Ramesh Sippy to be awarded Lifetime Achievement Award at IFFJ

Dhanbad is the place for the first International Film Festival of Jharkhand to be held in held next year. Veteran filmmaker Padam Shri Ramesh Sippy will be felicitated with the Lifetime Achievement Award for his contribution towards Indian Cinema at this film festival of Jharkhand.  Ramesh Sippy is now a days busy with his Film making institute, RSACE. He is known for some rare piece of cinema like Sholay, Shaan, Seeta aur Geeta to name a few movies directed by him. Not only films, he was also successful on television. Television drama series named Buniyaad was also one of his directional masterpiece.

Various categories like Feature Films, Documentaries, Short Fictions and Animation from all the world are open for participation. Entries will be accepted through Film freeway, Vimeo, and Withoutabox or through courier. This 1st ever IFFJ is a humble attempt to bring the films to the commoners. Jharkhand has given very prominent film makers like Shivam Nair who will be on advisory panel.

Ramesh Sippy quoted "He wants to congratulate the whole team of the International Film Festival of Jharkhand, the film festival is an important platform for cinema lovers, especially young people. Apart from film making, Ramesh Sippy is also involved in a film academy, named RSACE. RSACE’s core purpose is to produce generations of film professionals that will contribute to great storytelling. Sippy is a renowned name in the history of film and TV industry. From his myriad experience, he wants to bridge the gap between theory and hands-on knowledge by highly experienced industry professionals and wants to deliver quality knowledge of film making to youngsters.

The limitations of the propaganda of the digital medium also increased, so the demand for a film-tech learned person will grow in the future, in such a way that such institutions will not only help them, but also the use of technology in film production.”

This very 1st IFFJ will be organized by an independent organizing committee whose members are Dhiraj Mishra, Ashwani Shukla and Abhishek Arun. From publicity to marketing,promoting,bringing movies, workshops inviting national and international film makers, these peoples are doing their work very rigorously to make this first ever International Film Festival of Jharkhand a successful one. This 3 days festival will be held in the black diamond city of India, Dhanbad. The organizing committee is excited to see a large number of movies being submitted from all over the world. Bollywood Icons and celebrities are extending their support to make this an important film festival event.