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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?

PFC is the unique and elite community welcoming the best of writers, bloggers and filmmakers to blog, discuss, discover and promote ALL kinds of cinema; to discover or share their knowledge of cinema, its people and events; the bottomline – that all this is done to share and spread the fun, excitement and joy of cinema.

And that’s right on the mark of what PFC is structured to be. Keeping it simple and straight forward. The sole objective behind PFC is to share the passion – views, thoughts, reactions, discoveries, research on cinema across the globe, 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.

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How PFC Works?

There is a lot of time spent at the back end to see that PFC runs smoothly. Our operations, at present run with help of volunteers and donations from authors, readers, filmmakers and fans around the globe.

At PFC, we support only the highest standard of cinema blogging. Authors who do not maintain or continue to maintain a high standard of quality writing are requested to go back to the basics, submitting iViews again, until they get it right again. A quarterly review of ALL active authors is done to ensure PFC gives you only the best of bloggers.

Authors are absolutely free, to write whatever they want to, but they have to ensure that they give PFC readers, the fun, excitement, discovery, knowledge and above all engaging you, the reader, in their cine blogs.

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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 unique places where the hardcore movie fan and the maverick filmmaker come together to blog shoulder to shoulder. PFC offers you a serious platform to target your products and services. Click here to contact us with your promotion and advertising objectives and our client service team will work with you to help you achieve your goals on PFC.

Special Promotion Offer

Beginning May 23rd, 2009, we are offering a special promotion for advertisers on PFC. At 99cents a day you can run your campaigns and promotions on PFC via 125px x 125px buttons. Ads in this promotion will be featured on all author-post pages, above the line, for your products to instantly connect with the reader without scrolling the page. Click here to email us and please mention Special Promo 99 in the subject line. Please do mention the number of days you would like to run your ad. Your ads will be activated within 24 hours of your order confirmation.
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Open your PFC Blog

After 800 published iViews, and dozens of iViews sent to our editors each day via email, we are rolling over Projekt iView and upgrading it Level 1 Author program, to make it easier for you (and us) to blog on PFC!

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

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 elsewhere by giving due reference to PFC at the beginning of the article.

Can you write atleast one article a month? Do you rate yourself as an exceptional quality writer?

If you’ve answered “YES” to all the above questions, then – read on…

As a Level 1 Author, you will be able to write your own drafts and submit them for an editor review. If editors end up giving your draft-post a five star rating, your post will be published on on PFC. Based on your frequency of submissions and the number of drafts getting published on PFC, your blog posts are submitted to an exclusive Author approval committee that will review all your published posts on PFC. If the committee finds your posts exceptional quality and standard; and in line with PFC’s mission, your profile is upgraded to Club Author.

As a club author you are now free to write and publish your own posts.

Advantages of becoming a PFC Club Author

Exclusive membership to the PFC Club.

Invites to visit movie sets and meet movie makers for interviews, premieres, meetups, movie blogging and exclusive coverage for PFC.

PFC Contacts and PFC Network 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.

Please note before submitting your posts for review:

1. If you have attachments in your posts, they should only be pictures in JPG, GIF or PNG format. No zip or any other file extensions. Posts with any other file extensions will be deleted and not be read.

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 submitting 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 for review 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. If your article is not accepted, it will be deleted from the Review folder, so please make sure you have a copy of your submitted article.

If you agree to accept the above conditions, Click here to Register to become a Level 1 Author and start firing your PFC blog off your keyboards!

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