NEFTA Film festival to start from Feb 14

A film festival is being organized by Nepal Film Technician Association from February 14, 2013. In the sixth edition of the festival the movies released from 2068 Baisakh to 2069 Ashad end will be featured.

After the movies are screened in the festival, the association will present awards to the best movies in various categories. Nepal Film Technician Association has been awarding different awards to movies made in digital technology and celluloid technology.

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Movie Awards in Nepali Film Industry and NEFTA Film Awards

When we see a couple of movies being released in Nepal almost every weeks, we get a feeling that the Nepali film industry is a successful industry. Every actor/actress seem very busy in one shooting or the other. The film personalities are busy in a number of events including movie launch, music launch, premiere shows, foreign shows and so on. Question arises – can the ‘book’ (film industry) be judged by its cover (all the hypes)?

Movie awards is another aspect the industry has progressed a lot. In the last two years, we have seen a huge increase in the number of Nepali Film Awards. Different organizations and associations are organizing such film awards without any coordination with each other. A few years back in the history, there were only music awards and there were nothing like movie awards. Now, the situation has reversed and there are more movie award ceremonies than music award events.

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