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How the movement started?

PFC was started when we started losing count of the number of readers on our own blogs, who were equally passionate about cinema. From software engineers to office accountants, from Australia to India to Netherlands to the U.S., they all were bound together by one common passion, that one common thing that excited them sky high… cinema.

PFC is a passionate attempt to bring together all movie fanatics, cine lovers and those who eat, breathe and drink cinema. You could discuss an event, a cine personality, review a movie, publish a scoop or a highly opinionated view or perhaps you would like to share your knowledge about the medium… it’s all here at one place… passionforcinema… Enjoy and spread the good word! [back to top]

What’s our mission?

The first objective is to keep it “Open Source”… a term commonly used in the Software community. An author on PFC rightly encompassed my vision of Open Source by sending me once a snap shot of Open Source she found on the web, as follows:

1. Whoever comes are the right people
2. Whatever happens is the only thing that could happen
3. Whenever it starts it is the right time
4. When it’s over… it is over

And that’s right on the mark of what PFC is structured to be. Keeping it simple and straight forward.
The entire idea behind PFC was to share the passion - views, thoughts, reactions on World cinema, without any barriers, without any boundaries.

But the chain reaction is something we never envisioned…

People started noticing. We ended up with the first of its kind MovieBlogging - blogging right off the movie sets. Commenters and Authors started getting noticed by people from the movie industries. PFC has become instrumental in providing work in the movie business to more than a few dozen highly talented people who write on PFC as authors or commenters. It has grown beyond simply being a medium to share and interact. It has grown to become a highly powerful networking tool. Producers, Directors, Writers established in the movie industry now come on PFC to interact directly with the next generation of highly creative people. We are now being called in to present movies… If any of our authors love a movie big or small, then we present them wherever possible. Missed Call was presented by us at the Indian Film Festival in Los Angeles while Confessions of a Filmmaker we are presenting on the internet.

What new avenues will we touch? Who knows. The focus hence for us is to keep PFC the open platform it is. Nothing more. Nothing Less. [back to top]

How PFC Works?

There is a lot of time spent at the back end to see that PFC runs smoothly. To submit articles, one has to be either an author on PFC or send their articles through Projekt iView. Besides there are tons of comments that are poured on to PFC’s pages by movie fans the world over. To see that the pages are clean and not hijacked by spam, web-bullying, personal attacks and unwarrented advertisements - we have a few volunteers who act as editors on PFC. These editors purely do it for he passion, taking time off their regular day jobs to help PFC be clean and kicking forward.

Besides there’s always oz, who you can expect to be checking all the techie things that go into running PFC at the back, and the articles and comments in the front. We think he hasn’t slept ever since PFC took birth. [back to top]

Media Mentions

Leading Television channels, newspapers and magazines now carry PFC articles or write about PassionForCinema. Some of the media outlets include CNN-IBN, Mumbai Mirror, Mid-day, Hindustan Times, The Week among many others. A list of the links and/or dates of publication are being collected and will be listed in this section very shortly. [back to top]

Advertise on Passion For Cinema

PFC is one of the best places for the serious movie addict, for you to advertise your product. With over 10,000 page hits at the minimum a day, many posts receiving over 20,000 views, top listing in Google search and constant mention by celebrities about us in the media, PFC is an ideal location for you to aggressively advertise your products. Contact us today to send us details of plans and we’ll give some of the most competitive rates on the net. [back to top]

Write For PFC

Are you passionate about cinema?

We are looking for cinema fanatics from South America, Europe, China, Korea, Japan, India and many more places around the world to write their passion for movies.

Who you are:

Do you itch to voice your opinion, view or knowledge when you see a movie, read a review or hear the latest gossip or news related to cinema.

Do you immediately recite the name of the movie and the cast and credits as soon as you see a 2 second shot of the movie?

Do friends and family most of times come to you for the name and details of a movie seen years ago, that they don’t seem to remember?

