A press conference was organized on Monday, December 5 at the Nepal Tourism Board to make an official announcement about the festival. Some 52 films from 22 countries have been selected for screening, including six short films from Tampere Film Festival, Finland.[break]
Speaking at the conference Basanta Thapa, Chairperson of the KIMFF committee, said that the festival presented a great opportunity to learn and that the students and aspiring film makers should make the most of it.
“There is a lot of enthusiasm for film making in today’s generation, but they lack technical knowledge and KIMFF will prove to be platform for learning,” Thapa said.
The five-day fest holds a special category for Nepali films called ‘Nepal Panorama’ which will screen six Nepali films selected out of 37 that were submitted. The main focus of the festival this year is ‘adventure’ and ‘exploration’.
KIMFF 2011 will also hold special screenings of Toni Hagen’s “Cultural Vignettes of Nepal,” a film showcasing various Nepali dance forms and music shot in the 1950s, and “Voice for Justice,” a film by OHCHR on the occasion of International Human Rights Day, on 10 December 2011.
Seventeen films will be screened in the international competition category and twenty-one in the international non-competitive category.
The top three from the international category will receive US $1500, $1000, $500 respectively.
The three-member jury team for the international competition category consists of Helsinki, Finland based cultural producer Helena Mielonen, a British architect, mountaineer and landscape painter John Innerdale, and a scholar, critic, actor and associate professor of English at Tribhuvan University Sanjeev Upreti.
Alongside the film screenings, the festival will also have photo exhibitions, scriptwriting workshop, book exhibition, interactive discussions by international filmmakers, and a quiz conducted by the editor of Nepali Times Kunda Dixit.
The venues for the event are Rashtriya Sabha Griha (City Hall) and Nepal Tourism Board Auditorium at Exhibition Road.
Regular tickets are priced at Rs 40 while students have to pay only Rs 20 per ticket.
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