IHC Samanvay - Indian Languages Festival. Prelude event.

IHC Samanvay 2026: Celebrating Indian Languages – “This Blessed Land: यह धरती अपनी” - Prelude event. A celebration of award-winning filmmaker Mike Pandey’s five decades of visual storytelling that helped change laws and inspired global conservation efforts.

Gyamo: Queen of the Mountains (2019/ English/ 42.29 mins) Dirs. Doel Trivedy & Gautam Pandey. Produced by Mike Pandey. Fewer than 10,000 snow leopards remain in the wild. Their population continues to decline due to illegal hunting, human-wildlife conflict, and habitat loss caused by developmental activities and climate change impacts. The father-son wildlife filmmaker duo of Mike and Gautam Pandey travel to Ladakh in an attempt to better understand the snow leopard and the people who share its home, and find solutions to protect this elusive big cat and its depleting habitat.

• Woodpecker International Film Festival - Official Selection, 2019
• 5th International Film Festival of Shimla - Official Selection, 2019
• Wildlife Film Conservation Film Festival - Official Selection, 2018
• Indian IFFI Panorama - Selections, 2018
• 9th Jagran Film Festival - Official Selection
• Winner International Big Cats Film Festival
• Quotes from the Earth - An Environmental Film Festival - Official Selection, 2018
• BANFF Award, 2018

The Last Migration - Wild Elephant Capture in Sarguja (Docu/ 1995/ English/ 52 mins) Dir. Mike Pandey. The film portrays the man - animal conflict and its repercussions; the tussle between the ancient pachyderm and the tribals of the forest. It also digs deeper and finds that this is actually a manifestation of a more vicious cycle; the disruption and devastation of the balance in Nature by mankind’s relentless and unsustainable obsession with power and development. Produced by Riverbank Studios.

• Green Oscar / Panda Award - Wildscreen Festival, Bristol UK, 1994
• Spirit of Wilderness - Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA, 1994
• Care for Nature Award, International World Wildlife Fund, Bangalore, India
• Special Jury Award - International Video Festival (IVFest), Trivandrum, 1995
• We The People - South Africa