GIFF: Open Forum on Popularizing Film As Art Form

STAFF REPORTER

GUWAHATI: The 3rd Guwahati International Film Festival (GIFF) held an open forum on the topic ‘Popularizing Film as an Art Form’ on Saturday. Noted film critics Christopher Dalton and Apurba Sharma, and nationally acclaimed filmmaker Manju Bora graced the occasion. Each one of the delegates expressed his concern over films, the most popular mode of mass communication, about losing its own speciality because of the filmmaker’s interest on the commercial aspect.

Being present on the occasion as speaker, Apurba Sharma said, “There is no boundary for films. Films represent their very own society that one can relate to and attains the ability to attract the audience.” Appealing to the local filmmakers to come forward with more movies representing Assam as well as the Northeast, Manju Bora remarked that the current evolution of Assamese film is definitely carrying a hopeful message. Also present on the occasion, Christopher Dalton, a film critic from Kerala and a writer as one of the speaker, stated that along with the effort of filmmakers, financial assistance and initiative is also necessary on the part of the Government. Among other movies, Manju Bora’s In the Land of Poison Woman, Bhaskar Hazarika’s Ravening (Aamis), Krzystoff Zanussi’s The Constant Factor, were also screened.

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