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ITANAGAR, 24 Dec:<\/strong> For the first time in the Northeast, bookTouX is organising a unique filmmaking challenge as part of the bookTouX Film Festival.<\/p>\n The bookTouX Film Festival is a weeklong filmmaking challenge. Those who have registered for the contest have to make a film in a week’s time.<\/p>\n The theme will be announced on 2 January.<\/p>\n The film can be either fiction or non-fiction, or animation. The length of the film must be between 5 and 10 minutes, and it can be in any of the languages spoken in the Northeast.<\/p>\n The competition is pan-Northeast and filmmakers from Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Sikkim and Tripura can take part in it.<\/p>\n The best film will get Rs 50,000, while the best director, scriptwriter and cinematographer will get Rs 20,000 each.<\/p>\n Seven selected films also stand to win Rs 5,000 each. There will be a special jury’s choice award also.<\/p>\n The jury members include noted filmmakers like Haobam Paban and Sonia Nepram, among others.<\/p>\n The last date of registration for the bookTouX Film Festival is 2 January, 2023. The participants will have to make their films from 3 to 10 January, 2023.<\/p>\n The registration fee is Rs 1,000.<\/p>\n The winners will be announced on 18 January, and the prizes will be distributed during the grand finale of the festival, to be held in Imphal, Manipur, on 21 January.<\/p>\n “This film festival is an endeavour of bookToux to nurture and provide a platform to the upcoming filmmakers from the Northeast. This is going to be an annual film festival,” it informed in a release.<\/p>\n Detailed information is available on https:\/\/booktoux.com\/btxfest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" ITANAGAR, 24 Dec: For the first time in the Northeast, bookTouX is organising a unique filmmaking challenge as part of the bookTouX Film Festival. The bookTouX Film Festival is a weeklong filmmaking challenge. Those who have registered for the contest have to make a film in a week’s time. The theme will be announced on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-207729","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207729\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}