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VIGYAN PRASAR: 54th GOVERNING BODY MEETING & 31st GENERAL BODY MEETING
5.1. Science Communication Popularization & its Extension (SCoPE) in TV/Film
National & International Science Film Festival of India
10th National Science Film Festival of India (NSFFI), November 24th to 27th, 2020
The tenth edition of National Science Film Festival of India 2020 (NSFFI) was inaugurated on 24th November 2020 by Chief Minister of Tripura Hon’ble Shri Jishnu Dev Verma and valedictory programme / award ceremony was organised on 27th November 2020 in the presence of Jury Chair - Shri Girish Kasaravalli, veteran filmmaker and special invitees Shri Siddharth Kak, veteran filmmaker and Shri Mukesh Sharma, Former DG, Films Division, Mumbai. The festival was earlier scheduled to take place between 18-22 March 2020 in Agartala. The event had to be postponed due to the unfolding pandemic situation.
The NSFFI 2020 was jointly by organized Vigyan Prasar, and the Tripura State Council of Science and Technology, Govt. of Tripura. A total of 372 films in different languages have been received for participation in the festival this year.
A total of 115 shortlisted films selected by the ten-member jury will be screened during the festival. These include films in Hindi, English, Urdu, Malayalam, Kashmiri, Bengali, Marathi, Punjabi and Tamil languages.
Science and technology, environment, agriculture, renewable energy, water management, health and drugs and technological innovations are some of the most explored themes in the submitted films. The entries include documentaries, biography, short films, docu-dramas, science fiction and animation films.
These films have been made by different institutions, professional, amateur and student filmmakers to compete under specific categories.
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