FILM SOCIETIES - A OBSERVATION

In one of the Film society screenings a member says these films are available on net let us go out,
his friend follows silently and in another session of screenings a college student says that ‘its boring
I am unable to understand and appreciate the film let us go for canteen’ The day is not off when such situations become omnipresent
at all the film society screenings.
As staunch film society activists what skills we need to acquire to face this challenge?
What will be our changed role?
Will film clubs/societies are needed? Or will the tribes of film society activists face gradual extinction? Its rather worrying, isn’t it?
Primarily we need to be techno-savvy. In today’s digital environment ‘Film and screen’ have become antediluvian even in remote villages of India.
Audience is quite aware of the internet and downloading films online and even small towns are having access to the DVD parlors that are making available
of films of national and international repute.
We as film society activists shall continue to be material producers but with a difference.
Our programmes need to be changed and they should be prominently interactive.
Now the present generation of members is not just viewers as they were in 80’s or 90’s.
But they are exposed to the latest trends in the cinema and technology. The plethora of Indian and
foreign media invades their conscience and the internet is spreading unbelievable web of information around them.
In this wealth driven and consumerist society the material comfort and gadgets are easily available to the members
In this situation the members of film societies demand much more service from our film society activists and their programmes.
So the film society activities may not end simply with the screening of films and conducting film festivals at regular intervals,
they need to reach the members with a variety of access points like chatting, sms and by creating blogs instead of merely delivering
news letters or house journals etc.. We should master even the email language. so we have to make use of the available the technology.
Further the role of film society activist as a counselor acquires importance now. We should update our knowledge of cinema every time
and the information of film festivals and film trends must be on our finger tips and we should be ready to disseminate information at any point of time.
The film society activists should use the latest media technology and provide the critical points of film appreciation and the merits and demerits of a film.
Even the knowledge of styles of film making will also be useful to the members.
Reaching the young and student community must be the top most priority of the film societies today. The interests and likes of
present generation are quite different they need to have instant and nascent information with regard to anything on the earth.
They are the generation of mobiles and smses, mails and chats, so the film society activists should be able to tune ourselves
to reach them and get their nod for art and aesthetics of cinema.
So we need to go to campuses, but the task is not simple.
No doubt the present student tribe is trusting only seeing visuals to learn various subjects,
we have to make use of this phenomenon and percolate into the campuses. We can approach the college authorities and organize film screenings
and to add to this we have to plan for short term courses in film appreciation and film making for the students. We can also organize short
film festivals and competitions among the students and put them in the stream of good cinema.
Change in the working styles of film societies and its activists will only help them survive otherwise the society and the new generation will no sooner switch off the movement.

ViBGYOR Film Festival-2012: CALL for Entries

ViBGYOR Film Festival-2012: CALL for Entries Welcome to the 7th Edition of ViBGYOR International Film Festival for Short & Documentary films, to be held in Thrissur, Kerala, India from January 25-29, 2012! Renowned filmmaker Megnath Akhra is the Festival Director for 2012 VIBGYOR. You may submit documentary/short fiction/music video/animation/spot or experimental films that pertain to any `spectrum’ (see below) for PREVIEW. An eminent panel of Jury will select the final set of films for ViBYOR-2012. The last date for film submissions: NOVEMBER 15th, 2011 (postmarked). Film Spectrum ‘South Asia: Lives and Livelihoods’ is the special focus theme of ViBGYOR-2012. Apart from the Focus theme package, there are seven ViBGYOR theme packages, namely: 1) Identities 2) Rights 3) Gender & Sexualities 4) Fundamentalism & Diversity 5) Developmentalism 6) Nation State and 7) Culture & Media. There are three zonal divisions such as International/National/Kerala Spectrum. One may enter films under `Focus of the Year’ package, `ViBGYOR’ Theme package and `Kerala Spectrum’ package. (Only films made by filmmakers residing in Kerala will be considered under Kerala Spectrum, which showcases documentaries, short fiction and `Focus-Children’ films based on `Kerala’ themes) We wish to insist on Online Film Entries submission procedure, for which you may visit www.vibgyorfilm.org and also refer to Film Submission Guidelines and FAQ. For any difficulty/problem with online film entry procedure please send queries to info@vibgyorfilmfest.org or contact us at: 0-9447441621 There is an Entry Fee of INR.300 for National/Kerala Spectrum entries and $10 for entries from overseas. You may submit more than one film, but each entry should comply with all submission requirements. Please make sure that in the Online Film Entry form you provide with all mandatory information regarding each film entry and about yourself and also upload high resolution stills of your films and any other publicity material. For Festival screening, we accept DVCAM, MiniDV and DVD as Exhibition copies (if your film is selected). However Two DVD (PAL) copies should be submitted for Selection Preview purpose, without which we will not consider your entry. Send the film submission packets to: ViBGYOR, 2nd Floor Kalliath Square, Palace Road, Thrissur, 680 020, Kerala, Tel. 0487-2323590/9809477058. Please mention your Online Film Entry (registration) number on all discs, packets and in all further communications. All selected films will receive a Certificate of Participation. ViBGYOR is a non-competitive Film Festival; so there are no Awards. However we award filmmaking Fellowships to Three deserving young filmmakers whose films are entered under the National/ Kerala Spectrum sections. The filmmaker or a representative of all selected films is invited to attend the festival and assured of local hospitality. (ViBGYOR is not in a position to pay for travel expenses). Warmly, Seena Panoli (cell. 9447546417) President-ViBGYOR Film Collective Joseph Lazer (9447441621)Secretary-ViBGYOR Sarat Cheloor (9809477058) Programme Coordinator Benny Benedict (9447000830), National Coordinator

