Friday, September 23, 2011
The 4th ‘Cut.In’ Students Film Festival
The 4th ‘Cut.In’ Students Film Festival will be held as a part of
“Resonance“ at Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai on the 21st
and 22nd December 2011.
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The festival is being organized by the Centre for Media and Cultural
Studies (CMCS), Tata Institute of Social Sciences. This year Cut.In is
organized as a part of “Resonance” as the institute is celebrating
its platinum jubilee. CMCS is an independent centre of Tata
Institute of Social Sciences, engaged in media teaching, production,
research and dissemination. Currently the Centre runs a two-year
Masters degree in Media and Cultural Studies focusing on professional
media practice and research within a framework that enables the
development of a critical perspective on media, culture and society.
It seeks to enable the creation of a lively group of thinking doers
and doing thinkers.
Entries are invited for the following categories:
a) Documentary (under 45 min)
b) Short fiction (under 45 min)
c) Public Service Message (Under 2 min)
The festival will feature works by graduate/postgraduate/diploma
students all over the country and other interested international
students selected by a panel of judges.
Two prizes will be given in each category.
The prize consists of a trophy and a citation.
In addition there are prizes for Best Cinematography, Editing and Sound
Design.
For any queries please write to : cmcs.cutin@gmail.com
Also for any other specific queries please contact:
Shweta – 07709520655
Vikram – 09920147057
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K.P. Jayasankar, Ph.D., Professor
Centre for Media and Cultural Studies
Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Deonar, Mumbai 400 088, India
Phone: +91 22 2552 5660(Work)
Fax: +91 22 2552 5050 e-mail: kpj[AT]tiss[DOT]edu
URLs: www.cmcs.tiss.edu
Wednesday, September 21, 2011
The 2nd Siliguri International Short & Documentary Film Festival
The 2nd Siliguri International Short & Documentary Film Festival is scheduled to be held on 12th and 13th November 2011 at Siliguri, the 2nd largest city of West Bengal, at the foothills of the Darjeeling-Himalayas in India only 582KM away from Kolkata, 86KM from Darjeeling and 114KM from Gangtok. Films of any genre from any country made in any format with English subtitles within the period 2009-2011 with a duration of NOT more than 30 minutes are eligible for the festival. There is NO entry fee. Entries (two copies of the DVD, an application in plain paper duly signed by the right-owner and publicity materials) should be sent to the festival authorities before the deadline positively. After the success of the 1st edition, this time there will be a competition section also for the films made by the directors from North-Bengal and North-Eastern Provinces of India. A three-members jury will be there to declare the awards. A preview committee constituted for the purpose will select the films for final screening in relevant sections like (a) National Panorama, (b) International Panorama and (c) Competition for NB & NE Regions. Deadline for receiving the entries at the the following address is 31st October 2011.
Premendra Mazumder
For Siliguri International Short & Documentary Film Festival
Please send your entries to:
Mr. Pradip Nag
Convener 12th Siliguri International Film Festival Committee
General Secretary Siliguri Cine Society
Himalayan Nature and Adventure Foundation
Nivedita Market, Hospital Road
Siliguri - 734001
West Bengal, India
Ph: 09434233833/ 09233424101/03532430856
mail: email:competition.siff@gmail.com , diptalukdar@gmail.com
Premendra Mazumder
For Siliguri International Short & Documentary Film Festival
Please send your entries to:
Mr. Pradip Nag
Convener 12th Siliguri International Film Festival Committee
General Secretary Siliguri Cine Society
Himalayan Nature and Adventure Foundation
Nivedita Market, Hospital Road
Siliguri - 734001
West Bengal, India
Ph: 09434233833/ 09233424101/03532430856
mail: email:competition.siff@gmail.com , diptalukdar@gmail.com
Thursday, August 11, 2011
TWO DAY FILM MAKING WORKSHOP
To inculcate and develop GOOD CINEMA CULTURE in students the Federation of Film Societies of India conducted a two day film making workshop to the engineering students of the JNTUK and the workshop was a great success.Thsi wrokshop being organised by the ffsi and the Srikakulam Film society a campus film club of Aditya Institute of Technology and Management. The club is the maiden club started in an engineering colleges.
The workshop was held on 6 & 7 of August 2011 at Tekkali, Srikakulam district a remote in Andhra Pradesh. Around 120 students from different engineering colleges like GMR, Kakinada, Vijayawada, Vishakapatnam etc..were shortlisted for the workshop said Varala Anand the secretary of the Federation of film societies of India.In the two day programme the students were exposed to many issues of film making and appreciation.
With this kind of workshops the new generation will be aware of the International cinema and the art and aesthetics of the Cinema art, they were taught basics of the film making and film appreciation he said.The inaugural function was chaired by the Director of the institute Sri Nageshwer rao.The popular film director of the Telugu cinema Mr.Relangi Narasimha rao participated as the chief guest in the inauguration of the workshop. He has explained his experience of making films.
