National Film Development Corporation of India

The National Film Development Corporation ( NFDC ) (Hindi: राष्ट्रीय फिल्म विकास निगम Rastriya philm vikas nigam ) is the State Film Fund of India. It occurs as a financier, producer and marketer of primarily attributable to the parallel cinema films, but had next seen in the past, other tasks related to the Indian film industry. It has its headquarters in Mumbai.

History

Film Finance Corporation

The Indian state film subsidies was created in the form of the Film Finance Corporation (FFC ) 1960. This was a recommendation of the final report of the company founded in 1951 SK Patil film Enquiry Committee implemented. Its first president was the producer Birendra Nath Sircar. The FFC was initially placed under the Indian Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting associated since 1964. Its original mission was to support the mainstream film industry through the provision of financial and other assistance in the production of more sophisticated films, making it about 50 film productions supplied in the first six years of its existence with loans. The supported film projects this early phase but also included artistic films such as Satyajit Ray's Charulata (1964 ), Nayak (1966) and Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne (1968).

Chaired by Burjor Khurshedji Karanjia, the focus of the film promotion changed in the late 1960s from mainstream cinema to smaller, more artistically oriented film projects. The promotion of Mrinal Sen Bhuvan Shome and Mani Kaul's Uski Roti (both 1969) founded the movement of the New Indian Cinema, which produced an internationally recognized Indian parallel cinema in the 1970s. This coincided with the 1971 by the I & B Ministry recast task of the FFC, " to develop the film in India into an effective instrument of dissemination of national culture, education and decent entertainment, particularly by outsiders films by talented and promising filmmakers funded with loans be ". From this directive just benefited graduates in all professions, the state film school Film and Television Institute of India in Pune, who thereby career was made possible.

Since it had been found that the films funded without a corresponding distribution hardly performance opportunities offered in the free cinema market and these were not financially viable so that the tasks of the FFC in 1968 were extended by the film distribution and export. From 1973, the importation of raw film about the FFC was settled and after the American Motion Picture Export Association of America had ( MPEAA ) 1974 withdrawn from the Indian market, the FFC also took over the import of foreign films for distribution in India. From the latter, the FFC soon moved their main source of income, which is increasingly pushing its own film production in the late 1970s in the background. As of 1975, the I & B Ministry planned the bundling of state film-related activities in a society.

National Film Development Corporation

The merger of the Film Finance Corporation, the partly state-owned Indian Motion Pictures Export Corporation ( IMPEC ) in 1980, the domestic export and the import of foreign films was bundled in an organization and create today's National Film Development Corporation ( NFDC ). From 1981 to 1988 she served as an umbrella organization for the Directorate of Film Festivals, which organizes the implementation of the International Film Festival of India, responsible for the Panorama screenings of international films. With their financial and other support services in the production of Richard Attenborough's British- Indian film project Gandhi (1982 ) was the first time NFDC considered as an independent production company. In 1983, she appeared regularly as a producer and as such was mentioned in the film credits. The NFDC often strengthened its direct film investment in the 1980s and 1990s through co-productions with the National Indian television Doordarshan, they abschirmten from industrial printing. She also began the production and distribution of video cassettes international and selected national films, with subtitles in NFDC 's own studio in Bombay was carried out.

The rapid expansion of the scope of the NFDC with frequent changes of internal guidelines, however, was with the lack of a clear definition of their role in relation to the Indian film one of the main problems of the NFDC in the 1980s. The leaders found themselves at the mercy of government policy and taxation and complained to the expectations of commercial marketing of the films NFDC - produced. Hrishikesh Mukherjee, chairman of the NFDC in the years 1983 and 1984, complained in 1984 that the system of distribution and performance in India, especially in large cities of under-the -hand stores is marked, what a work in this area without this practice to participate, make impossible. The Ministry, which had been seen in the late 1970s no contradiction in his claim of box office successes in artistic films of good quality, measured good Indian cinema henceforth and until today. Them from achieving National Film Awards and other domestic prices as well as participation in international film festivals At this turning point also led the insight that one could regard sales network, production and advertising costs not compete with industrial film productions, although the NFDC productions Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro (1983 ), Mirch Masala (1986) and Pestonjee (1987 ), a relatively large audiences reached. From 1987 to 1990, the National Film Development Corporation published the high quality but short-lived quarterly film magazine " Cinema in India".

The mid-1990s ended the cooperation of Doordarshan and the NFDC, which had taken over the Doordarshan channel Metro Channel and Movie Club. While the film promotion had previously tended to focus on Hindi film productions as gesamtindischem film, attention turned especially on film productions in many Indian regional languages ​​since the 1990s. But mismanagement weakened the state of the NFDC in the early 2000s. With new management, led by Nina Lath Gupta, the NFDC was restructured in 2006. Their work presents the NFDC every year since 2007 at the event "Film Bazaar ' at the International Film Festival of India in Goa. Alongside the launch of films at international film festivals have, since 2010, the restoration and marketing of old and new productions on the DVD market as well as cinema releases under the programmatic label " Cinemas of India" priority. Self- published books co-financed the NFDC now.