The 4th ‘Cut.In’ Students Film Festival

The 4th ‘Cut.In’ Students Film Festival will be held as a part of “Resonance“ at Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai on the 21st and 22nd December 2011. http://cutinfest.wordpress.com/ The festival is being organized by the Centre for Media and Cultural Studies (CMCS), Tata Institute of Social Sciences. This year Cut.In is organized as a part of “Resonance” as the institute is celebrating its platinum jubilee. CMCS is an independent centre of Tata Institute of Social Sciences, engaged in media teaching, production, research and dissemination. Currently the Centre runs a two-year Masters degree in Media and Cultural Studies focusing on professional media practice and research within a framework that enables the development of a critical perspective on media, culture and society. It seeks to enable the creation of a lively group of thinking doers and doing thinkers. Entries are invited for the following categories: a) Documentary (under 45 min) b) Short fiction (under 45 min) c) Public Service Message (Under 2 min) The festival will feature works by graduate/postgraduate/diploma students all over the country and other interested international students selected by a panel of judges. Two prizes will be given in each category. The prize consists of a trophy and a citation. In addition there are prizes for Best Cinematography, Editing and Sound Design. For any queries please write to : cmcs.cutin@gmail.com Also for any other specific queries please contact: Shweta – 07709520655 Vikram – 09920147057 -- ---------------------------------------------------------- K.P. Jayasankar, Ph.D., Professor Centre for Media and Cultural Studies Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Deonar, Mumbai 400 088, India Phone: +91 22 2552 5660(Work) Fax: +91 22 2552 5050 e-mail: kpj[AT]tiss[DOT]edu URLs: www.cmcs.tiss.edu

The 2nd Siliguri International Short & Documentary Film Festival

The 2nd Siliguri International Short & Documentary Film Festival is scheduled to be held on 12th and 13th November 2011 at Siliguri, the 2nd largest city of West Bengal, at the foothills of the Darjeeling-Himalayas in India only 582KM away from Kolkata, 86KM from Darjeeling and 114KM from Gangtok. Films of any genre from any country made in any format with English subtitles within the period 2009-2011 with a duration of NOT more than 30 minutes are eligible for the festival. There is NO entry fee. Entries (two copies of the DVD, an application in plain paper duly signed by the right-owner and publicity materials) should be sent to the festival authorities before the deadline positively. After the success of the 1st edition, this time there will be a competition section also for the films made by the directors from North-Bengal and North-Eastern Provinces of India. A three-members jury will be there to declare the awards. A preview committee constituted for the purpose will select the films for final screening in relevant sections like (a) National Panorama, (b) International Panorama and (c) Competition for NB & NE Regions. Deadline for receiving the entries at the the following address is 31st October 2011.

Premendra Mazumder
For Siliguri International Short & Documentary Film Festival

Please send your entries to:
Mr. Pradip Nag
Convener 12th Siliguri International Film Festival Committee
General Secretary Siliguri Cine Society
Himalayan Nature and Adventure Foundation
Nivedita Market, Hospital Road
Siliguri - 734001
West Bengal, India
Ph: 09434233833/ 09233424101/03532430856
mail: email:competition.siff@gmail.com , diptalukdar@gmail.com

