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
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