The Entertainment Society of Goa, backed by an advertising budget of Rs 1.5 crore and cash sponsorship of Rs 5 crore, will promote regional movies during the 37 th International Film Festival of India (IFFI).
"IFFI Goa 2006 would be screened from November 23 this year at four theatres and at open-air locations like the National Institute of Water Sports Ground," said Digambar V Kamat, minister of power, mines and art and culture, government of Goa.
A total of close to 180 movies would be screened.
"We are focusing more on quality than number and are also promoting more of regional movies this year than what we did in the last two years," said Nikhil Desai, general manager, Entertainment Society of Goa.
Regional movies this year would include Kannada film maker Girish Kesaravalli's 'Nayi Neralu', Rituparno Ghosh's Bengali film 'Dosar', Assamese director Manju Borah's historical film 'Joymoti', Pankaj Parashar's Hindi film 'Benaras:A mystic love story', and 20 other feature films in regional languages.
Even in the non-feature film category, regional language movies would dominate.
The festival would screen films from about 40 Asian, African, and Latin American countries.
India's representation would feature Tamil film 'Srigaram' by Sharada Ramanathan, and 'Sonam' by Ahsan Muzid in Arunachali dialect Monpa.
Special screenings include retrospective of Prithviraj Kapoor's films and Richard Attenborough's 'Gandhi'.
The best film and most promising director awards and the special jury award for director with noteworthy original artistic contribution would consist cash prize, medal and certificate.
Business Standard
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