The consortium for Educational Communication (CEC) in collaboration with Educational Multimedia Research Centre (EMRC), University of Mysore, on Wednesday organized the award ceremony-cum-film screening of two national, educational video competitions.
Governor of Kerala, Arif Mohamad Khan, was the chief guest on the occasion. The Prakriti International Documentary Film Festival will be held between November 26 and 27 at the University of Mysore, Mysuru. Director, CEC, Prof. J.B. Nadda, and Vice Chancellor of Mysore University, Prof. G. Hemantha Kumar, were the keynote speakers.
CEC, one of the Inter University Centres set up by the University Grants Commission, organizes the Educational Video Competition and the Prakriti International Documentary Film Festival to promote ICT-based environment building on various social themes, to help its learners develop holistically by finding symmetry in learning and evolving their understanding of subjects of interest.
During the Educational Video Competition, 12 films were screened, and in the Prakriti International Documentary Film Festival, 17 documentaries are to be screened for sensitizing the students and other stakeholders.
The results of the Educational Video competition are: In the Best Educational Programme of the Year, Subha Das Mollick for her film “Calcutta Sonata” and Bobbeeta Sharma for her film “A Light that Refuses to Fade Out” jointly share the first prize, while “Living with Autism” by Vasim Ayub Pathan will be specially screened and awarded the certificate.