Bhubaneswar:28/4/24: Bhubaneswar Film Circle going to present Bhubaneswar Film Festival (BFF) is honoured to invite Odia film lovers and cinephiles to a three-day exclusive Odia film festival at Jaydev Bhawan and Gita Gobinda Sadan, Bhubaneswar from 7th to 9th June 2024. The films selected for the festival are an impeccable blend of classics and award-winning ones that many haven’t got a chance to watch in the movie halls. On this date, 28th April, Odisha became a filmmaking province with Sita Bibaha (1936), exactly 27 days after becoming the first state to be carved out on linguistic basis in British India. BFF didn’t find a better date to talk about cinema.
About Editor in chief
Ashok Palit has completed his graduation from Upendranath College Soro, Balasore and post graduation from Utkal University in Odia Language and literture.. He has also carved out a niche for himself as a scribe of eminence after joining the profession in 1988. He is also an independent media production professional. He brings loads of experience to Advanced Media, Ashok Palit as a cineaste has been active in film criticism for over three decades. As a film society activist, he soared to eminence for his profound commitment to the art film appreciation and aesthetics of cinema. His mode of discourse is often erudite but always lucid and comprehensible marked by a perfect acumen so rare in the field. A film aesthete with an immense fond of critical sensibilities, he wrote about growth and development of odia cinema in New Indian Express, The Times of India, The Hindustan Times, The Asian Age and Screen. He has been working as an Editor for Cine Samaya from 2002-2004.. He had made solid contribution on cinema in many odia Dailies and weekly such as Samaj, Prajatantra, Dharatri, Samaya, Satabadi, and weekly Samaya.