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9 INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN’S FILM FESTIVAL 2017
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ICFF
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– THE PREFACE –

inema, or motion picture, is the art of moving images; a visual
medium that tells stories and exposes reality. Created in the tail end
Cof the 19th century, cinema is the world's most recent art form. It is
also, by far, the world's most complex, collaborative, and costly artistic
expression.

Films & Radio Division at City Montessori School, Lucknow celebrates
the medium as an art form driving in as the vehicle for social change. ICFF
2017 saw a pouring in of 1500 films from more than one hundred countries,

Mr. Varghese Kurian the avid 1 lakh plus audience - young & not so young savored the audio visual
Head, Films & Radio Division & Director, ICFF
delight and yet another soiree came a full circle.
Brain child of Dr. Jagdish Gandhi , carefully nurtured, nourished and
brought up to be 9 years of age, by Mr. Varghese Kurian, the Head , Films & Radio Division, City
M o n t e s s o r i School & Director, ICFF – was called “a wonderful parallel to the Children's Film
Festival “, organized by the CFSI ( Children's Film Society of India) , by the legendary Shyam Benegal ,

when he played the most esteemed Celebrity Guest at the ICFF 2011.
A simple story coming to life, with the technical magic of lights, camera and action, a narration
metamorphosed into a work of art - of vision and voices ,w ith an unsuspecting young audience drifting as
the director would wish , into his make believe world – thus goes a cinematic expression on celluloid.

So as the impressionable young
minds do not get the jolt of a life
time, the culture shock or the
wrong messages – the unsuitable
food for thought – The self
proclaimed Guardian of world's

Children, born and yet to be born –
Dr. Jagdish Gandhi decided to go
the ICFF way , only to continue to
inspire us all, thus goes the
veteran, the modern day Gandhi.
International Children's Film Festival 2017
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