Shillong: Shillong city will host the second edition of Kelvin Cinema Festival (KCF) from Nov 9 to Nov 11.
The first festival held in 2019 was a game changer for cinema in Meghalaya and North East India, reports Meghalaya Monitor.
Kelvin Cinema Festival (KCF) is named after the citys once famed cinema hall to honour its memory after it was gutted by fire, the news portal reported.
Kelvin Cinema Hall was founded by (Rai Bahadur) Jeevan Ram Goenka in 1926, the first talkies in Shillong, but it would take World War II to shape the future of cinema in erstwhile undivided Assam.
Announcing the film festival, filmmaker Dominic Sangma was quoted as saying by the news portal that KCF aims to highlight and showcase talent of North East India, and instil in aspiring filmmakers a sense of passion for cinema.
Given there is no dearth of talent in Meghalaya and the region as a whole, we aspire to become a platform for talent, in line with the Meghalaya State Film Policy Summit that was held earlier in 2023, Dominic said.
