The first International Film Festival is going to be held in Vijayawada in October. The Film Festival was scheduled to be held from October 4 to 9 in Vijayawada and it will be hosted by the Vijayawada Film Society (VIFISO) on the instance of its 37th anniversary and also coinciding with the golden jubilee of the Federation of Film Societies of India (FFSI).
VIFISO secretary and film festival director Jampa Krishna Kishore said: “The FFSI had decided to take film festivals beyond metro cities and permanent venues like Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkatta, Chennai, Bangalore, Hyderabad and Tiruvanathapuram. The FFSI decided to host film festivals in Vijayawada, Visakhapatnam and Karimnagar in Andhra Pradesh and Coimbatore in Tamil Nadu as part of this expansion. About 25 to 30 foreign films will be screened during the six days of the festival. An office of the VIFISO and the film festival would be opened in Gandhinagar”.
Film personalities like Ram Gopal Varma, Gunasekhar, Yandamuri Veerendranath, Rajendra Prasad, Tanikella Bharani, Murali Mohan, Ashok Kumar and several TV actors and technicians were expected to participate in this film festival
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