TWO DAY FILM MAKING WORKSHOP

To inculcate and develop GOOD CINEMA CULTURE in students the Federation of Film Societies of India conducted a two day film making workshop to the engineering students of the JNTUK and the workshop was a great success.Thsi wrokshop being organised by the ffsi and the Srikakulam Film society a campus film club of Aditya Institute of Technology and Management. The club is the maiden club started in an engineering colleges.
The workshop was held on 6 & 7 of August 2011 at Tekkali, Srikakulam district a remote in Andhra Pradesh. Around 120 students from different engineering colleges like GMR, Kakinada, Vijayawada, Vishakapatnam etc..were shortlisted for the workshop said Varala Anand the secretary of the Federation of film societies of India.In the two day programme the students were exposed to many issues of film making and appreciation.
With this kind of workshops the new generation will be aware of the International cinema and the art and aesthetics of the Cinema art, they were taught basics of the film making and film appreciation he said.The inaugural function was chaired by the Director of the institute Sri Nageshwer rao.The popular film director of the Telugu cinema Mr.Relangi Narasimha rao participated as the chief guest in the inauguration of the workshop. He has explained his experience of making films.
One of the resource persons M.V.Raghu Cinematographer explained the intricacies of the photography and choice of colours etc.Mr.C.Uma Maheshwer rao explained about montage and the philosophy of film.Mr.Praveen Banadaru explained about the film narration to the students.Film writer K.L.Prasad narrated about the story and screeplay. Mr.Anand Varala dealt with the international cinema its history with PowerPoint presentation. The regional secretary Bh.S.S.Prakash reddy explained about the film society movement and the ffsi.
the student convener of the Srikakulam film society Mr.Santhosh Gudla was given an Appreciation certificate from the FFSI.

TWO DAY Film Making Workshop

Campus Film Clubs' attract students

THE HINDU
Online edition of India's National Newspaper
Monday, Jun 06, 2011
Education Plus Hyderabad

‘Campus Film Clubs' attract students

Creating awareness: Members promoting Campus Film Clubs.
In this world of information technology where reading had been declining considerably and students trusting only seeing through visuals to learn various subjects, the Collegiate of Education had decided to launch Campus Film Clubs in all the degree colleges in the State.
The cinema is a powerful media in this world.
Particularly the student community is very much attracted to the medium for the entertainment as well as education. In the wake of popularity of the cinema, the planners have decided to educate the student community about the other side of cinema i.e, parallel cinema or new era cinema by constituting campus film clubs.
The man behind this novel concept is Varala Anand, a film maker and critic and also secretary of Film Federation Society of India (FFSI) southern region. After introduction of NAAC grading system in the colleges, almost all the colleges have been equipped with LCD projectors and other technologies.
Taking advantage of the modern infrastructure, Varala Anand, who is at present working as faculty at SRR Government Degree and PG College in Karimnagar had first launched the campus film club in the college by screening various films through LCD projectors to attract students towards the cinema.
He was successful in educating the students about the subjects through films.
Following the successful conduct of Film Club in SRR College, Mr. Anand was instrumental in launching similar clubs in 15 colleges throughout the State. Incidentally, the students of engineering colleges were showing more interest in launching film clubs and their active participation.
Varala Anand said that the film clubs were really helping the student community in learning subjects such as environmental sciences and other current topics prevailing in the world.
He said that they were screening films on environment, science and other academic activity for the film club members. Besides, they were also conducting a programme called “view and review” of the films in the clubs.
Free of cost
He said that the FFSI was providing the films to the campus film clubs free of cost so that the students could watch the cinemas and understand the subject and develop his creativity.
He said that now a day the students were also making films by using their cellular phones and also participating in short film competitions.
Each film club consists of 50 members, he said and added that the clubs were aimed to enable and encourage students to take films and television media as their profession.
Besides, the clubs would also expose the students to richness of variety of international and national cinema.
K.M. DAYASHANKAR
in Karimnagar

PRESENTATION AT KAKATIYA UNIVERSITY-DEPT OF ENGLISH

PRESENTATION AT OSMANIA UNIVERSITY STAFF COLLEGE

FIRST ENGINEERING COLLEGE CAMPUS FILM INAUGURATED IN AITAM TEKKALI

First Campus Film Club in an Engineering college has come up in Aditya Institute of Technology and Management Sciences at Tekkali a remote town In Srikakulam District of Andhra Pradesh. And it is affiliated to the Federation of Film Societies of India. The club was formally inaugurated by The Secretary of the federation Mr. Aanand Varala on 19 of April 2011. Speaking on the occasion Aanand said that Cinema is not merely entertainment media but it can also be used for a social change. The film club in a campus will provide an opportunity to view good and meaningful films and the students may also learn the technique of making films and choose the media as career. The college academic Director Prof.Nageshwer Rao said that the management of AITAM college is ready to provide all the support for the film club activities in the campus, further he assured that they will organize a film making workshop in the next academic year with the support of FFSI. The college Principal Mr. Ramakrishna Rao, the club President Mr.Murali and student convener Mr.Santhosh, Murali Krishna, Ramesh and others participated. The Academic Director Nageshwer Rao released the club logo and Mr.Aanand has made a presentation on the history of cinema and the opportunities to students in the films and electronic media.
The response from the students is encouraging for the club said the student convener Mr. Santhosh, a third year engineering student

