Santiniketan International Documentary Film festival

Santiniketan(WB), Oct 29 (PTI) The SantiniketanInternational Documentary Film festival would be inauguratedat Lipika auditorium of Visva Bharati un...
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Santiniketan(WB), Oct 29 (PTI) The SantiniketanInternational Documentary Film festival would be inauguratedat Lipika auditorium of Visva Bharati university tomorrow byWest Bengal Governor K N Tripathi..

The four-day film festival is being jointly organisedby Visva Bharati university and Film Division [Ministry ofInformation and Broadcasting.

Veteran film personalities - Adoor Gopalkrishnan,Goutam Ghosh, Mike Pandey, Haobam paban Kumar would be presentin the film festival as guest of honour.

Addressing a press meet Manish Deshai, secretary,Films division today said that 21 award winning documentaryfilms from eight countries would be screened in this filmfestival.

Vice-Chancellor of Visva Bharati university, SwapanKumar Dutta said, "We are pondering over film making coursesto be conducted here with the support of Film Division."A 21-minute workshop film titled 'Master stroke' onthe life and works of Ramkinkar Baij which had been preparedby the students of Visva Bharati would be shown in theinaugural programme. PTI CORRG.

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