Collection MFDI - Vanishing Sholas, Vanishing Rivers

About

An introduction to the tropical mountain forests of the Palni Hills in South India, locally known as Sholas. These ancient primary forests play a critical role in regional water management, protection of bird, insect, and animal life and are an indipensable bank of floral genetic diversity. Human settlement in the hills is resulting in their disappearance. The film emphasizes their aesthetic and practical ecological value, encouraging their protection and propogation.

This movie came to filmcollectief through Media for Development International. MFDI is an American 501(c)3 non-profit agency which has been operational now for 15+ years. It relates closely to Media for Development Trust (MFD) a Zimbabwean registered charity (W.O. 21/89) set up in the late 1980s, and also to Media for Development International / Tanzania, a branch office established in 2004 in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. The three are sister agencies. MFDI / USA supports the others, and they work together in film, radio, and TV productions as well as distributing African social message videos.

Note: the 16mm copy was a duplicate-copy and is slowly turning red. With color-manipulation we have made the best of it.

Human-made No record of this work says a model made it. What this means.

Archive

Internet Archive, in Filmcollectief (Dutch film)

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Rights statement

All rights belong to the owner

Credit

John Riber

Language

English

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