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ITANAGAR, 9 Feb:<\/strong> The 9th edition of the Arunachal Film festival (AFF) concluded at DK Convention Hall here on Friday.<\/p>\n In the final morning session of the two-day festival, a cinematography workshop was conducted by Indranil Mukherjee, a professor at Satyajit Ray Film & Television Institute, Kolkata (WB). She offered valuable insights into visual storytelling and the art of cinematography.<\/p>\n As many as 28 individuals, including a 10-year-old boy, participated in an acting workshop conducted by Paalin Kabak, who played the role of ‘Jomin’ in the Bollywood flick Bhediya.<\/p>\n He dwelt on the nuances of transitioning from stage performances to on-screen acting, providing the attendees with a deeper understanding of the craft.<\/p>\n Akom Don Emma, a student of Rajiv Gandhi University, Rono Hills, screened her short documentaries titled The Bidi Lady and A Gritis Lad. “This is the first time that I have, as an amateur, directed the two documentaries,” Emma told this daily.<\/p>\n “I am an epiphany seeker, and I believe every person has great, big stories to share, and I am all ears to unearth them,” she added.<\/p>\n While The Bidi Lady presents the story of a woman walking five kms up a slope to her tabo (‘a place to rest’ in the Nyishi language) perched on the top of a hill, in A Gritis Lad, a 13-year-old boy, Tamen, takes up bird-hunting as his hobby.<\/p>\n A movie titled Tora’s Husband, directed by Reema Das, was also screened on the final day of the event. Shorts films titled Big-eyed Pig’s Last Memories and Trust by Morto Films, and Phantasm by Trivial Vision Studio were also screened.<\/p>\n Well-known filmmaker Kombong Darang’s The Songs We Sing, The Drums We Beat was also screened.<\/p>\n Earlier, films such as Nocturnal Burger by Reema Das, Aamis by Bhaskar Hazarika, and Nine Hills, One Valley were also screened.<\/p>\n The day ended with the announcement of this year’s competition winners. Rangrung Ya Rangbee Heh by Mankap Nokwoham took the first place, while Toh Lein (Games & Sports) by Chau Anandra Namchoom was adjudged the runner-up in the short film competition.<\/p>\n In the best short documentary competition, Darang’s The Songs We Sing, The Drums We Beat took the first place, and Emma’s A Gritis Lad came in second.<\/p>\n The AFF is organised by the information & public relations department. (With DIPR input)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" ITANAGAR, 9 Feb: The 9th edition of the Arunachal Film festival (AFF) concluded at DK Convention Hall here on Friday. In the final morning session of the two-day festival, a cinematography workshop was conducted by Indranil Mukherjee, a professor at Satyajit Ray Film & Television Institute, Kolkata (WB). She offered valuable insights into visual storytelling […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":234491,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-234482","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234482","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=234482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234482\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}