logo

iView Author:
MADHAV MATHUR (Singapore)

E-mail:
WITHHELD

Title - The Proverbial Break has landed

I am a stranger in my own life. Things around me are not the same. I believe I am experiencing what the elders call, euphoria.Most of you must be thinking something along the lines of “who the hell is this guy?”

My name is Madhav. I live and work in Singapore. By day I work in a bank and by night, I write and make films.

After the PFCOne competition, where we submitted a film called “Puddle Jumper”, I mustered all my courage and approached Anurag with my idea for a film. That’s right, I met Anurag through PFC. I have written a book and think that it would kick monumental butt as a movie. Fortunately Anurag feels the same way about it.

We discussed the idea through email at …

And it’s a wrap… but we have a few surprises… (besides announcing the winners) that will get you punching your next creative thoughts on your keyboard…

I’ll keep this short.

I would like to mention a few people here without whom this festival would have been absolutely impossible. Please do clap your desks as a token of appreciation for these wonderful wonderful people who worked days and nights until wee hours of the morning for absolutely no money but for the pure love for PFC. And if you have a project or a job for which you need some hardworking, creative and highly motivated people… your search ends here. Just click on the contact form and let us know.

The list has to begin with…

Phoenixnu (Bombay)
Without this guy, you would have never got to hear about this festival. It was he who engineered, monitored and got on and drove the publicity campaign for …

Day Four. The last day for showing movies received in this year’s festival. The fourth day was planned as a day off initially, where we would do some short movie premiere or something of that sort. But with a 124 movies, there was no way we could take a break. With around 31 movies shown each day for four days, we hope you’ve had a rocking time and it has been a learning experience for many of the students of cinema.

Tomorrow we move in to announce the winners of the PFCOne 2007 Festival…

Until then enjoy the movies published on this fourth day of the festival…!

6
by Pratik Patel
Getting to the 6th floor can be really tough sometimes

 

A Cell Line between Hate… and Love
by Sameer Ibrahim
The cell phone is a metaphor for the fluctuation of Alienation, love, …

Welcome to Day Three of PFCOne 2007… to give you an idea of what went behind the scenes to make this festival a success -

We began with 6 volunteers who worked their asses off, and another 6 who were called upon to help us at one time or the other.
An estimated total of over 200 hours went into the making of this festival.
More than 400 telephone calls, about half of them between the USA to India.
over 450 emails.
More than 20 leading publications in India supported this endeavour by putting PFCOne in their pages including two (or was it three?) television channels.
About 60 Gigs of hard drive was burnt up and about a dozen hosting firms’ heads were eaten up by us in trying to find the best possible solution for serving these videos in the limited budgets we had.

And in the end we have …

Welcome to Day Two of PFCOne 2007…

WOW!!! What a Day One we’ve had! Thank you so much!

This, for the filmmakers - Please do come forward and interact with the viewers. This is your festival… and your movie here, is being watched by a thousand in 24 hours and will be seen by thousand”s” in a few days… this is your moment… be proud of what you all have achieved!

Time to kick off Day Two… lets get this party rocking!!!

…Less
by Santosh Vasant Gujar
We are living with the less factor!

 

Antonyms
by Adesh Prasad
Problems, Adjustments, Complaints, Frustration and… Love.

 

Cacography
by Suraj Nair
Cacography symbolizes a form of expression whose state of existence is at peril.
…

Welcome to the first PFCOne Film Festival for one minute movies. This is day one of the festival and we present to you the first batch of movies. We made it! - the participants for taking up the challenge to make the movie, you for strongly supporting the festival and we for making it in the nick of time (you have no idea what happened behind the closed doors 12 hours ago :) ).

It was nice to see the fun the participants have had in making these movies. The utter joy of making these films off their mobile phone camera, their videocams, handicams and whatever cams they could get their hands on (some very professional cameras too!) - to get the movie they had inside them out for the world to see.

It’s now your time to see these wonderful creations, like them, dislike them, criticize them… but do take …

Congratulations to all the participants of the PFCOne Film Festival 2007. Thank you for taking up the challenge to make a one minute movie. Now it’s time to show them to the world. To the judges. And then wait… until December 5th, when the winners will be announced.

The festival starts on December 1st, 2007 when the movies are released for viewing on PFC.

Day 1, December 1, 2007

A Minute of Local Kung Fu by Kenny Basumatary
Tuppence worth of goodguy-vs-badguy kung-fu.

Ad Hominem by Ankur Pandey
“appealing to feelings or prejudices rather than intellect.”

After 8 Years by Nikhil Singh
We decided to meet in future and take the story forward, but jab we met, hum rahe na hum, tum rahe na tum.

Alice by Pawan Vishwakarma
u dont loose untill u stop trying.

Are you listening? by Aashish Chopra
Spoken word video on the Impact of HIV/AIDS in India.

Breaking News by Amit Ashok Gokhale
How crazy people are …

Update November, 18/2007

The window to accept submissions for the festival is now closed. The Festival itinerary will be put up by the end of the week.

End of Update

This post contains the list of incoming submissions received so far. The list will be updated with new entries regularly until November 15th which is when we close the submissions.

Good News! PFC on it’s first festival will show “all” entries that are submitted and fall under the requirements and guidelines listed. So there will be no filter this year, to choose and select films for the festival from the entire pool of submissions.

The following is a list of entries that have been received so far. If you have sent in your entry and do not see it in this list, please resend your movie, as we have not received it. This list will be updated every few days. Please remember the …

Update November 14, 2007

PFCOne Submission Deadline Extended

Due to the last minute rush of submissions, it has become extremely difficult for us to cope with the huge pile of submissions that have come in the last 24 hours. As a result, we are extending the Last date of submitting your film for PFCOne Festival to November 18th, Sunday until 10pm (Pacific Time, which equates to 11:30am Nov. 19th, Monday in India)

Update October 5/2007:

Due to many requests, we have modified the original condition of sending your movie by email only. You can now upload your movie on a file uploading website and send us the link in the Submission Form.

End of Update.

===========================================================

On the occasion of PFC’s One year anniversary celebrations and Anurag’s birthday, we are proud to announce PFC’s first exclusive completely online film festival for One Minute Movies… PFCOne…

To encourage the filmmaker in each one of you, PFCOne is our …