ICFT-UNESCO Fellini award to be declared on 30th November, 2015
ICFT-UNESCO Fellini award to
be declared on 30th November, 2015
India has a lot of diversity; it can provide a good example to others by protecting all types of heritage: ICFT-UNESCO team
India has a lot of diversity; it can provide a good example to others by protecting all types of heritage: ICFT-UNESCO team
International
Film Festival India (IFFI) 2015 in collaboration with the International Council
for Film, Television and Audiovisual Communication (ICFT), Paris will present a
special ICFT prize consisting of the UNESCO Fellini Medal, awarded to a film,
which reflects the ideals promoted by UNESCO.
Briefing
about the award, Ms. Lola Poggi Goujon,
Secretary General, ICFT underscored the important role of cinema in promoting
intercultural dialogue, mutual understanding and peace.
Charles
Vallerand, General Secretary,
International Federation of Coalitions for Cultural Diversity highlighted the
contribution of film festivals such as IFFI towards promoting film culture,
noting that market forces alone are inadequate in preserving and promoting our
cultural heritage.
Philippe Queau, General
Delegate, ICFTspoke of the need to preserve all types of cultural heritage. He
observed that India has a very rich linguistic heritage and appealed that it
may be preserved.
Sharada Ramanathan, a member
of the international pool of exports at UNESCO appreciated the role of the
international organization in promoting global cinematic heritage; speaking
about the Fellini award, she noted that it is a strategically appropriate move
for the UNESCO to forge such partnerships in order to best tap into the
changing tastes and preferences of global audiences.
Background:
Five films have been shortlisted from the official
selection of IFFI following the recommendations of the Film Preview Committee
constituted by the Directorate of the Film Festivals.
The broad guidelines for the selection of the films are:
· The
film shall exhibit artistic excellence in screenplay, music, and filming
technique.
· The
film shall promote the common good, which is defined as a society in which
persons and communities care for one another’s well-being.
· The
film shall exhibit sensitivity to the human situation, promoting the dignity of
all.
· The
film shall cultivate a realistic hope of creative transformation.
· The
film shall reflect the ideals of peace, love, tolerance, harmony, and
friendship.
About the UNESCO Fellini Medal
When Italian film director Federico Fellini died in
1993, UNESCO’s Member States had just adopted a General Conference resolution
calling for the safeguarding of the cinematographic heritage. An appeal was
launched to the international community inviting governments, industry, and the
public to participate in a campaign to keep the seventh art alive. Activities
were also earmarked for UNESCO’s participation in the forthcoming cinema
centenary celebrations in 1995.
The Fellini medal, first unveiled at the Cannes
Film Festival in May 1995, therefore had a double significance: to honour the
director’s tremendous contribution to film as an art form and to commemorate
the centenary of the birth of cinema (1895-1995). The medal’s design of
fragmented, interlocking images is the work of Italian painter Valerio Adami.
The obverse side features a profile of Fellini with
his signature hat, facing the inscription 8 1/2, the title of one of the most
famous films in the history of cinema. The reverse is inscribed Fellini
(1920-1993) UNESCO. French sculptor Robert Michel created the model and the
Paris Mint strike the medal.
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“Unconventional methods should be explored for the
promotion of films”- B S Lingadevaru, Director of Nanu Avannala Avalu
“Cinema is beyond entertainment”-Nitin Kakkar, Director of Ramsingh Charlie
“Cinema is beyond entertainment”-Nitin Kakkar, Director of Ramsingh Charlie
“Film industry should
seriously think over unconventional methods for screening of so called
non-commercial films. These may include screening in schools, open theatres and
other places which have access of large masses. Social media is now helping
such film producers to reach larger audience, and this platform should also be
utilised for taking such films upto the people. This would further the cause of
this genre of cinema.” This was observed by B S Lingadevaru, director of
NanuAvanallaAvalu, while interacting with media persons at 46th IFFI
in Goa.
Art Director of the film Embrace of the Serpent, Mr. Ramses Benjumea Torres being felicitated at the 46th International Film Festival of India (IFFI-2015), in Panaji, Goa on November 28, 2015.
