Children's Film Festival is a unique way of teaching values

Lucknow, April 8 : The second day of 8th International Children's Film Festival  (ICFF-2016) organized by City Montessori School commenced with the inauguration ceremony at CMS Kanpur Road auditorium as Mrs Aparna Yadav and Mr Prateek Yadav, Chief Guests of the event lit the lamp. Amongst the elite audiences, renowned singer Ms Anupama Raag, child actors, 'Taare Zameen Par' fame Darsheel Safari and 'Toonpur Ka Super Hero' fame Amey Pandya added glimmer to the festival with their luminous presence. Addressing the large gathering on this occasion, Chief Guest, Mrs Aparna Yadav expressed her delight and stressed that events such as children's film festival is a unique way of teaching good moral values to young children.            During this 9-day International Children's Film Festival, 516 educative children's films from 96 countries are in the pipeline to be screened, absolutely free of charge. Today, on the second day of ICFF-2016, a dozen of inspiring children's films from across the globe were screened at the main auditorium of CMS Kanpur Road as well as 7 mini-auditoriums including Where are You Hiding, Journey by Camera, The Chicken, Godzilla, The Golden Frog, Two Idiots in a Boat, A Journey to the Moon Symphony, The Paper Boy, Pollution Control, Star Taxi, Tension, The Thirsty Crow, The Blue Glasses, Money Box, Rainbow, Amazing Brains, The Magician's Boxes, Color of the Sun, Our Environment etc.  International Children's Film Festival provides an opportunity to poor and under privileged children as well, to watch these films for free so that their weak economic condition does not come in the way of taking home what this film festival has to offer. They need to learn good values from these films as much as any other child. Approximately 10,000 students from various schools and colleges of Lucknow like NPS Academy, Aashiyana Convent School, Kendriya Vidyalaya, Radha Krishna Shiksha Sansthan, Janta Junior High School, Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya, Shakti Bal Vidyalaya, Rashtriya Balika Vidyalaya Junior High School, Seema Sewa Sansthan, Shia Inter College, Navdeep Vishisht Vidyalaya, The Scholars' School, City Public High School etc. were a part of the film festival.  At a press conference held later, jury members from India and abroad interacted with the journalists and expressed their views on this mega event. Speaking to the press, Ms Anupama Raag said that she feels great to be at the festival which is a noble cause, where children get to watch motivational films. This effort of CMS is highly praiseworthy. Child actors Darsheel Safari and Amey Pandya also praised the idea behind the event