India will host a Global Media and Film Summit in 2021

India will host a Global Media and Film Summit next year and it will also set up a special pavilion at Cannes in 2022 on the occasion of Cannes Film Festival's 75 years celebrations, Union Information and Broadcasting Minister Prakash Javadekar said on Wednesday. Javadekar made the announcement while addressing the CII Big Picture Summit through video conferencing in which he mentioned that "we are a country where growth of communication technology is phenomenal and this presents a tremendous scope for entertainment and media industry". The minister remarked "Animation, Visual Effects, Gaming and Comic (AVGC) is a sunrise sector and our experts are providing back-end support to top filmmakers of the world". (IANS)

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