Staff Reporter 

ITANAGAR, Mar 28: The Film Federation of Arunachal (FFA) today announced the festival dates of the 6th edition of the Arunachal Film Festival, which will be held here. 
The festival will be a two-day event and will be held on April 20 and 21. The festival is being organized by the FFA in collaboration with the department of IPR, Government of Arunachal Pradesh. 
Addressing a press conference at the Arunachal Press Club here, FFA general secretary Shambo Flago informed that this year too, the festival will have a short film competition, with a maximum duration of five minutes, on the theme 'Social Burning Issues of Arunachal'. 
The first two winners of the short film competition will be awarded trophy and citation and a cash award of Rs one lakh and Rs 75,000 respectively, he informed. He added that besides the short film competition, best feature and documentary films will also be selected from among the entries and will get a cash award of Rs two lakhs and Rs one lakh respectively. 
The last date for submission of the short film is April 15 while April 13 is the last for submission of documentary and feature films, he informed. 
The entries will have to be submitted at the Video Section of the department of IPR, Naharlagun. Further information on the competition criteria can be availed from the department of IPR's website and from FFA's Facebook page, he added. 
Furthermore, Flago informed that as an addition to this year's festival, they will award best director, actor, actress, musician, singer, lyricist, lifetime achievement award, etc., as an encouragement and recognition to the filmmakers and artists of the state. 
Meanwhile, commenting on FFA's boycott of the recent international film festival, FFA general secretary said that they resorted to the boycott because the organizers purged their assured role in the festival. 
He informed that the FFA had a meeting with the Tourism secretary Sadhna Deori, who was the festival director, and with the organizers, for involving FFA members in the core team on a voluntary basis without any financial involvement.
The request was accepted and the FFA was even asked to prepare a cultural presentation, felicitation of guests, engaging volunteers, and submission of on documentary and a fiction film.

However, when the festival agenda was released there was no mention of FFA, or any clarification on the matter by concerned officials which led to FFA boycotting the festival, he added. 

Flago informed that they had requested for their involvement for capacity building of state's film fraternity but the opportunity was denied to them. He added that since the festival was being sponsored by the state government, involvement of state's film federation should have been actually mandatory for the larger interest of the local filmmakers, which wasn't the case here.

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Kenter Joya Riba

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