Kallola 2022 :: Children and Climate Change

About Kallola

Objectives
Kallola- The festival
Kallola with Children
Kallola for Filmmakers

About

KALLOLA signifies the happy sound of a bird - song at dawn. In a perfect world, the synonym for the happy, joyful laughter of children. You may ask that if Human Rights belong to everyone, why do we need separate rights for children? Children need care and protection to ensure that their rights are upheld. Kallola was conceptualized keeping in mind that children are neither aware of their rights nor do they know how to safeguard them. Hence it becomes the inherent duty of us adults to ensure that their rights are upheld.

In a partnership by UNICEF & Aaina since 2014, Kallola has been conducted as an annual short-film platform on various Child Rights issues. Its aim is to create an environment that promotes the rights and empowerment of children in the state of Odisha through thought-provoking short films.

Objectives of Kallola:

Generating mass awareness on issues related to the rights of children through this platform
Building capacity of children on creative expression and hearing their views
Creating awareness on the issues among the filmmaking and creative community that can influence their own perspective and work.

Kallola- The Festival:

For the last eight years, Kallola has created its own space not only as a contest but as an institution promoting the rights of children through more than 350 short films so far.

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350

Films

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Filmmakers

Kallola festival comprises of 2 parts

Kallola with Children - Celebrating the Creativity of Children.
Kallola for Filmmakers

Kallola with Children-2022

Every year Kallola comes up with different issues concerning children. In Kallola 2022 the theme was "Children & Climate Change". 47 children from three districts of Odisha - Harihara Nodal High School, Jogisarda, Balangir, Ashram School, Pitamahal, Rayagada and Jenapur Govt. High School, Jajpur were taken through a workshop and with the mentoring of experienced resource persons have been able to produce 9 short films on the above theme.

Byte of Children

"I was of idea that films can be of only 2 or 3 hours. But from Kallola workshop I learnt that films can be so short of 30 seconds. I enjoyed the process of story making, script making and shooting."
Chandan Mandangi, Stuent of Ashram School, Pitamahal

"Today we are destroying nature for our own selfish interests. We are cutting the trees, setting up huge industries etc. If we don't stop such activities our world will end soon".
Tejaswini , Student of Jenapur Govt. High School, Jajpur

"We learnt the entire process of filmmaking. Initially, I felt very nervous while giving directions for the film but now I have more confidence in my abilities and I am confident that I can make films in future".
Aiswarya, Student of Harihar Nodal High School, Balangir

Headmasters sharing their experience:

Mr Ashok Tripathy, Headmaster Hari Har Nodal High School, Jogisarda, Loisingha, Balangir
Extremely happy that the students of our school belonging to remote rural area of Balangir district got an opportunity to take part in short film, “Kallola” on “Children & Climate Change” and show their inherent talents. UNICEF and Aaina Odisha have provided such a platform to children which not only generate awareness about their rights and empowerment but also develop creativity in them. The Resource persons from Aaina are so resourceful and efficient that students easily became part of the process in a short period of time. I was deeply inspired by the child-loving attitude and child-friendly activities of the resource persons engaged for the purpose.

Mr Dwiti Chandra Sashu, HM, Ashram School, Pitamahal, Rayagada
"It is difficult for children to understand the theme, prepare scripts and make films and they themselves directing the films. This is possible only because of the support and inspiration of UNICEF and AAINA which is highly appreciated".

Mr. Niroj Kumar Mohanty, HeadMaster, Jenapur Govt. High School, Jajpur
The programme "Kallola" has been successfully organized by UNICEF and Aaina which is highly appreciated. I am really thankful to the above organizations for selecting our school for such an unique programme, and giving scope to our students.

Kallola for Filmmakers

Every year since its inception, Kallola was rolled out a contest with a different theme on ‘Rights of children' to promote the rights of children through the powerful medium of films. The short films received act as tools to raise awareness and advocacy that help create an environment promoting the rights of children in the state. The focus of all the films was not only to highlight the issue but leave the viewers often with positive action/solution. The messages are emphatic and compel the viewers to rethink these burning issues. Short, yet powerful messages that trigger actions, have been presented year on year, through these short films.
Past themes have varied from Child Labour, Child Marriage, Sexual Abuse, or core issues like Water & Nutrition rights of children, Covid and Children, Periods Talk and Menstrual Health Hygiene.