Vatavaran 2006- 2nd Environment & Wildlife Travelling Film Festival

With the experience of traveling festivals in Chennai, Mumbai, Coimbatore, Guwahati, Kaziranga and Golaghat, this year the Vatavaran Directorate is taking on Vatavaran Travels 2006 on a larger scale.

The three to four days of traveling festival across the country would be a vehicle of creating a network, reaching a larger audience, raising local issues and being a platform for documentary filmmakers.

The traveling festival has the following objectives:

• Sensitize people about topical issues of concern.
• Pro-active approach with stimulating discussions.
• Reaching out to a wider, more diverse audience through documentary films.
• Networking with educational institutions and students, NGOs, Civil Society Groups and other concerned institutions.
• Provide good green films for screening and also use them as educational and motivational tools towards the cause of environment.
• Provide a platform to aspiring, upcoming and brilliant environment and wildlife filmmakers in NE who have remained largely unsupported in their endeavor.
• Pro-active approach with motivating discussions involving the basic stake holders