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Puri, February 22: The 12th Bring Your Own Film Festival (BYOFF) which had kicked off Saturday entered into its second day Sunday. Several filmmakers, including amateur movie and documentary makers and aspiring directors and cinematographers thronged the venue at Pink House in Puri to display their creations at the national level film festival.
BYOFF is organized every year to provide platform to professional filmmakers, documentary makers and amateur filmmakers to showcase their work among like-minded people. Officials say the response has been tremendous.
Talking to Orissa Post, Surya Shankar, organising member, BYOFF said, “We are overwhelmed by the response we have been garnering this year. People from different backgrounds are flocking to the venue to take part in different events during the festival. The best part of our fest is that we don’t discriminate among the filmmakers. Irrespective of their experience and exposure we allow all budding and professional filmmakers to show their films to the audience. Post-screening, a brainstorming session is held to critically appreciate the film.”
A plethora of events will be organised during the fest to train the budding artists in filmmaking, photography and cinematography. The main attractions of the second day of the festival were the workshops on filmmaking and still photography conducted by renowned filmmaker Sushant Mishra and acclaimed filmmaker/ photographer Sudharshan Juyal, respectively.
Buoyed by the theme of this pan-India film festival, many budding filmmakers from across the country participated in it to screen their films and get acquainted with the different facets of filmmaking through the workshops.
Priyam Mukherjee, 3rd year BTech student from KIIT said, “Although I am doing engineering, I was always tilted towards cinema. I have already made around 10 movies with one of my friends. We came here to screen our movie and to get the response and feedback from experts and other filmmakers and also to learn from them. This event has really proved fruitful. I will come here every day from Bhubaneswar keeping in mind the quantum of learning scope (I will get) here.”
Viren Das, final year cinematography student from Biju Patnaik FIlm & Television Institute, Cuttack said, “I have made a movie on a blind person’s life who struggles to prove his worth in the society. I have come here to get people’s feedback on my film. Feedback is very crucial in our work and film festivals like this give us a perfect platform. I have done the shootings in different parts of Orissa and am all thrilled to show it here. Hope I get to learn many things from here.”
The second day of the fest being a Sunday there was an appreciable increase in footfalls in the venue. The festival will go on till February 25. The festival, besides screening of movies, has many other things to offer to visitors. The movie enthusiasts can join workshops on diverse topics related to movie making, besides watching a plethora of movies and documentaries on different topics.
