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Renowned Naga actors Zhokhoi Chuzho and Tiakumzuk Aier along with the students at the commencement of Don Bosco Youth Film Festival India 2018 (DBYFFI 2018) on January 30. (EM Images)[/caption]
Dimapur, Jan. 30 (EMN): Don Bosco Higher Secondary School, Dimapur, has hosted the third edition of Don Bosco Youth Film Festival India 2018 (DBYFFI 2018) in its school auditorium on January 30. Some students and staff members from Livingstone Foundation Higher Secondary School, Assisi Higher Secondary School, and MGM Higher Secondary School participated in the DBYFFI.
The programme began with an invocation said by Fr. CT Varghese, DBHSS Rector, while Ms Anjana presented a special number. Fr. Joshua, principal of DBHSS, delivered the welcome address.
Director of Dreamz Unlimited Tiakumzuk Aier was the chief guest, while Zhokhoi, actor, was the special guest of the programme. Fr. Jonas Kerketta, delegate for social communications of Dimapur province, presented an overview of the DBYFFI 2018.
In his intervention, Tiakumzuk Aier, winner of the best director award for the Nagamese film ‘Nana’ at the Edinburgh Festival of Indian films and documentaries 2017, urged the audience to develop and utilise their talents in such a way that they need not run after money or fame but that money and fame would follow them instead.
The special guest Zhokhoi Chuzho, a popular actor in Nagamese films, doordarshan serials and Bollywood films such as Dukhiya Manu, Revenge and Khushi Din, Force 2 (alongside with John Abraham, Sonakshi Sinha…), etc. encouraged the young viewers to entertain and cultivate healthy and useful dreams for their successful future.
DBYFFI is an annually event organised by the federation of Bosco Communications, South Asia (BOSCOM SA), the media departments of the ten Salesian Provinces of India and one from Sri Lanka. BOSCOM SA is also assisted by BoscoNet SA and Master Mind International.
For this year’s DBYFFI, there were over 1,000 short films from 20 countries of which 34 films were selected by a special jury under the aegis of BOSCOM SA.
The venues for the DBYFFI 2018 in the Salesian Province of Dimapur included Don Bosco College (Itanagar), Don Bosco Higher Secondary School (Jorhat), Don Bosco Higher Secondary School (Dibrugarh), Don Bosco School (Amguri), Don Bosco School (Tinsukia), Don Bosco Higher Secondary School (Dimapur), Don Bosco College (Kohima) and Don Bosco College (Maram-Manipur).
DBYFFI is held every year to honour Don Bosco, the Italian saint of the 19th century who devoted all his life for the holistic development of youth across the globe. The festival is also held to enrich the life of the young people through these value-based films. This year’s theme of DBYFFI is ‘Youth for Life.’
