The Bagmati Province government has started teaching community school students and teachers basic film knowledge and skills.
The Office of the Registrar of Communications concluded the first five-day film literacy workshop in Jawalakhel, Lalitpur, by inviting 20 students and five teachers from five community schools to participate.
Speaking at the closing ceremony, Bagmati Province Government Spokesperson and Minister for Internal Affairs and Law Suraj Chandra Lamichhane said that teaching life skills would help create employment in the future. Minister Lamichhane said the program would help encourage original film production at the school level.
Under the procedure for operating the original film production and promotion support program, approved by the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Law, the program was conducted for the first time on 2081 Kartik 5, 2081, and for the second time on 21 Kartik 2081 for students and teachers of applicant schools.
Minister Lamichhane distributed certificates to 20 students and five teachers studying in grades 9, 10, and 11 in four community schools in Kathmandu and one community school in Bhaktapur in the film literacy program schools. According to Communications Registrar Revati Prasad Sapkota, the teachers and students have learned basic skills in the pre-production, film production, and post-production stages.
According to Sapkota, the provincial government has organized this program to produce, produce and promote creative, emotional, message, and artistic films and documentaries that reflect the economic, social, political, cultural, linguistic, religious, historical, archaeological, and natural importance of Bagmati Province, contribute to promoting tourism and culture of the province, and reflect traditional knowledge and skills.
Registrar Sapkota said that the aim is to prepare new human resources by providing technical, theoretical, and practical training to the trainees in film production, scriptwriting, and production.
