MSFDS: Financial support has poured in for documentary film makers in Manipur

Curtains got here all the way down to the 4th version of the Documentor Imphal sequence collectively organized by Manipur State Movie Improvement Society (MSFDS), and Documentary Useful resource Initiative (DRI) on Saturday, seventh April with a easy money award distribution the place a complete of Rs 8 lakhs have been handed over to eight documentary filmmakers.

Past the Trials a documentary movie venture on excessive sport as an expression of freedom by Khaba Maimon was conferred the Finest Challenge bagging the best award of Rs. 2.5 lakhs, On the Crossroad on the problems confronting the State relating to the transition from the Bengali script to Meitei Mayek by James Khangenbam and Battlefield Imphal have been conferred the Promisingly Culturally engaged venture and Promisingly Socially engaged venture respectively with money awards of Rs 1.5 lakhs every. 5 different documentary movie tasks – Andro Goals (Meena Longjam), Nameless Dance (Tushar Nongthombam), Eche Sharmila (Manoj Kshetrimayum), Bidyapati –The Girl Everest Summiter (Paonam Birjeet) and We’re the Water (Grace Rephung L) have been additionally conferred venture growth money awards carrying Rs 50 thousand every.

The entrepreneurs who collectively supported the tasks are Dr. Thangjam Dhabali, Wahengbam Braja, Konica Khuraijam, and Radhesyam Oinam.

Manipur State Movie Improvement Society (MSFDS) said that is for the very first time within the historical past of documentary movie finance within the nation the place native entrepreneurs who don’t have any technical movie background have come ahead in assist of the native documentary filmmakers, to assist notice their dream documentary tasks by committing Rs 8 lakhs to comprehend the documentary movies developed in the course of the 5-day Incubation & Mentorship Lab known as Documentor Imphal, collectively organized by MSFDS and DRI Kolkata. 4 acclaimed documentary movie mentors from India have been behind shaping of the documentary tasks the place eight documentary movie tasks and eight observers took half.