mumbai the city with all its glory has never failed to inspire filmmakers and once again it has found new enthusiasts wanting to capture its various faces nearly 100 students from different city schools participated in a film festival on monday where everything from local trains to the amalgamation of different cultures was projected through short documentaries made by the participants participants were asked to focus on the citys heritage and we were amazed with the ideas that were presented while some described the trains as the citys true face others made films on the famous vadapav to describe mumbais various faces said purnima datt one of the organizers students from mahims bombay scottish school santa cruzs lilavatibai podar school bycullas nalanda foundation school and bandras arya vidya mandir participated and nearly 25 short films were presented each school was presented with a camera by the organizers and given a time limit to finish shooting and make the documentary we presented four documentaries at the festival while students enjoyed shooting editing took a while as none of us was aware of the techniques said mrudula bhat a teacher from nalanda foundation school from where four students participated the focus of the festival was not just on the tangible but also the intangible heritage of the city we presented a movie on the various cultural dances especially the koli dance our student participants also involved other students from the school and therefore many got an opportunity to participate in the exercise said nikita joshi a teacher from lilavatibai podar school organized by indian national trust for art and cultural heritage heritage education and communication service and greater mumbai chapters the festival in its fifth year was held at the bhau daji lad museum the festival was held in mumbai for the first time this is an exercise to give students and opportunity to explore their own city since it was the first time in mumbai we started with a few schools next year we will invite more schools added datt