DIMAPUR, January 30 (MExN): Don Bosco Hr Sec School, Dimapur, hosted the third edition of Don Bosco Youth Film Festival India 2018 (DBYFFI 2018) in its school auditorium on January 30. Students and staff of Livingstone Foundation HSS, Assisi HSS, and MGM HSS also participated in the DBYFFI.
At the outset of the programme Fr. CT Varghese, DBHSS Rector prayed for the success of the DBYFFI. Anjana presented a special number. Fr. Joshua, DBHSS Principal welcomed the chief guest, Tiakumzuk Aier, Founder-Director of Dreamz Unlimited, special guest Zhokhoi (Actor), their team members, teachers and the young audience. Fr. Jonas Kerketta, delegate for Social Communications of Dimapur Province presented an overview of the DBYFFI 2018.
In his speech, Tiakumzuk Aier, winner of the Best Director Award for the Nagamese film Nana at the Edinburgh Festival of Indian Films and Documentaries 2017, urged the audience to develop and utilize their talents in such a way that they need not run after money or fame but that money and fame would follow them instead.
Special Guest Zhokhoi Chuzho, a popular actor in Nagamese films, doordarshan serials and Bollywood films such as Dukhiya Manu, Revenge and Khushi Din, Force2 etc. encouraged the young viewers to entertain and cultivate healthy and useful dreams for their successful future. He himself had been dreaming of becoming an actor since the age of seven.
It may be mentioned that DBYFFI is organized annually by the federation of Bosco Communications, South Asia (BOSCOM SA), the media departments of the ten Salesian Provinces of India and one of Sri Lanka. BOSCOM SA is also assisted by BoscoNet SA and Master Mind International.
For this year’s DBYFFI there were over 1,000 short films from 20 countries of which 34 films were selected by a special jury under the aegis of BOSCOM SA.
The venues for the DBYFFI 2018 in the Salesian Province of Dimapur include Don Bosco College (Itanagar), Don Bosco Hr. Sec. School (Jorhat), Don Bosco Hr. Sec. School (Dibrugarh), Don Bosco School (Amguri), Don Bosco School (Tinsukia), Don Bosco Hr. Sec. School (Dimapur), Don Bosco College (Kohima) and Don Bosco College (Maram-Manipur).
DBYFFI is held every year to honour Don Bosco, the Italian saint of the 19th century who devoted all his life for the holistic development of youth across the globe. The festival is also held to enrich the life of the young through these value-based films, this year’s theme of DBYFFI being Youth for Life. This was stated in a press release issued by Jonas Kerketta, Bosco College of Teacher Education, Dimapur.
