Jahangirabad Media Institute
| Jahangirabad Media Institute | |
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| Motto | Enter into ever expanding cosmos of mass media |
| Established | 2005 |
| Director | Gauhar Raza |
| Location | Barabanki, Uttar Pradesh, India |
| Campus | Rural |
| Website | www.jmi.edu.in [1] |
Jahangirabad Media Institute(JMI)[2] is a media institute in India. It was established by Jahangirabad Education Trust in 2005. The institute is situated in a pictorial palace of Jahangirabad in Barabanki District in U.P state [3]. It mainly runs courses in electronic media. Gauhar Raza, a famous urdu poet and documentary film maker is the honorary director of the institute. G.Biju Mohan, a documentary film maker from Kerala is the deputy director of the institute.
It organised two editions of National Student Video Film Festivals at its campus [4]. It has produced a famous documentary called Him Ganga Hum (Ganges Under Siege) for Greenpeace India. In collaboration with Vigyan Prasar, Dept of Science Technology, Govt of India, JMI organized [National Science Film Festival and Competition]] at Chennai on 4–7 January 2011 [5]. It also published a research report on the Socio-Economic Conditions of Muslims in India in collaboration with Indian Social Institute, New Delhi and ActionAid-India [6].
It has produced many documentaries and news programmes on socially relevant subjects.[7][8][9] The short science films - "Refraction" and "Friction My Friend" produced by JMI students were short listed for Rashtriya Vigyan Chalachitra Mela and Competition 2012 (National Science Film Festival)[10]
