The aim of the festival is to promote emerging directors, apart from encouraging an exchange of knowledge, information, ideas and culture between India and the participating nations.
This has been reported in indianexpress.com dated 6 January 2017.
JIFF will be opened by celebrities from the South Indian Film Industry including Hariharan, Singeetam Srinivasa Rao and Rachana, who will be attending the event as Guests of Honour.
Moreover, thee will be 17 workshops and seminars on various aspects of cinema. Filmmakers would be interacting with the audiences under a new theme ‘Master Strokes’. In addition, the festival’s ‘co-production meets’ will be a platform for leading producers and directors from across the globe to interact and create new ventures.
The festival is scheduled to continue till January 11.
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