The logo and poster of the International Film Festival were launched here on Tuesday at Rabindranath Tagore University.
The logo and poster were launched by a renowned filmmaker Rajendra Jangle.
It is to be noted that the International Film Festival will be the centre of attraction of Vishwarang 2020, the grand festival of culture and literature.
In a programme held at the Katha Auditorium of Rabindranath Tagore University on Tuesday, eminent filmmaker Rajendra Jangle, who received the National Award, launched the campaign by releasing the logo and poster of the film festival.
On this occasion, the Chancellor of the University and the Director of Vishwangrang, Santosh Choubey, Vice-Chancellor Brahmaprakash, Tagore Director of the Center for Arts and Culture Vinay Upadhyay, Director of IQAC Nitin Vats, Director Sudip Sohni were also present.
Rajendra Jangle said that this film festival is a new and unique beginning in Madhya Pradesh. On this occasion, Santosh Chabe said that the cultural activities in the university are continuing even during the Covid era.
Certainly, this festival organized under Vishwarang will create a global effect across the world. Initially, Sudeep Sohni highlighted the outline of the film festival. Vinay Upadhyay described the film festival as a platform to explore new creative possibilities. Prashant Soni gave a vote of thanks. Various faculty and staff of the university were present on the occasion.
The International Film Festival will take place on various online platforms of World from November 23 to 26. The film festival has three categories specially set up in the competition section for the youth - Arts-Culture, a maximum of 15 minutes of films on the subjects of Science and Technology and Wild Life and Nature are invited.
In the competition section, the films selected by the jury will be rewarded with a prize of up to Rs. 1 lakh for the first, second and third prizes. Also, the non-competition section will include films which do not cover the above subjects but which satisfy other conditions. Particularly, both the segments will be eligible to send entries for the films of the year 2018, 2019 and 2020. Competition Sending entries to is completely free. The last date for sending movies is 5 November 2020.
Participants can send their films by registering on the website created for the film festival.