Second Round Table Conference on South Asian Children’s Film concludes

Second Round Table Conference on South Asian Children’s Film held at Hycinth hotel, concluded. The two day-long conference was part of the initiative to promote children films in South Asian nations and it has been associated with IFFK from last year. The round table was attended by representatives from all over south Asia.

 Dhammika Dissanayaka, representative of Asian Film Centre (Sri Lankan branch), revealed that detailed proposal has been submitted to the Sri Lankan government to incept a Multi National Film Festival in Sri Lanka from next year. He also added that Asian Film Centre is planning to take screenings of Children Films in schools through-out the country.

Aruna Vasudev, president of NETPAC (network for Promotion of Asian Cinema), commented that film festivals should have discussions and such other sessions which will help others to understand deeply about cinema. She also praised IFFK for organizing such sessions. Speaking about films in general, Aruna opined that films should have the ability to communicate to the audience and should increase their enthusiasm to know about the subject.

The general feeling of the conference on the Indian cinema was that it is over dominated by the Bollywood films and it is really hard to change this phenomenon. The members of the meeting also expressed their overall feeling of having more festivals focusing on children films and felt that the currently existing festivals should have packages of children films.

The conference was attended by Rustam Vania, Michael Joseph, Kathy Loizon, Golda nellam, Catherine Masad, Batu, Susan Benn, Joshy Mathew,Sannette Naeye, Mahamayo Dinanayak, Sannette, Mallika Aryal, Arun Gupta and Roy Mathew. Monisha Wahi coordinated the meeting.