MUMBAI The Mumbai International Film Festival(MIFF), an important platform for filmmakers dealing with different subjects through short flicks, pictures, beyond the popular Hindi marketable flicks in Mumbai, will begin on Saturday, June 15. The jubilee, which will continue till June 21, will see 314 short flicks from 59 countries in 61 different languages. The jubilee will be held in Mumbai, Pune, Kolkata, Chennai and Delhi.
The jubilee is being organised by the National Film Development Corporation(NFDC) and was blazoned at a press conference at the Trident Hotel in Mumbai on Friday. Secretary, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Shri Sanjay Jaju and Managing Director, NFDC, Shri Prithul Kumar briefed the media about the jubilee.
Pointing out that the global profitable development of short flicks and pictures is around $1600 billion, Shri Sanjay Jaju said that this shows the strength of these film stripes which are leading in enlightenment and entertainment. piecemeal from this, the vitality and VFX assiduity has also expanded on a large scale and Indian animated characters like' Chhota Bheem',' Chacha Chaudhary' have come popular each over the world.
Jaju said that the vitality film department has also been included in this time' s' resentment', saying that our filmmakers have the power to produce profitable commission and employment openings from this assiduity. The Minister informed that this time's MIFF entered a record number of entries of further than 1000 short flicks and pictures from 59 countries in 61 different languages. Out of these, 314 short flicks, pictures and robustness will be screened in colorful orders along with the main competition section.
The jubilee will open with a short film named' Billy & Molly, An Autumn Love Story'. The award- winning short film' Sunflowers on the First to Know' by FTII scholars at Cannes will also be screened at the opening form of MIFF. All the flicks will be screened at the Film Division and NFDC demesne on Pedder Road. No figure has been charged for this, but the timings of the flicks and other information of the jubilee have been made available on the website of' resentment' as well as on the special app.
For the first time, Doc Film Bazaar will also be held in' resentment' with the end of furnishing domestic request, distributors, directors to short flicks and pictures, as well as furnishing training and fiscal backing to expiring filmmakers. installations have been handed with the help of social association' Swayam' to grease the impaired people to come and go to' MIFF'. also, some of the flicks in the jubilee have been made available in Indian subscribe Language for Divyangjan.