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Sakura is flowers not leaves. It is the only one example nature flowers before leaves. It makes the Japan as a garden in March- April with different types flowers. However it makes a cultures. Hanami ( nature observation ), festival, event even the food and perfume widely used in this time based on the beauty of Sakura and its mode. As my experience, its make an excellent unity between nature and human heart. Download >>

Koinobori are fish shaped flags traditionally flown in Japan to celebrate Children's Day. ( 5th May ). Traditionally, the flags are used to incourages children as the carp can swim upstream. The flags are made by coloful decorated paper, cloth, nonwoven fabric etc .The sizes of 'koi flags' genearlly one feet to a few meters long. However it is flown generally infront of house, school where the children gather. Download >>

The tool, prepared by Trisha Das, analyses the two stages of documentary scriptwriting, the pre-shoot or shooting script and the post-shoot script, providing basic knowldege and useful advice for those being initiated in documentary making.

A well-written film script is an instrument through which one can create emotion and epiphany at will. That is one reason why it is possible the most critical aspect of the filmmaking procedure and, often, the most underrated aspect of the documentary process.

Through this series of training modules, UNESCO and its partner, the Public Service Broadcasting Trust (PSBT) of India, intend to support local communication processes by facilitating the democratization of content-making, providing easy-to-use self-training materials that can be inexpensively distributed to potential content creators.
http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=24367&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html

Flash mania ( http://www.flashmania.jp) is a Japanese design company. The portfolio is having excellent site design by Macromedia Flash.

In this edition of Panoscope, we go to Dhaka - the bustling capital of Bangladesh where thousands of rickshaws, those jauntily decorated three wheelers, jostle for space with cars, pedestrians, trucks, tempos and bicycles. Yet the migrant population that man these vehicles around the city often remain faceless, swelling the ranks of Dhaka?s urban poor. We also hear Mostafa Kamal Majumder, a Dhaka-based journalist, speak about the migration and marginalization of rickshaw wallahs ? the men who keep Dhaka on the move. (15:00)
http://www.panosradiosouthasia.org/prsa/prsaarchives.php?id=27

Sakura is flowers not leaves. It is the only one example nature flowers before leaves. It makes the Japan as a garden in March- April with ... all » different types flowers. However it makes a cultures. Hanami ( nature observation ), festival, event even the food and perfume widely used in this time based on the beauty of Sakura and its mode. As my experience, its make an excellent unity between nature and human heart.

Koinobori are fish shaped flags traditionally flown in Japan to celebrate Children's Day. ( 5th May ). Traditionally, the flags are used to incourages children as the carp can swim upstream. The flags are made by coloful decorated paper, cloth, nonwoven fabric etc .The sizes of 'koi flags' genearlly one feet to a few meters long. However it is flown generally infront of house, school where the children gather.

A small documentary on Rickshaw and Rickshawpuller of Dhaka city, Bangladesh. The documentary having the follwing story:

Dhaka is the city of rickshaw. With aesthetic glimmer firth rickshaw in Chittagong in 1919. In Dhaka rickshaw first appear in 1938. One landlord of old Dhaka first brought this vehicle in the capital.

Once rickshaw was consider as gorgeous van. According to city corporation, there are seventy six thousand in Dhaka.

With vision of a good life, the illiterate villagers migrant to Dhaka after fighting with poverty. But don't get job. At last take rickshaw pulling like hard job.

After whole day hard job they return with weak body and mind.
With limited income they can not maintain family properly.
So wife also join in income generation, do job as housemaid or garments worker.

Because of poverty can not send children to school. One son also become rickshaw puller like father. Such a way going on their life circle.

The documentary, “Shankahri Bazar” portrays the reality of shankhari art & artist, old Dhaka, Bangladesh. It is a team work of Humayun Kabir, Washiqur Rahman, Shamsul Arifin, Raihath Sohel and directed by Shahjahan Siraj@Machizo. It is a project of MSJ-303, Ulab, Spring 2007. DVD is the shooting and output format of the documentary.

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Shankhari Bazaar, the name itself is inheriting glory of shankha art. Once the Shankhari Bazar was famous as the place of art. The traditional Shankha industry is now struggling for survival. Fighting with Indian products, excessive prices of raw materials; however low-income and less market demands are the main cause of the struggle.

Before also these works was done by hand with touch of total heart. Nowadays machine are widely using in Shankha industry. Although much works is done with in short time but creativity become limited within monotonous format. Cutting, cleaning, carving, sketching, designing and polishing are the six steps for making an artistic shankha. After cutting and cleaning, pairing and rounding has been done by machine.

In the eve of International Day for Biological Diversity, 2007 Climate Change Cell Bangladesh has published a Multimedia Production on Climate Change in Bangladesh.

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The orginal format of documentary is DVD, view: panoromic, duration- 14 minutes
Price: 10 USD ( Tk. 500 ). Contact: siraj@machizo.com
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Lalon was mystical poet and saint. He was devoted to love, freedom and peace that express in his songs. He taught the way of eternal liberation. He strongly emphasized to resolve the internal conflict and dominancy of false desires.

He was the greatest mystic-singer of the subcontinent. Lalon believed, the ‘body’ is the universe and the universe is the body. He was revolutionary, challenged to contemporary life style, religions and practices with simple word of songs.

Japanese wedding is very expensive, elegant and serene event. The spring and autumn are the weddings seasons in Japan. Ancient time the traditional marriage was held at Shinto shrine. But now it is organised at hotel, restaurants and wedding places.The members and relatives of both bide and bridegroom's family attend in the ceremony.