Aizawl to host Film Festival every year
Source: Hueiyen News Service / Newmai News Network
Aizawl, September 21 2014:
Aizawl will be holding film festival every year, declared Director General, Films Division, Government of India V.S.Kundu on the concluding day of the week-long Mumbai International Film Festival here today.
He said that Aizawl will be a permanent venue for the film festival hereafter.
The week-long first-ever Mumbai International Film Festival in the State was organised jointly by Films Division under Ministry of Information & Broadcasting and Mizoram Government Information & Public Relations Department.
Since the inaugural day, Mizo films, Hindi films and foreign films were shown every day.
Besides, Film-Making Workshops were also held every day for selected budding film makers of the States.
The participating filmmakers were given invaluable instructions by film experts from Mumbai, Delhi and Kolkata.
The film experts expressed their hope that the Film-Making Workshops will benefit the budding film makers in Mizoram, adding, there are many among the Mizo film makers who have got great talent in film making.
On the closing function today at I&PR Conference Hall, certificates were awarded to the Film-Making Workshop participants.
Two films made by the participants in the Film Workshop were also shown in the programme of the closing function.
The State I&PR Department on its part said that initiatives are being taken to the best possible extent to bring progress in film making in Mizoram.
It said that the just concluded workshop-cum-festival was quite successful in fulfilling its purpose of encouraging and re-orienting the Mizo film makers.