SRUJANA FILM CLUB INAUGURATED IN VISAKHAPATNAM

To inculcate art and aesthetic appreciation among students 'srujana film club' is inaugurated in V.S.KRISHNA Government Degree and PG College,Visakhapatnam on 19 February 2011.
While inaugurating the club Aanand Varala, Secretary,Federation of Film Societies of India(lecturer in library science,SRR Government Degree and PG College,Karimnagar) said that film as a visual media may be taken as a career also and the students may learn the art and craft of cinema with the film club programme. Students can be able watch cinema of international repute
and see how the cinema can be used for the social change.The college Principal Dr.Murthy said that the club is being started on the guidelines of the CCE and it will cater to the needs of students in selecting the media as their career and the club will give them a rare opportunity to see world classics. The honorary secretary of Visakhapatnam film society Mr.Narava Prakash Rao said that
students should be able feel the good cinema and they are ready to organise workshops in film making in the campus.
Mr.P.v.Ramana, other faculty members spoke on the occasion.Few students expressed their feeling about cinema as feed back.
Mr.Aanand Varala presented a power point show on the world cinema.

'SANKALPAM' STUDENT SHORT FILM RELEASED

'SANKALPAM'a short film made by Mr.Santhosh Kumar a student of the college Dr.K.MURALI, Principal of SRR Government Degree and PG College released ON 10-02-2011.
The course coordinator Aanand Varala, Senior faculty member R.Vinaya sagar and the film director Santhosh Kumar P. attended the programmes

A 17 mins short film is made as the diploma film of the certificate course being conducted by the SATYAJIT RAY FILM CLUB of the college.
The film based on a story of a student who failed in examinaions and trying to suicide himself but came out that mood and gets success in the supplementary
exams.
The film was well received by the sudiance.

SPRUHA FILM CLUB, KURNOOL

Activities of SPRUHA FILM CLUB, KURNOOL-a report

16 September each year is Ozone day
An inconvenient truth, Oscar winning documentary of Algore,
Ozone depletion,
Global warming,
Green house gas effect- Documentaries downloaded from You tube.com and screened to the students.
Tue, Nov 10, 2009, World Science Day for Peace and Development,
Addission science society of Rayalaseema and Spruha, College film club jointly arranged a film show on Planet Earth, Space, Environment etc.
Environment film festival --- international biodiversity year
A river saga on the transmission of khandivili, a river into a drainage
A travel of two girls along nerxa river --Relationship between Nature and Human being
Cutting a life time—Impact of Urbanisation on rivers transmitting into big open drains with spl reference to river Musee
Journey of a boatsman
Lets not disturb water—the difficulties faced in collecting water in Afganisthan.
Narmada—raga of river Narmada , a musical concert
Umaiq skin boat—a documentary of educational resources
Women empowerment programme
Documentaries by Asmita, a resource centre for women
Oka Pellikatha,
Adapillalam,
Em cheyyali,
Were screened at the end of short term certificate course on Human and gender rights by Asmitha programme officers and the Cds were collected from them and also screened for all the students.

A cumulative show of Charlie Chaplin,
Children of Heaven
Manas sarovar yatra,
Fashion
Were screened on weekends

FILM SCREENING AT SATYAJIT RAY FILM CLUB

Satyajit Ray Film Club of SRR GOVERNMENT DEGREE AND PG COLLEGE, KARIMNAGAR
screened the Golden Nandi Award winning Telugu film of 2009
'SONTHA VOORU' to the students of our college on the occasion of Republic day celebrations on 26-01-2011
in the seminar hall.

It won best film award,best actress award,best character actor award and best dialogue award by the state government
'Sontha Vooru' is the first of kind in Telugu cinema which dealt SEZ subject directed by Sunil Kumar Reddy.

The film was well received by the students and faculty.

College Principal Dr.K.Murali, Senior lecturer Sanjeev, Club Convener Aanand Varala and others were present.

