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
Our CorrespondentKohima, June 20 (EMN): The Film Association of Nagaland (FAN), a 2018 registered society, will be officially affiliated with Federation of Film Societies of India (FFSI) during a programme on June 22 at RCEMPA in Jotsoma. Vileno Tase, an executive member of FAN informed Eastern Mirror that Premendra Mazumder, vice president of FFSI and Asia-Pacific Secretary, International Federation of Film Societies will be formally attending the event. It was apprised that the association has already been affiliated with FFSI earlier but owing to the COVID-19 pandemic, an official programme could not be held except this year. Tase further informed that following the affiliation of the Nagaland chapter with the film division, a variety of chosen films will be exclusively screened for the FAN members at the venue during the day. FAN has been formed with the intention of ensuring the overall improvement in the standard of film making, to safeguard the interests of genuine and establish