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>From: airesrod <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED],"Goa's premiere mailing list, estb. >1994!" <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] >Subject: [Goanet] ENOUGH OF IFFI >Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2006 01:00:11 +0000 (GMT) > >Goa should seriously deliberate whether to continue >hosting a sort of foisted International Film Festival. >Any occasion cannot be at the inconvenience to others >and that too for 10 long days that the residents of >Panaji and those at Campal in particular have had to >endure. > >An International Film Festival is a serious affair. >What we saw was a mismanaged combo of fanfare at the >taxpayer's expense. It was a carnival with magical >performances and non-film related events with >virtually anything the most incompetent and >unprofessional ESG and the DFF could think of. > >IFFI was per se a Sorpotel or Bhaji Puri thrown open >to the whole world in the name of an International >Film Festival. The charade of 20 odd floats to mark >the inauguration of the festival lacked any punch and >above all had no context to a film festival. That >money could have been better spent in hotmixing >Panaji's internal roads, which are in a pathetic >condition. > >Goa cannot continue to be forever hospitable. It has >to assess what benefit the state would get from any >event it hosts. The local artists have failed to make >gains of any significance from the just concluded >tamasha. > >The two crore jetty adjoining Kala Academy built in a >hurry with no foresight or vision should be the venue >from where the organizers of IFFI should jump to >another destination along with the heaps of garbage >that they generated. The money they made could be left >behind. > >Aires Rodrigues >Ribandar > > > >Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com >------------------------------------------------------------------------ >Goanet supports BMX, the alumni network of Britto's, St Mary's and >Xavier's -- three prominent institutions in Mapusa, Goa. Events >scheduled from Dec 16 to 21, 2006 > >For more details visit http://www.bmxgoa.com >------------------------------------------------------------------------ _________________________________________________________________ Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today it's FREE! http://messenger.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200471ave/direct/01/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Goanet supports BMX, the alumni network of Britto's, St Mary's and Xavier's -- three prominent institutions in Mapusa, Goa. Events scheduled from Dec 16 to 21, 2006 For more details visit http://www.bmxgoa.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------