SATYAJIT RAY FILM CLUB SCREENS 'SONTHA VOORU'

AWAKENING FILM MADE BY STUDENTS AND RELEASED AT SATYAJIT RAY FILM CLUB

TWO SHORT FILMS RELEASED AT SATYAJIT RAY FILM CLUB, KARIMNAGAR

Satyajit Ray film Club of SRR Government Degree College, Karimnagar  released Two short films in the first week of January 2011. First Film 'Awakening' directed by two students Mr.Siddish and Abhinash Reddy. The film dealt with the ideology of Swamy Vivekananda. And the second film entitled "Juothi' made by Mr.Ramu Balmoori dealt with a subject to a woman who stood committed for her mentally disabled children.
These films were released by the Joint Collector of the district Mr.Sunder Abnar, IAS and the college Principal Dr.K.Murali. Mr.Abnar said on this occassion that the energies embedded in the youth should be streamlined and made useful for the society. Principal Murali advised the students to explore their capabilities using the infrastructure available in the college campus. The Secretary of FFSI Aanand Varala said that the Satyajit ray film club organising a certificate course in film making in the campus and students are being trained in film making and making aware of film appreciation. Faculty members Dr.T.Damodara Swamy,C.Laxman, Dr.Manohara Swamy, Radhakrishnamurhty,S.Gangadhar,R.Vinaya Sagar and students participated in the meeting

CAMPUS FILM CLUB RULES ETC...

FEDERATION OF FILM SOCIETIES OF INDIA

H.N.NARAHARI RAO
President,
230,45th cross, Jayanagar,
BANGALORE-560082
Phone: 08026346681, fax: 08026647296
cell:919448476681
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SouthernOffice:
Bh.S.S.Prakash Reddy, Regional secretary,FFSI, 304,Padmavathi Mansion,
Ameerpet, Hyderabad
 email:FFSI SR <srffsi@yahoo.co.in>
contact : 09391020243
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R Mani,General Secretary - FFSI,Central Office,Resi: #567, 3rd Main, 2nd Cross,

BEML Layout, 5th Stage,Rajarajeshwari Nagar,Bangalore 560 098

Mob: +919901219100

Email: ffsico@yahoo.com
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Aanand Varala,Secretary(SR), FFSI
H.No.8-4-641 HANUMAN NAGAR, ,KARIMNAGAR-505001

Email: varalaanand@yahoo.com,varalaanand@hotmail.com
Website: www.ffsi.org.in
www.anandvarala.com


       
MODEL RULES & REGULATIONS FOR
CAMPUS FILM SOCIETY
Preamble

                    The First International Film festival of India was held in Mumbai in 1952. This Festival is known as annual IFFI now.

        Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru first Prime Minister of India was supposed to inaugurate IFFI. However, he could not make it and sent a message.
                          It reads as: “International Film Festival is window to world”
            One can find lot of meaning in the message for the Indian Society, which     was not open to new ideas and not marching with times.  International             Cinema can be catalic agent to change this mindset.  The good films from the international cinema can enrich young minds with values to be cherished. 
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Value Education :
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                       Students should have non- formal education during the college days
which can be called formative years to mould their personality.
        Good values are like a torch, which guides us through our journey of life.  We need values to prevent our society from disintegrating into chaos.  We need values to live meaningfully to interact with each other and find relationship, which we can maintain through the lives. Value education is one of the most important parts of non -formal education. Art can inculcate sensitivity and values in young minds.  Cinema is modern art form, discovered by science, which can influence and reach the masses.

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Aims & Objectives:
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1.    To propagate film as an Art Form given by science.
2.    To conduct film making courses/lectures to enable and encourage the students to take films, electronic media as their profession and develop a new avenue to them
3.    To organize short Film Appreciation Courses to initiate students in appreciation of cinema.
4.    To expose the students to the richness and variety of International and National Cinema.
5.    To emphasize the cultural diversity and integration of India, by
        Screening different films made in different languages with subtitles.
6.    By screening the good Indian cinema, which is one of the most powerful commentaries on Indian
       society, rather deeply political commentary on Indian society, possibly we can use it as a powerful
        tool to communicate to the students.
7.    To emphasize the cultural diversity and value education through the Good Cinema.
8. To conduct monthly screenings of films classics from the world Cinema during the academic year.
9. To conduct only film related academic activities.
10. To develop film books and DVD library for study and reference.

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                    Model Rules


1.    Name of the Film Society will be ___________________________________
     an association of _______________________________ University/College
2. (Head of the Organization) will be the chairman of the Film Society.
3)  Executive President (from the staff) will be appointed by the chairman every
      academic  year.
4. Membership is open to all the students/staff who are above the age of 18 and open     to entire campus (name & address should be mentioned)
5. I. Card will be issued to the members, and only I. Card holder of the Society will     be admitted to screening of film society.
6. Executive President will appoint a team of student members with Secretary for
    running of the film society.
7. The main objective of film society is to cultivate the taste for good cinema.
8. Cinema is an international art form so the classics of international Modern cinema will be screened.
9. Lectures on film appreciation course will be organized as a part of objective of non- formal education .
10. The membership for academic year will Rs. 50/- (or suitable amount) payable at the time of enrollment.  Member will have to fill up form.
11. Eforts will be made to get grant from college/university for the special activities like lectures, seminars buying of DVD’s etc. from U.G.C.   
P.S. These are the Model Rules.  Each Institution can make its own rules & Regulations, and send to FFSI for approval.
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Method of affiliation and working

