Screening of a foreign play marks day 1 of 3rd MIDSAFF
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, March 29 2018:
The 3rd Manipur International Documentary, Short & Animation Film Festival (MIDSAFF) 2018 jointly organised by Films Division, Ministry of Information & Broadcasting and Manipur State Film Development Society (MSFDS) kicked-off today at MSFDS multipurpose auditorium.
The inaugural function was graced by eminent film maker Jahnu Barua as chief guest; Commissioner (Art & Culture) M Iakshrnikumar Singh as president; eminent film maker Aribam Syam Sharma; cinematographer & film maker Ranjan Palit; editor & film maker Arjun Gourisaria and Joint Secretary (Films), Ministry of I&B, Ashok Kumar Parmar as guests of honour.
Screening of the documentary film ''Brother Jakob, Are You Sleeping", Golden Conch/Best Documentary of the festival/15th Mumbai International Film Festival 2018 (Col/2017/English/Austria/Stefen Bohun) marked the first day of the festival to be held for three days.
On the second day of the festival, "My Turn" (Nae Chalye), Silver Conch, Best Short Fiction, 15th MIFF-2018 (Col/2017/Korean-EST/S Korea/Nakyung Kim); "I am Jeeja", Certificate ofMerit, 15th MIFF-2018 (Col/2016/English/India/Swati Chakraborty); "I am Bonnie", Special Jury Award, 15th MIFF-2018 (Col/2017/Bengali-EST/India/SaurabhDutta);"Fisherwoman and TukTuk", Golden Conch, Best Animation, 14th MTFF-2016 (Col/2015/Music/India/Suresh Eriyat); "Sakhisona", Silver Conch, Short Fiction, 15th MIFF-2018 (Col/2016/Bengali-EST/India/Prantik Basu) and "Ima Sabitri", Silver Conch, Best Documentary Film, 15th MIFF-2018 (Col/2017/Manipuri-EST/India/Babo Khuraijam) will be screened.