My latest film, ‘Green Ragas’, a multimedia experience to raise awareness about caring more for our beautiful world. Watch the whole series...
In February 2009 the Celtic Ragas Band gave a multimedia concert at the Wildscreen Awards Ceremony in New Delhi. Watch the video on my blog...
In ‘Concert for India’s Environment’ we blended in scenes of the concert recorded live at the BVIEER Insitute in Pune (India), with poems on nature, composed and read by Indian school children; interviews with environmentalists and educators and footage of landscapes, wildlife and people from all over India.
With this film, which is downloadable for free, I wanted to raise awareness on the environmental issues in India, my beloved adopted home country.
I was very pleased that the film was shown at the IUCN World Conservation Congress in Barcelona on 8th October 2008.
More on the ‘Concert for India’s Environment’ and to watch the video...
‘Chinmaya Dunster and Friends Live
in Goa’: Chinmaya, Karunesh, Ramadhan, Shantam and Keval
were joined by dancers Santoshi and Savitri at this impromptu performance at Sababa, Morjim, Goa on
2nd March 2009. The video highlights the energy ‘Like playing in Buddha Hall again!’
Watch the video ‘Chinmaya Dunster and Friends Live in Goa’...
‘Alap in Jhinjoti’: A very short alaap which Chinmaya performed before leaving Auckland, New Zealand in 2007.
For ‘Avani’ I filmed Rashmi and Rajnish who explained to me how they started doing development work in the Himalayas: introducing technologies for energy and water in the villages, and then promoting crafts like hand made, naturally dyed, textiles.
My video ‘Smiles From Off The Road’ shows faces I filmed while travelling in Uttarakhand Himalayas and Kerala (India) and are accompanied, in the background, by my guitar.
I was unable to keep this incredible footage to myself and am happy to share it here with you.
Here are the links to the videos:
Smiles From Off the Road
Smiles From Off the Road 2 - Treasuring the Girlchild
Smiles From Off the Road 3 - Travels With a Hat
Smiles From The Forest
Himalayan Smiles
Let there Be Laughter
Smiles has been selected by a jury that included filmmakers, film critics, journalists and social activists for the 4th ViBGYOR Film Festival for Short and Documentary, Thrissur, Kerala, India (4-8 Feb 2009) as well as for the CMS International Children’s Film Festival Lucknow, India (7-13 Apr 2009).
During a Movie & Music Festival held at three books and music shops in Bangalore, Gurgaon and Kochi (India) of the chain Reliance TimeOut all five short films of the ‘Smiles From Off The Road’ series were shown on 23 Aug 2009.
It was also chosen to be shown at KIMFF (Kathmandu International Mountain Film Festival) 10-14 December 2009 in Kathmandu (Nepal). More...
On May 25, 2009, I gave an interview to Filmmakers for Conservation, a community working in the global film and television industry. Their mission is "Using the power of film and media to help conserve our natural world".
A ‘Himalayan Black Bear’ came very close to me while trekking to Kaphni Glacier, on the southern flanks of Nanda Devi (25,500 ft) in the Kumaon Himalaya (Uttarkhand State, India) in July 2008. Luckily for me he was on the other side of the river - it is such a powerful (and dangerous) animal.
‘Tyger! Tyger!’ shows the tigers of Bandhavgarh National Park, India, at play. Stunning footage from Vijendra Patil and soundtrack from Chinmaya Dunster.
A century ago there were an estimated 40,000 tigers in India. Today less than 2000 remain.