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.
Kunal Kapoor
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