A three-day festival of short films, the Kelvin Cinema Festival of Films, is set to roll out in Shillong from November 7 to 9, 2019. The festival will host a national competition for short films with prize money worth ₹4 lakh. The competition will be in six categories — best film, director, actor--male and female, cinematographer and editor.
The northeast hosts many film festivals. The Guwahati International Film Festival is in its third edition. The Brahmaputra Valley International Film Festival focuses on the cinema of the region. There is also the Adda Film Festival held in Guwahati.
The Kelvin Cinema Film Festival is being presented by producer, distributor and philanthropist Shankar Lall Goenka and Jeevan Ram Mungi Devi Charitable Trust in association with Directorate of Information and Public Relation in the Department of Arts and Culture of the government of Meghalaya and Arts Cine Entertainment Society. It is supported by the Federation of Film Societies of India and will be held in the State Central Library in Shillong.
The brainwave of young filmmakers Dominic Sangma and Pradip Kurbah (who are artistic director and head of programming, respectively, of the festival), it is named after Kelvin, one of the first (now defunct) cinema halls in the northeast that was opened in 1926. Incidentally, the name Kelvin came from the projectors and technology used in the cinema halls.