He said, “it is not true that
award winning cinema does not reach to the people, it gets to them through
alternative sources like Youtube and other electronic platforms”.Mr.Lingadevaru
suggested that screening of Feature and Non-feature films should not be mixed.
He felt that IFFI must be conducted in the true international manner and
conscious effort should be made to ensure that it does not end up just as one
Goan festival.
The film ‘NanuAvanallaAvalla’ narrates
the story of Madesh, a boy from the rural parts of Karnataka, who believes that
he is a woman trapped in the body of a man. He leaves his home to change his
gender and then becomes ‘Vidya’ who has to discover her and fight for her
identity.
Director of ‘Ramsingh
Charlie’NitinKakkarin his address said, “Making films is about what you want to
narrate and Cinema is beyond entertainment”.He said that the reason behind
making his film was not some sort of trigger but just observations from his
lifetime. Mr.Kakkar felt that we should be open to all genres of cinema. He
further said that if a film is good, it would surely find audience eventually,
as the audience was becoming more and more discerning.
The Director of the film, “Golden Kingdom” Brian Perkins being felicitated at the 46th International Film Festival of India (IFFI-2015), in Panaji, Goa on November 28, 2015.
Noted actress DivyaDutta who
played the lead female role in the film spoke about her experience in the
movie, “when you follow your heart everything turns out beautiful”, she said.
The film Ramsingh Charlie is about the
life of an impersonator who performs in a circus living the life of an
artist.The film depicts the tight rope walk, literally as well as figuratively,
between what we do and what we want to do.
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“Making a Film on a baby born
in Prison in Palestinian context was Difficult”- Mai Masri
‘To find the audience is a big challenge than making film in Luxembourg”-Donato Rotunno
‘To find the audience is a big challenge than making film in Luxembourg”-Donato Rotunno
Donato
Rotunno, Director of ‘Baby (A) lone’ said that in
Luxembourg it is easy to make a film, but very difficult to get the audience.
Interacting with the media at IFFI 2015 in Panaji, Goa, he said, “In Europe as
small theatres have disappeared, so films on social issues are not getting good
response. In general people don’t want to see reality. So it is difficult to
get the audience. My film is about love and missing love.”
Renowned actor Satish Shah on Red Carpet, at the 46th International Film Festival of India (IFFI-2015), in Panaji, Goa on November 28, 2015.
Mai
Masri, Filmmaker from Palestine, who was also present at the media interaction,
narrated her experience about the film 3000 Nights. She
said that making of a film on real story about the prisons in Palestinian
context was a real challenge. She Said, “This is my first feature film. The
film is inspired by a real story. The film is all about motherhood love and
hope.”
The Director of the film ‘RAMS’, Bjarni Sigurjornsson being felicitated at the 46th International Film Festival of India (IFFI-2015), in Panaji, Goa on November 28, 2015.
Bjrani
Massi, Actor from film Rams also briefed media about
the film and his experience.
He
said, “It was a challenge to shoot the film in Iceland during winter season.”
About the films
3000 Nights is a
story of a Palestinian schoolteacher, who is arrested after being falsely
accused and sentenced to eight years of prison. She is transferred to a high
security Israeli women’s prison where she encounters a terrifying world in
which Palestinian political prisoners are incarcerated with Israeli criminal inmates.
When she discovers she is pregnant, the prison director pressures her to abort
the baby and spy on the Palestinian inmates. However, resilient and still in
chains, she gives birth to a baby boy.
Producer and Director Jay Bajaj being felicitated at the 46th International Film Festival of India (IFFI-2015), in Panaji, Goa on November 28, 2015.
Rams, is
in the competition of this year’s International film section at IFFI. This film
is a story of two brothers who have not spoken to each other in four decades.
But because of their ancestral sheep they come together.
Sharada Ramanathan, Philippe Queau (France), Charles Vallerand (Canada) at the ICFT-UNESCO Seminar on ‘Film and Cultural Diversity’, during the 46th International Film Festival of India (IFFI-2015), in Panaji, Goa on November 28, 2015.
Baby (A) lone is
a history about love and the absence of love. Through the film two pre-teens
are seeking to define themselves. In a quintessential western society which
often claims to uphold the protection of its children-the future generation-as
its laudable objective, everything is not what it seems.
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