The second Raipur International Film Festival will be held from April 9 next year.
The festival would focus on Iranian Cinema this time round.To expand the reach of film festival this time, four screens would be installed in the city, informed Subhash Mishra, President of Chhattisgarh Film and Visual Arts Society(CFVAS).
The festival being organized under the aegis of CFVAS would feature selected international and other Indian regional language films.
According to Mishra, possibilities of holding the festival in Bhilai would also be explored in the coming days. Several big shots of film industry are expected to take part in the festival which would also feature children’s films.
Renowned poet Kedar Nath Singh and Bangladeshi writer Tasleema Nasreen would be present in the seminars held during the course of the film festival.
Films during the festival would be screened at Shyam Talkies, Culture Department compound, Vrindavan hall and other places, he said.
A meeting in this connection was held in which experiences of 46th Goa International Film festival were shared.
It was also decided in the meeting that for promoting film makers from Chhattisgarh, a short film making competition (duration of 10 to 20 minutes) would also be held and the winner would be awarded cash prize of `51,000. Registration for short film festival is a must for the participants and the winning film will be screened at the conclusion of the festival.
Students from universities and colleges would be also connected with the festival and a film appreciation course would be also conducted ten days prior to the festival.