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infectious, and the large participation in the workshops forced the organizers to hold extra sessions. International Children’s Film Festival. I was really touched by the zest among the performers, and the large numbers of children who had turned up to bid me adieu. In fact, I was myself dancing and romping, despite my huge weight! ow! I am still to get over the grandeur and excitement of the She particularly referred to special shows for the visually challenged children. th Contd. Page 4...TRANSCRIPT
Children's Film Society, India
A peep into the Wonderous World of CinemaA peep into the Wonderous World of Cinema
Hyderabad www.cfsindia.org Issue: 8 November 21, 2011
Grandeur and Cheer mark the Grand Finale thof the 17 International Children’s Film Festival
ow! I am still to get over the
grandeur and excitement of the Wclosing ceremony of the 17th
International Children’s Film Festival. I was
really touched by the zest among the
performers, and the large numbers of children
who had turned up to bid me adieu. In fact, I
was myself dancing and romping, despite my
huge weight!
But I really liked what his Excellency the
Governor of Andhra Pradesh, Mr E S L
Narsimhan, said when he advised all the
major filmmakers to remember their
corporate social responsibility and set aside
time and money for some children’s films. He
also said that the aim should not be to make
children’s films only for festivals. He said
filmmakers had to remember that ‘Your today
is our tomorrow’.
Earlier, Ms D K Aruna, Andhra Information and
Public Relations Minister, said she was amazed
at the number of children who turned up and
the smiles on their faces. She said around
3,500 children also put up cultural
programmes for the children and delegates.
She particularly referred to special shows for
the visually challenged children.
Ms Nandita Das, Chairperson of the Children’s
Film Society, India, said that just over 175,000
children and elders from across the globe had
attended the festival. She said one major
feedback she had received was that the
filmmakers from overseas were simply
amazed at the interactions with children and
the kind of questions they asked.
Festival Director and CFSI CEO Sushovan
Banerjee said the excitement of the children
as they came out of the theatres was very
infectious, and the large participation in the
workshops forced the organizers to hold extra
sessions.
Others present included Lerala Social Welfare
Minister Dr M k Muneer, Mr D P Reddy who is
Joint Secretary (Films) in the Information and
Broadcasting Ministry, Organizing Committee
Chairman Pankaj Dwivedi, actors Rajendra
Prasad and Nazir, and famous artist Jatin Das,
apart from a large number of jury members.
Some of these dignitaries went up to
distribute some of the awards.
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Children's Film Society, India
Children's Film Society, India
The Juries Selection of The Best
Competition India
Golden Elephant for the Best Feature:
Chillar Party
by Nitesh Tiwari & Vikas Bahl (India)
Golden Plaque for the Second Best Feature:
Dekh Indian Circus
by Mangesh Hadawale (India)
Golden Elephant for the Best Director:
Umesh Vinayak Kulkarni for
(India)‘Vihir’
Golden Elephant for the Best Screenplay:
Sanjay Chouhan for
by Nila Madhab Panda (India)
I am Kalam
Special Mention:
Actor Harsh Maya for I am Kalam
Competition - Little Directors
Competition InternationalGolden Elephant for the Best Feature:
Meadow by Mohammad-Ali Talebi
(Iran) for its poetic rendering of the slice
of a nomad’s life
Golden Elephant for Best Director:
Vibeke Muasya for
(Denmark, Kenya)Lost in Africa
Golden Elephant for the Best Screenplay:
The Strongest Man in Holland
by Mark de Cloe (The Netherlands)
Golden Elephant Plaque for
Runner up Feature:
The Ugly Duckling
by Garri Bardin (Russian Federation)
Special Jury Mention:
by
Xiao Guiyun & Li Qiankuan (China) and
‘The Star and the Sea’
Competition Shorts
Special Mention:
Colored Pencils
Mobile
Director: Alice Gomes,
Brazil and Verena Fels, Germany
‘Tales of the Night’
by Michel Ocelot (France)
Golden Elephant plaque for
Runner up Best Little Director:
Adventures of Eddie & Curt
by Aryan Chugh and Sumer Rai (India)
Children’s Jury - InternationalGolden Elephant for Best Feature:
Crocodiles Strike Back
by Christian Ditter (Germany)
Special Mention: Lost in Africa
Golden Elephant for Best Little Director:
Varun Halder and Binita Nayak for
(India) as it had ‘original
storyline and scripting and is not preachy
but well focused’
Hamari Duniya
Special Mention:
Indian films (Mehdi Rahmani) (Bismi, Aishwarya,
Athira, Aswathy, Durga). (Vishnupriya, Himachandran, Nincy,
Anaka, Aasmi); and (Lekshmi, Anju Mol, Liya Elizabeth, Jwala
Parameshwaran, Shaharbana)
Fancock 4 Dhanam
Nishdam
Thulyam
Golden Elephant for Best Short:
NineAndAHalf’s Goodbye by Halina
Dyrschka of Germany as ‘the dialogues,
cast, direction and story stand aptly
symbolic to what the Festival is all about’
Children’s Jury - Indian
Golden Elephant for Best Indian Feature:
Chillar Party as ‘It had all the elements
of a good movie in the correct
proportion’
Special Mention:
by Umesh Vinayak Kulkarni
(Abdollah
Ali-Morad, Iran), and
(Vikrant Pawar, India)
Vihir
The Farmer and the Robot
The Watch Clinic
Children’s Jury – ShortsGolden Elephant for Best Short:
Special Mention:
NineAndAHalf’s Goodbye
Colored Pencils Mobile
by Halina
Dyrschka of Germany as ‘the dialogues, cast, direction and story stand
aptly symbolic to what the Festival is all about’.
