NATIONAL CHILDREN FILM FESTIVAL 2012 WILL BE HELD IN ODISHA IN APRIL

NATIONAL CHILDREN FILM FESTIVAL 2012 WILL BE HELD IN ODISHA IN APRIL 1/01/2012
ODISHA NEWS:
Children's Film Society India (CFSI) going to organize Bhubaneswar Childrens Film Festival by April end 2012. This was announced by Children Film Society chief Nandita Dash at Bhubaneswar on Tuesday. She said this after her meeting with chief secretary BK Patnaik at state secretariat.

Talking to reporters here after a meeting with Chief Secretary Bijay Kumar Patnaik on Tuesday, CFSI chairperson Nandita Das said that it has been decided to constitute an organising committee for holding the festival.Das said the dates and festival venue would be finalised as per the decision of the organising committee, the first meeting of which is scheduled to be held on February 25.

She said over 250 entries for Bhubaneswar Childrens Film Festival by April end. "We want to hold the children film festival in Odisha during the summer vacation. The state government has assured us to provide all assistance for the festival," National Children Film Society chairperson Nandita Das told reporters here after meeting state Chief Secretary B K Patnaik. Besides in the state capital, there was a plan to organise the film festival in different district headquarters of the state so that rural children could enjoy films from across the globe, she said.

SIDDHARTHA SHANKAR MISHRA,
BUREAU CHIEF, THESE DAYS,
ODISHA