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National film fete from today

BHUBANESWAR: The third national film festival on art and artists being hosted by the Jatin Das Centre of Art (JDCA) would be underway in the capital from Friday.

Addressing the media, festival director Bidisha Roy stated that the four-day event, the only of its kind in Asia, would focus on performing arts with a special section on Bangladesh. “While the first festival was open for all kind of films on art and artists, last year we had focused on visual art. JDCA founder Jatin Das, the man behind the mission, wished to include films from one of our neighbouring nations and thus we chose Bangladesh that is being represented by a 12-member delegation,” she explained and added that Sri Lanka would be on focus next year.

The festival that features short, documentaries and animation films includes works of Satyajit Ray, Kumar Shahni, Jabbar Patel, Hari Das Gupta, Chidananda Dasgupta, Gulbahar Singh and Madhushree Dutta.

Forty-seven delegates from India and Bangladesh are attending the festival. The list includes Gautam Ghosh, Amol Palekar, Janhu Barua, Kumar Shahni, Aruna Vasudev, Suresh Kohli and Sunit Tandon, Bidisha revealed.

Screenings would be held simultaneously at the Jayadev Bhawan and adjacent IDCOL auditoria daily from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. with lunch breaks. The event has three special sessions devoted to deliberations – Dance and film by Sunil Kothari, Songs in Indian cinema by Ira Bhaskar and Dance for the camera by Ileana Citaristi, it was learnt.

A curate collection of film posters from the National Film Archives of India besides publications of Magic Lantern Foundation, Indian Foundation for the Arts and the Little Magazine would be exhibited at the IDCOL auditorium, the festival director mentioned.

The festival has a small package of films on environment under the segment “Art of Nature and Man-made Art”, she added.

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