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Filmbooth invites you you to participarte in an international short films festival inspired by the 8 Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).

The entries can be fiction, animation, live footage, narrative or any other radical style of yours. If your film is shortlisted it will be screened alongside short films from the likes of Mira Nair, Gus Van Sant, Gael Garcia Bernal, Wim Wenders and others. Best short films will win some cool prizes.

Drop a mail to filmboothindia@gmail.com or call +919810441183 (Ajesh) +919818093953 (Mohak) +919811411188 (Nagendra). Festival website is here

Once again, it’s time. Time for the world to get together at the most prestigious and expansive global mart for the rapidly evolving broadcast and entertainment industry. Broadcast India 2010 will not only showcase the latest and best techno-innovations in the industry but will also host a platform for all there is to do with broadcast, film, audio, radio, IPTV, Mobile TV and their related fields.

Expect the world and more this year as the Broadcast India Show is all set to create a fluid, stimulating and dynamic environment for both suppliers and clients alike. Here trade channels can be freely explored on one hand, and trade links smoothly facilitated on the other. Since 1991, the Broadcast India Show has stood for everything to do with the subcontinent’s broadcast and entertainment industry. In the past, the show has welcomed 26,000 global visitors to explore state-of-the-art equipment and technology and promises to carry into the future, the commitment to contribute towards and boost the progress of the industry. Watch Broadcast India 2010 unfold in its full glory in Mumbai from the 21st to the 23rd of October 2010.

Official website is here

12th Mumbai Film Festival offers one of the highest Cash Awards and Incentives – US $ 200,000
International Competition for the first feature films of directors.
US $100,000 for the Best Film to be shared equally between the producer and director of the film.
US $ 50,000 for the Jury Grand Prize to be shared equally between the producer and director of the film.
The Audience Choice Award
US $ 20,000 to be shared equally between the producer and the director of the film.
Cash incentives for Sales Agents
US $ 10,000 if the award winning films are international or world premiers.

Mumbai Film Festival programme is divided into seven sections: International Competition for the First Feature Films of Directors, World Cinema, Indian Frame, Dimensions Mumbai, Retrospectives, Above the Cut and New Faces in Indian Cinema.

International Competition for the First Feature Films of Directors is for the best of debut feature films of directors from around the world produced within one calendar year before the festival dates. This section aims at discovering and honoring new talents in the field of direction and providing them networking possibilities.

World Cinema focuses on screening the best films from all over the world produced within one calendar year before the festival dates. This section is meant to be a Festival of Festival films, the award winning and critically acclaimed films screened in other international film festivals and commercially successful, technically superior films. This section is an indicator of the latest trends in film making around the globe.

Indian Showcase, as the name indicates, presents a selection of Indian cinema made in one calendar year before the festival dates. This section is meant to be a show window for the best Indian films targeting the foreign delegates, Festival directors, sales agents and co-producers. The Festival plans to promote this section in a big way and help the film makers network with target group.

Dimensions Mumbai is to tease, target and provide a forum to the young creative minds in the city of Mumbai to come up with the best film on any aspect of this metropolis in any format of their choice. Only students and young media professionals under 25 years of age can submit films for this competition section.

The Retrospectives section presents the treasures from the past. It is nostalgia for the veterans to revisit these films and a process of learning and sheer pleasure of watching these masterpieces for the youngsters.

Above The Cut is a non-competitive section which presents the First Feature Films of Directors which could not be accommodated in the International Competition for the First Films of Directors.

New Faces in Indian Cinema is a non-competitive section which will screen First and Second Feature Films of the Indian directors and aims to provide a platform to young emerging Indian filmmakers.

The Mumbai Film Festival Programme aims to present the best of the crop in all its sections.

Festival Website

River to River. Florence Indian Film Festival has its first edition in October 2001 at the Rondò di Bacco Theatre of Palazzo Pitti in Florence, Italy.
The aim of River to River is to promote only films from and about India, and it is the first Festival of this kind in the world.
During the Festival’s first year, also Indian cinema is seeing a new life: Ashutosh Gowariker’s Lagaan wins the Audience Award in Locarno and Monsoon Wedding by Mira Nair wins the Golden Lion in Venice. And in 2002 Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s Devdas is screened in Cannes.
Furthermore, between 2001 and 2002 the influence of Indian cinema can be seen in Baz Luhrmann’s Moulin Rouge and in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Bombay Dreams, with music by the future Oscar winning A. R. Rahman.
River to River. Florence Indian Film Festival celebrates it’s tenth anniversary from 3 to 9 December 2010.
During these years the Festival has grown and gained awareness among the audience, the film industry and the press. Many films have been screened and quite a few filmmakers, actors and producers have attended the Festival.
Among them, filmmakers Preeti Chandrakant, Dev Benegal and Biju Viswanath in 2001; actor and filmmaker Rahul Bose, filmmaker Anand Patwardhan, and festival programmer and journalist Uma da Cunha in 2002; filmmakers Roysten Abel and Manisha Jha, journalist and filmmaker Meenakshi Shedde, and festival programmer and journalist Uma da Cunha in 2003; filmmakers Goutam Ghose, Herbert Krill, Dishad Husain, Vinta Nanda and Partho Sen Gupta, actress Koel Purie and producers Sergio Scapagnini and Mohanjit Singh in 2004; filmmakers Dheeraj Akolkar, Bharatbala, Krishna Das, Ruchi Narain, Gianluca Pipitone, Pietro Silvestri and Thomas Wartmann in 2005; filmmakers Aditya Bhattacharya, Jamil Dehlavi, Nicole Maria Krieger, Diego Liguori, Massimiliano Pacifico, Filippo Papini, Anna Pitscheider and Pietro Silvestri in 2006; filmmakers Ashish Avikuntak, Sarthak Dasgupta, Nandita Jain, Francesca Lignola, Ishaan Nair, Chitra Palekar, Stefano Rebechi, Joy Bimal Roy and Bhavna Talwar in 2007; filmmakers Fiorella Castanotto, Nishikant Kamat, Shahshank Ghosh, Richie Mehta, Christopher Mitchell, Sarab S. Neelam and Ramesh Sharma in 2008; filmmakers Ketan Mehta, Raja Menon, Sooni Taraporevala, Sanjeev Sivan, Kartik Singh and Dev Khanna, actresses Nandana Sen and Iyanah Bativala, and scriptwriter Shakir Kadri in 2009.

