Children Film Festival begins at Ali Auditorium

LAHORE - Pakistan's first ever nine-day Children Film Festival began at the Ali Auditorium, Ferozepur Road, on Saturday attracting a number of students from different schools.

The event has been organised by the Children's Film Foundation, a project of the Ali Institute of Education, in collaboration with theatre group Punjab Lok Rahs.

Talking to The Nation, Shoaib Iqbal of the Punjab Lok Rahs said the objective of the festival is to explore and encourage art media as a learning support for children. "The workshops would be held during the festival and go beyond as well. There would be four eight-day workshops on filmmaking and animation."

"The children aged between 8 to 16 years would learn the basics of simple animation and filmmaking. At the end of each workshop the children would produce their short films."

"In August when the schools would open after summer vacations we would show these short films produced in the three workshops in another film festival. There would be a competition among them for top prizes."