Film festival on wildlife to begin in Shimla on July 7

With the aim to highlighting the environmental concerns, a three-day Woodpecker Environment and Wildlife Film Festival would begin at historic Gaiety Theatre here from July 7.
As many as 45 films, including several national Award winning films and five films from Himachal Pradesh would be screened at the festival.
The focus of the festival would be on critical environment and wildlife conservation issues like climate change, forest conservation, biodiversity and man-animal conflict and success stories would also be showcased in it.
The festival is being organized by WWF India in collaboration with CMSR foundation, Delhi with the support of the Himachal Pradesh's Department of Language, Art and culture and Department of Forest.

"Our mission is to stop degradation of planet's natural environment and build a future in which humans live in harmony with nature and the film festival is an important and impactful way of communicating to the masses," WWF-India, Project Director (Shimla), Aarti Gupta said.
"The idea is to showcase the films that promote discussions, expand expectations, challenge attitude and change life and we are continuously experimenting to promote issue based cinema," festival director Narender Yadav said.
The prominent movies to be screened in the festival includes national award winning film on man-animal conflict - God on the edge, India's wandering lions, the forgotten tigers, Kutch- Fragile frontier, Changing climate, moving people, Baranaja: twelve seeds of sustainability, shrinking shoresand The Ritual.