Film Facilitation Office provides rebates in different states to promote Film Production in India : Prithul Kumar
Mumbai,
Day 4 of Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Film Festival in Mumbai began with an eventful discussion on film production and facilitation in India. The panel consisted of eminent producers such as Aashish Singh and Arfi Laamba (Bombay Berlin Film Productions), Joint Secretary (Films), Government of India and Managing Director, National Film Development Corporation Prithul Kumar and Managing Director, Maharashtra Film, Stage & Cultural Development Corporation Dr.Avinash Dhakne.
Joint Secretary Prithul Kumar highlighed the role of the Film Facilitation Office (FFO), which provides a catalogue of shooting locations, and rebates in different states to incentivise and promote Film production in India. Avinash Dhakne emphasised on promoting new unseen filming locations such as Amravati , Melghat even in states with a thriving Industry, such a Maharashtra. He also touched upon the idea of reviving village tourism via village filming locations. There is a need to provide cash incentives and to pull South Indian producers to shoot in North Indian states to make ours truly a Pan-Indian industry, he added.