The festival will host a number of interactive sessions, seminars and forums. The seminars will highlight topics like documentary culture, working environment for the documentary filmmaker, raising funds, changing style of acting, content in Indian Cinema. It will also have celebrity key speakers like Subhash Ghai, Javed Akhtar, Mahesh Manjrekar and Mike Pandey.
“While there have been several festivals in the city that screen international films, this annual event showcases short films exclusively,” says festival director Kuldeep Sinha. “Documentaries are the poor cousins of glamourous mainstream cinema. We don’t get as much support as they do, but we have seen the popularity of documentary films surge over the years,” he adds. It’s evident from the fact that the selection committee received over 800 entries this year.