Film Festival India Film Project to be held on 1st October’16

by Suman Gupta

Mumbai, September 19, 2016: India Film Project, the largest filmmaking challenge in Asia is outfitted to showcase the finest award winning films at the sixth edition of IFP festival to be held on October 1st in Mumbai.

The challenge required participating teams to make a film within 50 hours, based on the theme set by the jury and the best out of these will be publicized to the audience at the grand day long film affair happening at Hall 6, NESCO Goregaon. The IFP challenge this year had over 23,600 filmmakers making 1200+ films in 50 hours.

The audience will see varied perspectives of the participants in the form of motion pictures which will revolve around the theme ‘Top of the World’ in genres of Humour, Drama, Adventure and Experimental. One of the important elements required in the films is for them to be comic.

Applicants from more than 20 countries namely USA, UK, Australia, China, Dubai, Pakistan, Bangaldesh, etc and from 262 cities in India including metros like Mumbai, Chennai, Pune, Kolkata, Delhi to smaller towns like Bilaspur, Dibrugarh, Jabalpur, Kolhapur and Sagar took the challenge of making films in a limited duration.

The event on October 01 will have two stages set up for further, interesting activities and workshops. While Stage 1 will see workshop by Culture Machine, Comedy Factory, Screenpatti on ‘How to go Viral’ from 11am - 12pm; Kanan Gill on ‘Pretentious Short Film Reviews’ from 12:15pm - 1:15pm; The Viral Fever, Y-Films and The Film Companion on ‘Anatomy of a Web-Series’ from 1:30pm - 2:30pm; East India Comedy in conversation with Raja Sen on ‘Importance of giving Offence’ from 2:45pm - 3:45pm and All India Bakchod team in conversation with Vasan Bala on ‘AIB vs the movies’ from 4pm to 5pm.

Whereas, Stage 2 will hold workshops by Terribly Tiny Tales and Adhiraj Bose on ‘Telling a Short Story’ from 11am - 12pm; The Logical Indian team with Omung Kumar, Ananth Mahadevan and Anand Pandit on ‘How to make a sincere statement in a world of cynicism and sarcasm’ from 2:45pm - 3:45pm and Bollywood Gandu and Anisha Rickshawali in conversation with Raja Sen on ‘Split Personality’ from 4pm to 5pm.

The event will also feature a Flea Market, Food Truck Festival and Experience Zones. The awards ceremony will be held at 6:00 pm and will showcase the 15 winning films from the IFP Challenge made in 50 Hours. The event begins at 10am and will keep you super entertained till 10pm. It is open and free for all but just requires an RSVP on Bookmyshow.

The eminent jury for IFP 2016 is comprised of all National Award Winners like Madhur Bhandarkar, Nagesh Kukunoor, Sriram Raghavan and Southern Super director Vetri Maaran who will handpick the best films from the lot.

The best deserving IFP 2016 Film Making teams will be given an honor to create an ad film for the renowned brand of Coca-Cola. IFP will fund each team, ensure quality equipments and make the winners work closely with the Coca-Cola team. The finest works will then be showcased by Coca-Cola across its various channels including TV, Digital assets, theatres and many more platforms.

Mr. Ritam Bhatnagar, Founder, IFP comments, “IFP Challenge in Mumbai has received a tremendous response. The idea has sipped in inside the masses as one could see several dreamers, amateurs to film making fanatics participate in the challenge. The jury is racking brains to shortlist the best out of 1200+ films, now that’s a challenge again in itself! We has a team, are thankful to each one for supporting our agenda of making film making available to all.”