INDIAN DOCUMENTARY PRODUCERS’ ASSOCIATION
IDPA UPDATE June 28th 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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International Young Film Entrepreneur of the Year award
Are you a creative entrepreneur between 25 and 35 years and working in the film industry? If yes, then this might be your chance to tour the UK film industry and win a financial award of £7,500.
To find out more on International Young Film Entrepreneur of the Year (IYFEY) award contact Rwituja Mookherjee at rwituja.mookherjee@in.britishcouncil.org
Last date to submit the application: 6 July 2007
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Swaralaya International Film Festival 2007
The 4th Swaralaya International Film Festival 2007 will be conducted at Palakkad from 3rd to 9th of August 2007. The festival is dedicated to illustrious producer, director, lyricist and poet late P Bhaskaran.
The Swaralaya Documentary Award, a competition for documentaries with prize money of Rs 10,000 for the producer and Rs 5, 000 for the director has been announced. There will be a similar competition for telefilms called the Swaralaya Telefilm award. The awards will be presented at the valedictory function of
the festival on 9th of August 2007.
This is a call for entries to the competition. Your entry in DVD format only, may please be sent to T R Ajayan Secretary, Swaralaya, Harisankar Road, Tharekkad, Palakkad 678 001 (Phone: 0491 2880218) with a demand draft of Rs 500 per entry drawn in favour of Swaralaya Palakkad drawn on any Bank at Palakkad so as to reach the office on or before 15th of July, 2007.
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One Billion Eyes 2007 Indian Documentary Film Festival
The Prakriti Foundation, Chennai
in association with
Alliance Francaise, Chennai
Caste
One Billion Eyes, the annual Indian documentary film festival organised by the Prakriti Foundation, Chennai, is in its third year. This year's theme is Caste. The theme for 2005 was 'Arts, Activism, Animals', and for 2006 it was 'Our Cities: the Real and the Imagined'.
This festival—juxtaposing screenings with literary readings, panel discussions and interventions from the audience—will seek to broaden the contours of the discourse on caste. Besides filmmakers and their films, it will feature poets, activists, students, victims, agent provocateurs, academicians, and of course a panel of judicious and judgmental but jolly judges who will decide on the best film for a prize of Rs 25,000.
We hope to have a wide range of caste subjects to choose from for this festival. And if this note makes you think afresh on caste, there's time to make a quick short and submit it by 15 July. Broad areas/themes where submissions are encouraged vis-à-vis caste are:
Advertisements, Apartheid, Atrocities, Arts, Bureaucracy, Class, Communalism, Cinema, Culture, Education, Environment, Fashion, Food, Gender, Geography, Healthcare, Labour, Media, Nationalism, Natural Disasters, Occupation, Race, Religion, Reservation, Science & Technology, Sports, Touchability, Untouchability, Violence, Xenophobia.
The entry form is available on our website www.abillioneyes.com
Key Dates:
Last date for entries: 15 July 2007
Festival dates: 15 to 19 August 2007
Selected list of films and detailed programme list will be circulated by 25 July.
Preferred entry format: DVDs/ VCDs
For further details contact abillioneyes@gmail.com or anand.navayana@gmail.com
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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: EMERGING INDIAN AND INDIAN DIASPORA FILMMAKERS
DC MEETS DELHI FESTIVAL: September 6-12, 2007
University of the District of Columbia, Washington DC
www.udc.edu/films
Features, shorts, animation, experimental, docudrama, music videos and creative new formats on any subject.
To submit a film: Send a DVD (all regions or region 1) or tape (NTSC DVCam, Beta, Digibeta, VHS) with completed submission form (NTSC preferred, PAL accepted). The label must list: film title, running time and contact information.
All films must have been completed after January 1, 2003.
All non-English entries must be in their original language with English subtitles.
This is not a competitive category and there is no submission fee. You can send more than one film.
DEADLINE JULY 20, 2007.
Send to: DC Meets Delhi, University Relations, University of the District of Columbia, 4200 Connecticut Avenue NW, Washington D.C. 20008.
Submission Forms Available at Festival Website: http://www.udc.edu/dcmd/
For further information on the festival, contact: devans-pritchard@udc.edu
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International Film Festival of women directors
by Koodu at Madurai in August 2007
Koodu is a women's organisation consisting of women from various walks of life: working women in government, private sector and NGOs, advocates, doctors and homemakers, interested in reading. We meet at Gandhi Museum every month and review books of literary and social content. The forum provides an opportunity to discuss women’s issues and strives for gender sensitisation of the public.
Koodu is conducting an International Film Festival of women directors at Madurai. We are collecting feature films; documentary and short films of various languages and different countries directed by women and are planning to screen them during the first week of August 2007. The films will be shown free of cost and the festival is open to the public.
We request women directors to kindly send their films for our festival. Also other friends having films made by women directors may please send them. Once the dates and venue are fixed we will post a formal invitation to you. This is our first attempt. We will be grateful to you friends if you could extend helping hand.
Salai Selvam, Coordinator, Koodu
C/o Email: Amudhan Ramalingam Pushpam <amudhanrp@yahoo.com>
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The Golden Elephant – 15
International Children’s Film Festival of India
November 14-20, 2007 – Hyderabad
Entry / Registration of films:
The official entry / registration form must be filled in clearly, signed. The Festival Regulations, Entry From and Accreditation Form you access the same from our website www.cfsindia.org. In case you need any further information or any clarification.
Please Contact us on below address:
The Festival Directorate,
The Golden Elephant – 15,
The International Children’s Film Festival, India
Children’s Film Society, India
Films Division Complex
24 Dr. G. Deshmukh Marg,
Mumbai – 400 026
Tel: 2352 1120 / 2351 6136
Email: cfsi@cfsindia.org
Web: www.cfsindia.org
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Asian Film Festival in Berlin (Asian Hot Shots Berlin)
16th - 22nd January 2008
I am one of the founders and organizers of a new (the) Asian Film Festival in Berlin (Asian Hot Shots Berlin), which will take place for the first time in January 2008 (16 to 22). I am also responsible for the India section.
ASIAN HOT SHOTS BERLIN is a platform for the independent Asian film makers to introduce themselves and their films in Germany/ Europe, as well as to trigger off an interaction with their German/ European counterparts.
We also want to create opportunities for the film makers and students of Asia and Germany to come closer and jointly explore their present handicaps and future prospects through workshops and a special section in the festival for screening their works. Furthermore ASIAN HOT SHOTS BERLIN seeks to create a better link between the film distributors at both ends, ensuring a steady and prolonged marketing of Asian independent films and TV productions as well.
ASIAN HOT SHOTS BERLIN is a Film Festival accompanied by socio-cultural events such as workshops, seminars, panel discussions and cultural programmes. The element of promoting human relations and inter-cultural dialogue, imbibed in the spirit of the festival, should enjoy the same aesthetic value as that of the promotion of Asian films and their makers.
The call for entry formular is available online, along with the submission regulations: www.asianhotshotsfestival.com
if you have any questions please contact under:
tina@asianhotshotsfestival.com
Tina Lange
Tel.: +49-30-4431-8491
Mobile: +49-163-9044-719
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