Jacaranda Tales (Second edition)
International Film Festival on Climate Resilience
In-person edition
6th - 7th October 2023 (Gandhi Bhavan)
International Film Festival on Climate Resilience
In-person edition
6th - 7th October 2023 (Gandhi Bhavan)
9th - 10th October 2023 (Mount Carmel College)
Bengaluru
Online edition
20th - 29th October 2023
Doculive
Concept Note
This summer, many Indian cities experienced record-setting temperatures. Multiple cities such as Navi Mumbai even witnessed as many as 16 deaths due to heat stroke during a public event. Deaths have been reported even when the temperatures were not sky-rocketing and people were exposed to extreme humidity. The World Bank warned that India could become one of the first places in the world where wet-bulb temperatures could increase beyond the survivability threshold of 35°C.
India has been experiencing the severe impacts of worldwide climate change for a few decades now. Unusual and unprecedented spells of hot weather are expected to occur far more frequently and cover much larger areas. With rapid urbanisation our cities are becoming concrete jungles and in turn, ‘heat islands’. Dry years are expected to be drier and wet years wetter. Our rivers’ flows are already altered due to the glacier melt. Coastal cities such as Mumbai and Kolkata are particularly vulnerable to the impact of sea-level rise.
Being a developing country, we are still tackling issues such as disproportionate distribution of wealth and resources, strain on existing resources due to increasing population etc. Policies in India are still failing to be inclusive of the marginalised groups and communities. Climate change is deeply intertwined with global patterns of inequality, making the socially weaker section of the society more vulnerable to the impacts of climate change and widening the inequality based on caste, class, religion, ethnicity, etc. in our society. Underestimating the effects of climate change in India could reduce or even reverse the progress on a range of goals for sustainable development related to poverty, hunger, health and wellbeing, equality, economic growth and industrial innovation and biodiversity.
Every year, millions of people from rural areas migrate to the cities in search of a better quality of life. This rapid urbanisation in the country will require new construction of commercial and residential spaces and infrastructure. That means, a large chunk of the India of the future is yet to be built. As a nation, we are at a juncture where we have the possibility to incorporate methods adapting to climate change and make our infrastructure resilient. We have a rare chance of designing them right.
Combining climate change resilient planning with inclusive policies and mindful businesses and industries can become our initial step towards tackling this threat to humankind. We need sustainable solutions, ways of living by using not only the technology and modern methods but also indigenous systems which can empower marginalised communities, genders and castes.
Keeping these complexities of tackling the climate change in India in mind, we are organising the second edition of an international film festival titled, ‘Jacaranda Tales’, on the theme of Climate Resilience. This is a non-commercial film festival and will be open to the public. We will be screening films that narrate stories of resilience and courage, as well sustainability and environmental actions and solutions, contextualised on the principles of equality, self-respect and dignity of people. The selected films will be both national and international and across the genres of documentary, short fiction, animation and action/ organisational video stories.
Interspersed with panel discussions with eminent environmentalists, knowledge experts, professionals and filmmakers, we attempt to initiate conversations that recognise such possibilities and contribute to the narratives needed in the current situation of a changing climate that urgently demands attention.
We aim to bring together a community that is aware and is imaginative towards creating a climate resilient future. The festival will be held in two-day slots at Gandhi Bhavan and Mount Carmel College to reach a diverse audience. We intend to take this film festival to Bangalore urban and rural academic institutions and communities soon after the festival is over, and will organise an online edition of selected films too.
Festival Organisers:
Bangalore Film Society (BFS) is a non-profit organisation consisting of cineastes who explore cultural politics through the medium of cinema and how cinema impacts and shapes modern cultural practices, politics and social behaviour. BFS has been organising lm screenings and discussions on feature and documentary films and also has been proactively curating lm festivals and conducting conferences on various themes for the past 40 years.
Bengaluru Sustainability Forum (BSF) is an inter-institutional collaborative initiative to reflect on issues of urban and peri-urban sustainability, with a focus on Bengaluru. It aims to explore sustainability questions in the local context through interdisciplinary conversations and collaborations involving the city’s expertise and different stakeholders, including the public, researchers, professionals, start-ups and governance.
