Thursday, February 28, 2013

Indian Film Industry Has Done Well Despite of Not Much Government Help-Uday Varma

“The numbers of films have gone up, and the quality is as good as international, Indian Film Industry has done extremely well even without much government support” said Uday K. Varma IAS Secretary Ministry of Information and Broadcasting Government of India at the inauguration of International Festival of Short Films designed by PHD Chamber of Commerce and Marwah Studios in association with Directorate of Film Festival at New Delhi. “We are now the biggest film industry of the World and business wise we have yet to grow to tap more national and international market” said Alok B. Shriram vice President of PHD introducing the subject to the large audience including film, television and media persons from different countries of the World. Today with digitalization it is now easy to make the film but difficult to sell & market the film. Films are the Ambassador of culture of any country and Festivals are the best showcase to project them. In series of 9 festivals we have introduced for the nation this is now the 10th in the row” added Sandeep Marwah President of Marwah studios and Chairperson of Entertainment & Media Committee of PHD. Nine short films were screened from China, Lithuania, Greece, Poland, Spain, Philippines, Vietnam, Slovenia and India. The program was conducted by Yogesh Srivastava Secretary PHD and Susma Shekhar Secretary General Paid vote of thanks.