One of the resource persons M.V.Raghu Cinematographer explained the intricacies of the photography and choice of colours etc.Mr.C.Uma Maheshwer rao explained about montage and the philosophy of film.Mr.Praveen Banadaru explained about the film narration to the students.Film writer K.L.Prasad narrated about the story and screeplay. Mr.Anand Varala dealt with the international cinema its history with PowerPoint presentation. The regional secretary Bh.S.S.Prakash reddy explained about the film society movement and the ffsi.
the student convener of the Srikakulam film society Mr.Santhosh Gudla was given an Appreciation certificate from the FFSI.
Friday, June 17, 2011
Campus Film Clubs' attract students
THE HINDU
Online edition of India's National Newspaper
Monday, Jun 06, 2011
Education Plus Hyderabad
‘Campus Film Clubs' attract students
Creating awareness: Members promoting Campus Film Clubs.
In this world of information technology where reading had been declining considerably and students trusting only seeing through visuals to learn various subjects, the Collegiate of Education had decided to launch Campus Film Clubs in all the degree colleges in the State.
The cinema is a powerful media in this world.
Particularly the student community is very much attracted to the medium for the entertainment as well as education. In the wake of popularity of the cinema, the planners have decided to educate the student community about the other side of cinema i.e, parallel cinema or new era cinema by constituting campus film clubs.
The man behind this novel concept is Varala Anand, a film maker and critic and also secretary of Film Federation Society of India (FFSI) southern region. After introduction of NAAC grading system in the colleges, almost all the colleges have been equipped with LCD projectors and other technologies.
Taking advantage of the modern infrastructure, Varala Anand, who is at present working as faculty at SRR Government Degree and PG College in Karimnagar had first launched the campus film club in the college by screening various films through LCD projectors to attract students towards the cinema.
He was successful in educating the students about the subjects through films.
Following the successful conduct of Film Club in SRR College, Mr. Anand was instrumental in launching similar clubs in 15 colleges throughout the State. Incidentally, the students of engineering colleges were showing more interest in launching film clubs and their active participation.
Varala Anand said that the film clubs were really helping the student community in learning subjects such as environmental sciences and other current topics prevailing in the world.
He said that they were screening films on environment, science and other academic activity for the film club members. Besides, they were also conducting a programme called “view and review” of the films in the clubs.
Free of cost
He said that the FFSI was providing the films to the campus film clubs free of cost so that the students could watch the cinemas and understand the subject and develop his creativity.
He said that now a day the students were also making films by using their cellular phones and also participating in short film competitions.
Each film club consists of 50 members, he said and added that the clubs were aimed to enable and encourage students to take films and television media as their profession.
Besides, the clubs would also expose the students to richness of variety of international and national cinema.
K.M. DAYASHANKAR
in Karimnagar
Online edition of India's National Newspaper
Monday, Jun 06, 2011
Education Plus Hyderabad
‘Campus Film Clubs' attract students
Creating awareness: Members promoting Campus Film Clubs.
In this world of information technology where reading had been declining considerably and students trusting only seeing through visuals to learn various subjects, the Collegiate of Education had decided to launch Campus Film Clubs in all the degree colleges in the State.
The cinema is a powerful media in this world.
Particularly the student community is very much attracted to the medium for the entertainment as well as education. In the wake of popularity of the cinema, the planners have decided to educate the student community about the other side of cinema i.e, parallel cinema or new era cinema by constituting campus film clubs.
The man behind this novel concept is Varala Anand, a film maker and critic and also secretary of Film Federation Society of India (FFSI) southern region. After introduction of NAAC grading system in the colleges, almost all the colleges have been equipped with LCD projectors and other technologies.
Taking advantage of the modern infrastructure, Varala Anand, who is at present working as faculty at SRR Government Degree and PG College in Karimnagar had first launched the campus film club in the college by screening various films through LCD projectors to attract students towards the cinema.
He was successful in educating the students about the subjects through films.
Following the successful conduct of Film Club in SRR College, Mr. Anand was instrumental in launching similar clubs in 15 colleges throughout the State. Incidentally, the students of engineering colleges were showing more interest in launching film clubs and their active participation.
Varala Anand said that the film clubs were really helping the student community in learning subjects such as environmental sciences and other current topics prevailing in the world.
He said that they were screening films on environment, science and other academic activity for the film club members. Besides, they were also conducting a programme called “view and review” of the films in the clubs.
Free of cost
He said that the FFSI was providing the films to the campus film clubs free of cost so that the students could watch the cinemas and understand the subject and develop his creativity.
He said that now a day the students were also making films by using their cellular phones and also participating in short film competitions.
Each film club consists of 50 members, he said and added that the clubs were aimed to enable and encourage students to take films and television media as their profession.
Besides, the clubs would also expose the students to richness of variety of international and national cinema.
K.M. DAYASHANKAR
in Karimnagar
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