They say ... Kathmandu is a city of Festivals rey... and it's not only about them 'Newar' festivals but there are many other festivals happening in the valley every day! We have street festivals, film festivals, chaaka jaams and Nepal Bandh .. also known as 'Political Festivals'...heheh!
I went to this 'Animation Short Film Festival' the other day... organized by the Independent Film Society (IFS) Nepal @ them Nepal Tourism Board ko hall vitra! The last tyam I attended them 'animation fest' was in that 'French Language' sikaa-u-oo-nay thau. Alliancey Francey ho ki kay bhancha ni and that festival was crap!
But I really enjoyed this one. IFS had managed to collect short 'animation' films from all around the world and it was a rare treat for us Kathmandu-baasis to be able to watch them! They also had a couple of local animators and their work and it was interesting to see that our animators haroo pani are doing some great work even though they receive no financial or technical support from neither them government-wallahs nor them business-wallahs!
Majority of them 'animated' shorts were either funded by the local city council, art fund or some government-funding agency of them foreign countries... what can we expect from our government? The only tyam our animators will receive funding is if somebody comes out with a Prachanda ko animated story making him look like a combo of Super-Bat-Spider Man.... and not to forget .. the super-hero who drinks buffalo milk and watches Karishma Manandhar ko movies! Yes... that's Prachanda's two faviraate passt-tyaam rey!
Or if our Raaja-baadis are willing to fund it then our animators can make a short film about the 'House of Shah' ... but I don't know if they would be interested because they are kind of busy rey... trying to forge some kind of a deal with the Mao-Cummies!
JazzMandu is also happening now...there was this 'mandala street festival' a week ago and it's great to see different film festivals organized by them foreign embassies now and then. And all them 'film festivals' are free... no dinero to attend ... which is always good but most of them happen during them weekdays and the crowd is always like 10-15 people!
But this 'Animation' Festival by IFS was rocking, probably 100+ people... I hope IFS does more festival stuff and hope one day they will do better than 'KIMFF' or that 'Jan-Jaati Film Festival' thing ... Both of them are now funded by bideshi-donors and paisa haroo chahi tini haroo ko Director haroo lay loom-kau-chan bhanney soonuh ayeko cha kyaruh!
Support Independent Film Society (Nepal), I think they have a facebook page, website swebsite etiyaadi... and hope one day, there will be a film festival every weekend and them entries will be free and for all!
I went to this 'Animation Short Film Festival' the other day... organized by the Independent Film Society (IFS) Nepal @ them Nepal Tourism Board ko hall vitra! The last tyam I attended them 'animation fest' was in that 'French Language' sikaa-u-oo-nay thau. Alliancey Francey ho ki kay bhancha ni and that festival was crap!
But I really enjoyed this one. IFS had managed to collect short 'animation' films from all around the world and it was a rare treat for us Kathmandu-baasis to be able to watch them! They also had a couple of local animators and their work and it was interesting to see that our animators haroo pani are doing some great work even though they receive no financial or technical support from neither them government-wallahs nor them business-wallahs!
Majority of them 'animated' shorts were either funded by the local city council, art fund or some government-funding agency of them foreign countries... what can we expect from our government? The only tyam our animators will receive funding is if somebody comes out with a Prachanda ko animated story making him look like a combo of Super-Bat-Spider Man.... and not to forget .. the super-hero who drinks buffalo milk and watches Karishma Manandhar ko movies! Yes... that's Prachanda's two faviraate passt-tyaam rey!
Or if our Raaja-baadis are willing to fund it then our animators can make a short film about the 'House of Shah' ... but I don't know if they would be interested because they are kind of busy rey... trying to forge some kind of a deal with the Mao-Cummies!
JazzMandu is also happening now...there was this 'mandala street festival' a week ago and it's great to see different film festivals organized by them foreign embassies now and then. And all them 'film festivals' are free... no dinero to attend ... which is always good but most of them happen during them weekdays and the crowd is always like 10-15 people!
But this 'Animation' Festival by IFS was rocking, probably 100+ people... I hope IFS does more festival stuff and hope one day they will do better than 'KIMFF' or that 'Jan-Jaati Film Festival' thing ... Both of them are now funded by bideshi-donors and paisa haroo chahi tini haroo ko Director haroo lay loom-kau-chan bhanney soonuh ayeko cha kyaruh!
Support Independent Film Society (Nepal), I think they have a facebook page, website swebsite etiyaadi... and hope one day, there will be a film festival every weekend and them entries will be free and for all!
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