Fourth Chalachitram National Film Festival (CNFF) from March 6

Fourth Chalachitram National Film Festival (CNFF) from March 6

Staff Reporter

GUWAHATI: The 4th Chalachitram National Film Festival (CNFF) is going to be held from March 6 and conclude on March 8 next year. The organizers said that the Festival got rolled from Sunday with this announcement.

Addressing media at Guwahati Press Club on Sunday, secretary of Chalachitram, Bhagawat Pritam, said, “The 4th edition of the CNFF- 2020 will be held at Jyoti Chitraban for three days from March 6 to March 8 in 2020. The theme for CNFF- 2020 is Aamar Aitihya Aamar Gaurov (our tradition is our pride). The filmmakers have to make their films on the basis of this theme. We’ve selected some subjects under this theme, under which the sub-themes will be people and land, tourism, art, music and musician, festivals, social awareness, Indian family system, environment and women etc. The other details will be available at our website Chalachitram.in. The interested filmmakers can send their movies at filmfreeway.com for taking part in the competition and the last date for submitting films is Deceber 31, 2019.”

Pritam added, “The films made between January 1 2019 and 31 December 2019 will be accepted for competition. The films can be 25-minute long, be them short films, animation and documentary. We’ve also decided to screen feature films but not for competition. A screening committee will be there to select the movies. The national best film will be awarded with prize money of Rs 1 lakh and the North East best film will be awarded with Rs 50,000. With an aim to inculcate interest among young students, an award has been instituted for student filmmakers, and there’ll be no joining fees for students.”

Besides screening of films, a photography competition, a quiz competition and master classes are also planned for the CNFF-2020.

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