FulMarxx Shorts Fest Ver 2.0 Announced
An announcement that might be useful for many of our friends:
FulMarxx Shorts Fest Ver 2.0 – India’s Largest Short Film Festival
After the stupendous success of the first edition, FulMarxx is back with FulMarxx Shorts Fest Ver 2.0, India’s Largest Short Film Festival. The second edition promises to be a magnificent extravaganza wherein films of more than 1,000 short filmmakers will be judged/reviewed by an esteemed 100-member jury panel, including Bollywood bigwigs, well know film critics & academicians, media journalists and entertainment entrepreneurs.
Why these awards?
Each year, numerous short films are made in India. The passion, the effort and the toil that goes into making a film is incredulous. But still these short films and filmmakers hardly get the recognition and honor they deserve. FSF 2.0, India’s first ever people choice short films award promises short filmmakers a never before platform to showcase their work.
Who’s involved?
FulMarxx is a “new model” integrated filmed entertainment company, with its wings spread across motion pictures, entertainment marketing, short films and film festival with robust worldwide distribution capabilities. FulMarxx was initially established as a short films company and successfully organized the FulMarxx Shorts Fest, which has bloomed into India’s largest short film festival.
Who should compete?
Anyone who makes short films, who has made a short film or who can make a short film
How are winners chosen?
Public votes and jury opinion.
The FulMarxx India’s Best Short Filmmaker will be decided on jury rating and number of votes.
What are the awards categories?
FulMarxx India’s Best Short Filmmaker Award for year 2008-09
FulMarxx Best Live Action Short Film
FulMarxx Best Documentary Short Film
FulMarxx Best Animated Short Film
FulMarxx Best Mobile Short Film
With cash prizes for all the specified categories, the highlight of FSF 2.0 is the grand prize for India’s Best Short Filmmaker, which will be a feature film contract from FulMarxx Motions Pictures, the upstart production house of FulMarxx.
See www.fulmarxxshortsfest.com for details.
Competition Design:
Phase 1 Phase 2
November 7, 2008- March 5, 2009
April 1, 2009 – April 26, 2009
Nominations begin Nov 7, 2008
Nominations close Mar 3, 2009
30 Shortlisted films and filmmakers profiled in various media.
Voting begins Dec 1, 2008
Voting closes Mar 20, 2009
FulMarxx Shorts Fest 2.0: theatrical screening of 30 shortlisted films: April 25-26, 2009
Expert Jury rate nominees
(Close Mar 25, 2009)
30 shortlisted films announced
(Mar 30, 2009)
Gala Award Ceremony:
April 26, 2009
Anurag Kashyap
Abhay Deol
Dibakar Banerjee
Hansal Mehta
Khalid Mohamed
Kundan Shah
Anish Kuruvilla
Jaideep Verma
Manish Gupta
Navdeep Singh
Bhavani Iyer
D. Santosh
Onir
Ashvin Kumar
Ramu Ramanathan
Sudhir Mishra
Pankaj Advani
Revathy
Saurabh Shukla
Shilpa Shukla
Sujoy Ghosh
Suparn Verma
Santosh Sivan
Shashank Ghosh
Shivajee
Pavan Kaul
Partho Sen-Gupta
Prroshant Naryannan
Sam Langoria
Satish Kasetty
checked the website. ‘Promote your Short Film’ looks innovative.
thanx for the info……….
looks promising.
@ organisers of fulmarxx : where can i see last year’s films?
@ Utpal Borpujari : Thanks for the post; We hope it would be useful for many of our friends at PFC.
@ Sagar : ‘Promote your Short Film section’ has been designed after a lot of thought process. We hope that the short filmmakers will make good use of the same to promote, publicize and get as much visibility as possible.
@Ashwin : You are very mmuch welcome. We hope to see a very good short film from you at the fest.
@ Piyush : We have started uploading nominated Short Films on the website from today. You can check them at http://www.fulmarxxshortsfest.com
Visit the Screening section of the site.
Cheers!
Priya, Team FulMarxx