Hollywood Welcome To International Film Festival of India!

Hollywood Welcome To International Film Festival of India!
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Panaji, Jun 28 (PTI) Hollywood will now make inroads into the International Film Festival of India (IFFI) after Union Information and Broadcasting ministry opened up the competition section for global cinema.

"We expect films from Europe, USA, Canada, Australia and New Zealand as the competition section is open for global cinema," Chief Executive Officer, Entertainment Society of Goa (ESG), Manoj Srivastava told PTI.

ESG along with I&B ministry's directorate of film festival (DFF) holds IFFI in Goa annually.

Union I&B minister Ambika Soni announced that the competition section is going global.

Hitherto, the competition section was open only for cinema from Asia, Africa and Latin America.

Srivastava said that since the competition section was constrained to few continents, IFFI was missing on bigger participation including Hollywood, which will now be able to showcase its films in the festival.

"The competition will now be tough.

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