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The second edition of DNS Film Festival cum Appreciation Workshop is scheduled to be organised on September 22 and 23, 2007. The event is expected to be attended by over 120 select students from nine schools in the Dhanbad district including the De Nobilis and Carmels. Cinema has emerged as the one of the most powerful means of communication in the present world. The scope of cinema is no more limited to entertainment; it has many more social and cultural connotations involved. Film appreciation courses are fast becoming part of schools and universities curriculum.
DNS Film Appreciation Workshop is an initiative under the aegis of DeNobili.edu.in to create a critical appreciation of world cinema among students of Dhanbad. Focus of the workshop is on such movies that are not otherwise screened or viewed in the coalfields.
Selected films
My Fair Lady/1964/ George Cukor/ George Bernard Shaw/ 8 Oscars
A misogynistic and snobbish phonetics professor agrees to a wager that he can take a flower girl and make her presentable in high society.
Mr & Mrs Iyer/2002/ Aparna Sen / 4 National Awards
An award-winning Indian film drama starring Konkona Sen Sharma and Rahul Bose. The story revolves around the two lead characters during a bus journey amidst Hindu/Muslim riots.
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang/ 1968/ Ken Hughes/ Ian Fleming/ 1 Oscar Nomination
An eccentric professor invents wacky machinery, but can't seem to make ends meet. When he invents a revolutionary car, a foreign government becomes interested in it, and resorts to skullduggery to get their hands on it.
Hot as Hell/ Paranjoy Guha Thakurta
Two-and-a-half hour documentary on the coalfields of Dhanbad is porky but detailed – on some, not all, the aspects of a region much of which has been on subterranean fire for more than a century.