Varanasi To Host 6th International Short Film Festival
The festival is being organized with the tourism department of UP Government as its partner
As Uttar Pradesh becomes popular among film makers for shooting, for the first time, International Short Film Festival will be organized in Varanasi. Dedicated to cultural tourism the sixth edition of this short film festival will be held in the first week of December. The festival is being organized with the tourism department of UP Government as its partner.
According to the chairman of Indian Infotainment Media Corporation (IIMC), organizing body of this festival, Devendra Khandelwal, Varanasi has been chosen as the host city due to its cultural heritage and importance as a tourist destination. He said that this is the only festival in the world which focuses on tourism and as such it has received the record number of entries. In the first film festival we received 250 films from 33 countries and the last fifth festival we received entries of 2403 films from 113 countries, said Khandelwal. He said the short film festival would help in making tourist places popular among the film makers.
Khandelwal said that the new film policy of UP Government has attracted film makers to this state and the proposed international film city will boost this industry here. He said that there are many short film makers in UP who have been doing good work also. `The short film makers of UP would be benefitted from this festival as their work would reach before international community’, he said.
