INDIAN DOCUMENTARY PRODUCERS’ ASSOCIATION
IDPA UPDATE April 24th 2007
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IDPA UPDATE, the newsletter of the Indian Documentary Producers’ Association comes to you as an occasional publication. This is part of our effort to keep you updated about developments in the world of the short film that may be of interest to film makers. This issue contains a list of upcoming film festivals compiled from various sources.
We hope you will find this issue useful and send us your suggestions and feedback. Items for inclusion in future issues are most welcome. Please send them to idpaindia@gmail.com.
Pooja Takale
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CNBC online is looking for your short film
If you are a filmmaker, experimental, amateur, student, pro, and have made a short film of not more than 10 minutes, fiction, documentary, animation, using a mobile phone, CNBC online is the place to send your film. With their new, upcoming entertainment portal, they have plans to support the short film genre in a big way. They tell us that cross promotion on their various networks, a viewers’ voting space, proposed competitions and other features will be part of their development plan.
To submit your film, contact: Anil Sadarangani at    +91-9819259507
Email: s78.anil@gmail.com.
Or Abhishek Mande at    +91-9833499432
Email: abhishek.mande@tv18online.com
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Call for Entries, IDFA 2007
The 20th edition of the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam, the largest festival for creative documentaries in the world, will take place in Amsterdam from 22 November to 2 December 2007. Each year, IDFA selects and screens more than 250 documentaries, running the gamut from international audience favourites to artistic experiments along the fringes of the genre.
We would like to welcome you to submit your films for IDFA 2007. There are no fees involved, not even if your film gets selected, but please keep our deadlines in mind: the first one coming up is 1 May.
We're looking forward to another great documentary harvest.
Ally Derks, IDFA Director
Submit with MyIDFA
In order to submit a film, you need a MyIDFA account. This will allow you to submit films and projects to IDFA as well as to the Docs for Sale and FORUM markets. You can register for a MyIDFA account on our website.
Regulations
In addition to the Joris Ivens Competition (documentaries longer than 60 minutes), the Silver Wolf Competition (30-60 minutes), the Silver Cub Competition (shorter than 30 minutes), and the First Appearance Competition (for debuting directors), the festival includes many other programmes. For more information about the selection criteria, please go to our website and look under Regulations 2007. Please note that the selection criteria for the competition programmes have changed this year.
Deadlines IDFA 2007
- 1 May for films finished between 10 August 2006 and 1 April 2007
- 10 August for films finished after 1 April 2007
Additional industry deadlines
The FORUM
- Deadline: 1 September 2007
- Regulations and entry form will be available as of 1 July 2007
Docs for Sale
- Regulations and entry form will be available as of 1 July 2007
Jan Vrijman Fund
- Deadlines: 1 June 2007 and 1 February 2008
Contact:
Programming department: Martijn te Pas (martijn@idfa.nl )
Industry Office (The FORUM, Docs for Sale & IDFAcademy): Adriek van Nieuwenhuyzen ( adriek@idfa.nl)
Jan Vrijman Fund: Isabel Arrate Fernandez (janvrijman@idfa.nl )
International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam
Kleine Gartmanplantsoen 10 | 1017 RR Amsterdam | the Netherlands
T 020-6273329 | F 020-6385388 | info@idfa.nl | www.idfa.nl
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Prabhat Film Festival
Pune, 7th to 12th May, 2007
Film and Television Institute of India is organising its Prabhat Film Festivalonce more. The festival will showcase works of student filmmakers across Asia. There will also be seminars and discussions on films by eminent theoreticians and film historians.
Apart from student film makers, professionals will also get a place here. The Festival Committee will make a space called Cine-shop available to film makers to promote, distribute and retail their films. The Cine-shop will have open air night screenings of selected films.
You have to arrange for your own travel and accommodation but the Festival Committee will guide and facilitate you to find accommodation. There are no registration charges, but each filmmaker is requested to donate two copies of his/her film to the video library of the FTII.
Come with lots of DVD copies of your films and get your fellow filmmakers along.
For queries please phone Deepti Khurana +91 9960562762 or Ramanuj Dutta +91 9823530109. Or mail them at mailcineshop@gmail.com.
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Make your travel plans for Kerala: ViBGYOR International Film Festival 2007
Celebrating Identities and Diversity
Thrissur, Kerala May 10-13
ViBGYOR Film Festival celebrates the vagaries of identity and the richness of its embodied diversity in the festival of short and documentary films held every year in Thrissur, Kerala. They invite filmmakers, activists and film lovers from every corner of the world to participate in this celebration of ideas, art, struggles and dreams.
The Second Edition of ViBGYOR will be held from 10th to 13th of May 2007. The four-day film festival invests not just in the banquet of films of value and sense but strive to make the event a rich visual and intellectual experience in interfacing with filmmakers, activists, peoples' movement leaders and academicians from as divergent streams of life and activities. The marked difference from the last year is the absence of a competition section. Instead, we are introducing the 'Festival to the People', creating an additional venue in a rural area near Thrissur town, where screenings and interactions with the filmmakers will be interspersed.
The ViBGYOR Package will have seven themes: Earth will be the theme for the Focus of the Year 2007. The festival will start with a national conference on the same theme. Additionally there will be Indigenous People, Dalit Reality, Gender & Sexuality, Fundamentalism v/s Diversity, Nation State, Globalization and Country/Region focus and seven films will be screened in each theme.
Apart from these, will be Short Fiction, Music Videos, Animations and Spots, Retrospectives and a Kerala Spectrum. The other features include Open Forum every day and a film market.
ViBGYOR-2007 is organized by Chetana Media Institute (Thrissur) along with Nottam (Cochin) GAIA (Thrissur), Abhivyakti (Nasik), Visual search (Bangalore) and Marupakkam (Madurai), with the support of Governmental and Non-Governmental institutions.
Contact them at vibgyorfest@gmail.com for further details.
Festival Director: K.P. Sasi, Executive Director: Fr. Benny Benedict
Joint Executive Director: K C Santhosh Kumar
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Moondance International Film Festival 2007
Call For Entries: May 1, 2007 Postmark Deadline
The Moondance International Film Festival, popularly known as the "American Cannes", is one of the premier venues for the exhibition and promotion of independent feature and short films in the US. Their tagline ― the movie is only the beginning! ―reflects theFestival's goal of presenting films and scripts which have the power to raise awareness about vital social issues, educating writers and filmmakers, as well as film festival audiences, and inspiring them to take positive action. They believe that through meaningful films, we begin to realise that our routine perspectives can give way to new ways of seeing the world, ourselves and others.
Applications are currently being accepted for the Moondance International Film Festival. Info, guidelines & entry forms are available on the website: www.moondancefilmfestival.com. You may also enter your project via their online submission service, Without a Box, at: www.withoutabox.com.
Check out the 2007 competition categories: animation & documentary films, feature & short films, feature & short screenplays, stageplays, libretti & short stories, film scores, and more on their website.
“Moondance believes in the unique power of the world entertainment media to create great social and environmental change. Our goal is to deliver compelling entertainment that will inspire and encourage people to actively get involved in the issues that affect all of us” says the festival website.
The long-term vision of the Moondance International Film Festival is to preserve and revitalise intangible human heritage, cultivate creative diversity, develop an intercultural dialogue, and stimulate this creative resource in screenwriting and film. Their mission is to present a vibrant and growing collection of films, screenplays, short stories, stageplays and other writings, which are an ideal means for communication across perceived boundaries of race, culture, age and gender.
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