Lok Sabha Question No. 247 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2015-12-01
Subject: International Film Festival for Disabled
Ministry: SOCIAL JUSTICE AND EMPOWERMENT
Asked by: ARJUN RAM  MEGHWAL

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF SOCIAL JUSTICE & EMPOWERMENT LOK SABHA

UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 247 TO BE ANSWERED ON 01.12.2015

## INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL FOR DISABLED

## 247: SHRI ARJUN MEGHWAL

## Will the Minister of Social Justice and Empowerment be pleased to state:

- (a Whether the Government has any proposal to organise International Film Festival for the disabled in the National Capital in December;
- (b) If the details and the objectives thereof; SO,
- The number of countries likely to participate in the said festival; and
- (d) The details of awards likely to be conferred during the festival?

## ANSWER

## MINISTER OF SOCIAL JUSTICE AND EMPOWERMENT (SHRI KRISHANPAL GURJAR)

- (a) to (c): Yes;, Sir: The Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities,  in collaboration with National Film Development Corporation, Mumbai (NFDC) is organizing the  first International Film Festival for Persons with Disabilities (IFFPD) from Ist to 3r December; 2015 at Siri Fort Auditorium, New Delhi: The film festival has been conceptualized to honour the contributions of persons with disabilities on the occasion of International for Persons with Disabilities and to showcase cinema that open our world to the mind space with   disabilities and sensitize all on issues relating  to disabilities. Day

India and eighteen other countries are participating in the festival, A total number of 40 films (16 short films, 14 documentaries and 10 feature films) have been shortlisted for screening during the film festival, out of a large number of national and international entries received; by a panel of eminent curators, The films chosen for screening relate to different categories of disabilities,

- (d) This   festival  will felicitate the Best Film A Statement  indicating  details of awards that would be conferred the festival is at Annexure-L during

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## Statement referred to in reply to part (d) of Lok Sabha Unstarred Question No.247 for 01.12.2015

|     | Category                                   | Award                               |
|-----|--------------------------------------------|-------------------------------------|
| L   | Best Film                                  |                                     |
|     | Feature Fikm                               |                                     |
|     | Fiction Feature                            | Rs. 3 Lakh + Trophy + Certificate   |
|     | Documentary-Feature_                       | Rs: 2 Lakh + Trophy + Certificate   |
|     | Documentary Film                           |                                     |
| 3   | Short Filin                                | Rs. 1 Lakh + Trophy Certificate     |
| II: | Best Director                              |                                     |
| 1.  | Feature_Film                               | Rs: 2.5 Lakh + Trophy + Certificate |
| 2.  | Documentary Film                           | Rs_4S Lakh + Trophy + Certificate   |
| 3.  | Short Film                                 | Trophy + Certificate                |
|     | First and Second runner up in eachcategory | Trophies and Certificates           |