The Festival Staff and myself will pursue in bringing a week of India in this beautiful city of Florence, and in giving a stage to all those Indian films that have an interesting and unique story to tell.

Selvaggia Velo
(Festival Founder and Director)

Festival website is here

About the festival

Kerala, a tropical paradise, is recommended by the National Geographic Magazine as one of the 50 ‘must-see’ destinations of the world. Marketed as God’s own country Kerala (kera+layam) which literally translates as abode of the coconuts and as legend goes it is the land that was reclaimed from the Sea.

From mountains to the sea, from rock to sand, lush greens to bright reds, spicy curries to sweet payasams, calm rural spaces to bustly urban centres kerala has as much variety in colour, texture and experiences, that takes more than lifetime to live and absorb completely.
Kerala boasts of one of the most cine-literate and discerning audiences in the world. Cinema and politics are two abiding passions of the people of Kerala. Bizarre experiments in the medium, with few takers elsewhere, find vociferous votaries here.

The International Film Festival of Kerala is a yearly event organised by the Kerala State Chalachitra Academy on behalf of the Department of Cultural Affairs, Government of Kerala. The festival is recognized by the FIAPF thus making it part of a prestigious circle of specialized festivals. The 14th edition of IFFK will be held at Thiruvananthapuram (formerly known as Trivandrum), the capital city of Kerala in the South of India from 11th – 18th December 2009.

IFFK boast’s of an exclusive and extremely popular Competition section restricted to films produced or co produced in ASIA, AFRICA & LATIN AMERICA within the last year of the festival cycle. The usual sections include world cinema, documentaries (in film formats), short fiction (in film formats), retrospectives, homage’s and tributes.

Over the years, the festival has attracted an ever increasing number of entries and our distinguished juries have a tough choice in deciding on the prizes and there is the prospect of winning attractive cash awards.

About PIFF

PIFF — A Flashback Studded With Memories of Treasure

Pune is among the fastest growing cosmopolitans in India today. Its all-round growth has made it an attractive global destination for many segments. Because of the highly reputed FTII (Film and Television Institute of India), Pune is also a hotbed of filmdom that has consistently created fresh talent for all genres of the film industry. The presence of the FTII also fits in well with Pune’s overall personality of being the “Oxford of the East”.

Completing the film connection of the city is also the historic and well-stocked National Film Archive of India.

Typically like a growing cosmopolitan, Pune has seen it all. From, the now nostalgic theatres to sprawling expanses of multiplexes and crowded shops to the numerous malls, the evolution of this multi-hued city has been spectacular. For the film buffs of the city and India, Pune enjoys significance. On occasions pertaining to the industry, stars from all the verticals descend on this city. With a multi-cultural blend of population with varied interests, Pune provides an ideal platform for an International Film Festival.

The Pune International Film Festival was launched in 2002, with an idea of attracting the best in celluloid to Pune. The first “International Film Festival” received a response brimming with success. Slowly, event by event, PIFF has evolved into a major annual event.

With the backdrop of 7 eventful editions, the 8th version of PIFF promises more variety, more movies and greater insight and entertainment into the international cinematic world.

Festival Website is here

CALL FOR ENTRIES SUBMISSION-5th INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM FESTIVAL OF INDIA 2011 (ISFFI) Deadline: December 2010

Festival which exclusively exhibits only Short films to the audience of Chennai and different parts of world under the Competitive and Non Competitive Sections

ENTRY FEE: ISFFI is free to enter and open to both Indian and International submissions of professional, student and amateur works.
CATEGORY: Competition and Non Competition
ELIGIBILITY:
Competition (All films produced after March 2009 till December 2010)
Non Competition (All films produced before March 2009)
LAST DATE FOR ENTRY SUBMISSION: DECEMBER 11, 2010
FESTIVAL DATE AND VENUE: 21st-22nd January 2011, Albert Theaters, Chennai, India
FESTIVAL WEBSITE: http://www.dbicafilmfestivals.org/site/english/showcontent.php?menuid=1409
SUBMISSION IFORMATION: One person can send multiple entries. Two copies of each Short Film must be sent by post or courier in DVD format to the following address;
DBICA Film Festivals
The Citadel
45, Landons Road
Kilpauk
Chennai – 600 010
Tamil Nadu
India
Phone: + 91-044-26423930
Fax: +91-044-26651435
Email: isffichennai@gmail.com
Website: http://www.dbicafilmfestivals.org/site/english/showcontent.php?menuid=1409
MORE INFORMATION ABOUT ISFFI: Attractive cash awards and prizes will be given for the best entries from around the globe. An average of 60 short films will be short listed from the entries and screened during the two festival days.