NEW DELHI: The Films Division has launched two schemes for making short films – one by private producers and the other as a public–private partnership with non-governmental organisations.
Films Division chief producer Kuldeep Sinha said that the division was today making around 70-80 films on its own every year.The division was presently working on a marketing policy for its films.
While regretting that his proposal for a documentary television channel had not been cleared so far by the Centre, he said that it was important to consider all aspects including the financial viability.
Meanwhile, Sinha announced that a total of 7600 of the 8000 films in the archives of the division had been digitised and would not be processed for screening. He said that the division had also set up an International Digital Archive and acquired around 10,000 films in the matter.
While the Museum of the Moving Image was to be constructed at the FD complex in Mumbai, the Delhi office will house a permanent gallery of cine equipments from the initialisation of filmmaking.
Meanwhile, the eleventh edition of the Mumbai International Film Festival for Documentary, short and animation films in February next year will have only one competition section featuring both Indian and international films, unlike the practice of separate competitions for both the categories.
Sinha, who is also MIFF director, said the award money would remain the same – Rs 2.8 million – and there would be an additional award for the Best Student Film in Video.
The festival, which is held every alternate year, will take place between 3 and 9 February next year.
