With around seven months to go, the head honchos
at Darbhanga Film Club (DFC) who are also the organizers of Darbhanga International
Film Festival (DIFF) have already started with the ground work for the 2014
festival. With already their new video uploaded on site as well as having
announced the submissions for the 2014 festival, the chairman of the festival and
the other heads have started working on their strategy not only to promote the
film festival, but also to make it known far and wide.
Recently Meraj Siddiqui, the chairman of the
festival met Magsaysay award winner Social activist Dr. Sandeep Panday at
Lucknow inviting him to the festival as well as giving his voice to Darbhanga
International Film Festival. “I was feeling very glad and at the same time
elated when I met Dr. Sandeep Pandeyji. When I went to meet him, I was
wondering how the meeting would go. However, he was appreciating my social
campaign through films and media at Darbhanga, and that’s the best support I
could have ever wished for,” Meraj Said. “He was very happy to know about film
festival and promised me for his presence at 2nd DIFF 2014,” added Meraj.
Dr. Sandeep Pandey was awarded the Magsaysay
Award in the "Emergent Leadership" category for his initiatives to support education for poor children in India by tapping the
resources of Indians abroad. While still a graduate student in the US, Pandey with two of his friends founded Asha for Education, which in the decade
since has raised over a million dollars for education projects in India. After
a brief period as a university instructor, Sandeep Pandey decided to devote his
energies entirely to his activist causes.
At the Asha Ashram in Lalpur, near Lucknow,
he has created a learning enivironment where students live and study among
working communities of artisans and learn trades in addition to their R's. The
ashram works to overcome caste barriers that dalits face, publicizes official
corruption in the local areas, and develops appropriate technologies for the
rural region. Asha's work, begun in the United States, is now buttressed by a
growing Indian network as well.
Darbhanga International Film Festival (DIFF) is
the first ever International Film Festival at Mithilanchal in Darbhanga
district which is the cultural capital of Bihar & core heart of
Mithilanchal. Providing a forum and a place for promotion of DIFF at our home
event in Bhopal, the organizers of DIFF and Darbhanga Film Club (DFC) have
grand plans for their 2014 event and make it a huge success.
Needless to add, DIFF will be also touring country-wide
with the festival inviting film makers to send their entries as well as make
their presence at the festival. Here’s wishing the organisers tons of luck!
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