I am pleased to welcome you all the UCD Cinema to the 15th Indian Film Festival of Ireland 2024. This year the festival is focusing on great documenters from the Indian film industry. It is opening the festival with a feature film Mujib, the Making of the Nation, the story of Bangladesh, written by Atul Tiwari, who travels from India to attend the festival. The closing film is Living on the Edge: Deglamarisation of Bollywood a film by Opender Chanana. Other important documentary films The Land of My Dreams, short film Yaan, Kalikh, and Can I be Ok, and many more over the four days.
This year’s festival faced more challenges in selecting so many good films, in the short category and documentary categories. But we finally selected the best in various Indian languages.
As many of you know the IFFI has been established over the past fourteen years as Ireland’s boutique film festival, introducing the world’s largest film industry, the Indian cinema to the Irish audience. And a real potential for making Irish – Indian coproduction films. The IFFI 2024 is delighted to reinvent and recreate its glorious structure, and will have three distinct features; we shall be screening films, a live show during the gala glamorous award night the next day, to honour Ms. Shakeba Umar, Ceo and founder of Denzal Foundation the, as a charity partner of the festival
Several Live Indian classical dancers are specially performing for the IFFI 2024, to complement and celebrate the Indian dance art form incorporated in our films, such as Kathak and Bharatnatyam an Indian classical dance form during the gala award ceremony.
We are now developing our Irish-Indian cross-over fiction and non-fiction films to be made here and so creating an Irish-India film production corridor.
15th IFFI 2024 has been supported, like in previous years by RTE supporting the Arts, Dun – Laoghaire County Council, and a few friends, advertisers and patrons.
I am delighted to bring you this very different festival this year. I sincerely thank all sponsors, festival partners my supporter’s friends, and my festival team who made this possible with their generous time and support.
Bindu Nair is very well known within the community through her volunteering as Master of Ceremony for various cultural and social events for Indian and wider community, DCC and integration councils. She is associated with various local organisations in Ireland and have hosted weekly Malayalam radio show on Dublin’s 99 FM for nearly 2 years, She has hosted for Dublin episode of Asianet Europe and have given voiceovers for radio and television programmes. She was also honoured to be the MC for the Irish Premier visit of Honourable Indian Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi’s visit to Ireland in 2015.
She has hosted various prestigious celebrity shows in Ireland, to name a few, Shri Yesudas concert in Ireland, Padmasri Shobhana’s dance show, Stephen Devassy’s concert. `
She has been the festive Emcee for over 10 years and continues to be part of the festival as a MC this year as well . The festival has grown from strength to strength over the years and has become an important part of the cultural calendar of Ireland.
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