Sikkim Global Film Festival to be held from December 10

NEW DELHI: The Second edition of Sikkim Global Film Festival is scheduled to be held from December 10 -14, 2021. The upcoming film festival aims to offer a wide ambit of activities and engagement for film makers. Minister for Information and Public Relations Department, Lok Nath Sharma along with Advisor, IPR Department, Birendra Tamling and Chairperson Sikkim Film Promotion Board, Pooja Sharma on Tuesday convened a National level press conference to brief the media about the same at Old Sikkim House, New Delhi.

The five-day event will have inauguration ceremony, felicitation programme, movie screening, producers and investors meet, fashion show and cultural exhibition, masterclass with national and regional level film technical experts, evening cultural programmes, art performances and recce at proposed Eco- Heritage Film Village site at Yangang, South Sikkim and Tsogmo Lake. The film festival will also have International and Nation filmmakers participating in it. The entries are open for:

I. Feature Film Screening

II. Tribal and Regional Film competition

III. Short Film Competition

IV. 1 Minute video competition - theme: Global peace

V. 5 Minute video competition- battling the Pandemic

All budding filmmakers can participate in the competition. For submissions of the movie interested parties may log in to www.sikkimfilmboard.org The last date of the entries is November 15, 2021. The rules for the competitive movie is that all films must carry English subtitles, films not certified by CBFC can also be submitted, films made in past 3 years and short film should not exceed 30 minutes

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Chairperson, SFPB,Pooja Sharma stated that Chief Minister of Sikkim Prem Singh Tamang has always given importance to the promotion of Sikkim as a film shooting destination and a potential film tourism hub. He has laid great emphasis on providing ample opportunities to the film makers and artists of the State as well as the country. The Chairperson informed that the State Government has launched Sikkim Film Policy last year to ease the process of filmmaking.

She invited the film makers from India and abroad to participate in this film festival. To encourage the film makers the State Government would provide a subsidy of Rs 20 lakhs in cash and kind to the local film makers and a subsidy of Rs 1 crore in cash and kind would be given to the national film makers, added Ms. Pooja Sharma. She also stated that the subsidy would be given only if they fulfill the criteria, i.e. 75% of the shooting should be done in Sikkim and 50% of cast and crew should be locals.

Earlier, Minister Lok Nath Sharma, Advisor Birendra Tamling and Chairperson Ms. Pooja Sharma showcased the location catalogue titled “100 Film Shooting Destinations in Sikkim” to the media which was recently launched by Chief Minister of Sikkim Prem Singh Tamang.

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