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Chaos seems to be IFFI
theme
Panaji, Nov 26 Planning: non-existent. Organisation:
pathetic. End result: utter chaos. That is how any objective
report card on the ongoing 37th International Film Festival of
India (IFFI) will read.
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For veteran media persons who have
attended film festivals around the globe, IFFI 2006 in Goa is a
complete washout. Getting into an auditorium to catch a film of
one's choice is next to impossible.
Trouble stems from the fact that the five screens available at
the festival can cater to a total of only 2,100 viewers whereas
the organisers have registered well over 5,000 delegates for the
event. Add to that the 450 accredited journalists who are here
to cover the festival. The situation cannot but go completely
out of hand.
This is the third year that Goa is hosting India's official film
festival, but neither the Entertainment Society of Goa (ESG) nor
the state administration seems to have learnt anything from the
experience of the past two years. By now the breaking-in period
should have ended for Goa.
Instead, things have gone from bad to worse. Even by IFFI's
suspect standards, the 37th edition is by far the worst ever in
terms of planning and organisation.
The job of the Directorate of Film Festivals, of the information
and broadcasting ministry, which knows a trick or two about
mounting events of this kind, is limited to just programming of
films and looking after invited festival delegates.
ESG is in charge of the scheduling of films and the choice of
theatres. Given the chaos that has gripped IFFI, it is clear
that there is nobody in Panaji who has a clue about how a
festival should be run.
In no other major festival of the world are critics and industry
delegates clubbed together quite in the way that they have been
in Goa.
The Cannes Film Festival, which Goa is desperately trying to ape
without possessing even a fraction of its wherewithal, organises
separate press screenings of all films in the official
selection. But try telling that to people in positions of
authority here. All you will elicit are unintelligible noises.
IANS
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