12 Strategies The Government Is Adopting To Keep FTII students' Mouth Shut In IFFI, Goa By Shini J.K.

12 Strategies The Government Is Adopting To Keep FTII students' Mouth Shut In IFFI, Goa

By Shini J.K.

21 November, 2015
Countercurrents.org

1. Reject the students' registration as much as you can. Ask the helpline people to say "We don't know anything, it's from DFF, Delhi", if we say we are from FTII.

2. Instruct the Director, FTII and the Admin to not to allot any usual facility to the students for IFFI, Goa. No vehicle, no accommodation and so on.

3. Make sure that institute itself won't grant approve maximum students permission to attend IFFI. Throw the rule book at you to do that and tweak the rules, as much as possible.And, also schedule the academic activities during IFFI.

4. Grant students the anticipatory bail extension with maximum conditions which will make sure that they wouldn't attend IFFI. Keep maximum delay in handing over the court order and spread rumors in the air....

5. Mr. Sunil Arora can easily hold a PC to make sure that people will call the students anti-nationals, if we protest in IFFI and defame the nation. Otherwise, he's ready to give us the conduct certificate.

6. The propaganda machine and thus the CBFC Chairman Nihalaniji will simultaneously make a propaganda video on the "failure of FTII"

7. 400+ additional police in IFFI which is happening in a city which is already under "Red Alert" and high security.

8. Warn people who are gonna screen films in IFFI to not to talk about FTII.

9. Arrest the FTII Students even if they show a placard in protest. Beat them up, keep them under custody and let the people think that they are actually a threat.

10. Ban the word FTII from IFFI. Even the FTII t-shirt.They can arrest you, If you wear an FTII shirt. (Ashuthosh, Final year camera student got arrested in the festival venue for wearing an FTII t-shirt which was designed during IFFI 2011. Later he was released on a personal bond of 10,000. The other 2 who have been arrested(Kislay and Shubham) yesterday for showing placards in the inaugural ceremony, got bail today. The phones and purses of all the three are still with the police and being checked. These students are also not allowed to enter the venue for the rest of the festival days, though they are having valid delegate ids.)

11. Ban FTII Students from even being interns by saying that they are threat to the fest.(Raghavendar, 2nd year editing student who was supposed to be an intern, was sent back by the festival authorities from the film bazar by saying that we can't entertain the FTII students)