1.  Head of the Institution will write to the Secretary FFSI for affiliation along with the  Registration Certificate or Govt. resolution and give undertaking.
 2 .Principal/Director/Vice Chancellor will be chairman of the film society and he will appoint Executive President from among the staff members. 
3. Executive President will appoint a team of students who will work voluntarily for the film society throughout the academic year.
4. Film society will enroll members from among the students and staff who are the above 18 years of age and only members can attend the screenings.
5. Students will maintain the Register of the Members enrolled and send the list with addresses to FFSI
6. Film Society will organize monthly film screenings with program note, discussions, on film screened; organize film appreciation lectures of eminent directors film scholars etc
7. Film society will intimate its programmes to FFSI
8. A student representative appointed by Executive President will participate in the meetings of FFSI
9.  As per the present constitution of FFSI The film society affiliated to F.F.S.I. will pay Rs. 4/- subscription per member per year to FFSI.
10. In addition to subscription Regional Offices are charging services charges.  It differs from region to region.

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The Benefits of Affiliation to Film Society

1.    FFSI will give at least two DVD’s every month to the society.
 2.  Membership of FFSI will give access to National Archive Films, International
      Films Festivals of India (IFFI) and so on.
 3.  FFSI can arrange film appreciation lectures in the campus.    Help to get good   films through embassies and other sources.
 4.  Literature on Cinema will be supplied.
 5. The members of film society will get priority for the film appreciation course
     organized by FFSI.
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               Relevant Clause in the Rules & Regulations of FFSI

Clause No. 2 (d) (ii) However, in case of a film society belonging to an institution/educational (functioning under a State or Central Government, the Regional/Sub-Regional Council may, at its discretion, allow Associate Membership to such a society runs if the Principal/Vice-Chancellor/Head of the Institution certifies that the society runs specifically as a film society and not as a cultural society.  Such a society will be eligible for full membership only if it registers itself as a film society under the Societies Registration Act of the State.




       
                       
   

SEMINAR AT FILM CLUB OF GOVERNMENT DEGREE and PG COLLEGE (WOMEN),KARIMNAGAR

'Cinema is a powerful medium that can influence the society to a greater extent' said Varala Aanand, Secretary,FFSI. He was giving an extension lecture in the film club and The Department of Economics of GDC(W), Karimnagar. Students may take cinema and the TV media as their career and they may serve the society added Mr.Aanand. The college Principal Sowbhagya Devi, The head of the Department of Eonomics Mr.B.Ramesh, Mrs Arunajyothi,lecturer in Library Science, Mr.Chadra Prabhakar Senior Lecturer in Commerce and students participated in the programme.

CAMPUS FILM CLUB AT ONGOLE

A Campus film club at Government Degree College for Women was inaugurated by Aanand Varala, Secretary Federation of Film Societies of India on 30 December,2010.
The College Principal Dr.Sushelamma presided over the meeting and Dr.Sudhakar was the Chief guest.
Varala Aanand speaking on the occasion said that Film making and the TV production may taken as a profession by the students as number of creative opportunities are available
in the Entertainment industry. Further he stated that the students have to learn and develop the aesthetic appreciation of the visual media by writing views and reviews on the films
screened  in the campus film club. Dr.Sudhakar said  that students should develop the taste towards cinema, music and other arts o enable them to become good citizens.The Principal
said that the college is very thankful to the CCE for giving permission to start film club in the college. She said that the club will be screening meaningful films to the students and conduct the
VIEW and REVIEW programme. Faculty members, Students participated in the function Mr.Varala Aanand made a power point presentation on International cinema.

COCANADA FILM CLUB INAUGURATED IN PR GOVERNMENT COLLEGE AT KAKINADA

P.R.GOVERNMENT COLLEGE,KAKINADA has inaugurated CAMPUS FILM CLUB on 7th December 2010.The
College Principal Dr.M.Satyanarayana chaired the event and explained to the students regarding OBJECTIVES and activities of  the club
and inspired the students to know about the media and meaning full cinema. Further he enunciated that the visual media is one of the important tool
in disseminating the knowledge.

