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Y o u  a r e  i n  1st ACFF, 2002  -  Report on Day 5 :   DT. 18-Nov-2002 !

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Programmes held in the 1st Asian Children's Film Festival' 2002  

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Indelible Impressions !

"Her father now discusses things with her!

Sonali of Pune came to Hyderabad for vacationing. She participated in the Script-writing and Film-making workshops. She was chosen to play one of the leading roles in the film The Sit-ups made by the children. But her vacations ended and she had to go back to Pune.

However, she returned to Hyderabad with her father for the 1st ACFF. Her father, a reserved person, was reluctant to come and watch the festival movies. Sonali almost forced him to. When the father saw a couple of films made in other countries he was impressed. He was taken up by the locales and the landscapes, which he loved.

On the day, Sonali was still sleeping when her father came and woke her up. "Get ready fast, otherwise we’ll be late" he said. Sonali was stunned. Her father had got interested in the films. Not only this, she discovered he had begun to talk and discuss things with her. A thing he had never done before.

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   Theatre Workshops help while making children's film :

Prema Karanth

"Before making my film Nakkala Rajakumari I conducted a two-day theatre workshop for 30 to 35 children. Malavika, a participant of the workshop played the main role in the film. Today she is a well known actress," Mrs. Prema Karanth, a theatre person and children’s film maker said at the Open Forum on "Fine Arts, Performing Arts and Children’s Films" held at Hari hara Kala Bhavan on November 18 as a part of the ongoing 1st ACFF. Along with her there were Ritesh Sinha director of The Triumph and Mr. Somarathne Dissanayake Sri Lankan Director of Saroja and Little Angels to answer questions posed by children.

Mrs. Prema Karanth has conducted 60 to 80 theatre workshops in mime, movement, dialogue delivery etc. every year for the last 25 years finds that these workshops have always proved helpful. Mr. Ritesh Sinha, with his debut film released, said that he made the film for children as he realized that nothing was being made available for them. His films are meant to entertain as well as to make children meaningfully relate to the adults. His film The Triumph is about how adults lose the children in themselves. Mr. Ritesh Sinha said that performing arts is a beautiful medium for children to get outlets for their talents. Mr. Somarathne Dissanayake observed that most film people are from theatre, which is a good stepping stone for TV and cinema. He said that the children’s films are not just for children, they are also for adults because children are the best media to pass on messages to them.

Praneeth began the question-answer session by asking what exactly is performing arts. Mrs. Prema Karanth explained and said that the art of talking, singing must be brought into schools. Text is only for the teachers, the teaching is to be done through performing art, she said. Answering another question she told that she has already done this in Delhi and Karnataka's Chaitanya Programme teaches through songs.

To a question why animated films are not as popular as cartoon network films, Ritesh said that treatment in a film was important. In cartoon network attractive colours and treatment is used. As for Disney being still popular, Radhakrishna from the audience pointed out its huge budgets. Ritesh informed that animators like Samant and Shah Ramana are quite popular in Indian circles. There were also posers on whether moral is a must in children’s films and whether fairy tales continue to be relevant for today’s children. To the former, Prema Karanth said that it wasn’t strictly necessary to have morals attached because the children learn as they grow up. And after all, the parents take care of teaching it to them.

 

 
 
                                   Wonderful  Creations at the Puppetry Workshop                       
 

Elephant, peacock, dove and even a buffalo were among the wonderful creations made by children at the Puppetry Workshop for children and teachers organised by the Children’s Film Society-A.P., in association with Puppet Resource Centre of Andhra Mahila Sabha. On Monday, 18 November at Sree Potti Sreeramulu Telugu University.

This is the fifth in a series of workshops conducted on the occasion of the 1st Asian Children’s film Festival-Hyderabad. The earlier four workshops were on Script Writing, Film Making, Film Appreciation and Animation.

The participants numbering about 45, drawn from 22 schools, were divided into four groups according to their ages. Resource persons G.Madhavi Latha, S. Sharada Rani and Swarna Durga interacted with them and gave them the basics of making puppets according to characters and the story-line and manipulate them. An important aspect of this orientation was the use of different media for different kinds of puppets.

Children learning intricacies in Puppetry at its Workshop

 

Filmmakers & Other Guests observe the children's work at the Puppetry Workshop

 
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