Every year ZIFF is honoured to welcome filmmakers and special guests from across the world. This year ZIFF once againe will host over a dozen filmmakers and a few special guests. One of ZIFF”s Chief Guests for 2016 is top Bollywood actor and producer Kunal Kapoor.
Kapoor will be attending ZIFF based on the support of The Zanzibar Tourism Promotion Centre (Z.T.P.C), India that was set up in March 2015 under the Presidential initiative & vision between the Ministry of Information, Culture, Tourism & Sports – Government of Zanzibar, The Zanzibar Commission for Tourism & JHIL Enterprises, Mumbai, India.
The organisation aims to create more awareness about & promote Zanzibar & its tourism attractions in the Indian Sub Continent with a view to tap into the currently 16 million & fast growing Indian Outbound Travel Industry.
The venture was spear headed by Jilesh Babla, a Tanzanian Citizen, who has beenpromoting Zanzibar & Tanzania in India from the past 2 decades.
Kunal Kapoor comes from  a family steeped in the traditions of cinema and theatre and that has for four generations contributed towards the evolution of the Indian Film Industry and Indian Theatre.  Members of the family have successfully founded the renowned R.K. Films & Studios, Film-Valas and the Prithvi Theatre – where Kunal became a Trustee in 1984 and successfully worked towards making Prithvi Theatre a landmark in Indian theatre.  promoting professional Theatre in India.
Since 2014, Kunal has partnered with Family Film in Romania promoting Romania, Hungary, Croatia and Ausria as film shooting destinations by setting up a one-stop Line Production service in these countries for Indian Feature and Advertising films to shoot there at attractive and effective costs.
Currently Kunal has been working on the restoration of the films produced by his father in the 80’s – FILM-VALA’s Junoon, 36 Chowringhee Lane, Kalyug, Vijeta & Utsav, along with promoting the Prithvi Theatre Festival both nationally and internationally.
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