Tale of Assam’s legendary magic in US film fest

Guwahati: The story of Mayong, a legendary magical hub in central Assam, will now travel to the United States.
‘Mayong: Myth/Reality’, a documentary directed by Utpal Borpujari and produced by Jayanta Goswami under the banner of Darpan Cine Production, has been selected for screening at the Silent River Film Festival to be held in California (USA) in October.
The documentary, which makes a first-time effort to capture the story of Mayong in film, is among the 79 films chosen from all over the world for screening at the festival that will happen at Irvine in California from October 17 to 20, the documentary’s director informed.
The film, which has earlier been screened at the 6th International Documentary and Short Film Festival of Kerala, 5th CineASA Guwahati International Film Festival and the Indie8 Film Festival in Shillong, has already been archived by the Royal Anthropological Institute of Britain and Ireland.
It will also be screened at the Gandhinagar International Film Festival soon. (UNI)