The convocation will honour best in film, direction, script writing, actor (male-female), character actor, music, lyrics, cinematography, sound designing for 2016, veteran film critic and one of WBFJA founder-members Nirmal Dhar said at a press meet this evening.
"This is the first cinema convocation in the region to be attended by a host of personalities from the film world on January 8," Dhar said.
Actor-MP Dev, actor Prosenjit Chatterjee, directors Srijit Mukherjee, Shiboprosad Mukhopadhyay, Kamaleswar Mukherjee and others have said that the initiative by the film journalists would give boost to the Bengali showbiz industry.