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FILMBOOTH – Emerging Short film festival Launched – Call for Entries

iView Author: ForumForFilms (Delhi, India)

Email: contact@filmbooth.in

Big on ideas but SHORT IN LENGTH – the new world of Short Films

The storyteller in you is awaiting a chance – a chance to turn an experience into a story, a chance to see a story turn into a film and capture a myriad of human expressions in the process. Filmmakers – pack your bags, grab your cameras, tie your shoelaces and just get out there. If you have the intent there is a story waiting to be captured at every step.

This is your chance to win exciting prizes, interact with film experts and show your artistic creation to a large audience.

FORUMFORFILMS* brings …

iView Author: Gajendra S Shrotriya (Jaipur, India)

Email: gshrotriya [at] yahoo [dot] com

Dilemma for a first timer

To write something for PFC always confuses me on what to write about. May be it is a universal issue. Besides, for quite some time, I have been partly occupied with some of my business engagements and some what with my scripts. Even the film for PFCOne (Without Cheese) was made with lots of inputs from my thirteen year old son, I being responsible for camera and editing. He however, uploaded it under my name but most of the credit should go to him.

Further, I am not a great cinema expert, who would keep track of every film that gets released by Hollywood or Bollywood or other cinema producing regions and write about them. Nor do I know …

Update: To honor and respect the victims of terrorism in Mumbai on Nov 26th, we are postponing PFCOne 2008 to January 5, 2009. Below are the new dates… End Update

Here’s the schedule for PFCOne 2008. All movies that we’ve accepted in the festival will be shown on PFC as per the schedule below.

Based on the comments received in the Competitive section announcement, I would like to mention that it is not important whether your film made it to the competitive section or not. What is important is that you made a movie. And this festival is to support your endeavor.

The objective of PFCOne is not how technically sound your movie is, but to encourage you to make a movie and keep making it till you find your way in the competitive section. The focus is to hear your story, your thoughts and how you conveyed your thoughts via the …

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!)… …

… and the 5 day schedule…

Will be released in 24 hours…

iView Author: Sulakshana Biswas (Kolkata, India)

Email: pottermaniac143 [at] gmail [dot] com

The second day of the Kolkata Film Festival had even more impressive films lined up. A few of them which I saw:

The Awakening(2007)

Director: Stanislav Lebedev

Language: Russian

The tale of growing up was always a tremendous stimulus for filmmakers to capture the most beautiful phase of life, in their signature mise-en-scene format. Stanislav Lebedev, in his directorial debut, unerringly maps the palpable energy that the pulsating vibrancy of adolescence offers. Amazing performances by Yuri Kuznetsov, Valya Zeyfer and Era Ziganshina make the brilliantly scripted film so real. The nuances are so deceptively simple, so much like the emotions at adolescence. Lovely film. Fell in love with it.

Time (2006)

Director: Kim Ki Duk

Language: Korean

Pretension…something that makes or breaks relationships, is …

iView Author: Sulakshana Biswas (Kolkata, India)

Email: pottermaniac143 [at] gmail [dot] com

The 14th Kolkata Film Festival threw open its doors to the general public on 11th November, 2008. Out of the many films that were shown, these are a few of them which I managed to see.

1. My Uncle(1958)

Director: Jacques Tati

Language: French

How do you explain watching a movie in an alien language without any subtitles, and yet enjoying it thoroughly….well either that film has to be a Chaplin classic or it has to be something like Jacques Tati’s My Uncle. Jacques Tati, as the quintessential common man of the sub-urbs, in a fish-out-of water situation, while dwelling with his rich urbane, modern and disturbingly perfect brother, does not even come as a patch on Chaplin portrayal of the …

iView Author: Amanda Sodhi (Washington DC, USA)

Email: amandasodhi [at] gmail [dot] com

Getting Ready to Rock On!! at Indian Visions

A few weeks back, I had done a brief posting about Indian Visions: The Indian Film Festival of Washington, DC. The film festival is taking place from November 13 through November 16 at the Phoenix Adlabs Theaters at Union Station (I hope all you PFCians in the DC area attend).

Over the past few months, I have been working as Program Coordinator of the Indian Visions, which happens to be my first experience with organizing film festivals. I must say it has been quite an insightful, exciting and memorable experience.

After sending out what seemed like infinite requests for screeners and actually hearing back from a fraction of the people contacted, we have finally narrowed …

This is an announcement that I received. Might be useful for filmmaker friends:

INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION (Asian)

§ Country of production: Asian countries

§ Short films (Fictionalized or Experimental, up to 25 minutes in duration)

§ Documentaries (Non-Fictional works up to 25 minutes in duration)

§ animated work up to 10 minutes in duration

§ English subtitles must be prepared for preview copies.

NATIONAL COMPETITION

§ Sri Lankan productions.

§ Short films (Fictionalized or Experimental, up to 25 minutes in duration)

§ Documentaries (Non-Fictional works up to 25 minutes in duration)

§ animated work up to 10 minutes in duration

§ English subtitles must be prepared for preview copies.

Age limit of …

Update (Oct 2, 2008) : Participating submissions are being recorded in this list here.

YEAR 2, and “One” is back!!! We are proud to announce the Call for Entries for PFCOne 2008, PFC’s pioneered Online Film Festival for One Minute Movies!!!

The first year was quite a knockout. We never expected that we would get over a 150 entries. This year it gets bigger and better and we hope to see another huge wave of talent at the festival… because the festival is about you. The mission of PFCOne is to encourage the filmmaker in each one of you, PFCOne is our attempt to motivate you to get up and shoot your movie that you’ve been dreaming about for so long.

The Festival
From December 1st to December 5th …

I was surprised the other day when I came upon a headline in the New Indian Express (Chennai edition dated Saturday May 17 2008 11:48 IST) which said ‘Cannes honour for Billa’.
It said “A year after Veyil, the Tamil movie directed by Vasantha Balan, was officially nominated to the Cannes Film Festival; yet another Tamil movie makes it to the Mecca of movie makers.” (Veyvil was in Cinema du Monde, a special side attraction at the festival last year)
Wow! that’s fantastic, I thought, it must have been a last minute addition as I had gone through the official list of this year’s selection and seen no sign of a film from India.
“A superhit film in India already, Billa will now earn international acclaim by being screened at the prestigious Cannes Film Festival as well. It will be screened …