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Festival Dates: February 3-9, 2010
Venue: NCPA, Mumbai
Organised by Films Division
Festival website is here

The Indian Film Festival 2010 – Bollywood and Beyond has a fantastic program of films this year from the best of Bollywood’s recent blockbusters. Cinema that will have you laughing and dancing in your seats, from seductive romantic comedies to edge-of-your-seat thrillers, from thought-provoking social dramas to fascinating documentaries. There will be Australian premieres and prize-winning short films made by you – from Australia, New Zealand and India.

Kicking off at Cinema Nova Melbourne on February 4th 2010 with a Gala Opening attended by a host of Bollywood stars and filmmakers, the 2010 festival will screen in Sydney, Melbourne, Perth and Auckland, offering a wonderful opportunity to see the diversity of filmmaking, scope of production and sheer filmic entertainment from one of the most prolific film industries in the world.

SHORT FILM & VIDEO COMPETITION

Enter your short film for exhibition alongside some of the most promising new filmmaking talent from Australia, New Zealand and India! IFF2010 has life-changing prizes to offer the winner of its short film and video competition. Entries close December 24th 2009. Click the link below for all the competition details.

Prizes:
* A trip to India!
* An internship on a major Bollywood film production!
* See your film played to viewership of 300 million+ on World Movies India television channel!
* Australian TV exposure! Watch your film play on your own TV on World Movies Australia!
* Walk the red carpet alongside high profile members of the Australian & Indian film industries!
* Have your film screened in cinemas in Melbourne, Sydney, Perth & Auckland!

Closing Date: Saturday 24th December2009

Entry Requirements: Your film or video needs to have SOMETHING to do with India, whether it is the location, a key Indian crew member, or a reference to India or Indian culture in the content… Films should to be less than 10 mins, and can be shot on any format, although shortlisted films will need to meet certain quality standards for cinema exhibition. Visit www.iff2010.com for further details.

How to Enter: Simply download our entry form and upload your film or video on YouTube! Click the link below to find out more.

Submitted films must be less than 10 min and have some link to India. Full details of how to submit, deadlines and criteria can be found at www.iff2010.com

All queries regarding the competition can be directed to competitions@iff2010.com.

The IFF Short Film Competition is an exceptional chance to have your film work widely seen alongside the best productions from the sub-continent.

THE INDIAN FILM FESTIVAL 2010 – Bollywood & Beyond
The festival will be one of the largest foreign film festivals screened in Australasia. The Program will include films from both the Hindi cinema (Bollywood) and Indian regional and art cinema.
Details of Program, titles, and schedules will be made available on the Indian Film Festival 2010 website – www.iff2010.com and announced in the Press, early in the New Year.

FESTIVAL DATES
Melbourne – Cinema Nova 4th to 10th February 2010
Sydney– Cinema Paris The Entertainment Quarter 12th to 17th February 2010
Perth – Luna Palace 25th February to 10th March 2010
Auckland New Zealand March 2010

details here

Mission and Objective

The Phangan Film Festival grew out of a pure love for meaningful independent filmmaking. Additionally, we are world travelers who rejoice in the cross-cultural expansion that subtly transforms all those who wander far and wide, and we embrace film as a medium for this soul-level evolution.

We are committed to providing the local community as well as travelers to this beautiful tropical island with a diverse presentation of high-quality independent films from around the world. The festival themes are NATURE and SPIRIT, two widely cherished and intimately related subjects which bear increasing relevance for both our island and our planet at large. The third annual Phangan Film Festival will take place 12-14 February 2010.

We hope that this initiative will profoundly touch festival-goers, stimulate thoughtful reflection on our own ways of life, and bring about appropriate attitudinal change and responsible action. For the community, we wish to open the doors to spiritual activism and ultimately contribute to the harmonious development of Koh Phangan for all of its inhabitants and visitors.

¡¡¡ CALLING FOR ENTRIES – SUBMISSIONS FOR THE 2010 FESTIVAL ARE NOW BEING ACCEPTED !!! We are already anticipating the many interesting submissions. Please click here for more information and submission details.

As in 2008 and 2009, PFF will take place at the spacious Holiday Beach Resort in the outskirts of Koh Phangan’s biggest town Thongsala. The resort is located 100 meters off the main road that connects Thongsala and Baan Tai. As you drive from Thongsala towards Baan Tai (and Haad Rin) watch out for a big Yamaha shop on your left hand side, the resort’s driveway is right opposite that landmark.

