Friday, May 29, 2009

Scope of Film Festivals in India


Scope of Film Festival in India
Rahul Deveshwar

Indian Cinema embrace a golden history of more than 100 Years from A Dancing Scene by Hiralal Sen in 1898 till The Last Lear by Rituparno Ghosh in 2008. A country of more than 100 Million Population where Cinema Influences each individual in some way or the other

Seeta (1934) by Debaki Bose was the first Indian Film Screened in Venice Film Festival and won Honorary Diploma, after that Neecha Nagar in 1946 by Chetan Anand bagged Palm d’Ore at Cannes Film Festival.

During Last 80 years many Indian films marked history in Word Cinema and International Film Festivals, Though Indian Never came up with an International Film Festival. Directorate of Film Festival (Government of India) organizes a Film Festival which is surrounded by many controversies year by year and many other film Festivals are unable to bring latest acclaimed international cinema.

Indian Cinema contributes more than 70% in asia pacific film market with total share of approx 11 billion USD every year, whereas in India we are still striving for ground to grow. Indian Cinema is like a flower which has Bengali, Assumes, Manipuri, Tamil, Kannada, Malyali, Marathi, Gujrati, Purvanchali, Punjabi and Kashmiri cinema as its petals and Bollywood of course as the nucleus.

Film Festival is emerging trend in PAN-Asian Region , many Regional, National and International Film Festivals are coming up every year. Film Festivals in West are the part of corporate business.

There is huge scope of Film Festival in Indian Cine biz and Special attention must be given to film Market . We must not imitate Western Film Marketing idea and develop film Markets according to our business models
 
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