About

Third Eye Communications is an informal group of filmmakers and film activists involved in producing distributing and screening of films on social and environmental issues. The group became active from 1999 with the video documentary Chaliyar…The Final Struggle on the anti pollution struggle by the people against Mavoor Gwalior Rayons factory in Calicut, Kerala. This was followed by Kanavu (Dream) on the alternate school of the adivasi children in Waynad and a reportage on the police firing in Muthanga Wynad titled “Evicted from Justice. In December 2002 we made the film “The Bitter Drink” on the struggle of the adivasi communities in Plachimada against the over exploitation of the ground water by the corporate global giant Coca Cola. Last year we made “Only An Axe Away”, a film on the history of the campaign to save the Silent Valley eco-system and the recent attempts by the state electricity board (KSEB) to destroy it in the form of another hydel project.

All these films have been widely screened around in Kerala and outside. Our films have been screened in the WSF in Mumbai 2004 and through a net work of Vikalp (Films for Freedom) all over the world. Our screening activities are not confined to our films only. We show a wide range of films on various issues through a network of screening venues. Our attempt is to bridge the gap in communication among action groups in India and abroad