Ranchi: A two-day film festival is being organized in Chatra district of Jharkhand. In the new year, a film festival will be organized on 9th and 10th January 2024. It is being organized by filmmaker Sandhya Lakra. She says that its main objective is to bring awareness among children and youth through photos and videos. In this film festival, films based on education, environmental protection, self-employment, future of India, organic farming, rural development and tribal community will be shown, so that the local people of Chatra can be made aware. Films of famous and young filmmakers from Jharkhand and other states will be shown in the film festival.
Films of local youth will also be shown
The film festival is being organized in Chatra district of Jharkhand on 9th and 10th January 2024. Filmmaker Sandhya Lakra says that films of local youth of Chatra district will also be shown in the film festival, which will be based on social issues. They will be given a chance to present their film. Their objective is to promote youth towards documentary and film making.
Who is Sandhya Lakra
Sandhya Lakra is a resident of Sanghari village of Sikid Panchayat of Chatra district of Jharkhand. He received his primary education from Nazareth Vidya Niketan School, Chatra. After this, she came to Prabhattara School, Ranchi for high school studies. Then he completed his graduation from St. Xavier’s College in 2013. Due to the financial condition of the family not being good, she started living at her home in Chatra. Sandhya tells that her village is surrounded by forests on all sides. That’s why he has been very fond of forests, mountains, rivers and waterfalls since childhood.
Fellowship brought such change in life
Sandhya Lakra is fond of photography and videography since childhood. That’s why he applied for the For Change Green Hub Fellowship in the video. She was selected for the fellowship, then through the fellowship she learned to take good photos and videos. During her fellowship and internship at Asha Sanstha (Ranchi), she made documentaries on issues like the work of Asha Sanstha and the personal lives of children brought from brick kilns, problems like trafficking, safe migration. Whose name is ‘Umeed Udon Ki’. During the fellowship, she went to Kanha Tiger Reserve to shoot a three-day workshop under the program (Biodiversity and Nature Conservation) of Network for Conserving Central India. Information about biodiversity of the country and abroad was found here. She tells that during the fellowship, she went to Kerava Forest, Samaj Pragati Sanstha Bagli, Satpura Tiger Reserve, Tilsa Wildlife Sanctuary for exposure visit.
Promoting biodiversity and nature education
Sandhya Lakra tells that the film Umeed Udaans was sent for the Samvad Film Festival competition of Tata Steel Foundation. Got a chance to participate in the five-day program of Samvad 2023. During this, I got a chance to meet filmmakers from different parts of the country and exchange ideas. After the fellowship, she is doing awareness programs to promote biodiversity and nature education with children of government schools in Chatra. Children are exchanging information and ideas about the forest. She makes documentaries on trees, plants, flowers, leaves and fruits found in the forest with medicinal properties as well as wild animals. Forest Department, Chatra had invited me to Palamu Tiger Reserve along with school children as resource persons on the occasion of Wildlife Conservation Week.