3rd Jharkhand Science Film Festival

• 19 Oct 2022

Why in News?

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

Key Point

• DNS Anand, general secretary of Jharkhand Science for Society, said that the film festival has been 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 has been shown in a very touching way. In this, the students were motivated by showing the circumstances of living and education by choosing 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', 'Green', short film 'Decay', the film 'An Engineered Dream', 'Coral Woman', the short film 'Kameez', the film 'Damodar's Sorrow' and the film 'The Ganita Story' were also screened.
• It is to be noted that so far two science film festivals have been successfully organized in different parts of Jharkhand.