The Chief Guest of the function Sri Aanand Varala,(Librarian of SRR Govt college Karimnagar and Secretary,Federation of Film societies of India)
delivered his inaugural lecture. He said that Cinema is a power full media to be learned and appreciated. Students should know the strengths of the media.
Cinema is not mere entertainment it has another facet of art and information. The students should view and review the meaning full cinema and learn the techniques
of making by which the new avenue of profession will be opened in Entertainment industry and tv media he said.Later Aanand presented a power point presentation 
on BIRTH AND EVOLUTION OF CINEMA.
Students and Faculty members were present in big number.
In the feed back session students requested for help in script writing. The Principal immediately responded to organise one day script writing workshop with
the help of Aanand Varala and FFSI soon.
Later Dr.Satyanarayana received five DVDs of internationally acclaimed films from FFSI

TELANGANA UNIVERSITY, NIZAMABAD

To reach and catch young new generation we have started one day seminar's on cinema in various college and university campuses and encouraging the formation of CAMPUS FILM CLUBS. By which the students may get access to the meaning full cinema.
I have taken this one day seminars and campus clubs as my prime activity as a film society activist. Till today I am able to conduct 15 such seminars and a few institutions have already
started campus clubs and some are affiliated to the FEDERATION OF FILM SOCIETIES OF INDIA.

Yesterday Aanand Varala  conducted one such workshop at TELANGANA UNIVERSITY at Nizamabad on 3 November 2010.University College Principal and Mangaement Prof.Dr.Aparna and other faculty and students participated in it.

PINGLE GOVERNMENT DEGREE COLLEGE FOR WOMEN WADDEPALLI, WARANGAL Dist.

A campus film club is inaugurated on first October 2010 by Mr. Aanand Varala a renowned Film Critic and Secretary of the
Federation of Film Societies of India.
Principal P.V. Prasad rao presided over the meeting
Firstly the convener of the club Dr.Ponna Srinivas explained the aims and objectives of the club.
He said the Artistic films,films on environment and meaningful  cinema will be  shown to the students
The awareness of art and aesthetics of cinema will be introduced to the students in addition to this
he promised to screen and discuss the women cinema etc..

Aanand Varala in his presentation explained the birth and evolution moving images and the role
of short films in the present scenario. He encouraged to  the students to take the media as profession.
The Naac convener Sri Vijaya Kumar, Sandhya, Revathi and lecturers and students participated in the programme.

KVR GOVERNMENT DEGREE COLLEGE FOR WOMEN, KURNOOL

 First Campus Film club in a women's college in south India was inauguated in
KVR Government Womens College, Kurnool yesterday.
The club was inaugurated by VARALA ANAND , Secretary, FFSI(SOUTH)
and film maker Akkineni Kutumba rao was the Chief guest.

The college Principal Anila Kumari, Film club secretary Jayalaxmi and all the
faculy members were present.
The students were enthralled to the event

the Inauguration was followed by Envirnment film screenings.

GOVERNMENT DEGREE COLLEGE FOR WOMEN,BEGUMPET, HYDERABAD

    ‘Value based and interesting cinema should be made available to the students’ opined by the incharge Principal Dr.Venkanna,  while inaugurating  the one day workshop on “Birth and Evolution of Cinema & Film Society Movement” organized by the Asian Film Foundation and FFSI with the support of HIVOS, in the Govt Degree college for women ,Begumpet , Hyderabad.
    The workshop was conducted by Varala Anand on 7th February 2009 and was chaired by the Lecturer in Library Science Mr. A.Rajender.
    While inaugurating the 70 plus students participated Workshop, Dr.Venkanna said that the Indian Cinema has changed its face by the films of Satyajit Ray and attained an international stature. But that genre is fading out of the reach from the young minds. So he stressed to take efforts to bridge the gap between good cinema and students.
     Mr.A.Rajender, Lecturer in Library Science initiated the discussion in the workshop and welcome the students response

     Students participating shown much interest to know about cinema and its history and development.
    Mr.Varala Anand explained to the participants by the PowerPoint presentation about the thoughts of Nehru in formulating the film policy in India and the birth and evolution of Film Societies under the leadership of Late Satyajit Ray and others.

    Later the films MaaVooru, Akruthi etc. were screened and discussed


   

GOVERNMENT DEGREE COLLEGE,SIDDIPET,MEDAK DISTRICT

            IT’S A PRIVILEGE TO HAVE GOOD CINEMA ENVIRONMENT IN THE COLLEGE CAMPUS
-Principal assured to start a film club in next academic year
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 ‘In addition to normal academic activities it will be a privilege to have good cinema screenings in the college campus,  it will give cultural exposure   to the students’ said Dr.Nageshwar, Principal of the Govt. Degree and PG college, Siddipet.
    One day film society workshop was conducted in the college on 31 January 2009 by Varala Anand and organized by the Asian Film Foundation and Federation of Film Societies of India.
    While inaugurating the workshop Dr.Nageshwar said his college in based in the heart of the southern Telangana and having a rich literary heritage.  So they really interested to initiate a film club in the next academic year.
    Dr.Nandini Sidda Reddy, Head Department Telugu and famous poet, said that the prevailing literary activities in the college may be amalgamated with the good cinema. He further opined that promoting good cinema will definitely enrich the students with values.    
    The Principal speaker in the workshop Mr.Varala Anand explained the role of Telangana in Telugu Film industry and impressed upon the importance of film society movement. He also given a PowerPoint presentation on the history of cinema.
    A total of 73 students attended the workshop. The students participation in the workshop was lively and they interacted with the resource person.
    Later a film “Maa Vooru” made on Telangana village was screened to the students
    In post screening session the students asked clarifications regarding the film societies

