| Rejecting the allegations that the just-concluded International Film Festival of India (IFFI) ignored regional filmmakers, the IFFI organisers today claimed hardly any regional director responded to their invitation.
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| Officials of Brilliant Entertainment Network (BEN), an event management company, which organised IFFI-2006, said, “We held press conferences all over India inviting regional cinema directors to showcase themselves in the peripheral activities, but the response was virtually nill”.
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| “Thinking that regional filmmakers would turn up with their concepts and shows, we kept open peripheral activities till a week before IFFI but unfortunately none came”, Raman Raheja, BEN director, told PTI.
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| Several regional filmmakers and veteran actors and actresses like T V Chandran (Malayalam), Girish Kasaravalli (Kannada), Shashi Kapoor and Nandita Das have been critical of the organisation of IFFI this year.
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| Some of them demanded shifting of the event out of Goa citing its “lack of a cinema culture” and the “step-motherly” treatment of regional language cinema and rueing Bollywood’s overwhelming presence which allegedly overshadowed other film industries. |
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