Since the dawn of time, storytelling in community has shaped our mindset, our outlook and ultimately, our behavior. With record heat, oscillating droughts & floods, fires, melting glaciers (and ... you know the rest) our current narrative needs some course correcting.

All Living Things Environmental Film Festival (ALT EFF) is back for a 5th edition, pan-India cultural event. Join us at Harkat Studios for a unique evening of cinema, art & community. Watch award-winning global films on regeneration, activism, resilience and hope and engage in conversations with India’s most inspiring change-makers. Let’s restore the narrative of stewardship, together. All are welcome!

PROGRAM:

4:00 - 5:30 PM : Demon Mineral (Hadley Austin | USA | 1 hr 29 mins | Diné, English | 2023) INDIA PREMIERE

5:30 - 6:30 PM : A warning and a catalogue: The Great Nicobar Betrayal, with Prof. Pankaj Sekhsaria (IIT-B)

6:30 - 6:45 PM : Chai Break

6:45-7:45 PM : Miles Away (Megha Acharya | India | 50 mins | Bundeli, Hindi | 2023)

7:45-8:15 PM : Q&A with Miles Away

8:15-8:30 PM : A Body Called Life (Spencer MacDonald | USA, Switzerland, Poland | 14 mins 51 secs | English | 2024) INDIA PREMIERE

8:30-8:45 PM : Lunatic (Robin Noorda | Netherlands | 16 mins | English | 2024)

8:45-9:30 PM : ALT EFF Voices: With prompts and/or select curation provided by us, this is an open-mic for audiences to express themselves

NON FILM PROGRAM:

A warning and a catalogue: The Great Nicobar Betrayal, with Prof. Pankaj Sekhsaria (IIT-B)

About: In The Great Nicobar Betrayal, Pankaj Sekhsaria, one of the best known

chroniclers of contemporary issues in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, has compiled abset of articles written by various experts that examine the proposed mega Great Nicobar infrastructure and tourism project from every angle—environmental, geological, impact on local communities, law, due process, and ecology. These pieces together shed light on the magnitude of the disaster that will be unleashed on this pristine island if the project comes through. The book is both a warning and a catalogue of the manmade catastrophe that lurks on the horizon, one that will destroy more than the tsunami of December 2004 ever did.

Bio: Pankaj Sekhsaria is a longtime member of the environmental group Kalpavriksh and currently Associate Professor at the Centre for Technology Alternatives for Rural Areas (CTARA), IIT Bombay. He has a Bachelor’s degree in engineering, a master’s degree in Mass Communication and a recent PhD in Science and Technology Studies from the Maastricht University in the Netherlands. His research interests lie at the intersection of science, environment, society and technology.

He has worked in and written extensively on issues of the environment and wildlife with a special focus on the Andaman and Nicobar Islands and protected areas in the country His books on the islands include Islands in Flux – the Andaman and Nicobar Story (Harper Litmus 2024), which is a collection of 25 years of his journalism about the islands, Waiting for Turtles

(Kardi Tales 2021) – an illustrated story book and his first for children on turtle nest

ALT EFF Voices:

ALT EFF Voices is a dynamic spoken-word platform that will be a key feature of our annual festival, providing a space for individuals to share their personal stories, thoughts, and observations on the pressing environmental challenges we face today. With ALT EFF Voices' inaugural edition during ALT EFF 2024, we hope people of all ages and backgrounds will feel free to channel their grief, anger, hope, and passion into powerful yet creative messages about our environment.ing in the Andamans. (also published in Hindi, Tamil and Telugu, The Last Wave (Harper Collins 2014), his debut novel (also in Kannada and Tamil) and most recently The Great Nicobar Betrayal (Frontline 2024)