One minute Silence was obsereved by the large audience at Srifort auditorium after the screening of first 3 minutes film on Mumbai attack of November directed by the students of Asian Academy Of Film And Television (AAFT) at the inauguration of Sixth WeCare Film Fest 2009 meant to showcase films on disability. Sanjeev Sachdeva anchoring the whole programme sitting on wheel chair accused terrorist as real disable persons.
Poonam Chanderan, Chairperson National Trust, Nafisa Ali, Chairperson Children Film Society Of India, Sandeep Marwah, President Asian Academy Of Film And Television and Marwah Studios, were there to light the Inaugural Lamp of this four days national festival of films on disability.
“ It is necessary to create awareness about the rights of the differently enabled and to treat them as members of the mainstream society if they are to contribute their bit to nation-building”
“The four-day festival with 32 films from six countries including India has been organized by the National Trust and the non-governmental organization Brotherhood in collaboration with the United Nations Information Centre (UNIC), New Delhi, Oxfam India and the Asian Academy of Film and Television (AAFT)” in this Festival,
said Satish Kapoor ,Director Of the Festival.
Ms Nafisa Ali, Chairperson of the Children’s Film Society, India, said it was most important that the differently enabled get support from their families, the government and non-governmental institutions. She said life was the most important gift of God and humans should ‘join and celebrate this’ by making a change.
Ms Shalini Dewan who is Director of the UN Information Centre said the world body was marking sixty years of Universal Declaration of Human Rights and one year of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD) which was passed on May 3 last year. She said the aim should be to give equal rights to all and not discriminate those who were differently enabled.
Mr Kunal Verma, Director of Marketing and Communication in Oxfam India, said the marginalization of the differently enabled has to end and a change has to be brought about in the mindsets of the people by ‘bringing down mental barbed wires’
