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Films Division of India

Government-owned film production company

Field	Value
name	Films Division of India
logo	Films Division of India.png
type	Public
genre	Electronic
fate	merged with National Film Development Corporation.
foundation
founder	Government of India
defunct
location	24, Dr. G. Deshmukh Marg, Ministry of I&B, Mumbai-26
locations	Branches and Production centres:
Kolkata
Bangalore
New Delhi
Chennai
Thiruvananthapuram
Hyderabad
Vijayawada
industry	Electronic media
aum
parent	Ministry of Information and Broadcasting
homepage	www.filmsdivision.org

Kolkata Bangalore New Delhi Chennai Thiruvananthapuram Hyderabad Vijayawada The Films Division of India (FDI), commonly referred as Films Division, was established in 1948 following the independence of India. It was the first state film production and distribution unit, under the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Government of India, with its main intent being to "produce documentaries and news magazines for publicity of Government programmes" and the cinematic record of Indian history.

FDI was divided into four wings; these are Production, Distribution, International Documentary and Short Film Festival. The Division produces documentaries/news magazines from its headquarters in Mumbai, films on defence and family welfare from New Delhi and featurettes focussing on rural India from the regional centres at Calcutta now (Kolkata) and Bangalore. In 1990, it was started at the annual Mumbai International Film Festival, for documentary, short and animation films at Mumbai. It housed a museum of cinema, the National Museum of Indian Cinema (NMIC), inaugurated on 19 January 2019.

In March 2022, it was merged with National Film Development Corporation.

History

Established in 1948, FDI followed the model of state controlled and monopolized production, distribution and exhibition of documentary films, news reels and propaganda films, soon transforming into the biggest producer documentary and short film production in the country. For decades to come, FDI would produce thousands of documentaries and newsreels that would reach as many as 25 million Indians a week. As James Beveridge of the National Film Board of Canada would later observe, FDI “delivered a body of documentaries and newsreels which must constitute the largest peace-time programme of public information films ever seen among the democratic countries.”

Works

Films Division had produced mainly for the state-owned TV channel, Doordarshan. It produced some classics like Ek Anek Aur Ekta. The films division had produced over 8000 films since inception and about 5000 films are being made available for online purchase and downloads.

Film club

In 2012 Films Division started a film club at Mumbai which screens films from archives.

NMIC

The Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi inaugurated National Museum of Indian Cinema in Mumbai on 19 January 2019. The “National Museum of Indian Cinema” is a store house of information for the public and it facilitates the film makers, film students and critics to know about the development of cinema in the world.

Selected filmography

Rabindranath Tagore (1961), by Satyajit Ray
Through the Eyes of a Painter (1967), by M. F. Hussain
The House That Ananda Built (1968)
Mahatma: Life of Gandhi, 1869–1948 (1968)
The Awakener (1969) A film on Meher Baba
Aao Hajj Karen (1980)
Bansuri Guru (2013)

References

"Contact us Film Division". Official website.
"Now, Indian short films also MIFF-ed". [[IBN Live]].
"About us". Official website.
"Film Division". Ministry if I & B.
(11 April 2008). "From Raj to Swaraj: The Non-fiction Film in India". Viking.
(July–September 1955). "The Film in India: First Impressions". Indian Documentary.
"Spellbinding art show". CNNgo.
"Museum for Indian cinema to come up in Mumbai by 2013". Indian Express.
"Show and Tell: The Films Division's New Film Club | Forbes India Blog".
(21 January 2019). "How's the josh asks prime minister Narendra Modi". Times of India.
"NMIC".
"Aao Hajj Karen (1980)".

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