IFFI 2009 at Goa: Short films
Hoping to soon get prime slots on primary as well as Lok Sabha channels of Doordarshan to telecast short films and documentaries produced in India, the Indian Documentary Producers' Association (IDPA) said that such productions, numbering between one and two lakhs, are completed in the country every year but hardly get opportunities for public release.
"In the past, short films and documentaries were regularly exhibited in theatres before the main film was screened; however, that has stopped now and the public have been de-linked from such productions," the president of IDPA and well-known Assamese director, Jahan Barua said. "It is a sad state of affairs that so many good documentaries are made in the country but people do not get to see them. Various documentaries were made on pertinent subjects like the Godra riots but people do not get a chance to see them."
Barua also said that the IDPA was centralized in Mumbai for quite some time but is now expanding into regions with active participating by regional co-ordinators.
Reported by Mr. K.V. Vasudevan from Goa
