First international film festival for the persons with disabilities (IFFPD)

1 st International Film Festival For Persons with Disabilities

Ques: Recently First international film festival for the persons with disabilities (IFFPD) was held at –

(a) New Delhi

(b) Jaipur

(c) Panaji

(d) Mumbai

Ans: a

Related facts:

  • First International film Festival For Persons with Disabilities held at Siri Fort Auditorium(New Delhi) from 1st to 3rd December 2015.
  • Marathi film ‘Yellow’ was launched with the screening of the film festival and ‘Margarita with a Straw’ was the closing film of the festival.
  • On this occasion, Union Minister of Finance, Shri Arun Jaitley along with Minister of Social Justice & Empowerment, Shri  Thaawarchand Gehlot launched “Accessible India Campaign”(Sugamya Bharat Abhiyan) for Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities.
  • Important awards was given at festival In the following categories:
  • Best Film (Feature) – Chotoder Chobi
  • Best Documentary (Feature) – Algorithms
  • Best (Documentary) – Goonga Pehelwan
  • Best short film – Fingertip
  • Best Director for Documentary Film – Amrita Dasgupta (The new Girl in Class)
  • Best Director for Short Film – Julia Koloenakova (Predators of Transylvania). This was the only film at the festival which is directed by a differently abled filmmaker.
  • Director of Yellow, Mahesh Limaye won Special Jury Mention award at IFFPD.

Reference:

http://pib.nic.in/newsite/mbErel.aspx?relid=130137

https://filmfreeway.com/festival/IFFPD

http://www.jamuura.com/blog/chotoder-chobi-algorithms-yellow-win-at-iffpd/