5th Yashwantrao International Film Festival 2015 kicks off from 17th January to 23rd january 2015
The 5th Yashwant International Film Festival begins today, on 17th January in
the esteemed presence of the
Honb’l Chief Minister of Maharashtra
Devendra Fadnavis, Honb’l Sharad Pawar and the Cultural Minister
Honb’l Vinod
Tawde.
Mumbai
- The
Yashwantrao Chavan Pratishthan, Mumbai and Pune Film Festival, Pune in a
collective venture, in association with the Government of Maharashtra have
organized the ‘5th Yashwantrao International Film Festival (YIFF) 2015. The
inauguration ceremony of this festival will be held on Saturday, 17th
January at 5pm in the main auditorium of Y B Chavan Centre, Mumbai. YIFF will
be inaugurated at the hands of Devendra Fadnavis, the honourable Chief Minister
of Maharashtra . The President of Yashwantrao
Chavan Pratishthan Honb’l Sharad Pawar will be chairing the event. The Cultural
Minister of Maharashtra Honb’l Vinod Tawde, Chairperson of Yashwantrao Chavan
Pratishthan Honb’l Supriya Sule, Vice President Arun Gujrathi, Treasurer Hemant
Takle, General Secretary Sharad Kale, Director of YIFF Dr Jabbar Patel and the
Director of ‘Like the Wind’, the winning Italian film of PIFF (Pune
International Film Festival) Marco Puccioni will be attending this event in
Mumbai.
The Veteran Indian Actor Anupam Kher will
be felicitated with the Life Time Achievement award during this ceremony. The
Indian classical musician and a renowned percussionist Taufiq Qureshi will be
performing in this inauguration function. Around 71 films from around the world
will be screened in the main auditorium, Rangswar auditorium and cultural hall
of Y B Chavan Centre, Mumbai during YIFF from 17th to 23rd
January 2015. Five films will be screened in each auditorium everyday with the
use of latest technologies like DCP, Blue Ray, DVD, 35 MM, Digi Beta. A winning
film of Pune International Film Festival will be screened in an inauguration
ceremony of this event in the main auditorium here. The shows will include
films in various languages and based on variety of subjects in different
stratums like global cinema, retrospective, country focus, Indian cinema,
Marathi cinema, student competition during this extravagant film festival. The
first show of every day will be screened at 10.30 am during the event. The
catalogue fee will be Rs 200 for Rangswar members, students, senior citizen and
film society members and Rs 400 for others.
For
entry passes of 5th Yashwant International Film Festival, film lovers should
present one passport size photograph and any one document of licence, college
id, membership card of film society, senior citizen card as an identity proof.
It is mandatory for each film viewer to be above the age of 18 years by 17th
January 2015. The entry passes are also available for sale on ‘Book My Show’
website.
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