NEW DELHI: A 40-member preview committee with Vivek Agnihotri as the convenor has been set up to continue the process of shortlisting of films for the International Film Festival of India 2017 being held in November this year.
Indiantelevision.com had reported yesterday that the preview committee for shortlisting films for IFFI which had already seen around 150 films had also been dissolved. These changes have coincided with Smriti Zubin Irani taking on additional charge of the information and broadcasting ministry after M Venkaiah Naidu resigned.
The preview committee not merely shortlists films from all entries received, but recommends films for competition section which will then be seen by the International jury, and for the Country Focus section of the Festival.
IFFI, which is considered as one of the top ten film festivals of the world will be held from 20 to 28 November at Panaji in Goa.
The festival is organised by the Directorate of Film Festivals of the Information and Broadcasting Ministry in collaboration with the Entertainment Society of Goa (ESG) on behalf of the state government.
A four-day Film Bazaar will also be organized from 20 November by the National Film Development Corporation (NFDC).
Generally most members of the preview committee are from Delhi as the process of shortlisting takes more than a month and the preview is done at one of the auditoriums in the Sirifort complex in the capital.
Furthermore, the names of members are not revealed to prevent any external influences.
However a majority of the members this time are from different parts of the country and this will entail infrastructural arrangements including travel and stay of the members. Only a handful of members are from Delhi.
The list reveals that the names have been shortlisted on the recommendations of the Central Board of Film Certification and regional certification panels and many are members of CBFC and regional panels. Furthermore, just a few members have exposure to international cinema.
The Preview Committeee now comprises:
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1. |
Vivek Agnihotri |
|---|---|
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2. |
Khalid Mohamed |
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3. |
Aarti Bajaj |
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4. |
Ramesh Patange |
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5. |
Naresh Chander Lal |
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6. |
Narendra Kohli |
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7. |
Saibal Chatterjee |
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8. |
Abhimanyu Singh |
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9. |
Bhawana Somaaya |
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10. |
Jeevitha Rajasekhar |
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11. |
Gautami Tadimalla |
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12. |
Nitesh Tiwari |
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13. |
G.S. Bhaskar |
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14. |
Pallavi Joshi |
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15. |
Aniruddha Roy Chowdhury |
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16. |
Raja Krishna Menon |
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17. |
Siddharth Kak |
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18. |
Bela Segal |
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19. |
Tarun Katial |
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20. |
Abhishek Basu |
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21. |
Hrishitaa Bhatt |
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22. |
Abhishek Jain |
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23. |
Santwana Bordoloi |
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24. |
Bhaskar Hazarika |
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25. |
Pradip Kurbah |
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26. |
Dominic Megam Sangma |
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27. |
Maipaksana Haorongbam |
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28. |
Zuala Chhangte |
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29. |
Dr. Sachidanand Joshi |
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30. |
Dr. Bharat Gupt |
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31. |
Nirmala Sharma |
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32. |
Rathi Vinay Jha |
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33. |
Parvathi Menon |
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34. |
Rajesh Kumar Singh |
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35. |
Anil Rastogi |
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36. |
Punit Asthana |
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37. |
Ajay Malkani |
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38. |
Bhumenjoy Konsam |
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39. |
Sangee Dorjee Thongdok |
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40. |
Lavlin Thadani |
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