PROGRAMME ON 19^th Nov, 2003

The open forum is organised by Children’s Film Society, A.P., in association with Children’s Film Society, India and A.P.Sate Film Tv & Theatre Development Corporation. The Programme began with the dramatisation of four plays under the guidance of NIE from Times of India.

Four schools viz. NASR School, Mahatma Gandhi Memorial School, Oxford Grammar School and St. Peter’s Grammar School. It was followed by the screening of the films made by the joint efforts of the students of the Script Writing workshop and  Film Making workshop. Five films were screened viz. Parents Parents, My Dad, Just for Lucky’s Sake, Ehsaas, Okarikosam Andaru.

The participants were felicitated by the presentation of momentous by dignitaries present like Mr. Vinod Ganatre Film-maker, Mr. Narayana Rao, Actor, Mr. B.B. Nagpal and V.G. Samanth.

The chief guest of the open forum was Mr. Somaratna Dessenaike, Film-maker from Sri Lanka, Ms. Vijaya Mulay, Mr. Shiva Kumar, Film-maker, Mr. Chandrasen Nair, Film-maker from Kerala formed the felicitators for the open forum. Mr. Veda Kumar Chairman, CFSAP invited the dignitaries to express their opinion conduct of the children’s film festival.

From Left to Right... Mr. Chandrasen Nair Mr. Veda Kumar. M. Mr. V.G. Samanth Mr. Somaratna Dissanayake Mr. N. Raju Mr. Shiva Kumar Mr. Narayana Rao & Mr. Bh. S.S. Prakash Reddy

 Each dignitary shared his expertise and opinion in the area of children film making the common message that came from all of them was to invest efforts and resources to make the future generations an able group of film makers.   The participants of the forum interacted with the dignitaries and queried on various aspects of film making. The viewing of animated films made by the participants of the animation workshop continued which was followed by  the screening of a film ‘TEAM’ made by Vamshi from Rajamadry.

The Programme concluded with vote of thanks by the Children’s Film Society, A.P. expressing its gratitude to all the organisations, resource persons and the participating schools for having made this mega event grand success.