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For
his contribution to the Indian film industry and
ushering Indian films into the International film
fraternity, celebrated filmmaker and
environmentalist Mike Pandey was recently honoured
with the “Award for Cinematographers
Association(WICA).
“Being placed on a pedestal where legends
like Raj Kapoor and Nargis Dutt once stood, is a
great achievement and to be given this honour by the
commercial sector of filmmakers makes this feat even
more commendable, “says Mike.
The filmmaker who has in the near past bagged three
Green Oscars at Wild Screen further adds, “A
filmmaker’s role in the society is to share
information, which brings about a change and that is
what I constantly aspire to do through my films.
Documentary films are the backbone of a country and
the Indian documentary film scene is
now finally emerging after overcoming a
stagnant period.” Mike Pandey directed The Last
Migration that dealt with the imprisonment of wild
elephants in Sarguja.
It
was the firs Asian documentary to win a Green Oscar.
His Other films are The Vanishing Giants and
The Shores of Silence. Talking about his
experience as a director, he says, “The making of
The Shores of Silence was an enormous
challenge. While shooting, the ocean behaved like a
furious beast churning
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