Dell International Kids Film Festival brings 100 Award Winning Children’s movies to the classrooms of over 9000 schools across India
- Dell International Kids Film Festival (Dell-IKFF) is a first-of-its-kind global film festival hosted in schools.
- Currently in its 3rd edition, the festival endeavours to introduce kids to the magic of films and utilize its power to educate and inspire.
Chennai , November 2019: The festival provides an opportunity for students to not only
watch the best of international children's films but to also learn from
film-making master classes and to participate in a film-making competition.
IKFF 2019 will be the World’s Largest Film Festival hosted by schools in 40+
countries targeting over 2million school students and their families.
Starting from November, the 2-month global event includes Film
Screenings, Film-making Master Classes and the World’s largest students
Film-making Competition with industry experts like Rajeev Masand, Jaya Bachan,
Sriram Raghavan, Manisha Koirala and a number of international film makers as
part of the Jury. The festival had a grand opening for Chennai with host
partner Velammal Group on 15th of November at the Ambassador Pallava
Hotel, Egmore.
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M.V.M.Sasikumar,
Director - Velammal Education Trust; Geethanjali Sasikumar, Director -
Academics and Syed Sultan Ahmed, IIKF Festival Director with the students
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Dell-IKFF in this edition has also partnered with the state
governments of Karnataka, Telangana and Assam to bring the festival to their
schools. With over 7000 schools participating this promises to be the biggest
ever festival touching the lives of government school children in India.
Adds Syed
Sultan Ahmed, MD & Chief Learner @ LXL,“Today most of the content that is being generated
and consumed is video as opposed print. And films are the ideal platform to engage
with children to communicate value-based messages. Dell-IKFF does just that in
bringing millions of children from around the globe together to watch and learn
from the same set of movies that have been curated and hand-picked basis
relevant age groups”.
He further
adds, “We have curated over
100 films from 40 countries in 35 languages on issues ranging from environment
to conflict to childhood to space and many more in this edition. The idea of
the festival is to expose children to world languages, issues, challenges and
stories which are all integral to education.”
The movies, which are in different languages and sourced from
around the world will feature English subtitles and will be aired via EduSat,
India’s first thematic government satellite dedicated exclusively for
educational services that supplement the curriculum-based teaching in major
cities, town and villages.
Dell in India has been vocal about increasing digital literacy in
the country and through Dell Aarambh, has taken computer learning to teachers,
mothers and students of thousands of schools. Our partnership with IKFF 2019
comes from the shared belief that tech literacy will be a pre-requisite for
children who go on to join future workforce.”” ------- Adds Ritu Gupta,
Director – Marketing, CSB - Dell Technologies, India.
About LXL Ideas:
LXL Ideas the organisers of the event, enables learning for life
by creating experiences for students, parents and educators. For over 2 decades
they have been transforming education through their various brands like School
Cinema that makes meaningful films, Krayon that conceptualises and organises
large impact events for children and Mentor, a periodic magazine catering to
the school community. The company has been operational for over 20 years and is
today present in over 20 countries with a reach of 1,25,000 schools and over 50
million students.
About DELL Aarambh:
DELL Aarambh is a pan-India PC for Education initiative engineered
to enhance learning using the power of technology; it is designed to help
parents, teachers and children find firm footing in Digital India. This
initiative seeks to connect parents, teachers and students and provide them the
necessary training so that they can better utilise the PC for learning, both at
school and at home.
About Velammal Group of Institutions:
Velammal is synonymous with quality education from KG to PG. To
meet the growing academic challenges globally, Velammal Educational Trust
(VET) at Chennai and Madurai along with Veeramakali Memorial Welfare Trust
(VMWT) & Ramana Educational Trust (RET) are determined to run the
institutions under its tutelage, professionally, adopting all the modern
advancements in academics and technology, to shape the individuals into truly
global citizens with human values. Velammal Vision: To uphold the
social values while helping the society to develop technologically and morally
by providing education of global standards, thus bringing about emancipation in
the society through knowledge and wisdom.
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