Shillong: Children’s Film Society India (CFSI), in conjunction with Smile Foundation, inaugurated the North East Film Festival for Children in Shillong on Tuesday.
Aimed at reaching out to the children of the region the festival would be held across several NE cities from March 7-24.
East Khasi Hills Deputy Commissioner Sanjay Goyal inaugurated the screening, attended by around 800 students from several city schools, at Bijou cinema hall here. The movie Halo was screened. Touching Wild Horses, an international award winning film and Krish Trish Baltiboy will be screened at the same venue on Wednesday.
CEO of Children’s Film Society India Dr Shravan Kumar said, “CFSI’s objective is to reach the targeted audience in minimum amount of time with optimum resources, giving children’s cinema wider visibility within and outside the country. The North-east being a treasure trove of resources and cultural diversity has to be brought within mainstream of children’s cinema. Thus CFSI felt that it is the utmost need of the hour to showcase a film festival targeted towards the young adults of tomorrow, inculcating strong value systems and nurturing good values for citizens of the future.”
Meant exclusively for the seven states of North-East India, the film festival will showcase six children’s films, some award winning like The Prince and The Crown of Stone, Tora’s Love, Touching Wild Horses. The movies will be screened in Guwahati, Dibrugarh, Silchar and Shillong among others.
Smile Foundation will be the outreach partner for the festival.