Official Festival Site is here

Call for Entries – 4th INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM FESTIVAL OF INDIA 2010 (ISFFI)
Festival which exclusively screens only Short films to the audience of Chennai, India

ENTRY DEADLINE: January 15, 2010
ENTRY FEE: No Fee
CATEGORY: Competition
ELIGIBILITY: All films produced after November 2008 till December 2009

Exhibit your film to various film-makers, media students, critics, film theorists, film lovers and all those associated with the production and business of film and members of the press.

AWARDS:

International Awards for Best Film
1st Place
2nd Place
3rd Place

National Awards for Best Film
1st Place
2nd Place
3rd Place

Special Category Awards
Best Film for Story and script
Best Film for Art, Continuity Music, Sound
Best Film for Acting
Best Film for Cinematography
Best Film for Editing & Direction

ABOUT DBICA

DBICA-Don Bosco Institute of Communication Arts is a Non-Governmental Organization with the vision to promote media literacy and instill social consciousness and responsibility among the students and the masses. In pursuit of this vision, DBICA has successfully conducted a number of film festivals like the International Short Film Festival of India, Human Rights Film Festival, Documentary Film Festival, International Children’s Short Film Festival and so on. These festivals; have provided the media savvy youth an opportunity to show case their talent in film making and has brought in lot of awareness on important issues through these festivals.

The DBICA presents International Short Film Festival of India, now in its 4th year, is the largest and most highly attended short film festival in Chennai. The 2 day festival presents over 70 International and National Short films from more than 22 countries, to an audience of 42,000. SFFI is best known for its diverse and cosmopolitan balance of film that ranges from variety of genres like drama, documentary, animation, comedy, science fiction and mystery.

MISSION:

DBICA-Don Bosco Institute of Communication Arts is the parent organization of the SFFI. It is a non-profit Media and Communication Arts organization that presents the best in world’s short film cinema to audiences in Chennai. Our Mission is to “celebrate the culture and art of the moving image through film making and film going experience of exceptional merit and diversity that challenge, transcend and entertain.”

ABOUT ISFFI:

International Short Film Festival of India [ISFFI] plans to showcase works that celebrate diverse cultures, aesthetic traditions, social and political themes and other works that challenge and transcend expectations. Our particular interest is in films that deal with novel themes, cutting-edge technology and unusual visualization, although we welcome all films– traditional as well as those that dissent in form, technique or content from the mainstream.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES & CATEGORIES:

We accept all genres of short film, video, and animation except gory films from both professional and amateur filmmakers. All films are screened from short-short (less than 20 Min.) or short(less than 40 Min.) category. ISFFI is free to enter and open to both Indian and International submissions.

official website

ViBGYOR-2010: Dates: February 17 -21, 2010

Venue: Delegate Screening – Sangeet Nataka Academy Campus, Thrissur

Village ViBGYOR: 5 Panchayats in Thrissur district Campus ViBGYOR: 5 colleges in and around Thrissur town

Number of Films: Around 75 films from across the globe FILMS- 2010,

Themes & Packages:

1. Identities (indigenous, ethnic, communal, regional identities)
2. Gender & sexuality
3. Rights (human rights, immigrants, health & HIV etc)
4. `Developmentalism’ (environment, economic liberalisation, globalisation etc)
5. Nation (state, civil society, war & conflicts) 6. Culture & Media
7. FOCUS OF THE YEAR: South Asia: Justice-Peace-Democracy
8. Retrospective Package (master filmmakers of national/international reputation)
9. Kerala Spectrum Package (films on Kerala culture & society by filmmakers residing in Kerala)
10. Film Director’s Special Package Focus of the Year 2010 is

SOUTH ASIA- Justice-Peace-Democracy: Every now and then politicians and even ordinary people raise a hue and cry for peace, but always are unwilling to acknowledge the inter-linkages between justice, peace and substantive democracy. Peace can no more be explained away simply as the absence of war or the management of crisis. When the military junta continues to deny justice to millions in a country and silence dissenting voices and all major democratic governments in the region support that military junta, what peace and democracy are we talking about? Another nation justifies their progrom of ethnic cleansing in the name of security and wants the whole world to nod in approval. A `Just Peace’ in South Asia should be understood as a space for the enjoyment of the basic rights of all peoples in their respective contexts, as a fundamental value to be integrated in all programs for realizing peoples’ security, that is, security of food, shelter, health and livelihood in a non-hegemonic democratic regional order.