(Alice Gomes, Brazil) and
(Verena Fels, Germany)
Children's Film Society, India
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Festival Office CFSI, Camp: Shilparamam, Madhapur, Hyderabad.
But the highlight of the evening were the
awards, and it was heartening to see that all
the forecasts made by the children when they
talked to me over the past few days proved
correct. As the awards were announced, there
was loud ovation and screams when children
expressed their joy at the film of their choice
being awarded.
The cultural programme at the venue, the
Global Peace Foundation Auditorium, was
nothing short of spectacular. And I was
touched by the way I was greeted as I entered.
There were young girls dancing, and a man on
stilts stood by to take photographs with the
children.
The stage of the auditorium which has a
capacity of 2000 but definitely had at least
three hundred more people was also very
beautifully done. There were two large
puppets hanging from the roof – a male and a
female – and replicas two Golden Elephants
adored the stage.
My favourite singer, Usha Aunty (Usha Uthup)
in the Grand Finale sang some of her best
songs and also reminded everyone that ‘We
are the World, we are the children’ and
concluded her singing with ‘Jai Ho!’
Interestingly, she was joined by Sriram
Chandra, the singer from this city of the Char
Minar, who won the hearts of the audience by
making them clap to his songs.
Ramachary ’ s Ch i ld ren Troupe a l so
accompanied her. Did you know that Usha
Aunty can sing in 17 Indian and eight foreign
languages?
Earlier, the cultural programmes commenced
with a scintillating recital by the international
renowned percussionist, Padma Shri Dr Yella
Venkateswara Rao who had begun his career
as a child prodigy at the age of seven and is
now in the Guinness Book of Records for
having played the mridangam non-stop for
36 hours! He demonstrated his magic with the
instrument, and was accompanied by a young
boy on the ghatam.
But what really moved my heart was the
absolutely out-of-this-world performance by
disciples of Syed Pasha who heads the Ability
Unlimited Foundation. All the male
performers on wheelchairs and the girl
dancers are disability, but this did not show in
their performance at all! In fact.
I would not guessed they were disabled if an
announcement had not been made about this
by presenters Anuj and Suma.
India’s unity in diversity showed a little later
when fifteen girls performed five different
forms of classical dance – Bharat Natyam,
Mohiniattam, Odissi. Kuchipudi, and Kathak –
in unison in a presentation called ‘Namaskar
India’.
It was difficult to say that these dancers had
learnt different dance forms, as they danced
with such coordination.
As the curtains came down on the 17th ICFF, I
had the satisfaction that all the children who
had come would go back with memories of a
spectacular breath-taking show, which was
followed by the screening of the best feature
‘Meadows’.
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Gajju’s Adieu I - Gajju - am very sad today, and my
friends know this, as they kept asking me
why I am so morose. Actually I and my
little friends from all over the country and
overseas were just beginning to really
have fun and learn so much, I realized all
good things must come to an end. In fact, I
do not even feel like blowing my own
trumpet, as I always do, and just want to
somehow preserve all those pleasant
memories of this year’s festival.
I must now bid adieu – not goodbye, as
we will meet again - to the thousands of
new friends I have made. I know I will be
back two years hence, with a bundle of
new cinematic surprises. And I am happy
for all those who will leave with special
prizes for their films.
And before I leave this beautiful city of the
Char Minar, I must thank the chairperson
of the Children’s Film Society, India, Ms
Nandita Das, the Festival Director and
Chief Executive Officer Mr. Sushovan
Banerjee, and all the officials of CFSI for the
comforts provided to me during my stay
here. They all went out of their way to
ensure I have a good time.
I would also like to thank all officials of the
APSFTVTDC for the assistance extended by
them, and Mr G N Rao and other officials of
the Shiparamam, the new venue of the
Festival.
I am grateful to all the jury members,
filmmakers and most of all, I would like to
thank the children from Hyderabad and
the rest of the country and overseas who
came in such large numbers.
So, till we meet again in November 2013,
adieu!