'Bright future for children's films'

By Our Staff Reporter

HYDERABAD, NOV. 19. Noted filmmaker, Mr. Singeetham Srinivasa Rao, has painted an optimistic future for children's films with the impending arrival of new technologies that would enable simultaneous screening of films in theatres allover the world.

"The design of a new format of films that can be linked to satellites directly and beamed across the globe is expected to hit the market in the next three years," he said. This, he said, would do away with one of the major bottlenecks faced by children's filmmakers - distribution and screening of their films. The reach would be enhanced significantly.

But, it was incentives to filmmakers who were into production of children's films that figured prominently at the open forum organised as a part of the 12th International Children's Film Festival here on Monday. The topic was "Will incentives bring more children's films."

The Telugu filmmaker, Mr. Akkineni Kutumba Rao decried the State Government for repeatedly harping on incentives, but doing nothing in reality. "We need concrete action, not announcements," he said. Striking a similar note, writer, Ms. Volga said she would rather prefer going to the schools and collect donations from children themselves for financing their films.

Meanwhile, a schoolkid intervened and sought to know if the Government would provide him with incentives if he was to make a film or if there was any age limit.

Mr. Singeetham Srinivasa Rao suggested that schools can have small film units of their own to enable children make their own short movies. "In a year's time, they will be making far more interesting films than us," he remarked.

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