INDIAN DOCUMENTARY PRODUCERS’ ASSOCIATION
IDPA UPDATE August 6th 2007
223, Famous Cine Building, 20 Dr. E. Moses Road, Mahalaxmi, Mumbai 400 001
Tel: 24920757, 2496 1020
e-mail : idpaindia@gmail.com
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VATAVARAN- Environment and Wildlife Film Festival
12 to 16 September 2007
At the India Habitat Centre, New Delhi
Get involved with India's biggest environment and wildlife documentaries extravaganza, India's one and only such competitive festival 4th CMS VATAVARAN- Environment and Wildlife Film Festival slated for from 12 to 16 September 2007 at the India Habitat Centre, New Delhi. The Festival is organized by CMS, a premier research and advocacy organization.
4th CMS VATAVARAN this year offers wide array of awards, programmes and participation. The main attractions of the Festival are:
Screenings
Best of Indian and International Films
Retrospectives
Panorama of internationally acclaimed films on climate change, theme of the festival
Workshops and Technical Sessions
Campaign Films for Advocacy
Filming Wildlife
Art of Creative Story Telling for Environmental Films
Eco-rating - Towards Greening Schools
Animation for Conservation
Craft of Nature Photography
International Summit
Coping with Climate Change and Solutions in the 21st Century
Panel Discussions
Netting the Future: Film Festivals through You Tube and Google Videos
Framing Policies for Wildlife Filming in Protected Areas
Conservation and Livelihood
Films for Campaigns and Advocacy
Plus other features: Seminar, Rivers Flushed, Open Forums, Indian Filmmakers and International Filmmakers, Festival Directors of International Film Festivals, Expert Talks, Filmmakers, Conservationists, Environmentalist, Exhibits, Techno Mart, Film Bazaar, Photography Exhibition
In short, the festival would ensure something for everybody!
For further queries, please mail: Alka Tomar, Festival Director
(vatavaran@cmsindia.org) with subject line CMS VATAVARAN DELEGATE REGISTRATION or call 91-11-24992597, 9899979165.
Log on to www.cmsvatavaran.org for more details.
CMS VATAVARAN Film Festival Directorate
CMS, RESEARCH HOUSE
Saket Community Centre, New Delhi 110 017, India
P: 91-11-24992597 (D), 26522244/ 55 F: 91-11-2696 8282,
E: vatavaran@cmsindia.org info@cmsvatavaran.org
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Filmaka India
After the success of its contests worldwide Filmaka.com comes to India with their India centered website Filmaka.in. Focused at film makers and film students across India the website runs monthly film contests accepting three minute films on a particular topic every month only in South Asian languages except English.
With a jury consisting of Farhan Akhtar, Shabana Azmi, Rahul Bose, Vishal Bhardwaj, Ashutosh Gowarikar, Anil Kapoor, Anupam Kher, Deepak Nayar , Naseeruddin Shah, Uday Singh and Santosh Sivan, Filmaka.in is the right place for struggling film makers to prove their skills to the people who can make it happen.
Filmaka.in will make a feature film with the winner of the final contest and award a cash prize of Rs 11 lakhs to the Runner up.
At the Entry level, 17 winners every month get a Rs 10,000 cash prize and Rs 20,000 more to make another film for Jury level. At the jury level they are judged by our award winning Jury. The winner and runner up of the jury level get Rs 50,000 and Rs 25,000 cash prize. All the winners and runner ups of the monthly jury level contests compete in the Final contest for the feature film contract.
Launched by Hollywood based Producer Deepak Nayar of Bend It like Beckham and Bride and Prejudice (Balle Balle Amritsar to L.A) fame, this is a venture to give a platform to struggling film makers to reach out to big production houses.
The topic for this month’s contest is “Neighbors”: Submissions close 30 August 2007.
For more info please check www.filmaka.in
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The Verzio International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival
6th to 11th November 2007
In Budapest, Hungary
The Verzio International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival will be held from 6th to 11th November 2007 in Budapest, Hungary. It’s a competitive festival with total prize money of 1000 USD. Documentary films on human rights and human conditions made in any format, of any duration, in any language with English sub-titles are eligible for the competition.
There is no entry fee.
Deadline for sending the entry is 31st August 2007.
Submission details available online at: http://www.verzio.ceu.hu
For any further details, intending participants may contact with my reference to:
Andrea Csanadi, Senior Program Manager,
Arts and Culture Network Program,
Open Society Institute Budapest,
H-1051 Budapest, Oktober 6. utca 12.
Hungary
Phone: +36 1 3273100, Fax: +36 1 3273121
Website: www.soros.org
E-mail: verziofilmfest@ceu.hu
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Chutni TV seeks films from or about South Asia
Chutni TV seeks films from South Asia or about South Asia that offer "cross over" appeal for worldwide distribution across all territories. We are interested in films mainly in English but are open to films in other languages if they have a compelling storyline with universal appeal and high production value. Our focus is predominantly on narratives of feature length and short films but we are also open to documentaries.
Full details at http://www.sajaforum.org/2007/07/film-chutni-tv-.html
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