The Department of Media Science of The  Heritage Academy (THA), Kolkata organized the 7^th Heritage Academy Film Festival (HAFF) on the campus.

The festival was inaugurated by Subhashree Ganguly, Dr. Madhupa Bakshi, Dean, Department of Media Science, The Heritage Academy Kolkata (THA), Mr.  Pradip Agarwal, CEO, KBT,  Dr. Gour Bannerjee, Principal, THA, and other faculty members of the College.

Numerous events were held, including photography, one-take films, fiction and non-fiction films, trailer creation, and much more. Students from several colleges in the city submitted over 100 entries for different events.

In her opening speech, Subhashree Ganguly expressed how encouraging it is that THA was able to organize such a fantastic film festival in such a short amount of time. The festival has already screened many films that students from different colleges in the city have produced. In addition, she counseled the students to become more involved in films since they have the power to shape people’s lives for the better.

There were engaging sessions with Unmesh Ganguly, Content Creator, Actor, and Founder, Bankuramemes, and Rwitobroto Mukherjee, a well-known actor. They spoke about the basic ingredients of content creation and acting respectively.

The second day witnessed a Master Class on Filmmaking in Metaverse which was addressed by Prof. Samir Mukherjee, Founder and Mentor, of VR/AR in Academia and Drone Academia.

There was one unique event which was the Cine Couture Fashion Show which was evaluated by Srijita Ghosh, Fashion and Social Media Influencer.

Apart from these the judges were experts from the film and entertainment industry like Mr. Judhajit Sarkar, Prof . Ayan Nandy from SRFTI, and many others.

Actress Chaiti Ghoshal also addressed a particular session in HAFF 2024.

The final day of the event witnessed the address of eminent film director and singer, Mr. Anjan Dutta who was interviewed by Mr. Judhajit Sarakar on his latest movie “Chalchitra Ekhon’.

It was a great event to unleash the creativity of the students and enhance their knowledge.

Priyanka Dutta