BEST SHORT FILM IN NON FICTION Nominee

Nitesh Ramesh Parulekar

As name suggests, this short Documentary film is shot in Backyard, showing the nature-diversity found in it. Film starts with the Drawing of a Pre-history couple trying their best to learn farming. In the next painting a present day farmer is shown farming in paddy fields, and new experiments like power tiller trailer. After that it is suggested that Backyard is also a farming experiment done by our ancestors. Camera moves in backyard and vast diversity from butterflies to snakes in shown. Then film moves to birds. All these creatures get water, food, shelter in backyards. Finally the message is conveyed that we should provide safety to all these creatures, as wildlife sanctuaries do.

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