CMS Vatavaran 2006- 2nd Environment & Wildlife Traveling Film Festival

Title:Harvesting Hunger
Language/ Duration/Year/ Format (DVD)/ Price: English/ 53 mins / 2000/ DVD Rs. 1000

Summary: There are over 300 million people in India who do not have enough food to meet their basic nutritional requirements. With more and more intrusion of the market economy and increasing corporatisation of Indian agriculture, it is apprehended that millions more will go hungry in the first decades of the new millennium. 'Harvesting Hunger' is a journey into this impending world of hunger and famine, an exploration of the deepening crisis in food security in the country.

The film revolves around four case studies - Punjab for a study of the yellowing of the Green Revolution, Kalahandi for an investigation into the structural reasons of famine and impoverishment, Warangal for an examination of the debilitating effects of money lending, resulting in suicide deaths , prompted by multinational pesticides enterprises and Bellary for an understanding of the role of giant seed and food processing companies in destroying the very base of Indian agriculture.

Harvesting Hunger has been funded by ActionAid India and took one and half years to complete. It has been selected for competition at Toronto Film and Video Festival for Environment and Wildlife (Sept 2000) and Okomedia Environment Film Festival (Freiburg, Germany Oct 2000) and EarthVision, Tokyo for March 2001.It was awarded a special Jury's award at Okomedia 2000.