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Foreign and local producers who want to shoot in India now have a central agency to contact, the Film Facilitation Office (FFO), to help with obtaining shooting permissions and sourcing locations and crew.

Ho u s e d u n d e r F i l m Bazaar organisers National Film Development Corporation (NFDC), the new body will oversee a ‘single window clearance’ system for shooting permits, working with India’s seven union territories and 29 states.

India’s Minister of State for Information & Broadcasting, Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore, and Sunil Arora, secretary, I&B Ministry, will formally announce the launch of the FFO at Film Bazaar today.

“We need a fully fledged film-facilitation office that coordinates with the states and with the production industry, with those bodies that have advanced technical facilities — and does that hand-holding without being overly intrusive,” Arora told Screen.

“That’s why, instead of housing the office within a typical government set-up, we’ve housed it in NFDC, which has a more flexible structure and hopefully less bureaucracy.”

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FFO continued… involved in skills development, advising on policy measures and building an online database of locations and production services.

“We’re assessing what training is required to build up location services at a local level‚ everything from line producers and location managers to catering services,” said NFDC managing direc-

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tor Nina Lath Gupta. “We’ll also be helping the states to establish parameters of efficiency and will recommend they seek feedback from every production.”

One of the key aims of this year’s Film Bazaar is to promote India as a filming location to boost both the film and tourism sectors. The event’s first Film Tourism Workshop wrapped yesterday and a Film Tourism

Symposium, designed to encourage dialogue between film-makers and government bodies, opens today.

In addition, Film Bazaar’s Knowledge Series will host a series of ‘Filming in India’ sessions where film-makers including Prakash Jha, Rohan Sippy and Shoojit Sircar, will share their experiences of shooting in various Indian states.

Meanwhile, the Film

Offices in the Marriott provide a platform for producers to meet Incredible India and tourism bodies from states including Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat, Maharashtra, West Bengal and Tamil Nadu.

Recent foreign productions to shoot in India include Gurinder Chadha’s Viceroy’s House, starring Hugh Bonneville and Gillian Anderson.

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