The financial resources of the NFDC is currently more than 100 million rupees. Your revenue it has multiplied under Managing Director Gupta. The honorary position of Chairman has held since 2012, the director Ramesh Sippy, who took it from the front of the presiding since 2008 actor Om Puri.

Awards

Already the FFC / NFDC granted as only financial support, achieved several projects funded by their film awards. In her work as a film producer, the National Film Development Corporation received the following National Film Awards:

  • 31 National Film Awards 1983 Best Picture: Adi Shankaracharya (Sanskrit, Director: GV Iyer )
  • Second best film: Maya miriga ( Oriya, directed by Nirad N. Mohapatra )
  • Best Film in Bengali: Ghare Baire ( Bengali, directed by Satyajit Ray )
  • Best Documentary: Music of Satyajit Ray (English, Director: Utpalendu Chakrabarty )
  • Best Film in Hindi: Mirch Masala (Hindi, directed by Ketan Mehta )
  • Best Film in Bengali: Antarjali Jatra ( Bengali, directed by Gautam Ghose )
  • Best Film in Hindi: Pestonjee (Hindi, directed by Vijaya Mehta )
  • Best Film in Hindi: Salaam Bombay! (Hindi, directed by Mira Nair )
  • Best Film on Social issues: Main Zinda Hoon (Hindi, directed by Sudhir Mishra )
  • Best Film in Bengali: Ganashatru ( Bengali, directed by Satyajit Ray )
  • Best Film in Gujarati: Percy ( Gujarati, directed by Pervez Merwanji )
  • Best Film in Hindi: Salim Langde Pe Mat Ro ( Hindi, Director: Saeed Akhtar Mirza )
  • Best Film in Panjabi: Marhi Da Deeva ( Panjabi, Director: Surinder Singh )
  • Best Film: Marupakkam ( Tamil, directed by KS Sethumadhavan )
  • Second Best Film: Ek Doctor Ki toll ( Hindi, Director: Tapan Sinha )
  • Best Film: Agantuk ( Bengali, directed by Satyajit Ray )
  • Best Film in Hindi: Diksha ( Hindi, Director: Arun Kaul ) and Dharavi (Hindi, directed by Sudhir Mishra )
  • Best Film on Family Values ​​: Durga ( Hindi, Director: Basu Chatterjee )
  • Indira Gandhi Award: Miss Beatty 's Children (English, Director: Pamela Rooks )
  • Best Film in Bengali: Tahader Katha ( Bengali, directed by Buddhadeb Dasgupta )
  • Best Film in Hindi: Suraj Ka Ghoda satvan (Hindi, directed by Shyam Benegal )
  • Best Film in Marathi: Ek Hota Vidushak ( Marathi, directed by Jabbar Patel )
  • Best Film in Bengali: Antareen ( Bengali, directed by Mrinal Sen)
  • Best Film in Bengali: Amodini ( Bengali, directed by Chidananda Dasgupta )
  • Best Film in Hindi: Mammo (Hindi, directed by Shyam Benegal )
  • Best Film on Social issues: Wheelchair ( Bengali, directed by Tapan Sinha )
  • Best Film on Environment Protection: Nirbachana ( Oriya, directed by Biplab Roy Choudhury )
  • Best Film in Bengali: Yugant ( Bengali, directed by Aparna Sen)
  • Best Film in English: The Making of the Mahatma ( English, directed by Shyam Benegal )
  • Best Film in Manipuri: Sanabi ( Manipuri, Director: Syam Sharma Aribam )
  • Best Film in Marathi: Banagarwadi ( Marathi, directed by Amol Palekar )
  • Best Film in Telugu: Stri ( Telugu, directed by KS Sethumadhavan )
  • Best Film on Social issues: Doghi ( Marathi, directed by Sumitra Bhave and Sunil Sukthankar )
  • Best Film in Malayalam: Mangamma ( Malayalam, Director: TV Chandran )
  • Best Film in Oriya: Shesha Drushti ( Oriya, directed by Apurba Kishore Bir )
  • Best Film in Hindi: Samar (Hindi, directed by Shyam Benegal )
  • Best Film in Oriya: Biswaprakash ( Oriya, directed by Sushant Misra )
  • Indira Gandhi Award: Thilaadanam ( Telugu, directed by KNT Sastry )
  • Nargis Dutt Award: Bub ( Kashmiri, Directed by: Jyoti Sarup )
  • Best Film in Bengali: Hemanter Pakhi ( Bengali, directed by Urmi Chakraborty )
  • Best Film in Oriya: Magunira Shagada ( Oriya, directed by Prafulla Mohanty )
  • Best Film in Marathi: Vastupurush ( Marathi, directed by Sumitra Bhave and Sunil Sukthankar )
  • Best Film in English: Dance Like a Man (English, Director: Pamela Rooks )
  • Best Film in Hindi: Raghu Romeo ( Hindi, Director: Rajat Kapoor )
  • Special Jury Prize: Bioscope ( Malayalam, Director: KM Madhusudhanan )
  • Best Film in Konkani: Paltadacho Munis ( Konkani, Director: Laxmikant Shetgaonkar )
  • Best Film in Panjabi: Anhey Ghorhey Da Daan ( Punjabi, directed by Gurvinder Singh )
  • Best Film in Gujarati: The Good Road ( Gujarati, directed by Gyan Arora )
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