CMS VATAVARAN, Film Awards
CMS vatavaran, Environment &Wildlife Film Festival was held in
Indian and International Film Screenings

Shot from film "Cheetahs Against All Odds"
the director of ‘‘Chotti Si Kahani Ababeel Ki’ interacted with the audience and made a humble request to the authorities to spread technical knowledge in rural

Sl. No. | Award Name | TITLE | CATEGORY | DIRECTOR |
| National | | | |
1 | Best Cinematography Award | A Shawl to Die For | Livelihood | Rita Banerji |
2 | Best Story Award | S.O.S. - Save Our Sholas | | Shekar Dattatri |
3 | Best Editing Award | The | Livelihood | Gurmeet Sapal |
4 | Amateur Film Award | My Purple Sunbird | Amateur Film | Sunil Raj |
5 | Films for Children Award | A Fable from the | Films for Children | Nitin Das |
6 | Public Service Announcements (PSA) Award | Don't Buy Trouble | Public Service Announcements (PSA) | Himanshu Malhotra |
7 | Student Film Award | | Student Film | Amar Sharma |
8 | Low Budget Films Award | Kaanam - Life Story of a Midland Hill | Nature | Babu Kambrath |
9 | Viewer's choice Award | Traffic Light | Public Service Announcements (PSA) | Rajesh Saathi |
10 | 2009 Festival Theme: Climate Change and Sustainable Technologies Award | IN THEIR ELEMENTS | 2009 Festival Theme: Climate Change and Sustainable Technologies | Inder Kathurai |
11 | 2009 Focus: Natural Heritage Conservation Award | Reviving Faith | 2009 Focus: Natural Heritage Conservation | Rishu Nigam |
12 | Climate Change Award | The Final Tide | Climate Change | Vikram Mishra |
13 | Ecotourism Award | Leave Nothing but Footprints | Ecotourism | Sanjay Barnela |
14 | | Gaon Chhodab Nahin | | K. P. Sasi |
15 | Livelihood Award | Chilika Bank$ | Livelihood | Akanksha Joshi |
16 | Nature Award | Rolling Dunes of Thar | Nature | Naresh Bedi |
17 | Water for All Award | Kali Bein (The | Water for All | Surendra Manan |
18 | Wildlife Conservation Award | The Asiatic Lion - on a roll call | Wildlife Conservation | Praveen Singh |
19 | Environmental Conservation Award | Goa | Environmental Conservation | Kurush Canteenwala |
20 | Best of the Festival Award | Deeply Superficial | Water for All | Veneet Raj Bagga |
| International | | | |
1 | Best of the Festival Award | The Soul of Water (Vattnets Sjal) | | Kurt Skoog |
2 | 2009 Festival Theme: Climate Change and Sustainable Technologies Award | Satoyama: | 2009 Festival Theme: Climate Change and Sustainable Technologies | Tetsunori Kikuchi |
3 | Animation Award | Save Our Planet! | Animation | Filip Vandewiele |
4 | Climate Change Award | The | Climate Change | Mark Terry |
5 | Environmental Conservation Award | One Man, One Cow, One Planet | Environmental Conservation | Barbara Burstyn and Thomas Burstyn |
6 | Films for Children Award | Liliputi Mimikri (Liliputian Mimicri) | Films for Children | David Attila Molnar |
7 | Nature Award | Rain Forest - The Secret of Life | Nature | David Warth, Michael Balson |
8 | Student Film Award | Why Don't we Ride Zebras? | Student Film | Hannah Smith |
9 | Water for all Award | The Soul of Water (Vattnets Sjal) | Water for All | Kurt Skoog |
10 | Wildlife Conservation Award | Eco-Crimes: Tibet-Connection | Wildlife Conservation | Heinz Greuling and Thomas Weidenbach |
Work Shop on climate change-Towards Carbon Neutral Indian cities
Shri Rajendra Singh,Chairperson of Tarun Bharat Sangh who sketched and compared the pre and post independence scenario. He focused on three main areas; encroachment, pollution and over-exploitation of rivers and emphasized that more work should be done at the local level. Mr Vijay Kumar from DHI Group spoke about water availability, population explosion and also offered hard and soft solutions for conservation of natural resources. Other panelists who were present for discussion were Mr R.K Srinivasan, water expert from Centre for Science and Environment, Dr Pramod Aggarwal,senior scientist in Indian Agricultural Research Institute and Mr Suresh Prabhu, Former Union Minister of Power, Heavy Industry and Public Enterprises and Ministry of Environment and Forests.
Symposium on Challenges in Conserving Natural Heritage
Shri S.K Misra, Chairman of INTACH who has been recently adorned with Padmabhushan. Misra gave a brief outline of all the challenges that the world is facing such as global warming, climate change, pollution of water bodies and so on. Dr Shobita Punja,director of Heritage Education and Communication Service engaged the audience by establishing and explaining the relationship shared between natural and cultural heritage. Other speakers like Mr Mahendra Vyas,environmentalist and advocate in Supreme court recapitulated and analyzed all the laws and policies that can be used for protection of wildlife and natural resources. Mr M Vedkumar president of Forum for Better Hyderabad spoke of initiative taken by locals to conserve the natural heritage and keep the city green.
International Federation of Environmental Journalists (IFEJ) Congress
IFEJ congress began with a panel discussion on the subject “Adapting to Climate Change: Oxfam
CAR Workshop : RSS and covering stories over the borders
Jan-Morten Bjørnbakk, a journalist from Norwegian News service gave information on RSS reader and use of RSS feeds to gather news and information from various sites across the world.
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