The International Children’s Film Festival (ICFF) organised by ‘The Little Art’ in collaboration with ‘Teachers’ Resource Centre’ (TRC) and ‘Cinepax Cinemas’ will be started nationwide from October.
This year’s festival will showcase selected 82 films from 28 countries, including several films by young Pakistani film makers.
These films have been selected from a total of 1,100 film entries from 67 countries.
“This was an unexpectedly huge response to the submission call. The Little Art made for international film entries in March 2016,” an official said.
“The festival jury this year selected top international entries for this year’s festival consisted of known Playwright, Educationist and Critic Asghar Nadeem Syed, Pride of Performance Director and Actor Sarmad Khusat, Director and Owner KINO films Tazeen Bari, Director and Actor Adeel Hashmi and known Independent Researcher at Film Museum Society Wajiha Raza Rizvi,” he added.
The competition is open till September 30 and is accepting entries from children and young people for short films less than five minutes. The winning entries will be awarded a cash prize of Rs 5,000 and mentorship by The Little Art to work on future film projects.
The film programming has been carefully created keeping in mind the young audience largely comprised of school children from different backgrounds.
The Little Art announced its national film making competition “Once Upon a Film” inviting young local film makers to send their short films and to showcase themselves at the Lahore, Karachi and Islamabad ICFF.
The festival would be started in Karachi from the October 17, in Lahore from November 21, in Rawalpindi from December 5, 2016 and in Hyderabad and Faisalabad from January 2017.
