Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, Feb 28: Educational Multimedia Research Centre (EMMRC), University of Kashmir (KU), Srinagar has bagged two awards in two categories during the 24th All India Children’s Educational Audio-Video Festival & ICT Mela 2020.
The festival, organised by CIET-NCERT (Central Institute of Educational Technology-National Council of Educational Research and Training) in collaboration with SIET (State Institute of Educational Society), Kerala & CUSAT (Cochin University of Science and Technology), was held from 22nd- 24th February at Kochi, Kerala.
The films that were awarded during the festival, include: SECMOL: The School for Norphel, jointly produced and directed by Prof Shahid Rasool and Shafqut Habib; and Untreated Waste – Invitation to Disaster, produced and directed by Er Abdul Rashid Bhat of EMMRC. The former was awarded for the ‘best cinematography’ and the latter for the ‘best voice-over’.
The camera work for SECMOL: The School for Norphel was done by Shafqut Habib and Gulzar Ahmad while the voice-over for Untreated Waste – Invitation to Disaster was done by Mohammad Faheem Ul Islam.
Director EMMRC, KU, Prof Shahid Rasool distributed certificates and trophies among the awardees at a function held here at EMMRC.