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Filmmaker Satyajit Ray founded the first Indian film society, the Calcutta Film Society in 1947. In 1959, Federation of Film Societies of India was formed as a central organization combining the film societies of Calcutta, Delhi, Bombay (now Mumbai), Madras (now Chennai) and Patna. Satyajit Ray was elected President. In Chennai, in 1981 Chennai Film Society was started by serious film buffs and film institute graduates. Sivakumar was its founder secretary and Sasikumar was its founder president. It was active for 15 years with screening of international films, meeting up with film makers and anniversary film festival. It ran a film magazine in Tamil called Salanam for five years. With the advent of DVDs, satellite television channels,and many of its society organizers got active in film making, the Chennai film society slowly disappeared...
The Hyderabad Film Club, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India and ICA Foundation, Chennai has been conducting an annual international film festival, Chennai International Film Festival (CIFF) - www.chennaifilmfest.org, an annual event since 2003. The Cochin Film Society, in Kerala, has been active since 1984 in Cochin. Apart from regular film screenings, film festivals, workshops, it publishing a monthly titled Sequences, the 100th issue of which came out in December 2007. Metro Film Society in Kochi, Kerala was started in September 2007. Within a short time, it organized the Metro International Film Festival of Kochi in April 2008. Enlighten, the biggest film society of India, took the film society movement into the multiplexes revitalizing the film society movement once again in India.
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