Adding another feather to its cap, four films of Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER) have been nominated under different categories for the International Science Film Festival of India 2020.
The film titled “War against COVID 19” directed by Abhijeet Singh, Junior Photographer, Department of Clinical Photography, under the guidance of Prof GD Puri, Dean (Academics), PGI, is nominated under the category of “Science and awareness on COVID-19 and other health emergencies”. He narrated the story of PGI’s conversion to Nehru Hospital as Covid-19 Hospital on short notice. Director Jagat Ram, doctors, technicians and other staff working in the emergency have been interviewed in it. Along with this, the head of the sanitisation staff has also been interviewed. The film is dedicated to the medical staff’s fight against this unknown virus.
Another film of Science Film Festival, “Breast Cancer”, also directed by Abhijeet under the guidance of Maninder Deep Kaur and Dr Budhi Singh Yadav from the department of radiotherapy, PGI, is nominated in the category, “Science for self-reliant India”. Abhijeet said, “After breast cancer, many problems arise such as seizures, weakness tension and ending of sexual desire. This film describes how to take care of oneself after the operation.”
The third film of Science Film Festival , “Hypoglycemia”, directed by Kritika Thakur (Final year BSc student in animation and audio visual creation) is nominated under the student category, “Science for self-reliant India”, and has been developed under technical guidance of Brijlal, l Senior Technical Officer/Coordinator for BSc Animation and Audio Visual Creation. This film talks about how diabetic patients need to take care of sugar dose, what kind of problems they may face if the sugar level falls and how to deal with it.
The last film of Science Film Festival, “Badlaav”, also directed by Kritika is nominated under the student category, “Science and awareness on Covid-19 and other health emergencies”. Around 400 films have been selected in different categories from across the country and PGI has been producing and sending films for this festival for the last 2 years.
