalore Film Society and Films for Freedom, Bangalore in collaboration with Water Journeys- Forum for the Fundamental Right to Water, Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival, Ithaca College (FLEFF) and Urban Research Centre are proud to present the second edition of the International Film Festival on Water titled ‘Voices from the Waters 2007’- a vibrant celebration of life itself in all its liquid blue glory.
Arghyam
Arghyam Trust is a public charitable foundation setup in 2001 with a personal endowment from Rohini Nilekani. Arghyam seeks to drive strategic and sustainable efforts in the water sector that enhance equity in access to water for all citizens.
Our vision is “Enough water, safe water ….always and for all”
Arghyam seeks to support strategic and sustainable efforts in the water sector that enhance equity in access to water for all citizens. We emphasize sustainability - environmental, financial, social and technical - as the key desirable outcomes in all projects we support. Working with diverse partners, including NGOs, research institutions and government agencies, we give special attention to people’s participation, capacity building, awareness and education with a potential for scale in our work. Current project areas include Integrated Domestic Water Management, Rainwater Harvesting, Groundwater Management and Water Quality.
The interventions we participate in will be scalable, will strive to improve the governance of the projects, and may use technological innovations for greater impact. The underlying themes that we emphasize are sustainability through people's participation, leveraging appropriate technologies, soft-infrastructure development (i.e. building capacities) of local communities, demand-responsiveness in projects and professional project management for high-outcomes.
We are working with several partners to develop the India Water Portal, which is an open, inclusive, web-based platform for sharing knowledge, information and data on the water sector in India.
The objective of the Portal is to create a collaborative space for those interested in water and related issues like sanitation, agriculture, wastewater management etc. Through this effort, we want to leverage knowledge to address equity and sustainability issues in the Water Sector and we will actively support alternate outreach methods that make this knowledge work for those on the ground who need it most.
Bangalore Film Society
Bangalore Film Society is a forum of individuals attempting to evolve newer perspectives for film appreciation through exploring the cultural politics and how it impact and shape the modern cultural practices, politics, aesthetic sensibilities and social behaviour. Over the last 27 years, BFS has brought to Bangalore the works of Masters of world cinema as well as curated documentary, short and feature films festivals/seminars focusing on contemporary socio-cultural-political issues such as fundamentalism, women’s issues, human rights, migration and displacement and so on. Through these programmes we attempt to connect the participants with cultural histories of ideas desires and practices of civil life, social transformations, contentious socio-political issues that are lingering by.
Contact : bfs@bgl.vsnl.net.in
Films for Freedom
Films for Freedom, Bangalore is a coalition of filmmakers, artists and lawyers who have brought in their particular areas of concern to address the issue of censorship by building a documentary screening and viewing culture.
The group first rallied together in early 2004 in a signature campaign to support documentary filmmakers all over India, in their campaign against censorship. FfF, Bangalore then hosted Travelling Vikalp (July 2004) to further the demonstration of a collective strength, which upheld our right to fearless speech.
In an attempt to further this public concern about freedom of expression, FfF, Bangalore has been screening documentaries regularly every month for 3 years now. ‘Wideangle Democracy’ (December 2006) and ‘Cinema Nova in Bangalore’ (April 2007) have been 2 important film festivals in our calendar.
Contact: filmsforfreedombangalore@gmail.com
Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival, Ithaca College (FLEFF)
Launched in 1997 as an outreach project sponsored by Ithaca College, Cornell University’s Center for the Environment and Eunadi Center for International Studies and others, FLEFF is now under the auspices of the Ithaca College Division of Interdisciplinary and International Studies.
ITHACA, NY—Ithaca College’s Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival (FLEFF) began its second decade by reaching across the globe to collaborate with “Voices from the Waters 2007,” the title of the 2nd International Film Festival on Water.
Water Journeys
Water Journeys - Campaign for the Fundamental rights to Water is a forum of groups and organisations from South Asia who are deeply concerned about the increasing scarcity of water, which will have serious consequences for the preservation of life and the environment in the immediate future.
The paucity of drinking water both in urban and rural areas has escalated to an acute level in the last five years, especially heightened by drought and privatization of water. Globalisation in India has opened up an invasion of global capital on the natural resources. Water, the source of life for all species, is being converted into a commodity. Rivers, lakes, dams and ground water resources are taken over by the global water market. Local communities in various parts of India have unleashed intense struggle against the invasion by the water corporate giants.
The purpose of the campaign is to bring awareness among the people in our society on the privaitisation of water and its negative impact on all living species, as also is an attempt to bring back the sacredness and centrality of water in the dailiness of our lives. Our attempt is to connect with lives, the eco-system and the sacredness of the earth.
The aims and objectives of Water Journeys are:
To campaign against the privatisation of water.
To redefine water as a natural right of the species and not a fundamental right of any humans.
To screen films on water issues, water struggles, water conservation and related issues in schools, colleges and communities to start a dialogue on the issue of control and use of water.
To network with agencies involved in the protection and preservation of lakes, rivers and other water bodies.
To engage students and youth in the conservation of water like bunting, water harvesting and planting trees.
To organise seminars and workshops to educate people on the negative impact of privatisation of water on people and species.
Further, Water Journeys will soon start an international journal on water issues.
It will address the socio-political and cultural implications of privatisation of water, making it an interesting and enlightening knowledge source of action.
Urban Research Centre
Urban Research Centre Bangalore, is a non profit organization working on action research projects on urbanization. It was registered under the Societies Registration Act on 31.1.2004 with Registration No.1103/2003-04, with the Registrar of Societies, Bangalore District.URC has been engaged in researching poverty and governance and is also involved in an action planning project in Mangalore and Udupi. It focuses on ward based participatory planning, bridging of local groups and municipal councils. On the research end, they have been working on issues of Governance and Economy in city and its peripheral areas.
The vision of this organisation is to conduct socially relevant research to contribute to a responsible civil society for responsive governance in urban areas
Be a part to CELEBRATE, WATCH, THINK, SPLASH, TALK.
Deatils about the film festival, schedule and the short synopsis to be available on this site shortly..
For further details contact:
Email - bfs@bgl.vsnl.net.in
Tel: +91 80 25493705 / 9886213516
