4th Brahmaputra Valley Film Festival 2016 starts on 22nd July

Brahmaputra Valley Film Festival is coming up with the 4th edition of the festival, this time on a bigger scale following the massive success of the first three editions held in 2013, 2014 and 2015.  The festival, which is a Tattva Communications Initiative will take place on 22nd, 23rd and 24th April in a press meet organized at the Gauhati Press Club on Wednesday, Tanushree Hazarika, Festival Director said, ‘This year, globally recognised film personalities such as Prakash Jha, director of hard hitting social dramas like Gangaajal, Rajneeti, Aarakshan and Satyagraha and Imtiaz Ali, director of highly acclaimed movies like Jab We Met, Rockstar and Highway will come to attend the three day festival. Apart from them, the festival will witness the presence of renowned production designer Vandana Kataria, known for her work in Shanghai and Detective Byomkesh Bakshy, award winning sound designer Amrit Pritam who has worked in Black, Ghajini and Slumdog Millionaire and screenwriter Ritesh Shah who has penned classics like Kahaani and Airlift.’ Ranjan Mahapatra, Director of Information and Public Relations, Northeastern Council stated that this festival is a great opportunity for budding filmmakers. ‘This is a great opportunity for young filmmakers from the region as they get the chance to meet renowned directors and learn from them.’ The three day festival will have screening of regional movies, audience interaction sessions, workshops and panel discussions on topics related to films and award ceremony. A short film festival has also been organised among the new age filmmakers from all the eight states of the northeast and for films based on northeast.   Pallavi Barua, Member of the Organizing Committee said, ‘ Last time, we had shortlisted 10 movies but this time, the quality of the films are so good that we increased the number to 15. In fact, production wise most of the movies are really first rate.’ Many of the recent award winning movies from the northeast like Kima’s Lode Beyond the Class (Mizoram), The Head Hunter (Arunachal Pradesh), Tezpur 1962(Assam), Eibusu Yaohanbiyu (Manipur) and 1962 My Country Land will be screened during the festival. The event is being sponsored by the Ministry of Home Affairs, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, North Eastern Council, DoNER, Government of India.