The 10th National Film Festival will be held here. The 3-day film festival will be inaugurated by Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik here on January 15.
A total of 30 documentaries will be screened in a variety of forms. In addition, discussion different aspects related to documentaries will be held, besides several presentations and workshops.
The focus will be on Odisha art and craft. This year’s festival shall line up eminent personalities like Paramjit Singh and
Amitava award winning documentary filmmakers Nandan Saxena and Kavita Bahl, former Director-General of Indian
Institute of Mass Communication (IIMC) Suneet Tandon and eminent actor, director and a JD Centre of Art trustee Nandita Das.
The documentary film forum will take place for its 10th time. The initiative has been taken by the JD Centre of Art in association with State Department of Tourism.
Accredited festival and market visitors can participate in the enhanced panel series programme and one-on-one meeting format with programmers of the national documentary film festivals and benefit from a documentary film project consulting the forum.
“We are expecting participation from art schools, students, media personnel, writers, filmmakers, researchers and especially, young mass, to be part of the festivals,” JD Centre of Art chairman Jatin Das said.