The Seventh Kalpanirjhar International Short Fiction Film Festival 2009 will be held from 1-5 November 2009. It expects a larger number of entries than the previous year and also a large crowd of viewers. The last date for submission of entries has been fixed at 31 August 2009.
A national jury will select the Best Indian Short Fiction Film out of the entries selected for screening at the Festival for the Patton Award of Rs 20,000. All entries to the Festival must have been made on or after 1 January 2008.
Entries for the Kalpanirjhar Short Fiction Filmscript competition should reach Max Mueller Bhavan, Kolkata, by 31 December 2009. The script should be conceived for a short fiction film (in a straight mode or animation mode) of not more than 30 minutes duration. The best script will be given the VIVADA Award and a cash prize of Rs 20,000.
The rules regarding the entries for the VIVADA Award for Best Short Fiction Script competition are:
- The film should not be more than 30 minutes in duration.
- 3 copies of the script, typed out neatly using double spacing, on A4 size sheets should be sent.
- No soft copy will be entertained.
- One neatly typed out synopsis of the film should be sent. The synopsis must be written in English.
The Kalpanirjhar International Short Fiction Film Festival is the only festival of its kind in South Asia. It has already had six editions till date and has featured outstanding special packages of contemporary German cinema from 2001-04; FTII Retrospective (with early diploma films by Adoor Gopalakrishnan, Girish Kasaravelli, Ketan Mehta and Vinod Chopra); Capalbio International Short Film Festival Retro; Prix Jeunesse Suitcase for Tsunami Victims 2005; Gestures of Reconciliation, Shoot Goals! Shoot Movies!; Country and Theme focuses on Mexico 2002-03, INPUT 2002-03, France 2003-04, US Independent films; New Women Filmmakers 2001-05; and regular inputs of diploma films from La femis, Paris, FTII, Pune, Polish National Film School, Lodz, and the film schools of Berlin, Munich, and Koln.
The speakers at the Festival have been Mrinal Sen, Jogen Chowdhury, Bikram Ghosh, Aparna Sen, Soumitra Chatterjee, Amit Chaudhuri, Robin Mallick, Director, Dresden Film Festival, K. Sasidharan, Director, National Film Archive of India.
The Festival draws a cross-section of young filmmakers and film technicians as viewers who make selections of the best films in different categories and is widely covered in the local and national press and media. Those who would like to enter their films or their film scripts to the Seventh Kalpanirjhar International Short fiction Film Festival 2009 are welcome to download the form and send in their entries. |
