UFO 0110 Int. Digital Film Fest brings opportunity for new filmmakers to show their talent

New and amateur filmmakers will get an unique opportunity to showcase their talent at a platform decked with who's who of global and Indian cinema with the country's only digital film festival UFO 0110 International Digital Film Festival introducing a contest to promote new talent and fresh ideas in the industry.

UFO 0110 International Digital Film Festival will be organized 23rd February 2012 to 1st March 2012 at Siri Fort Auditorium New Delhi.

Christened as "Film in 6 Days', the one-of-its-kind competition will present a challenge to young film makers to direct a short film in a brief span of six days. To facilitate this process and help the participants bring their imagination into life, the organizers will provide all the logistical support to them.

"Film in six days' competition will select six to ten teams (consist of Director, Dop and Editor) on the basis of their past experience and interviews. The selected candidates will be given a topic by the festival organizers to make a film within six days. These films then will be reviewed by a jury comprising senior people from film fraternity who will select winner will be rewarded with prize money/editing software/equipment.

According to Madhureeta Anand, Festival Director, UFO 0110 IDFF and Film Director & Founder of Ekaa Films, "The six day competition is an integral and important part of the UFO 0110 International digital Film Festival. It's our way of seeing that budding filmmakers get a chance to make films that on the one hand can be a showcase of their work and on the other hand can be learning experience. This is why the chosen teams will have access to well known and regarded people from the film industry who can advise and guide them. It's a unique opportunity. For us at the film festival it's our way of planting seeds. We hope that these very filmmakers will, in the future, send in films to the festival and add to the viewing experience and quality of the festival."

Sudhir Mishra, Jury member of the last IDFF, a renowned and critically acclaimed Bollywood director, says,"Digital format of film making is an amazing format that gives you the freedom to shoot things, make a movie, put forth your viewpoint about an issue/agenda etc while overcoming the constraints of inadequate funding or networking etc. It is a wonderful medium for independent voices and certainly more and more people are now open to the idea of digital film making.

"As a jury member a had very fond memories of the featival, Even the quality of films churned out by amateur film makers / directors such as students or those coming from non- film industry background is very exciting. The technique used by one film maker/ story teller inadvertently varies with that used by another and this is what is the surprising element that one comes across fests such as IDFF. Festival like IDFF should be promoted so that maximum talent can be discovered" Sudhir, added.

The participants will be provided the complete support from the festival such as required equipments for the shoot which will include the camera, sound equipments and post production facilities of an editing machine and studio, moreover they will be facilitated with the basic budget for travel and food for the two days. There will also be script consultants and consulting editors to help out the filmmakers during the competition.

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