Thutturi in Golden Elephant International Film Festival

Golden Elephant 14, the International Children's Film Festival organized by Children's Film Society of India is one of prestigious event where children films from allover the world take part. This week long festival kick starts at Hyderabad on November 14th (children's day) and concludes on November 20. This year as many as

16 films from Canada, Germany, Iran, Sweden, Brazil, Norway, Russia, Korea, China etc are in the competition and from India, its Kannada film Thutturi produced by Jayamala and directed by P. Sheshadri (click here to view the complete list). Interestingly, Thutturi is the only movie selected for this competition among Indian contenders. Best film in this competition will receive the Golden Elephant award plus Rs. 1 lakh cash prize and the second best will get the Silver Elephant award plus Rs. 50,000. Apart from these, the Children's Jury award will have a golden flake plus Rs. 50,000 cash award. All participants will receive a certificate of participation. Producer Jayamala, director P. Sheshadri and Master Karthik are invited to take part in this film festival.

Apparently, Thutturi was the inaugural film at Kolkata Internation Film Festival that started from November 10 and will end on November 20.

It's a clear indication of how a well made film with serious message gets the recognition though has lesser mass appeal. We at viggy.com hope to see Thutturi going great guns.