Rihela - The Journey Telugu
CHICAGO: For the first time in USA, over 26 award winning children’s films from India will be showcased here at Visual Performance Arts Center, Elgin Community College in Elgin, a north side Chicago suburb in the third week of March.
The event dubbed Children Film Festival is organized by SILPIX Entertainment, Inc. in association with Children’s India and it will be a whole day affair for March 26 and March 27. The movies will be in various Indian languages and, according to Arun Murthy, VP Public and Media Relations, the organizers plan to screen documentary and feature films also from India.
All the foreign language movies will have English subtitles.
Arun said, “This is not just another film festival” as in addition to screening of movies, there will be workshops in different disciplines of movie making conducted by professionals and/or academicians from the film industry.
“Five different theaters will be used to screening the movies simultaneously and many classrooms will be dedicated for workshops and other activities to be conducted by renowned Film and Arts Schools.”
SILPIX, a recently set up company by a group of IT professionals, is also conducting a Talent Hunt in movie-making as part of this film festival, he said. The Opening Ceremony will be a multi-cultural event organized in association with various local community and cultural organizations.
“Besides, we expect that some of the film celebrities and personalities from India and local political and community leaders invited to attend this event would come and grace the occasion,” Arun said.
Its Indian associate, Children’s India, has been organizing children’s festivals in India for the past few years and is likely to help the Chicago company in this direction.
Free and ample parking space is available for those attending the festival.
Ramesh Soparawala
India Post News Service
