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About The Film
Winner of the World's most Prestigious Award the GREEN OSCAR / PANDA AWARD at the Wildscreen Festival, in Bristol, UK in 2000 and winner of numerous other national and international awards.
Shores of Silence is the first Indian film to focus on a large marine species. This is the first ever documentation of the massacre of whale sharks on the Indian coast.
The film is an effort to create awareness and gather support to protect and conserve this species. The aim is to eventually help create policies to ban whale shark trade in India and find sustainable alternatives for the local fishing community.
This film moved the government of India into bringing in legislation and banning the killing of the Whale Sharks on Indian shores. The Whale Shark was declared protected under the Indian Wildlife Act- 1972, bringing it at par with the tigers and the Rhino.
This was a landmark move. It was the first marine species to be protected under the Indian law.
In November 2002, at the international CITES meet in Chile, Santiago, a negative voting changed into an overwhelming positive after this film was shown to the delegates - bringing global protection of the Whale Shark and giving the largest fish in the world a new lease of life.
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