Film festival on Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao

IGNITE Film Festival

that aimed at promoting and encouraging young filmmakers, storytellers and creative individuals and as well as creating awareness by highlighting various social, political and humanist issues was held at a city hotel on Tuesday. The theme based film festival with the theme Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao for this year felicitated young filmmakers who had taken part in the competition. Short film “A Daughter’s Letter” made by Abhishek Swain won best film and best script along with best cinematography while “She is My Daughter” by Kaushik Nath won second best film and best editing award. “Be The Change”, a short film by

Santosh Panda

, was the second runner up. Renowned filmmaker

Amartya Bhattacharya

and veteran journalists of national repute Sampad Mahapatra and

Sandeep Sahu

were the jury members, who judged the films and handed over the awards.
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