PFCOne 2008 : The Competitive Section
Here’s the list of the entries selected for the competitive section. The PFCOne Jury will select their choice of winners from this section and the winners will be announced on Dec 5, 2008.
All Competitive and Non-Competitive entries will be shown on PFC from Dec 1 to Dec 5 2008. The Schedule for the festival will be published in a few hours.
I was simply blown away by many movies and the way they told their stories. This year is going to be a very very tough one for the PFCOne Jury.
We made some tough calls this year. Out of 140 entries received we returned submissions that were incomplete or did not follow the PFCOne rules. But there was one rule we relaxed… again (darn!)… the one minute… the quality of stories in these films was so good, that we let go of a few seconds for all movies. And like last year, I make a promise to myself again… that I’ll be strict next year (well lets see!)
Without taking anymore space, here’s the list of films that made it to the Prized Cut – The Competitive Section.
The Competitive Section
Entries are listed in no particular order
Auto Madar#*@d by Vasan Bala (Mumbai, India)
A contract killer is getting late for a kill. He is not getting an auto.
An Accident by Safat Ali (Jodhpur, India)
A story of retribution from beyond the grave.
The Anniversary by Karthik Srinivasan (Washington DC, USA)
For them, it was more than just a date.
Chipak Gaya by Kenny Basumatary (Mumbai, India)
A horrifying comedy about a hand that gets stuck
Condom by Amit Tiwari (Delhi, India)
There is No Vacancy for him in an over-populated world.
Control Free-k by Biju Gangadharan (Bangalore, India)
This 60 seconds talks about what we see in married men today
Deja Vu, Deja Vu by Tarvinder Singh (Mumbai, India)
A sequence, that may not be as simple as it seems
Gloomy Sunday by Tarun Singhal (New Delhi, India)
A man is shattered and confused to confess his tale of infidelity in front of his wife
Goal by Amey Mone (Mumbai, India)
A boy is being helped to play the game of life.
Koga cant save you always by Himanshu Bhatnagar (Pune, India)
yet another movie on enviornmental issues but KOGA makes it worth watching
Nymph by Safat Ali (Jodhpur, India)
Still life with mannequins
Post Its by Shilpa Krishnan Shukla (Singapore)
A sense of duty to his family makes a man overlook his frustrations at work
Senses of an Incense by Sandeep.V (Bengaluru, India)
It is a story of an incense that like its types was anxious about its destiny
Small World by Tony Fernandes (Pune, India)
Based on the thought: Its a small world
Sobre la Hierba (Lie on the grass) by Carlos Aravena (Santiago, Chile)
A man lies peacefully on the grass
The Easiest Way by Tony Fernandes (Pune, India)
A jobless man wants to end his life, but is scared to do so until
There will be Blood by Avadhoot Khanolkar (Mumbai, India)
A couple arguing weather to do it or not
Trailer by Safat Ali (Jodhpur, India)
Trailer for a horror/suspense movie – coming soon!
Without Cheese by Gajendra S. Shrotriya (Jaipur, India)
A young boy inadvertently provides a waitress an opportunity to introspect
The Shining by K Adeep (Trivandrum, India)
A very late night at the office
The Raven by Shekhar Shimpi (Pune, India)
Inspired by Edgar Allan Poes poem of the same title
Snapshot by Constantin Radu Vasile (Valenii de Munte, Romania)
The creative work is beyond the artist and his thoughts
Johnny, come out and play by Madhav Mathur (Singapore)
We’re losing our Johnny, sadly
Naturaleza Muerta (Still Life) by Benjamin Lee Gordon (Barcelona, Spain)
On an early morning walk in Crete, a moment of stark beauty unfolds
Lets Get Physical by Vikas Kumar (Delhi, India)
His is a love story he isnt sure ever happened
Destination by Shilpa Krishnan Shukla (Singapore)
When the destination that we seek is not the destination that we reach…
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
lots of thanks to jury for choosing my movies……greatful…
Thanks for including me too. Hate to be a prick, but the one-line description for my film should be “We’re losing our Johnny, sadly”.
congratulations Safat… but you have some PRETTY TOUGH competition this year
All the best!
Madhav, corrected.
Thanks Oz!
Thanks a ton Oz and rest at PFC for selecting my film for competition!!! Can’t tell you how i’ve been waiting for this for the last two days, refreshing PFC site every five minutes and checking Pacific standard time on the internet.
Can’t believe my film will be seen by people i idolise!!
How this film got made can in itself be the story for another film, but i guess that story doesn’t deserve to be told unless my film is good enough for a win!
thanks again guys!
Thanks jury for putting me in this league.
All the best to all the entries, but remember KOGA is watching you all.
cheers
thanks oz…it good that the competition is pretty tough..
…it will be chellenging and good for our improvement…for next year…
Congratulations all! Waiting for Dec 1
best of luck you guys. guess i will have to work harder the next time around.
Hi All,
Congrats to all the makers who have entered in the competitive section and would wish the best win.
This is for the organizers, if you can take some time off and provide your review comments personally (via email) or in the blog itself to the films which were not selected for the competitive section then this would be a great learning for all to improve.
Just a suggestion, as I am curious to know what went wrong with our work; as all might be who are in non-competitive section.
Regards,
Suraj Nair
(FilmMaker – Positive Poles)
How does this work? I mean, don’t we all get to see the films? Not aware of the details hence asked…
congrats all the finalists! and good luck!!
@arti,
all movies will be available for viewing. but just this list will be running for the prizes.
:( ,fuck , i did a real shoddy job this time, lack of time in my life,but tried to get my idea across- feeling sad that i am not on the list.
best of luck to all those competing.
i waited so long for this D day ,but i didnt made it.no probs! congrats all the finalists.
Congratulations all!
& all the best !!
What a bummer. This year my film was so much better than last year. Tells me how much better the ones selected are likely to be.
Lage Raho Munnabhai. Dilli ab door hai.
Best of luck to all in the competitive section.
-n
Oz & Team,
Any chance one of you could provide some feedback on some of the films that did not make it. That would be very enlightening. If not thats fine, hopefully we will get some from PFC viewers in december.
thx
keep the focus deepblue..
n u might just get everythin right next time around
Thanks PFC Bhailog!!!
very eager to watch all the movies!!!
Wah wah…congrats to one and all…well done guys…
Bherry Bherry excited to see these names here…Safat has got all three of his entries selected? Dude…great job..congrats…hopefully working with Onir has helped you this year…
Congratulations to all who made it……. Let the best film win.
We all will have a ball for those 5 days am sure! Let the most creative voice win! Best of luck to all.
@om bhai,thx..u r right..yaar puri film ka pre production dekha..fir india me jitni bhi shooting hui usme kaam kiya..onir se bahut kuch sikha he..
oz bhai,…festival ka schedule kab publised kar rahe ho…?
Chuck, i missed the bus it seems. will try harder next time. Dunno y, but i think Auto M*&^%$#@# will win. Well, whatever, i say again – MAY THE BEST 1 WIN!
Congraz to everybody, got selected for competitive section…and special congo for the director of Auto Madar- Mr.Vasan Bala….i feel this time it would be defintly very intersting to watch all the movies.
It’s just a catchy name I think…..donno maybe you all change your mind after watching it
had fun while shooting, editing and dubbing for it for sure…..hope you have some while watching it….
Kabir – how are you? where are you? wake up sid????
Dear Oz,
I was also expecting to see wandering souls in the competitve section…was just curious to know where it failed , so that i can improve next time, if i may be allowed to ask…
warm regards
Amit Tiwari