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Goa to manage International Film Festival by 2008
Tuesday - May 02, 2006
Televisionpoint.com Correspondent
The International Film Festival of India (IFFI) is expected to become a
fully Goa-managed affair by 2008. Beginning 2006, organisers would
attempt to handle 7 of the 24 core activities currently managed by the
Directorate of Film Festivals (DFF), Goa chief secretary J.P. Singh told
mediapersons in Panaji.
"Since we cannot take over the entire festival at one go, we will do it
in phases and by 2008, IFFI will be a fully Goa-managed event," Singh
said.
To this end, the state will be appointing consultants to assist the Goa
Entertainment Society to manage IFFI operations, including film
selection and networking with various agencies.
The state government received formal suggestions to fully manage IFFI
from the DFF, but said it would require some time to acquire the
expertise, Singh added. "Since the 2004 and 2005 IFFIs were hosted in
Goa, the festival had managed to attract considerable international
attention," he said.
The centre was committed to continue financial assistance to IFFI for a
few years until it became self-sustaining. Major players in the
entertainment industry have expressed interest in running the festival,
according to official sources, but these are being held delayed until
consultants come up with workable models.
Singh said the state was also moving ahead with plans to build an
international convention centre to host the event, which is expected to
be ready by 2008. This year, the festival complex has been expanded
putting in two additional buildings for administrative usage. With just
one four screen multiplex and a 900seater auditorium, screening
facilities however remain inadequate.
On Wednesday, ESG will begin considering the 11 bids that have come in
from event managers for IFFI 2006, including Wizcraft, the agency
appointed in 2005.
The involvement of multiple agencies, central, state and private, in the
running of the past two IFFIs have been seen as counter-productive. The
move to hand over the festival entirely to Goa is expected to ease up
logistics and also finances for future development of the festival.
http://www.televisionpoint.com/news2006/newsfullstory.php?id=1146589965
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