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C/o Footpath to be screened in Italy

Staff Reporter

Bangalore: The country’s youngest director has more reasons to smile. After Kishan Srikanth’s film about street children, C/o Footpath, won critical acclaim and market acceptance, it will now be screened at the Internati onal Children’s Film Festival in Giffoni, Italy, on July 16.

“It is the first Kannada movie to be screened at the festival in the last 37 years that it has been held. It is also among eight entries nominated in the feature film section at the festival,” said an elated Kishan, addressing presspersons here on Saturday.

The child prodigy’s next film, on which he has already started work, will also be undoubtedly a children’s film.

Meanwhile, C/o Footpath has also been chosen to be screened at the Busan Children’s Film Festival in South Korea on August 17, besides being selected for the Filmmakers and Television Award to be presented in Port Blair in And aman and Nicobar Islands on August 23.

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