Peeli ‘plants’ big idea via short-film
The short film titled ‘Peeli’s Birthdays’ features the specialities of her seven birthdays
By : pooja nair
Update: 2015-06-11 05:56 GMT
KOZHIKODE: Peeli Pampally, 8, has performed an extraordinary feat—she has produced a six-minute film that was recognised by the Kerala State Chalachitra Academy as the best children’s film for the Environmental Film Festival of Kerala 2015. When kids were busy attending summer vacation classes, this fourth standard student of St Joseph’s Anglo-Indian Girls’ Higher Secondary School here was learning the basics of video camera.
The short film titled ‘Peeli’s Birthdays’ features the specialities of her seven birthdays and this was the surprise that she had stocked on her eighth birthday for her relatives and friends who gathered at her home. “The film’s theme was something that I had seen and experienced from my childhood,” said Peeli.
“I have seen my father planting saplings of arecanut, coconut, jackfruit and banana during my birthdays and I have shown it to my audience through my film,” she added.
“I gifted my relatives saplings to be planted in their gardens,” she said. “My father was an inspiration for me to create this movie and I will pass on the message of protecting the environment and nature to all my friends,” she pointed out. The film produced under the banner of Pampally production is directed and scripted by Peeli and she also donned the role of cinematographer.