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Foundation date 1 january 1948
Films Division of India (FDI) commonly referred as Films Division is a film production house belonging to the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Government of India, primarily to "produce documentaries and news magazines for publicity of Government programmes" and cinematic record of Indian history.
FDI is divided into four wings, namely, Production, Distribution, International Documentary and Short Film Festival. The Division produces documentaries/news magazines from its headquarters at Mumbai, films on defence and family welfare from New Delhi and featurettes focussing on rural India from the regional centres at Calcutta and Banglalore. In 1990, it was started the annual Mumbai International Film Festival, for documentary, short and animation films at Mumbai.
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Lohit Diary (2014)
, 1h16Directed by Ramchandra PN
Lohit River Valley, the picturesque eastern most remote part of Arunachal Pradesh in India, the land of Mishimi community, is showing signs of prosperity. Epitomized by its colorful flowers that bloom all over is the crop that is responsible, the banned opium. Traditionally, cultivated for rituals and medicinal purposes, today a large portion of the harvest consumed by the cultivators themselves and the rest sold locally to opium addicts to meet the economic needs of the planters.
BV Karanth:Baba (2012)
, 1h33Directed by Ramchandra PN
Genres Biography
B V Karanth runs away as a child from his house in Babukodi in Karnataka to learn music in Mysore; instead he joins Gubbi Company, a professional theater company run by the legendary theater and film personality Gubbi Veeranna. Quest for knowledge first takes him to Banaras in North India where he learns Hindi language and Indian classical music and then to Delhi where he joins the second batch of the theater course at the National School of Drama. He later travels all over India conducting workshops and training people in modern theater. Films beckon him and his films gain critical acclaim and awards in India. He returns to Delhi to head the National School of Drama. Restlessness leads him to Bhopal in Madhya Pradesh where he starts the Rang Mandal, a professional theater repository for the Bharat Bhavan under the Government of Madhya Pradesh. A controversy in Bhopal where is was accused of setting fire to a co artist cut shot his stint there. He returned to Mysore to start the Rangayana, yet another theater repertory, this time Kannada language based. B V Karanth continues to work till his death due to cancer in 2002.