Ability fest 2007, India International Disability Film Festival, will kick off in Chennai soon.
Addressing media persons in Chennai on Friday, on behalf of the organizers of the film festival Ability Foundation, actress and vice chairperson of Ability fest, Revathy said the festival was one that would feature films that spoke about or showed disability in the 'right light.'
'All the films either deal with some issue about disability or have actors or filmmakers who are differently-abled. One of the highlights of the film festival was a component called '60 seconds to fame'. 'People all over India were invited to make a one-minute film on the theme of' celebrating diversity. We received 208 entries of which 39 were short listed and viewed by a jury. The jury then selected three winners.' she said.
Also present at the press meet were the jury members 'producer Govind Nihalini, director Dev Benegal, social worker Nafisa Ali, actor Prakash Raj, cinematographer Ravi K. Chandran, activist Neenu Kewlani and writer and filmmaker Salil Chaturvedi.
Speaking on the occasion, Prakash Raj said that the experience of watching the films and judging them gave him an insight into many things that he had not seen. Also present at the briefing were Ability Foundation executive director Jayshree Raveendran, president of Ability fest and chairman and managing director of Cavin Kare C.K. Ranganathan and Director of Ability fest P K Nair.
The film festival will go on for four days beginning on Friday. The venues will be Woodlands Theatre in Royapettah and the South India Film Chamber Theatre.