Mangaluru: Many students view movies at Int’l Children’s Film Festival
Bellevision Media Network
Mangaluru, 20 Nov 2014: The first ever Karnataka International Children’s Film Festival that was held across Dakshina Kannada district from Friday November 14 to Thursday November 20 was successful with more number of students viewing the many movies.
It was organized jointly by Karnataka Film Academy, information and public relations department and public instructions department at New Chitra Theater in Mangalore and Aruna Theater in Puttur.
Over 1,100 students viewed the movies in these 2 theaters daily for a week. The public instructions department made transport arrangements to bring the students at the theaters.
Not only Kannada movies, both national and international movies were screened at the Children’s Film Festival. The children were fortunate to view Mongolian movie ‘Yalocolt,’ documentary of a destitute boy of Mongolia; Chinese movie, ‘Cinderella,’ that has a message of equality; Kannada movie, ‘Alegalu,’ 2 small children’s saga of adventures; Iranian movie, ‘Children of Heaven,’ that exemplifies the struggle of poorest children to go to school; French movie, ‘Inuk,’ sensational movie of children; Kazak comedy movie, ‘Panikluki; Czech movie, ‘Journey of the beginning of time,’ world’s top educational fantacy movie; were the rare movies screened at the children’s film festival. These movies have bagged several global awards. The efforts were made to create awareness among the students on different languages of worldwide countries, culture and episodes.
The Children’s Film Festival was held in all districts across Karnataka, but the movies were screened only at the theaters in district center. Meanwhile, the students of rural area also got a chance to view the movies as it was screened also at Puttur in Dakshina Kannada district.
The inmates of social welfare department-run hostels, the inmates of Morarjee Desai Residential School and Prajna Counseling Center, Mangalore got the chance to view the movies on Sunday November 16. The majority of poor children was happy to step into the theater for the first time and overjoyed.