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to be made for children, by children and of children.
A select Jury from India and abroad consisting of noted Karnataka Film Director Padma Shri Girish

Kasaravalli, Producer-Director Mr Shiv Kumar from Mumbai, Ms Ratnottama Sengupta Art Editor with the
The Times of India- Kolkata, Anna Niderhaus from Poland working with Polish Film Institute School Film
Library as Coordinator and Manager and David Libkind Head of Production & Finance, Israel Film Fund.

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Inundated with 223 films from 38 countries, 150 films were selected by a preview committee for the final
screening. The preview committee consisted of Mr B. Divakar (Prof. Film, MCRC Jamia Millia Islamia,
Delhi), Mr Deepak Roy (Independent Filmmaker, Delhi), Mr Vilayat Jafri (Ex-Director Door Darshan,
Lucknow), Ms Dhvani Desai (Animator, Filmmaker), Mr. Ahmad Hameed Sheikh (multimedia expert &
CMS filmmaker) and Ujjwal Krishna (Child member, La Martiniere College Lucknow).
A panel of eminent jury members from India and abroad comprising of Ms Vladislava Vojnovic from Serbia,
Mr Toshifumi Matssushita from Japan, Mr P. R Ramdasa Naidu, Mr Shaji N Karun were invited to judge the
films that were selected for the competition by the preview members.
Guests from Bollywood included Darsheel Safari, Mr Farookh Sheikh, Nagma, former CFSI Chairperson

Sai Paranjpye, Musical reality show winner of the Saregama fame on Sony Entertainment television Vineet
Singh and actor Mr Amol Palekar together with his wife Sandhya Gokhale.

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The first year flagged off to a good start with 250 films coming in from 27 countries. The festival had other
attractions like the Swiss Embassy ‘Quiz & Painting contest” to mark 60 years of Indo-Swiss Friendship and
Chinh India Film Festival & Forum organized an ‘Animation Workshop’.
5 member jury comprising of noted Film Director and Film Critic Ms. Vijaya Mulay, famous Film Director of
‘Maine Gandhi ko nahin mara’ fame Mr. Jhanu Baruah, 3 times Green Oscar winner Mr. Mike Pandey,
eminent movie makers Mr. Nened Duckie from Serbia and veteran Israeli Film Director Mr. Dan Wolman.
Child Protagonist Pinki Sonkar of the Oscar winning documentary “Smile Pinki’ attended the festival along
with Child Actor Purav Rajeev Bhandare and all the prizes were given away by none other than noted film
director Padma Shree Mr. Muzaffar Ali. We are a stand alone school without any government patronage or
external help yet organizing this mega event every year for the past seven years (we started with national film
festival in 2007), purely to promote children’s films produced world over and to provide a huge platform
(1,00,000 children watch movies in the nine days festival) for these movies.
CMS seeks to broaden the vision of children by exploring into their unabashedly innocent world untouched
by the grim and solemn realities of adults through cinema. It is hoped while not overtly educative, young

viewers will learn about the oneness of humanity (Vasudhaiv Kutumbukam) in a subtle and beautiful way.

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