Date:27/08/2008 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2008/08/27/stories/2008082759300400.htm

Karnataka - Bangalore

70 documentaries to be screened at film festival

Special Correspondent

Documentaries will include those made by Films Division in the last 60 years
There will be a 60-minute documentary
on Dr. Rajkumar

BANGALORE: The Films Division of the Union Ministry of Information and Broadcasting will hold a four-day film festival in the city as a part of its golden jubilee celebrations. Addressing a press conference here on Tuesday, Chief Producer of the Films Division Kuldeep Sinha said that 70 documentaries would be screened during the festival, which would begin on Wednesday. The festival would be held at Mangala Mantapa Auditorium of NMKRV College in Jayanagar. There will be no entry fee.

The documentaries will include those made by the Films Division in the last 60 years and some produced by foreign producers.

The festival will open with a 17-minute documentary on the Films Division followed by a film on M. Vishvesvaraya. The longest documentary to be screened will be the “Riding solo to the top of the world” for 84 minutes, followed by “Images of a dictatorship” of 60 minutes duration and “Black Road,” an Australian documentary which for 52 minutes. The shortest will be the four-minute “My Wise Daddy.” The festival will include film themes from history, society, wildlife, personalities, events, folk traditions and dance forms, places and special occasions. Some of them are as old as the division and cannot be viewed anywhere else.

The festival will conclude with a 60-minute feature on Dr. Rajkumar on August 30. Mr. Sinha said that in the last 60 years the Films Division had produced 8,000 documentaries.