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Even EU has no movies on Girls
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Even EU has no Movies on Girls, Festival Committee, International Children’s Film Festival. “In Europe, children’s films are on increase especially because they have done a research and realised that the collections are three-times more.
We received 900 films of which I have watched 587 and pre-selected 350 films and submitted them to the festival committee. And when the committee decides on the final lineup, we finalise the films taking into consideration the regional and the thematic considerations”, shared Monica Wahi , curator of the International Children’s Film Festival. In addition to consulting for the film festival, Monica is also the founder director of Southasian Children’s Cinema Forum – that networks the children’s films from across South Asia.
There is a dearth of children’s content India. It is more fluff in India. And that includes television that has around 95 per cent of the content that comes from outside. And what is also disheartening is that there are no films on girls as protagonists being made. “Not just in India, even EU has hardly any films on girls. Name one cartoon on television that has girls as main character. It was only Disney who made a couple of shows. So when we selected films we tried to include such films, but it was hard to find. We have tried to compensate by having more women as jury members,” Monica shared.
“In Europe, children’s films are on increase especially because they have done a research and realised that the collections are three-times more. That is also because of the subsidy on tickets that the distributers enjoy. But there aren’t any girl-based films from EU too,” she adds. The factors that went into the choice of films include the films that had characters that have emotional landscape that will help children deal with real-life issues and films that break stereotypes. “The principle message of the festival is ‘Hate Less Love More’”.
About the controversy of Hyderabad being the permanent venue, she says, “When V Shantaram conceptualised the film festival, he wanted it to be a travelling one. His idea was that children cannot travel, hence the festival should go to them. Having said that, the society here in Hyderabad is well versed with holding such a festival. Multiple films, multiple venues and handling the security and other facilities and bringing in around 1.5 lakh children to the festival is no mean task,” said Monica.
Monica, who was once a creative director with CFSI, recommends selling movie DVDs at venues like Prasads Imax.
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