austraLasia #2701
Mother Teresa International Film Festival: coming to a theatre near you?
Kolkata: 25 August 2010 -- The countdown to the 8th Mother Teresa International Film Festival is on, and you can follow much of the proceedings by visiting the MTIFF website.
This Film Festival, the first to be held in honour of a Saint, was first held in the year of her Beatification, 2003, and at that time was coordinated by Salesian, Fr C.M. Paul. C.M. Paul rarely misses an occasion to be back in Kolkata for the event, which has now grown to the extent where it is backed by UNESCO, as well as SIGNIS, the Catholic international media organisation, Catholic Relief Services (CRS) India, and Nandan, the heart of Kolkata's cine culture, where the Festival will be hosted.
Blessed Mother Teresa has universal appeal, and this year would have been her 100th birthday, and to honour that the Festival this year goes global. The Festival which starts this week in Kolkata, will move across India and an expected 17 other nations. The travelling festival package includes rare documentary films of the Petrie Sisters of New York with commentary by Sir Richard Attenborough as wells as two full-length feature films starring Geraldine Chaplain and Olivia Hussey as Mother Teresa. Films from Japan, USA, Italy, Spain, Canada, Lebanon and India are included. After the closing ceremony in Kolkata on 29 August, MTIFF 2010 will travel from state to state, traversing the length and breadth of India, coordinated by SIGNIS India. Thereafter, it will travel abroad.
"MTIFF 2010 is absolutely non-commercial in nature with free entry pass/cards and depends entirely on generous benefactors for all unavoidable expenses like taxes, venue, screenings, publicity, printing and stationary,” says the current Kolkata festival director and Signis-Bengal president, Sunil Lucas. “It is open to the general public.”
austraLasia readers (with the exception of some the 400 or so of them from the subcontinent) are unlikely to be in Kolkata this week, but you can follow the events via the website, and possibly have an opportunity to view some of the films at a theatre near you as the travelling show begins.
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AustraLasia is an email service for the Salesian Family of Asia Pacific. It also functions as an agency for ANS based in Rome. For queries please contact admin@bosconet.aust.com . Use Bosconet-wiki to be interactive. RSS feeds - just go to Bosconet, click on austraLasia 2009 in the sidebar. You will see the RSS orange icon in your browser address bar - add it from there. Or be interactive with the EAO blog Cetera Tolle. Avail yourself of the Salesian Digital Library at http://sdl.sdb.org
Mother Teresa International Film Festival: coming to a theatre near you?
Kolkata: 25 August 2010 -- The countdown to the 8th Mother Teresa International Film Festival is on, and you can follow much of the proceedings by visiting the MTIFF website.
This Film Festival, the first to be held in honour of a Saint, was first held in the year of her Beatification, 2003, and at that time was coordinated by Salesian, Fr C.M. Paul. C.M. Paul rarely misses an occasion to be back in Kolkata for the event, which has now grown to the extent where it is backed by UNESCO, as well as SIGNIS, the Catholic international media organisation, Catholic Relief Services (CRS) India, and Nandan, the heart of Kolkata's cine culture, where the Festival will be hosted.
Blessed Mother Teresa has universal appeal, and this year would have been her 100th birthday, and to honour that the Festival this year goes global. The Festival which starts this week in Kolkata, will move across India and an expected 17 other nations. The travelling festival package includes rare documentary films of the Petrie Sisters of New York with commentary by Sir Richard Attenborough as wells as two full-length feature films starring Geraldine Chaplain and Olivia Hussey as Mother Teresa. Films from Japan, USA, Italy, Spain, Canada, Lebanon and India are included. After the closing ceremony in Kolkata on 29 August, MTIFF 2010 will travel from state to state, traversing the length and breadth of India, coordinated by SIGNIS India. Thereafter, it will travel abroad.
"MTIFF 2010 is absolutely non-commercial in nature with free entry pass/cards and depends entirely on generous benefactors for all unavoidable expenses like taxes, venue, screenings, publicity, printing and stationary,” says the current Kolkata festival director and Signis-Bengal president, Sunil Lucas. “It is open to the general public.”
austraLasia readers (with the exception of some the 400 or so of them from the subcontinent) are unlikely to be in Kolkata this week, but you can follow the events via the website, and possibly have an opportunity to view some of the films at a theatre near you as the travelling show begins.
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AustraLasia is an email service for the Salesian Family of Asia Pacific. It also functions as an agency for ANS based in Rome. For queries please contact admin@bosconet.aust.com . Use Bosconet-wiki to be interactive. RSS feeds - just go to Bosconet, click on austraLasia 2009 in the sidebar. You will see the RSS orange icon in your browser address bar - add it from there. Or be interactive with the EAO blog Cetera Tolle. Avail yourself of the Salesian Digital Library at http://sdl.sdb.org
