3rd Jharkhand Science Film Festival concludes | 20 Oct 2022

Why In News?

• On October 18, 2022, the second phase of the '3rd Jharkhand Science Film Festival' to be held from October 14 to October 18 in the state of Jharkhand concluded at Sir JC Bose Girls High School, Giridih district of the state.

Key Point

• DNS Anand, general secretary of Jharkhand Science for Society, said that the film festival was organized in Giridih on October 17 and 18, 2022, in which the film 'The Next Side of Beauty', based on illegal mining of mica in Koderma and Giridih districts, was also screened. In this film, the agony of choosing Mica and Dhibra was shown in a very touching way. In this, the students were motivated by showing the circumstances of living and education by choosing the dhibra. The 48-minute film is based on mica mining and cosmetics industry. The documentary film is directed by Deepak Bara.
• Apart from this, Jharkhand filmmaker Prakash's film 'The Fire Within' was also screened. It depicts the painful picture of jharkhand's coal mining sector, showing that the identity of the tribal community, which is facing the brunt of corruption, displacement due to mafia power, is also now in danger.
• It is known that on October 14, the third Jharkhand Science Film Festival was inaugurated in Bokaro, in which documentary, short film and animation based films were screened. It also screened Padma Shri Simone Uraon's film 'Jharia', based on environment and water conservation, directed by Biju Toppo. Apart from this, the film 'My Life as a Snail', the film 'Green', short film 'Decay', the film 'An Engineered Dream', the film 'Coral Woman', the short film 'Kameez', the film 'Damodar's Sorrow' and the film 'The Ganita Story' were also screened.
• General Secretary DNS Anand said that Science for Society is constantly pursuing jan-samvad and jan vigyan abhiyan to take science to the masses in Jharkhand and to develop and expand the scientific temper among the people. In addition to other science activities, science film festival is also being used as a powerful and effective medium of science communication.
• It is to be noted that earlier two science film festivals have been successfully organized in different parts of Jharkhand.