The Entertainment Society of Goa (ESG) and the directorate of film festivals (DFF) claimed that a record number of close to 13,000 delegates registered for the 43rd International Film Festival of India ( Iffi), which was held in Goa from November 20 to 30, 2012. But the delegates present at the festival venue were far lower [...]
Has Goa’s hosting of the 43rd international film festival of India (Iffi) been better or worse than the previous editions it has staged? STOI spoke to festival delegates to gauge the performance by the hosts with most saying that much more can be done to make Iffi better. While Indian cinema celebrating its centenary year of [...]
Coinciding with the IFFI theme of celebrating the centenary year of Indian cinema, a die hard film buff from Goa has come up with a record collection of 2,000 books of lyrics of Hindi film songs from yesteryear’s including some classics. Surendra Pai Palondicar from Margao city of Goa came to the ongoing International Film festival of India with [...]
An IFFI delegate from Kerala was arrested in Panaji, Goa on Monday in connection with the theft of festival director Shankar Mohan’s laptop, police said. Thrissur-based Manydas K Venu, who is in Goa to participate in the ten-day cinema fest, was arrested from his hotel room this morning and the laptop was recovered from him, [...]
The Entertainment Society of Goa (ESG) has come up with a novel system for delegates attending the film festival this year. By allowing people who queue up just 15 minutes before the start of a film entry into the theatre, they’ve made the advance booking system virtually redundant. So why bother queuing up to [...]
