Picture by UB PhotosGuwahati: The Assam Tourism Development Corporation (ATDC), under its new policy, will provide financial assistance to a film, Unread Pages, by director Jahnu Barua. The first film under the state tourism policy will also see the first official announcement of an India-US co-production of a story from Assam for an international audience. It will also be Barua's first international film. Chairman of the ATDC Jayanta Malla Baruah said: "It will be the very first film to be made under the recently announced Assam Film Tourism Policy which came into effect on January 1. "The tourism policy has been designed on the lines of those implemented in the European countries, combining the potential of cinema with tourism, for increased tourism activities and inflow," Malla Baruah said.

Source: The Telegraph January 27, 2018 19:52 UTC