Film festivals decide to go for
online screening amid the pandemic crises!
The world’s
most glamorous film festival, Cannes has been postponed due to the coronavirus
pandemic. The film buffs have been very sad due to this blow of their most
awaited film festivals. Even the Habitat International Film which was supposed
to take place in the month of March has been postponed to 21st May
2020. Right from International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam to
Dharamshala International Film Festival has offered the audience to watch the
films on their official websites. Yes, through online screening!
India’s AIFF
has even launched its own Viewing Room to showcase films every week. This
initiative taken by the board is very generous and genuine. RituSarin, who is the
festival director, has informed the media sources that the screening of the
films will be free of cost given the coronavirus pandemic. The lineup will be
changing every two weeks. We all can agree that it is quite unfortunate that
the films will not be screened at the event, but looking at the brighter side,
the Viewing Room on the official website will have online content for people to
watch comfortably sitting on their couches.
Talking
about movie buffs, in Delhi NCR the Kriti Film Club has successfully been showcasing
documentaries for twenty years now; one movie once a month. And the response
initially was not so much. Currently, the team is planning to screen movies on
YouTube periodically, keeping the lockdown of the country in mind. However, it
is very difficult for such clubs to sustain given the widespread use of the OTT
platforms. The young generation is not so patient to wait for some clubs to
screen movies once in a month and hence they stick to OTT platforms such as
Netflix and Amazon Prime. Nevertheless, the response has been quite positive
than what the club used to receive before the pandemic crises. Various other
clubs have been screening such films free of cost and this will continue till
May 1 in order to honor the people who have been worst hit by the pandemic
since May 1 is marked as International Labor Day.
In Delhi, a
production house, Carrot Films has taken an initiative to hold a short film
contest where in the people interested were supposed to submit their short
films short within the house. The winning short film is expected to be screened
online. The sources have confirmed that the production house has received entries
in thousands, which is a clear representation of their enthusiasm.
The film
festival authorities were asked if in the future we can rely on the online
websites for screening films to which they replied that they would not rely on
the online screening but displaying films when it comes to crises like
situation then its fine. And the reason to this is pretty simple, people go to
film festivals because the feeling that the festivals offer has a different
vibe, which in no ways can be replaced by the online screens.
Let’s pray
that all of this comes to an end so that some of the greatest films can be experienced
on humongous screens rather than the small screens.
Nothing can replace that experience!
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