Do you usually end up seeing a whole lot of stuff in a movie that the average movie goer missed?

Do you see a wide range of movies from different regions and languages?

Can you talk as easily about cine-personalities, cinema events, cine-philosophy besides the movies themselves?

Can you agree to write only original articles not published anywhere (not even your own site) before it is published on PFC? You can republish your articles on PFC elsewhere by giving due reference to PFC at the beginning of the article.

Can you write atleast one article a month?

How to become a PFC Club Author

You’ve answered “YES” to all the above questions, there are three options :

Option One

You are from the media, movie business or associated with the entertainment industry. Then please use the Contact form to send us your details and we’ll set your account right away as soon as we can.

OR

Option Two

You need to provide a reference of an existing PFC Author, who recommends you to PFC. Simply click on the Contact Us link and we’ll have your account set up asap as soon as we can.

OR

Option Three

If you don’t know any existing PFC Author or are in no way working in/with the entertainment or media industry… worry not… most of the existing PFC Authors received their membership via Option Three… namely…

Write your articles and submit it via Projekt iView… based on the number of articles you get successfully published and the frequency with which you submit your articles… we’ll send you an invitation to join us as a PFC Club Author. So go ahead and click the Projekt iView link and start sending us your articles or pictures.

Other Responsibilities (we call them benefits) of becoming a PFC Club Author

Exclusive membership to the PFC Club. (we can’t reveal the details about this ;) ;) )

Requests to visit movie sets and meet movie makers for interviews, movie blogging and exclusive coverage for PFC.

PFC Contacts and news for your use to make connections and take advantage of in terms of experience, meeting your cine idols, and creating your own opportunities for jobs/projects. [back to top]

UC UWrite

Are you a Certified Cinema Fanatic, who likes to express and write about cinema, frequently or once in a blue moon?

Did you attend a movie premiere, bumped into film professionals, attended a film party?

Would you like to become a PFC author or simply write on PFC once in a while?

Here’s your chance to flex your writing or photography muscles and get published on PFC.

Projekt iView invites you, the cinephile, to send in your articles and pictures to be published on PFC. Your content can be anything related to cinema - a review, an opinion, an angry reaction, your picture with a cine personality along with a brief writeup of the encounter… but your sent in material (articles, photographs, videos) should be completely original and should not have been published elsewhere, including any sites or mediums you may own or be associated with. You are free to publish you articles at other places with the credit given to PFC as : Originally published on PassionForCinema.com with a link to the original article published on PFC. You may publish your sent article at other sources without giving PFC any credit if - Your material is not published within 5 days from the date of your sent email with your article, pictures, videos attached to us.

We will review and publish your article only if it is ABSOLUTELY INTERESTING and rated 5 out of 5 stars by our editors on PFC.

Shoot in your details in EXACTLY the following format… we won’t be entertaining those emails which don’t have the required format. Please note that all fields are REQUIRED.

Please note:

1. If you have attachments in your email, they should only be pictures in JPG format. No zip or any other file extensions. Emails with any other file extensions will be deleted and not be read. We prefer your sent pictures to not be more than 450 pixel in width.

2. All Non-English articles should also come with English translations of the same. The English translation can be pasted below your original original article titled “English Translation”. At this time we are unable to accept Non-English articles that do not come with English translations.

3. By emailing your article to PFC you agree to let PFC publish or not publish the article. Any requests from your end after the publication of your article, that require any changes, modifications, additions or deletions are at the discretion of PFC and it’s editors.

4. By submitting your article you confirm that your article is original and has not been published anywhere, in online or print, and you’ve provided due references to any source for any part in your article that in part or full, refers to any print or online material.

5. Please give us 5 - 7 days to publish your article. We are sorry, but we won’t be able to inform you back in case your article is not accepted.

6. A letter of invitation to join the PFC Authors’ Club will be sent to you based on the frequency of your sent materials and based on how many of your material gets published on PFC under Projekt iView. [back to top]