Delhi Archdiocese to hold Teresa Film Festival

(December 09, 2010) Several films depicting various aspects of Blessed Mother Teresa will be screened at a festival in New Delhi this weekend to mark the birth centenary of the founder of the Missionaries of Charity (MC). “We have 12 films on Mother Teresa produced by internationally reckoned directors for the exhibition,” said Carmelite Father John Edappilly, president of the archdiocese’s Media Commission which is organizing the festival. This is done in collaboration with the northern Indian region of Signis, the international organization for Catholic media persons working in cinema, radio and television. B. V. Rao, editor of “Governace Now,” will open the three-day festival at a function in New Delhi on December 10 in the presence of Sister Sherine, MC regional superior general. Archbishop Vincent Concessao of Delhi will chair the program. The festival will open with “Mother Teresa, Lux Vide” a 3-hour feature film starring Olivia Hussey as Mother Teresa. Another film, Dominique Lapierre’s “In the name of God’s poor” in English, stars Geraldine Chaplin, Charlie Chaplin’s daughter, as Mother Teresa. Other films have come from France, Spain and the United States. Their duration ranges from 11 minutes to 3 hours.