Season’s Report – 12th LICFF 2020

Celebrating the 12th year of LICFF – This year we had an amazingly online festival streaming from 21^st August to 21 November 2020.

LICFF (Lahore International Children’s Film Festival) a project of The Little Art, has been bringing some of the world’s best films, made for, by and about children and youth to Pakistan since 2007. The Festival has been pivotal to entertain, inspire and educate thousands of children in several cities across Pakistan.

The Little Art is a non-profit arts education organization that uses the medium of art to promote social values among children and young adults in Pakistan and empower them on various social issues.

This year LICFF presented 158 films from 24 countries in 16 language.

These diverse range of films, that included all genres like short animation, short live action films, fiction, non-fiction and documentaries that revolved around issues related to education, creativity, relationships, values, dreams, our environment etc., a selection of films made by children themselves and even films made by young children of Pakistan.

Three inaugural sessions were held to mark the beginning of the festival. The guest speakers included representatives from partner organizations sharing their views and well wishes for the festival.’

The speakers included

• Fouzia Saeed – Director General Pakistan National Council of the Arts (PNCA)
• Kamran Lashari – Director General Walled City of Lahore Authority (WCLA)
• Saman Rai – Executive Director Alhamra Arts Council
• Arif Baig Mohamed – Chairman Cinepax Group and StarzPlay
• Talha Ali Kushvaha – Executive Director Lok Virsa, Islamabad
• Sajida Haider Vandal – Vice Chancellor, Institute of Art and Culture

• Valerie Khan – Executive Director, Group Development Pakistan
• Baela Raza Jamil – CEO Idara-e-Taleem–Aagahi (ITA)
• Saddam Siddique – I Am Karachi
• Tabindah Jabeen – Teachers’ Resource Center (TRC)
• Allauddin Jameel, Doaba Foundation
• Haya Fatima Iqbal – Documentary Association of Pakistan
• Raziq Faheem – College of Youth Activism and Development (CYAAD)

The Festival organized online talks and workshops with the international filmmakers for children and film enthusiast.

Runs on StarzPlay from 21st August to 21 November 2020;

STARZ PLAY by Cinepax is Pakistan’s favorite streaming service and has been providing unlimited access to exclusive content to its customers since 2018.

The Festival ran on Starz Play for two months and reached to hundreds and thousands of children and families across Pakistan.

The LICFF was collaborated with 24 national and international organizations including;

LICFF aims to continue to inspire children through film and brings the community together to watch, learn and discuss cinema. We have an immense love for the craft of filmmaking, storytelling, children and youth and inspiring them to become independent creative thinkers, dreamers and doers. We are grateful to the organisations for their support this year.