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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
