International Cinema Festival of India

Second Jaipur International Cinema Festival awarded 12 films

    Second Jaipur International Cinema Festival (JIFF-2010) held at        India's Pink Metropolis Jaipur of Rajasthan screened 87 films, representing 21 nations (five continents) at OTS' Bhagwat Singh Mehta Auditorium from January 29-31 amid jam packed and spell certain viewers. 12 movies were awarded in several categories.
    "Le Grand Sault", a Canadian entry, profitable the award for the Greatest brief film. The 15 minute movie has been made by Herve Demers of Canada. Amfuem made by Rainer Strecker of Germany won the Finest Sound award. The Greatest Script and Finest Enhancing awards had been conferred on Spain's Mario de la Torre for the film La Condena (Sentence) and Jesus Perez-Miranda for the movie Pricey Little one Jesus respectively.
    The Greatest Cinematography award was conferred to Umesh Vinayak Kulkarni for his short fiction Gaarud.
    The Greatest Director award was received by Vinoo Choliparambil for his brief fiction film Vitthal whereas Ravi Williams and Roshani Bhati received the best documentary award for their film Lamsena, a love story of the tribe Baiga.
    In the Indian section, S Prince Ennnares Periyar's film Thira on Gujarat's communal violence and Anurag Sharma's movie "It may possibly't be red" (in Rajasthan section) on the Jaipur serial blasts were given the Particular Jury Mention and Particular Jury Award respectively.
    "Mandli ke badhte kadam" (Finest movie from Rajasthan) is a film by "Neighborhood video Unit" Jal Chitaran of Jodhpur. On this the local villagers were educated in movie making by Jal Bhagirathi basis and the movie about water conservation was made by native villagers.
    The Critic Award went to New York Movie Academy movie maker Naman Goyal for his short fiction movie An Affair with New York.
    Every award introduced by Rakesh Verma, Principal Secretary GAD Authorities of Rajasthan carried a trophy and citation. 
    Filmmaker Arun Dutt, son of legendary filmmaker Guru Dutt, inaugurated the three-day lengthy Jaipur International Movie Festival (JIFF) on January 29, 2010. After the lighting lamp ceremony, Dutt mentioned up to now the short movies and documentaries have been uncared for resulting from low profile expertise, however now with the technology up gradation and the internet, world has grow to be a worldwide village, hence such festivals ought to be organised inviting international filmmakers in parts of the country. This type of pageant would encourage the younger skills and their creativity on silver screen.
     Ceremony was attended by Dr. Amer Singh Rathore (DPR-Director, Rajasthan Govt.) film makers Gauhar Raza, Shubhradeep Chakravorty, G.L. Bharadwaj and Deepak Roy, JIFF advisory board members, film researcher from UK Sumanta Barua and Administrators and Producers from Iran. 
    In a joint venture of BSNL-Aksh-JIFF, ten films have been chosen for telecast on IPTV network within the nation after screening of these movies on the festivals. This might be a singular presentation of entries at the drawing room of viewers across the state among those that subscribes IPTV cable.
    The inaugural film titled 'Thira' (open it) by a younger director S Prince Ennares Periyar based on 2002 Gujarat communal riots was screened. The movie has sent ripples to Hindu fundamentalists like RSS activists who demanded that this should not be screened.
    The following movie was "Desires Do Come True" by Sree Chaitanya. The third film was Bahar, a short fiction from Iran by Farzaneh Farshad. It's the story of a widow who cares for her child and her café and survives with solely her husband's reminiscences for company. 
    During the three days of screening there have been no romantic songs to hum, no dying-defying stunts, and no hero or heroine to carry your attentions, however the thought scary documentation of real life circumstances on celluloid still captivated the viewers of each genders and without any age bar. They enjoyed 24 movies including documentaries and a feature films "Pyaasa" on the first day.
    As "Pyaasa" is a special film, the legend Guru Dutt's son was invited to the competition; Arun Dutt stated he was eight years outdated when his father had died. "My father had a controversial past, however I solely bear in mind him as a legend. I keep in mind the day once I went to see 'Pyaasa' from Santa Cruz to South Mumbai on a bicycle". The movie was screened late in the evening which was seen by jam packed audience.
    Thirty-one movies were screened on second day of the pageant and a particular a hundred and forty minutes movie "say Salam India" was loved by viewers despite cold wave situations outside the theatre. Last day of the competition featured 31 movies together with award winning.
    Pageant concluded with a particular animation film "Tanhaai" (solitude) of Mehrdad Sheikhan from Iran.
     Learned specialists and invited speakers have additionally delivered lectures on completely different features of movie making specifically marketing of documentary movies, India and Iranian cinema, Different aspects of short movie making. Out of 87 movies screened seventy one have been short fictions, 3 animation and 13 documentary films.
    Forty-nine movies have been from India including 14 from Rajasthan. Apart from these 10 movies from Iran, 5 from Spain, 2 every from England, USA, Argentina and Germany, one each from Canada, Liberia, Portugal, Brazil, Italy, Czech Republic, Israel, Greece, Russia, Poland, and Swaziland would be screened. Three joint venture films from India-England, China-Germany and Scotland-England are additionally collaborating on this festival.
    Two scholar's category movies, 'Somewhat heart beat' from Heart for Mass Communication, University of Rajasthan, and 'Kaash' (IIFA film college, Jaipur) were among the 87 motion pictures within the festival.
    Ninety-four films had been sent to Union Information and Broadcasting Ministry, Government of India, New Delhi for official approval, and of that 87 movies got censor clearance.
    Overwhelming response to the competition could be assessed world over as fifty movies landed in the competition workplace after the final date of submission of the entry, December 31, 2009. Conserving the content material and aesthetic value in consideration, transparency and fairness was observed in selection of 94 movies out of 310 entries from forty one countries. 
    This 12 months JIFF had declared Iran as a Guest country because of most movies' entries from Iran, and plenty of international delegates from Iran who participated in the three days festival.
    Rajasthan has emerged because the film producing state within the nation regardless of that a FILM CITY proposal by the Rajasthan Government is hanging in steadiness for years. It may be engineers or professionals, stage artists, beginner film makers, and young generation; the film output could be very passable in the sandy desert state. The festival was organized with strenuous efforts of Hanu Roj to advertise and supply a platform to these makers. And fourteen films found place on display screen and viewers in three days of events.
    This year JIFF promoted "Smoke free Jaipur" a marketing campaign supported by Rajasthan Voluntary well being affiliation (RVHA), Jaipur. That is to make a collective effort in the direction of a clear and healthy setting in Jaipur.
    Over 5 thousands cine goers attended the three days competition which included greater than 40 film makers from India and abroad. Greater than 350 delegates had registered themselves with JIFF-2010. Entry for the festival was free.
    Jaipur has a long and vibrant historical past of arts and culture. The "Pink city" is a place where heritage seems forward to future. Through JIFF, we are attempting to bridge these two worlds. It's our imaginative and prescient to develop and enhance a progressive movie culture within the state. We dream of bringing film group of the globe together at the moment of violence, conflicts and wars and handle those points utilizing the mesmerizing art of Cinema.
    Subsequent one: third JIFF-2011's poster was released on the award ceremony. It will be aiming for Pink Carpet competition after the name of pink city, Jaipur. Next 12 months the event would additionally embrace Animation Movie Category.