Hyderabad: A Telugu film is among the 24 films which have been selected to be screened as part of the Indian
Panorama
section during the International Film Festival of India to be held in Goa from November 20-28. The film ‘
Natyam
’ directed by Revanth
Kumar Korukonda
will be screened alongside films from other languages including Sanskrit, Tamil, Mishing, Marathi, Malayalam, Kannada, Hindi, Gujarati, Dimasa, Bodo, and Bengali. Most of the films selected are five in Marathi and four in Kannada.
The International Film Festival of India on Saturday announced the selection of films for the Indian Panorama section to be screened during its 52nd edition in Goa.
The festival is being organized by the Directorate of Film Festivals of India, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Government of India in collaboration with the
State Government of Goa
. The selected films will be showcased to all the registered delegates and representatives from the selected films during the 9 days long film festival in Goa.
“The primary aim of the Indian Panorama is to select the feature and non-feature films of cinematic, thematic, and aesthetic excellence for the promotion of film art through the non-profit screening of these films under different categories. Since its inception, the Indian Panorama has been completely devoted to showcasing the best Indian films of the year,” the Directorate of Film Festivals said. The selection Jury comprised eminent filmmakers and film personalities from across the Indian cine-world. The eminent
Jury Panels
, both feature, and non-feature exercise their individual expertise and contribute evenly to the consensus that leads to a selection of Indian Panorama films.
The 24 films in the Indian Panorama section were selected from 221 contemporary Indian films.
Sushil Rao is Editor-Special Reports, at The Times of India, Hyde...
Read MoreSushil Rao is Editor-Special Reports, at The Times of India, Hyderabad. He began his journalism career at the age of 20 in 1988. He is a gold medalist in journalism from the Department of Communication and Journalism, Arts College, Osmania University, Hyderabad from where he did his post-graduation from. He has been with The Times of India’s Hyderabad edition since its launch in 2000. He has also done an introductory course in film studies from the Film and Television Institute of India, Pune, and also from the Central University of Kerala equipping himself with the knowledge of filmmaking for film criticism. He has authored four books. In his career spanning 34 years, he has worked for five newspapers and has also done television reporting. He was also a web journalist during internet’s infancy in the mid 1990s in India. He covers defence, politics, diaspora, innovation, administration, the film industry, Hyderabad city and Telangana state, and human interest stories. He is also a podcaster, blogger, does video reporting and makes documentaries.
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