International wildlife & environment film fest from Dec 15

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Press Trust of India Kolkata
Last Updated : Dec 10 2017 | 8:40 PM IST
Curtains will go up on the 3rd Kolkata International Wildlife and Environment Film Festival with the screening of Oliver Goetzl's 'Jungle Book Bear' on December 15.
Magsaysay Award winner Prakash Amte will inaugurate the three-day festival in which 60 films from across the world would be screened, festival director Aditya Lal Mukherjee said.
Prakash Amte and his wife Mandakini who run a wildlife orphanage and sanctuary for animals in Maharashtra would be conferred life time achievement award by the festival organisers, DESHAM.
Directed by German film maker Oliver Goetzl, the inaugural film 'Jungle Book Bear' is a 50-minute movie based on the timeless Rudyard Kipling fiction 'Jungle Book'. It has the voice narration by David Attenborough.
The films will be shown in six categories - Feature Film, Short Film, Animation Films, Documentaries, Public Service Announcements and Students' Film, a new category,
Veteran actress, film rights activists and chief advisor of the festival Debashree Roy said no entry fee would be required to watch the films in the six venues.
The selected films are from countries such as France, Mongolia, Iran, the USA, the UK, Germany, Poland, Hungary, Guatemala, Canada, Russia, Greece, Nepal, Israel and India.

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First Published: Dec 10 2017 | 8:40 PM IST

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