Bengal Film Forum was launched through a seminar at the
Bengal Shilpalaya Café in Dhanmondi on Saturday.
The forum plans to contribute to the development of the decaying film industry in the country and to spread its market.
The forum, an enterprise of Bengal Foundation, also promises to install quality cinemas across the country to attract the wider range of viewers from all walks of life.
At the seminar, members of the forum’s advisory committee and the project control committee shared their ideas and plans in presence of representatives of the government and cultural personalities.
It was also informed at the seminar that the Bengal Film Forum would produce 15 to 20 films a year to be made by young filmmakers as part of its Nabin Chalachitra Nirmata Project.
They also said that the forum was working on the construction of about 400 cultural centers having screening facilities across the country.
Bengal Foundation chairman Abul Khair, also the convenor of the forum, said, ‘There are many young but talented filmmakers in the country who are not getting chance to make films for the investment shortage. The foundation will help such filmmakers through the activities of the forum.’
Information secretary Hedeyatullah Al Mamun, education secretary Kamal Abu Naser Chowdhury, managing director of FDC Pijush Bandopadhyay, artists Qayyum Chowdhury and Rafiqun Nabi, film directors Giasuddin Selim and Abu Sayeed and chairperson of the project control committee of the forum Luva Nahid Chowdhury, who is also and also director general of the foundation, among others were present at the programme.
-With New Age input
