Indywood Film Carnival – Celebrate the Culture
Since the announcement of the second edition of the Indywood Film Carnival, many industry dignitaries voiced their support to the carnival. Shri Ravi Kisan (renowned Bhojpuri actor), Prosenjit Chatterjee (a well accomplished Bengali actor) and Shri Subodh Bhave (an extraordinarily talented Marathi actor) have joined in the carnival as Brand Ambassadors of Bhojpuri, Bengali and Marathi industry respectively. Some of the other big names who have joined in include Shyam Benegal (Film Director), Anupama Chopra (Film Critic), Sukankan Roy (National award winner, Director of Sound of Joy), Senthil Kumar (Cinematographer of Baahubali), Kaushik Moitra (Partner of TMT law practice), Satish Kataria (Managing Director, Katapoolt), Pete Draper (Chief Technical Director at Makuta VFX), Peter Hein (Stunt Coordinator), Rupa Dash (CEO – Word Women Foundation), Sudhir Mishra (Film Director) and Vivek Agnihotri (Film Director), Honeymoon M. Al-Jabir (Film Director – Tanzania), Uday Sigh (Managing Director – Motion Pictures Distributors Association), Nitin Chandrakant Desai (Producer / Art Director), Natasha Nischal (Make-Up Expert / Creative Consultant – Lakme), Vishal Kumar Maheshwari (Country Manager India – Vuclip), Anant Mahadevan (Screenwriter), K.K. Senthil Kumar (Film Cinematographer), Mayank Shekhar (Journalist), Ameet Naik (Managing Partner, Naik & Co.), Pankaj Pachauri (Managaing Director, NDTV), Agbor Gilbert Ebot (CEO & Founder) and Asambom Nyingchuo (Secretary General, Cameroon Film Festival, Cameroon), Ed Umoja (Festival Director, Piton Film Festival, NY, United States of America) Hanu Roj (Festival Director, Jaipur Film Festival, India), Hope Opara (Festival Director, EKO International Film Festival, Nigeria), Basir Seerat (Afghan Documentary Film festival, Afghanistan), Raja Deka (Representative – Depth of Field International Film Festival, USA), Jarrod A Knowles (Director of Marketing, Wide Screen Film Festival, USA), Scott Hillier and Giedrė Bumbulytė (Director, The European Independent Film Festival, France).
The two major flag off events of Indywood Film Carnival are:
ALL LIGHTS INDIA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL (ALIIFF)
ALIIFF aims at providing a unique platform for global film industry to portray excellence in film making, aids to inspire, nurture and integrate the Indian Cinema industry thereby facilitating congregation of people and nations. The festival provides a premier showcase for all aspects of filmmaking: the art, the filmmaker, talented directors and actors, and the film lover in all of us. ALIIFF aims at educating the community & festival attendees through the art and science of film, promoting cross-cultural awareness, the exchange of ideas, and social understanding. ALIIFF takes a new approach of Cinema as Knowledge as theoretical construct, national culture, material object, artistic work, technical, technological up gradation and social practice. The festival will have different episodes starting from an opening ceremony and then includes various sessions like World Premier, Oscar Contented Movie Screenings, Indywood Panorama, Master Classes, Retrospective and Tributes, Closing Nights, Country Focus Screenings, World Cinema Screenings etc. A Micro, Short and Documentary festival which is exclusively designed to promote talented short film crew and a Campus based Students to identify the budding talents from campus are also planned with the main international feature film festival.
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