Our CorrespondentKohima, June 22 (EMN): The vice president of Federation of Film Societies of India (FFSI) and Asia-Pacific secretary of International Federation of Film Societies (IFFS), Premendra Mazumder, has underscored the need to propagate film culture in order to knit closer ties among the people in the region. Mazumder stated this during an official programme to mark the affiliation of Film Association of Nagaland (FAN) with Federation of Film Societies of India (FFSI) held at RCEMPA in Jotsoma on Wednesday. Informing about the first film festival, which was organised in 1952 in both Bombay and Delhi in India under the initiative of Jawaharlal Nehru, he narrated how governments in different states started to organise similar events in the following years. Reminding that Nagaland had conducted two film festivals through FAN, in collaboration with the state government, Mazumder informed that Northeast states like Assam and Sikkim have also promoted film festivals through similar events. While reminding FAN on the need to reach out to the state government to form film policies as one of its demands, he asked the association to simultaneously perform two parallel duties – to support the film fraternity of Nagaland by providing technical support system and to...
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