Kriti Film Club is an educational initiative of Kriti: a development praxis and communication team, a not-for-profit entity, based in New Delhi, with work across India. They have been screening documentary films at least once a month since the year 2000 on a range of issues connected with development, human rights and social attitudes/ trends. They curate documentary cinema as a medium for social action and change, among community, student and public audience with both, in-person and online screenings across India.
Gandhi Bhavan, Bangalore is an autonomous state body for furthering the objective of perpetuating the memory and message of Gandhiji to the coming generation. It has housed within its premises various Gandhian constructive institutions such as Karnataka Sarvodaya Mandal, the Sarvodaya Sahithya Samithi and Harijan Sevak Sangh. This festival will be hosted in Gandhi Bhavan, Bangalore.
Mount Carmel College, Bengaluru is the forerunner of holistic education envisioning the transformation of students to professionals. They focus on providing students with a conducive environment merged with state-of-the-art facilities and guidance from esteemed lecturers in the pursuit of humanising each student to participate in society as a responsible citizen, dynamic professional, and empathetic human.
Gamana Women’s Collective, 'Gamana' from the word meaning journey or departure (Hindi) and also mindfulness (Kannada) is a women’s collective that seeks to weave in concerns of gender justice and feminist understandings of power, politics and plurality while working through crisis intervention, campaigns and strengthening solidarities in and with diverse vulnerable communities.
Bharat Gyan Vigyan Samiti popularly known in its abbreviated form BGVS at the national level, emerged in 1989. BGVS has been putting its relentless effort to bridge the widening gap and disparities between the rich and the poor in the society, trying to abolish dogmatic social systems by developing a scientific bent of mind and spirit among the communities.
Environment Support Group (ESG), is an independent not-for-profit organisation that works to mainstream environmental and social justice in decision making through research, documentation, advocacy, training and campaign initiatives. We endeavour to mainstream the rights of local communities and voiceless ecosystems taking into account contextual complexities, especially their socio-cultural histories and traditional knowledge and practices. We work inter-sectorally, inter-sectionally and with an intent to ensure our actions are inter-generationally relevant.
Online edition
20th - 29th October 2023
Doculive
Concept Note
This summer, many Indian cities experienced record-setting temperatures. Multiple cities such as Navi Mumbai even witnessed as many as 16 deaths due to heat stroke during a public event. Deaths have been reported even when the temperatures were not sky-rocketing and people were exposed to extreme humidity. The World Bank warned that India could become one of the first places in the world where wet-bulb temperatures could increase beyond the survivability threshold of 35°C.
India has been experiencing the severe impacts of worldwide climate change for a few decades now. Unusual and unprecedented spells of hot weather are expected to occur far more frequently and cover much larger areas. With rapid urbanisation our cities are becoming concrete jungles and in turn, ‘heat islands’. Dry years are expected to be drier and wet years wetter. Our rivers’ flows are already altered due to the glacier melt. Coastal cities such as Mumbai and Kolkata are particularly vulnerable to the impact of sea-level rise.
Being a developing country, we are still tackling issues such as disproportionate distribution of wealth and resources, strain on existing resources due to increasing population etc. Policies in India are still failing to be inclusive of the marginalised groups and communities. Climate change is deeply intertwined with global patterns of inequality, making the socially weaker section of the society more vulnerable to the impacts of climate change and widening the inequality based on caste, class, religion, ethnicity, etc. in our society. Underestimating the effects of climate change in India could reduce or even reverse the progress on a range of goals for sustainable development related to poverty, hunger, health and wellbeing, equality, economic growth and industrial innovation and biodiversity.
Every year, millions of people from rural areas migrate to the cities in search of a better quality of life. This rapid urbanisation in the country will require new construction of commercial and residential spaces and infrastructure. That means, a large chunk of the India of the future is yet to be built. As a nation, we are at a juncture where we have the possibility to incorporate methods adapting to climate change and make our infrastructure resilient. We have a rare chance of designing them right.
