Edu films, documentaries on EMMRC’s YouTube channel

Pune: Award-winning educational films and documentaries made by Educational Multimedia Research Centre will now be available on the center’s YouTube channel launched on Tuesday. In 1991, a state-of-the-art TV studio was set up on the Savitribai Phule Pune University (SPPU) campus. The studio was designed by British architects and the documentaries or docudramas produced were of high quality and often used by Doordarshan. Almost two decades later, the institute, which has in its bank over 100 national award-winning educational films has decided to upload one such film on social issues and other relevant topics, every Friday on this channel. Sameer Sahasrabudhe, the director, said, “These are not just films. These topics were chosen by previous teams with the utmost care and with a sense of social responsibility. The films went through a large phase of research and multiple checks and were approved by the UGC, edited as per suggestions, and then telecast on Doordarshan.” Jagat Nadda, director of Consortium for Educational Communication, who launched the YouTube channel virtually, indicated that in the future all EMMRCs would come up with such channels, which will give the audience an authentic repository of documentaries.