ONE TREE MANY LIVES

ONE TREE MANY LIVES 
a film for children and nature lovers

SYNOPSIS:   In an age crammed with TV, computers, and electronic gadgets, children are isolated from the simple pleasures of exploring nature. Interaction with flora and fauna seems to be mostly through television and a trip to the Natural History Museum once a year. There are many things that parents, guardians, and teachers can do to help children develop a love for nature : Enhance their enjoyment of nature by giving them magnifying lenses, a pair of binoculars, or a simple telescope. Encourage your children to observe things they see and record them. Give older children a simple camera, if they show an inclination for photography. 

 This short film ONE TREE MANY LIVES visualizes a class discussion by  a group of nature loving children on the World Environment Day.  It also depicts a  successful experimental story of a nature loving parent who gifted a camera to his school going Son to develop love for nature and the encouragement of his teacher in the school.

 Caring for plants, and seeing them grow and develop, is a wonderful opportunity for the children to know the cycle of creation first hand. This short film ONE TREE MANY LlVES is all about the caring and observation by young students of the life of one tree in the compound of their school and the many lives around it.  Santosh comes to the school regularly with a small camera gifted by his father on the last World Environment Day. His inclination for nature photography helped his friends to develop the skill of observation of the natural world and apply most of the knowledge gathered from it in their studies.

 Many animals, such as birds, squirrels and a variety of insects, spend much of their lives in trees. These animals are born in trees, live in trees, raise their young in trees and seldom come down to the ground. Trees provide them shelter from the weather and from enemies.

Trees provide food in the form of fruits, nuts and leaves.  Many people pass trees and don’t realize that they are a home to all these living creatures. When ONE TREE is cut MANY LIVES will be ruined. ONE TREE AND MANY LIVES portrays the wonderful experiences of young school children in their class discussion about nature through real interactions with it. The film ends with an appeal to "Do'nt cutting down Trees" .

I selected a tree in the IIM campus to observe and picturize the life of one tree, in a year. I hope, this short film will be a visual treat for children and  nature lovers.  The main narration is given by Varsha Sankara Raman, daughter of my friend Sankara Raman (Ayyappan).  Teacher's voice is given by Dr.Anita Vidyadhar.  

                                                  Created by : SUNIL RAJ