Combining climate change resilient planning with inclusive policies and mindful businesses and industries can become our initial step towards tackling this threat to humankind. We need sustainable solutions, ways of living by using not only the technology and modern methods but also indigenous systems which can empower marginalised communities, genders and castes.
Keeping these complexities of tackling the climate change in India in mind, we are organising the second edition of an international film festival titled, ‘Jacaranda Tales’, on the theme of Climate Resilience. This is a non-commercial film festival and will be open to the public. We will be screening films that narrate stories of resilience and courage, as well sustainability and environmental actions and solutions, contextualised on the principles of equality, self-respect and dignity of people. The selected films will be both national and international and across the genres of documentary, short fiction, animation and action/ organisational video stories.
Interspersed with panel discussions with eminent environmentalists, knowledge experts, professionals and filmmakers, we attempt to initiate conversations that recognise such possibilities and contribute to the narratives needed in the current situation of a changing climate that urgently demands attention.
We aim to bring together a community that is aware and is imaginative towards creating a climate resilient future. The festival will be held in two-day slots at Gandhi Bhavan and Mount Carmel College to reach a diverse audience. We intend to take this film festival to Bangalore urban and rural academic institutions and communities soon after the festival is over, and will organise an online edition of selected films too.
Festival Organisers:
Bangalore Film Society (BFS) is a non-profit organisation consisting of cineastes who explore cultural politics through the medium of cinema and how cinema impacts and shapes modern cultural practices, politics and social behaviour. BFS has been organising lm screenings and discussions on feature and documentary films and also has been proactively curating lm festivals and conducting conferences on various themes for the past 40 years.
Bengaluru Sustainability Forum (BSF) is an inter-institutional collaborative initiative to reflect on issues of urban and peri-urban sustainability, with a focus on Bengaluru. It aims to explore sustainability questions in the local context through interdisciplinary conversations and collaborations involving the city’s expertise and different stakeholders, including the public, researchers, professionals, start-ups and governance.
Kriti Film Club is an educational initiative of Kriti: a development praxis and communication team, a not-for-profit entity, based in New Delhi, with work across India. They have been screening documentary films at least once a month since the year 2000 on a range of issues connected with development, human rights and social attitudes/ trends. They curate documentary cinema as a medium for social action and change, among community, student and public audience with both, in-person and online screenings across India.
Gandhi Bhavan, Bangalore is an autonomous state body for furthering the objective of perpetuating the memory and message of Gandhiji to the coming generation. It has housed within its premises various Gandhian constructive institutions such as Karnataka Sarvodaya Mandal, the Sarvodaya Sahithya Samithi and Harijan Sevak Sangh. This festival will be hosted in Gandhi Bhavan, Bangalore.
Mount Carmel College, Bengaluru is the forerunner of holistic education envisioning the transformation of students to professionals. They focus on providing students with a conducive environment merged with state-of-the-art facilities and guidance from esteemed lecturers in the pursuit of humanising each student to participate in society as a responsible citizen, dynamic professional, and empathetic human.
Gamana Women’s Collective, 'Gamana' from the word meaning journey or departure (Hindi) and also mindfulness (Kannada) is a women’s collective that seeks to weave in concerns of gender justice and feminist understandings of power, politics and plurality while working through crisis intervention, campaigns and strengthening solidarities in and with diverse vulnerable communities.
Bharat Gyan Vigyan Samiti popularly known in its abbreviated form BGVS at the national level, emerged in 1989. BGVS has been putting its relentless effort to bridge the widening gap and disparities between the rich and the poor in the society, trying to abolish dogmatic social systems by developing a scientific bent of mind and spirit among the communities.
Environment Support Group (ESG), is an independent not-for-profit organisation that works to mainstream environmental and social justice in decision making through research, documentation, advocacy, training and campaign initiatives. We endeavour to mainstream the rights of local communities and voiceless ecosystems taking into account contextual complexities, especially their socio-cultural histories and traditional knowledge and practices. We work inter-sectorally, inter-sectionally and with an intent to ensure our actions are inter-generationally relevant.
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