Kathmandu, June 9: Nepal Motion Picture Association and Nepal Film Producers’ Association are jointly hosting the third Nepal Motion Picture Award and Nepali Film Festival Programme on July 7, 8 and 9.

Various artistes and personalities associated with the film industry are to be awarded the Nepal Motion Picture Award in 27 different departments on the occasion.

Similarly, artistes completing more than 25 years of service in the film industry will be honoured with the Mahendra Motion Picture Service Award, those making special contribution in the Nepali film industry would be conferred the “Outstanding Contribution Award” while popular Nepali film sector artists in the decade from 1990-2000 would be felicitated on the occasion. Thirty-four Nepali feature films which have been passed by the central censor board from 1997-2000 are to be screened during the film festival. A rally of film artistes and props and a publicity campaign through posters and pamphlets is also to be held on the occasion. Similarly, a seminar on “the challenges and solutions of the Nepali film in the 21st century” will be held.

Litterateurs and writers winning the poetry and short story writing contest on the topic “The Challenges and Promises of the Nepali Film Industry in the 21st Century” will be awarded on the occasion.

A 131-member organising committee and 15 different sub-committees under the main organising committee have been constituted under the chairmanship of president of Nepal Motion Pictures Association for organising the event. The organising committee says foreign film producers and film artistes have also been invited through the Nepal-based diplomatic missions of SAARC countries for participation in the film festival.