GUWAHATI, Feb 10: Filmmaker par excellence, Jahnu Barua's film Firingoti will be screened tomorrow at Rabindra Bhavan at the ongoing 4th Cine ASA Guwahati International Film Festival, organized by the Cine Art Society, Assam, in association with the Assam State Film (Finance and Development) Corporation. This will be an attempt on the part of the organizers to honour this filmmaker who has put Assam on the global cinema map with his path-breaking and critically acclaimed films and completed 30 years in filmmaking.

The organizers will also felicitate the artistes who were part of Firingoti. They include lead actress Moloya Goswami, who later went on to win the National Film Award for Best Actress for this film, Chetana Das, Ranjit Das and Bhargab Katoki.

As part of this international film fest, a discussion was also held today at Rabindra Bhavan on the topic 'Regional Films, Avenues of funding and Scope of Promotion in International Market'. Gautam Bora, Ahsan Mazid, Mridul Gupta and Moily Senapati took part in the discussion.

Gautam Bora said, "The production houses in Assam are not financially sound and nor are they professional. Another reason why Assamese films do not run is the fact that after the Assam Movement, the concept of the greater Assamese society has started to dwindle. Now indigenous tribes and communities prefer to watch films made in their own languages instead of films in the Assamese language. Also, the Assamese film industry has many technical shortcomings in areas like sound, lighting and script-writing. The film industry needs to upgrade itself. There is also no experimentation in Assamese films."

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