The 17th International Film Festival of Kerala, which gave an un-matching and never before visual treat for its delegates and made the capital city a hot-hub of film lovers and admirers for the past seven days will wrap up today evening with the gala programme organized at Nishagandhi open-air auditorium. The main highlight of the festival was the increased number of youth participation among both delegates and filmmakers than all its predecessors.
Chief Guest of honor for the closing ceremony will
be the most acclaimed South African filmmaker Souleymane Cissé. Minister for
cinema-sports-forest KB Ganesh Kumar will present the awards including the most
prestigious Golden Crow Pheasant to the winning films. Cultural Affairs
minister KC Jospeh will chair the function. Thiruvananthapuram Mayor K
Chandrika, Principal Secretary to Kerala government Cultural Affairs Sajan
Peter, Kerala State Chalachitra Academy Chairman Priyadharshan and Academy
Secretary K Manoj Kumar will also attend the function.
The closing ceremony timed for six in
the evening, which is to be followed by the special performance, ‘journey of
rhythm’, composed and performed by thavil maestro Karunamoorthy and 100 Thapattam
players. Thapattam also known as Pariattam is a folk dance of Tamil Nadu. The festival
of people will end up with participation from their side. Each person in the
audience will be provided with the instrument to play while the programme in
on. It will last for 20 minutes.
No comments:
Post a Comment