Mumbai: 7th Ryan’s IAFA, Celebrating Creativity Celebrating Children

Bellevision Media Network

Mumbai, 31 Oct 2015: Ryan International Group of Institutions hosted the 7th IAFA ceremony at Doordarshan Sahyadri here on October 29. Ryan’s IAFA is an ad film making competition where students from the age of 11 to the age of 21 years can express their ideas, thoughts and views in a very special way by making a one minute Public Service Message Ad film.

 

The jury members Kiran Shantaram, Dr Batra, Bharat Dabholkar, Dr Bhupendra Avasthi, Kiran Juneja, Ram Jawhrani, Arun Samuel and Mukesh Sharma ADG Doordarshan, viewed the ads and selected the winners.

 

The winners were from all over the country, Amritsar, Chandigarh, Noida, Bengaluru, Indore and Mumbai to name a few. Special Cash Awards are given to the young students to encourage them to pursue their media dreams. Rajiv Jalnapurkar (CEO Ramoji Rao Studio) who was present for the award ceremony expressed, ‘I feel proud and was surprised with kind of work children are doing and in the future I can see that good filmmakers will be coming out from Ryan Schools.’

 

 

Other Award Partners were Kiran Shantaram - Dr V Shantaram Award for Best Ad Film, Dr Mukesh Batra – Dr Batra Award – Health and Beauty (11 years - 13 years age group), Arun Samuel – Wings Awards in 2 categories – Women’s Empowerment (11 years -13 years) and Water Conservation (11 – 13), Ram Jawhrani - Sahyog Foundation Award –Environment (17 years – 21 years) and Dr B S Avasthi – Surya Mother & Child Care Award – Child Nutrition (11 years – 13 years).

 

Many esteemed luminaries attended the grand finale to present the awards to the winners. DG Police Meera Borwankar, Rajiv Jalnapurkar - CEO Ramoji Film City, Roop Kumar Rathod, Neela Satyanarayan, Aruna Raje, Mahesh Samat - CEO Epic Channel and Shaina NC.

 

The 7th Ryan’s IAFA grand award distribution ceremony will be telecast on Doordarshan – Ryan Broadcast Partner Sahyadri on the occasion of Children’s Day November 14. 

 

‘By conducting the Ad film contest, we at Ryan TV provide the young talents who are interested in film making a platform to showcase their ideas and creativity at a young age. Through this initiative, children voice their opinions about society by using media as a very effective tool,’ said Grace Pinto, managing director of Ryan International Group of Institutions.