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Noida: The most prestigious and the only festival of its kind to promote journalism in the World announced its 4th edition to be held from 12th to 14th of February 2016 at Noida Film City said Sandeep Marwah President of the festival & International Journalism Centre an international body of journalists from all over the World.

12th February was announced as the International Day of Journalism by International Journalism centre in 2012 to look after the needs of journalists and set an ideology to bring in love, peace and unity in the world through journalism.

This is the only festival in the World that is meant for journalists. The byline being used for the festival is –An Event Of The Journalists, For The Journalists, By The Journalists.

The festival will see journalists from all over India and from all parts of the World. Grand preparations have already started at Noida Film City.

Dubai: “ Dubai festival has become one of the most important event of this part of the World. Thousands of visitors and tourist make it a point to be present at this month to see the real fun and fair of the city” observed Sandeep Marwah Managing Director of NFTC- National Federation of Tourism And Transport Cooperatives of India Limited during his visit to Dubai festival as special invitee.

Tourism in Dubai, the largest city of the United Arab Emirates, is an important part of the Dubai government’s strategy to maintain the flow of foreign cash into the emirate. Dubai’s lure for tourists is based mainly on shopping, but also on its possession of other ancient and modern attractions.

Most capitals and other major cities have direct flights to Dubai. More than 120 airlines operate to and from Dubai International Airport to more than 260 destinations, making it one of the world’s busiest airports airports.

Dubai attracted 13.2 millions visitors in 2014, majority of which come from neighboring Arab countries. Visitors from all parts of the world are also common which includes Arabs 3,685,836, Europe 2,624,211, Asia 2,165,824, Americas 683,599 and Africa 564,846.

Tourism is crucial to Dubai’s economy, which had a gross domestic product of around $90 billion last year; it supports the emirate’s large retail industry as well as its hospitality sector.

Occupancy at Dubai’s 599 hotels, which have 80,500 rooms combined, was 78 percent in 2012 as the number of visitors rose 9.3 percent from a year ago to 10.16 million, according to data from the Department of Tourism and Commerce Marketing.

Dubai: “East meets west at Dubai,” said Sandeep Marwah President of International Chamber of Media And Entertainment Industry at a meet at Hotel Dusit Thani Sheikh Zayed Road, Dubai, UAE.

Talking about the media activities in Dubai Marwah pinpointed that Dubai is one city where you have all the facilities of west, style and culture of east that is best of both the Worlds.

The Dubai Media City was established in 2000 It was built by the Dubai government to boost UAE’s media foothold, and has become a regional hub for media organizations including news agencies, publishing, online media, advertising, production, and broadcast facilities

Dubai Media City is the hub for the media industry in the GCC and Middle East, with more than 1,300 companies registered under the Free Zone, from where they serve the entire region.

Noida: International Festival of Cellphone Cinema with its 9th edition is now popular with large number of children from colleges and schools too. The participation this time has gone up from the students of different schools of the World.

The management of International Festival of Cellphone Cinema has approached many schools this time and assigned them to send pictures connected to the serious subjects like Clean India, Green India, Clean Ganga, Teach India and Light India.

The school students have been using this as a source of training and informing them different schemes started by Government of India.

“We find this is the best way to involve young students of school level and to make them know about the different ideas created by Government of India” said Sandeep Marwah President of ICFF.

Cardiff: Indo Wales Creative Forum, a body created by the Government of Wales to develop and promote relation between two setups India and Wales through the medium of films, television, media and fine arts has joined hands with 9th International Festival of Cellphone Cinema.

The participation of students from different Universities of Wales especially Cardiff University, University of South Wales, Cardiff Metropolitan University, Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama etc. are expected to participate in a big way.

“We are in touch with the media body just to create awareness about this festival and some good participation in the forthcoming festival from Wales too” said Sandeep Marwah Chairperson for IWCF.

Indo Wales Creative forum earlier been part of all the festivals designed by International Film And Television Club of AAFT.

Abuja: We, the members of Indo Nigerian Film Association are more than happy to be part of 9th International Festival of Cellphone Cinema 2016 planned for 29 & 30th of January said the group of Nigerians now part of INFA.

“I have already been two times to Nigeria. My visit to Lagos, Kano, Abuja and Jos were successful trips. Our association with University of Lagos, University of Jos and National Film School Jos is an indication to develop and promote our relations with Nigeria informed Sandeep Marwah Chairperson of INFA.

More than 100 students of Nigeria have been trained at AAFT- Asian Academy of Film And Television. Nigerian Radio, Nigerian Television and most important Nigerian film body- Actor’s Guild all are now part of Indo Nigerian Film Association.

Sandeep Marwah Chairman INFA has been nominated as the International Patron of Actors Guild though the President of Nigeria is the Chief Patron of the organization.

Noida: The premier film School of India AAFT- Asian Academy of Film And Television will support 9th International Festival of Cellphone Cinema 2016 to be held on 29th and 30th of January.

The 12000 students of AAFT and ASMS- Asian School of Media Studies have been informed to participate in the most interesting film festival of the World where all these former and current students can also participate by submitting their entries in the competition.

The film, television, media, tourism and hotel management, multi media, and fashion students have started planning for their participation in this festival where there is no cost of participation.

They have to submit the films shot by mobile phone or stills clicked by mobile phone. There are different categories and jury will decide for the best stills, music video, fiction and Digital News Gathering,

Ras Al Khaimah: “It is a old proverb that Film is the most expensive way to express your feelings. Alas! Time has come that now we have to change these old sayings very fast. Film has become the easiest way to express you,” said Sandeep Marwah President of Marwah Studio and Global Cultural Minister in his interview at Ras Al Khaimah, UAE during his stay at Hotel Waldorf Astoria.

9th International Festival of Cellphone Cinema 2016 is right at the corner and entries from all over the World are being collected at International Film And Television Club at AAFT, Marwah Studio, Film City, Noida.

It was way back in 2007 when AAFT planned the first film on mobile phone. Half of the film was short in Noida and half was shot in New York. Prof. Karl Bardosh took the charge of directing and completing the film where as Marwah produced the project. Since then they have been celebrating cellphone cinema.

Keeping in mind the changing trends in cinema, communication and IT revolutions Sandeep Marwah first time in the World launched International Cellphone Cinema for which he was also honored many times including by the Kanabar Institute of Film And Television, Tisch School of Arts, New York University.

Noida: Marwah Studio- the most popular and the oldest film studio of north India at Noida Film City is the venue for 9th International Festival of Cellphone Cinema 2016 as decided by the management.

“Marwah Studio has been the birth place for many film makers, artist and technicians. It has also been the oldest film and training centre in this part of the World. The place has been popular with every person belong to media” said Sandeep Marwah President of 9th International Festival of Cellphone Cinema.

Marwah Studio has been associated with more than 5000 different shootings of feature films, television productions, advertisement films, stills of various advertisements, current and news affair programs, documentaries and national and international events.

Marwah Studio has hosted programs for some of the most prominent people of national and international repute.

New Delhi: International Film And Television Club of Asian Academy of Film And Television will present 9th International Festival of Cellphone Cinema on 29th and 30th of January 2016.

“Every time this unique festival brings new energy to the youngsters. The excitement to be the filmmaker is beyond explanation. This is the most economical way of filmmaking. It has cached on very well all over the World now” said Sandeep Marwah President of 9th IFCPC

International Film And Television Club is the organization belongs to Marwah Studio to design and organize festivals in the country. Global Film Festival, Global Festival of Journalism, Global Literary Festival, International Sufi Festival, AAFT Festival of Short Films etc. are its presentations.