Call for entries ViBGYOR 2010

Welcome to the 5th Edition of ViBGYOR International Film Festival for
Short & Documentary films, to be held in Thrissur, Kerala, India from
February 17-21, 2010!

We are in the process of pooling Films to be screened under the SEVEN
different themes and THREE packages of ViBGYOR. If you or a friend
wishes to send a recent film/s to ViBGYOR, we

shall gladly include them in the PREVIEW for preliminary selection. Due
to time and space constraints we can only screen around 75 films in the
festival. An eminent panel of Jury will select the

final set of films to be screened at the Festival. We hope you would
send us your films (not entered at ViBGYOR before) on or before
December 15th, 2009, complying with the Rules

& Regulations of ViBGYOR Film Festival and also provide all required
documents/material (synopsis and production details, stills form the
film etc) along with the DVD and not later.

i) All selected films will receive a Certificate of Participation.

ii) All selected filmmakers are invited to attend the festival and are
assured of local hospitality. (ViBGYOR is currently not in a position
to pay for travel expenses).

iii) Selected films will be part of ViBGYOR Touring Festival conducted
in schools, colleges and villages and small towns in Kerala and
elsewhere.

iv) For detailed information on the festival and to enter your film at
ViBGYOR, please log on to www.vibgyorfilm.org.

There is no Entry Fee. Fill up the Entry Form and send it along with
the DVD (PAL), a STILL photograph from the film and director’s
photograph.

Last date of receiving films (post marked) December 31st, 2009.

To address possible technical glitches during screening we advise you
to include an extra DVD copy of your film Send queries to
vibgyorfilmfest@gmail.com or call ViBGYOR office 487-6458301

Warmly,

C. Saratchandran( 09446426433)
Fr. Benny Benedict (09447000830)

http://www.vibgyorfilm.org/2010/announcement

This refreshing festival, which has been held since 2004 on the beautiful Puri beach in Orissa, in eastern India, has impeccable logic. It cheerfully bumps off all hierarchy, competition, juries and awards. Not only filmmakers, but also artists from other fields like music, theatre, painting, sculpture, dance, literature and photography are encouraged to participate and show their work. It is an informal, intimate gathering of artists; films are shown in makeshift tents by day and in the open air after sun down, right into the wee hours. The idea is to have an alternative, democratic platform, away from the bureaucracy and big cities, and where just about anybody can participate. It’s like a magical carnival by the sea for five days and nights.

The BYOFF site is here

Pumelo Film Festival in Mumbai is amongst the best ranked film festivals in India and Asia. SDC organise the non-profit festivals in Mumbai each year showcasing independent films from all over the world. The films selected are suitable for all audiences above 18 years of age and passes are issued to the public at nominal costs on first-come-first-served basis.

Pumelo International Film Festival is supported by the consulates, film makers & film centers of the countries from which films are selected for the film festivals. Pumelo requires your support to ensure that students and the interested audiences in Mumbai can benefit from such non-profit festivals. Kindly support us through publicity in the mass media, website links, mentions on your facebook/myspace profiles, DVD covers & film citations, etc.

Pumelo International Film Festival is on 26th & 27th February 2010 in Mumbai, India. Pumelo has a competition for best film based on audience choice & awards prizes for best director, best cinematography, best music, best short, best script, best actor, best actress, etc. The films screened at Pumelo International Film Festivals in Mumbai, Asia are selected by a jury comprising of Savio DSilva. All prize winners are issued a Pumelo Certificate which is now starting to be recognised world over as a recognition of a good film.

Pumelo is a Non-Profit festival funded by SDC. Pumelo is growing and requires all the support from the best indie film makers in the world with their feature films & mentions on their profiles, websites & DVD covers. We expect more film makers submitting their films to Mumbai, India for our film festivals in the coming years. Thank you for your time & effort. It goes a long way towards ensuring we keep our festival free for the public so that more fans can view the films & enjoy the best of world cinema.

Festival website here