CMS VATAVARAN, India's premier Environment and Wildlife Film Festival has grown in size, recognition, reach, patronage, association, and most importantly stature and prestige. CMS Vatavaran is a film festival with a difference.

• It strives to make people more concerned about nature and the need to protect and conserve the wilderness around us.
• An advocacy forum for promoting space for environment issues in the public media
• A movement, an attempt to change minds, attitudes and policies and bringing issues of local, regional and national concern and creating a dialogue between various stakeholders.
• It is a vehicle for galvanizing civil society initiatives and a platform provoking the larger public and opinion making process.

• Best of Indian film screenings, interactive discussions, symposium, workshops, panel discussions, exhibitions
• Repository of the largest Indian environment and wildlife films (Approx. 2000)
• Only Competitive Environment and Wildlife Film Festival in India
• Coveted Awards
• Exclusive CMS VATAVARAN Travels - Festival held in 20 cities across the country.
• Children Film Festival - reached 30000 children