Tuesday, November 14, 2006 19:6 IST <\/p>\n
Ministry of Information & Broadcasting <\/p>\n
CFSI FILMS FOR CHILDREN TO BE FREE OF COST – DASMUNSI<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Children will not be required to pay any charges for watching CFSI films from next year. This was announced by the Minister of Information and Broadcasting and Parliamentary Affairs, Shri P. R. Dasmunsi at the inauguration of the Golden Jubilee Film Festival organised by Children\u2019s Film Society, India (CFSI). Shri Dasmunsi also assured that the amount of grant to CFSI will be raised three-fold in the next years budget. He said that the Government will not shy away from lending support to the children\u2019s cause. Shri Dasmunsi exhorted the CFSI to encourage production of films on rural children and the under privileged ones. He highlighted the importance of good stories, adequate finances and good producers for producing meaningful and entertaining films from children\u2019s point of view. During 2005-06, CFSI reached out to 24.37 lakh children by arranging 5689 film shows all over the country. <\/p>\n
UPA Chairperson, Smt. Sonia Gandhi in her address said that making films for children with a socially relevant message is not an easy task and entertainment has to be mixed with education for meaningful cinema for the children. She said that the Government has taken various steps to increase children\u2019s awareness about their own rights so as to check their exploitation in any form. She felt that the children\u2019s films should be directed at bringing them together and inculcating in them the scientific approach of mind. Staying firm in one\u2019s roots and knowing more about our country and culture for living harmoniously with people from various parts of the country should be the focus of CFSI supported films, she added. <\/p>\n
Chairperson, CFSI, Ms. Nafisa Ali in her remarks delineated the activities and role of CFSI. She announced that CFSI is considering to institute a national award for the best children\u2019s film from next year. She felt that finances was the major hindrance in supporting children films as more and more focus was going towards commercial cinema. In order to come out with good quality children cinema for more support, commitment from the Government. A souvenir giving details of all films of CFSI was released on the occasion. <\/p>\n
During the five-day Golden Jubilee Film Festival, 7 classic films, 10 most popular films and 12 films in various regional languages will be screened. A section on digital films is also included to highlight the advance technology in film making. The event was organised to commemorate the completion of 50 years of CFSI.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-india-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citynews.co.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citynews.co.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citynews.co.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citynews.co.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citynews.co.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citynews.co.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citynews.co.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citynews.co.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citynews.co.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}