SATYAJIT RAY CENTRE’ INAUGURATED IN S.R.R. GOVT. DEGREE COLLEGE

    To spread good cinema cultures in college students, the Principal of S.R.R.Govt. Degree College, Karimnagar announced the inauguration of ‘Satyajit Ray Centre’ and constituted a committee to arrange film screenings and supervise its other activities.
    Dr.C.Vijaya Kumar, Principal said that to develop good culture and attitude among students the films are good media. Not only viewing of film students must learn review them also. He inaugurated the one day film society workshop conducted by Mr. Varala Anand on 28 January 2009
Organized by Asian Film Foundation and FFSI.
    Dr. B. Madhusudan Reddy, Reader in Chemistry and NCC Captain said that films are not only intended for entertainment they are also for enlightenment. He urged the students to make a habit of viewing good cinema.

    Dr.S.Manohara Chary, College NSS Coordinator said that starting a film club in the college is a good sign and the NSS wing of the college will cooperate in every aspect of the programme.

    Mr.Varala Anand presented a full length PowerPoint presentation on “The birth and Evolution of Cinema and Film Society Movement”. He used the film strips of early day’s films and introduced the world cinema scenario. He further enunciated the importance of the film societies and elaborated the history of FFSI.

    The staff and students were impressed very much by the lecture and loved to see the film ‘children of heaven ‘. A total of 63 students participated in the workshop.

    The one day seminar was concluded by the vote of thanks by  Dr.T.Damodara Swamy a commerce faculty member.

OFFICIAL COMMUNICATION

To
The Principals
Sir,

The Principals of the following GDCs are requested to start Film Clubs and send the Feed back after screening every film in the prescribed proforma. Letter from the CCE and the Feedback form is available as attachment. For  assistance, the principals may contact Sri.V.Anand, Librarian,SRR Govt.College,Karimnagar Contact No.9440501281.

1.      GDC (M), Karimnagar
2.      GDC (W), Karimnagar
3.      GDC (W), Warangal
4.      GDC (W), Kurnool
5.      GDC (W), Begumpet, Hyderabad
6.      GDC (W), Ongole
7.      GDC, Vijayawada
8.      GDC , Chittoor
9.      GDC, Kakinada
10.  GDC, Vishakapatnam

Thanking you .
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With Regards

V.JAGADISHWER
Coordinator
State Quality Assurance Cell (SQAC)
Academic Officer
O/O Commissioner of Collegiate Education,
 Nampally, HYDERABAD-500001
09000103209

ORDER OF THE CCE,A.P.

Government of Andhra Pradesh
Commissionerate of Collegiate Education A.P., Hyderabad

From
Sri.Adhar Sinha.IAS,
Commissioner of Collegiate Education,
Nampally,
Hyderabad

To
The Managing Director & Commissioner,
Information and Public Relations
Department, A.P.,
Hyderabad.

Lr.No.21/Acad.Cell/Film Clubs/AC-05/2010, dated 30 .11.2010
    Sub: - Proposal for starting Film Clubs in all GDCs – Reg.
    Ref: - APSFTVTDC/Sub/Film Clubs/2011dated.16-6-2010.
With reference to the subject, it is to inform that the students in Degree Colleges (GDCs) may not be matured enough to distinguish between mainstream entertainment films and good, educational, meaningful and aesthetic movies. Therefore, starting Film Clubs in all Govt. Degree Colleges at a time may not serve the purpose. As there has been a practice of showing films by the Film Societies in the districts, giving wide publicity about it among the students may be taken up.
However, the Film Clubs can be started initially in select GDCs mentioned below on experimental basis and based on the feedback; Film Clubs will be started in other Colleges in a phased manner.
1.    GDC (M), Karimnagar
2.    GDC (W), Karimnagar
3.    GDC (W), Warangal
4.    GDC (W), Kurnool
5.    GDC (W), Begumpet, Hyderabad
6.    GDC (W), Ongole
7.    GDC, Vijayawada
8.    GDC , Chittoor
9.    GDC, Kakinada
10.    GDC, Vishakapatnam

Yours sincerely
                                                                              Sd/
                                                                         Adhar Sinha
                                               Commissioner of Collegiate Education