Maharashtra Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh on Thursday evening inaugurated the seventh edition of the Asian Film Festival. The festival will showcase 80 films from 20 countries of Asia as well as from Palestine and Egypt and will last for eigtht days.
Deshmukh highlighted Mumbai as a destination for the Asian filmmakers and urged them to explore the city for their cinematic ventures. He said films had evolved greatly over a period of time as the gap between offbeat and commercial films have decreased. He also promised the organisers of the festival - The Asian Film Foundation and The Enlighten Society - of more financial help from the government.
The festival has two competition sections - the best debutant directors and the best fiction films which will be judged by a panel comprising national and international filmmakers. During the inaugural function, Korean director Park Kwang Su was honoured with the Asian Film Culture Award, while P.K. Nair, former director of National Film Archives, received the Satyajit Ray Memorial Award.
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