210 schools take part in art exhibitions

LAHORE
The Little Art announced their series of exhibition events in Lahore and Karachi for 4th ArtBeat National Child Art Competition and Exhibition 2015.
This is to be followed by the International Children’s Film Festival (KICFF) 2015 in collaboration with Teachers’ Resource Centre (TRC) taking place in Karachi and Lahore. This year’s theme “Kaisa Pakistan” encourages children to reflect on their identity, visualize their culture, draw and paint how they see Pakistan. The 4th ArtBeat received over 6,000 artworks from 210 schools and nearly 25 community organizations from across Pakistan, making it the largest participation of children the competition has ever seen.
Some schools that have been chosen for prizes and exhibitions include: Special Education and Training Center, Bostaan’ Ilm School, Rising Stars Girls Elementary School, Bloomfield Hall School, Roots International School, Army Public School, Faisalabad Grammar School, Karachi Cambridge School, Happy Home High School, SLS Montessori & High School, Roots School System and the Bacha Khan Foundation schools from Malakand and Khyber Agency.
This year’s International Children’s Film Festival (ICFF) in Karachi and Lahore will showcase selected 56 films for KICFF from 24 countries, including several films by young Pakistani filmmakers with the theme “Future Generation Cinema”.
These films have been selected from a total of 960 film entries from 87 countries.
The festival jury this year that selected top international entries for this year’s festival consisted of known playwright and critic Asghar Nadeem Syed, Head of Film & TV, NCA, Majid Saeed, Director and Owner KINO films, Tazeen Bari, Independent filmmaker, Fazal Ahmad and known Independent Researcher at Film Museum Society, Ms Wajiha Raza Rizvi.
The Karachi and Lahore ICFF will have shows running in both the morning and evening slots from 5th to 10th October.
The shows in Lahore will be held at Alhamra Auditorium in Lahore from 16th to 25th November 2015.
The selected winners from the ArtBeat competition will be awarded cash prizes worth Rs 300,000 and certificates at the opening events in Lahore and Karachi.
As part of the festival, The Little Art also announced its national film making competition “Once Upon a Film” inviting young local filmmakers to send in their short films and showcase them at the Lahore/Karachi International Children’s Film Festival.
The competition is open till 30th September and is accepting entries from children and young people for short films of less than five minutes duration.
The winning entries will be awarded a cash prize of Rs 5000 and mentorship by The Little Art to work on future film projects.