Golden, Silver Rhino Awards to be presented in Guwahati International Short
Film Festival
18
April, 2011
Some very exciting creations by short film makers from across the
world will be showcased in the 1st Guwahati International Short Film
Festival (GISFF) to be held on May 2nd and 3rd, 2011 at Assam State
Museum Auditorium, Guwahati.
Altogether 200 films from countries like Spain, Italy, United
Kingdom, Netherlands, USA and Australia as well as all over India will
be screened during the festival under sections like World Kaleidoscope,
Indian Kaleidoscope and the competitive section, North-East Shorts.
The World Kaleidoscope section will see screening of award winning
short films from Cannes International Festival. Apart from that 7 award
winning short films from Spain will also be screened in the World
Kaleidoscope section, out of which PORQUE HAY COSAS QUE NUNCA SE OLVIDAN
(Because There Are Things We Never forget) by award winning director
Lucas Figueroa will open the festival.
A major highlight of the festival will be a special screening of the
highly-acclaimed Malayalam "anthology film" titled "Kerala Cafe",
directed by a team of ten directors - Lal Jose, Shaji Kailas, Anwar
Rasheed, Shyamaprasad, B. Unnikrishnan, Revathy, Anjali Menon, M.
Padmakumar, Shankar Ramakrishnan, and Uday Ananthan. For the first time
in the history of Malayalam cinema, this film was conceived by a team of
10 directors. 10 cinematographers, musicians, editors, art directors
and almost all the top Malayalam film actors. The cast includes
Mammootty, Suresh Gopi, Dileep, Jayasurya, Prithviraj, Sreenivasan,
Siddique, Sreenath, Rahman, Thilakan, Jagathy Sreekumar, Salim Kumar,
Anoop Menon, Navya Nair, Shwetha Menon, Jyothirmayi, Rima Kallingal,
Nithya Menon and Dhanya Mary Varghese.
The festival is an initiative by Creovaent Productions in association with
Shamiana, the acclaimed short film club from Mumbai.
The jury that will judge the films in competition will be headed by
eminent filmmaker Shyamaprasad from Kerala (director of award-winning
Malayalam box office hits like Agnisakshi, Ore Kadal and Elektra). The
special screening of critically acclaimed film ‘Kerala Café’ by
Shyamaprasad will also be screened during the two day festival.
The other jury members will be Assamese actor Adil Hussain (who is
acting in Ang Lee’s ‘Life of Pi’, Sridhar Raghavan’s ‘Agent Vinod’ and
several other important films in various languages, after having
received acclaim in films like 'Gangor' by Italian director Italo
Spinelli, 'For Real' by Sona Jain and 'Ishqiya' by Abhishek Choubey),
this year’s Aravindan Puraskaram winning director Nila Madhab Panda
(whose feature debut ‘I Am Kalam’ has won 11 international awards till
now) and internationally-acclaimed Manipuri filmmaker Haobam Paban Kumar
(whose documentaries ‘AFSPA’ and ‘Mr India’ have earned global
acclaim).
The competition films were selected from a large number of entries
received from all over North-East India by a preview jury comprising
noted theatre and film personality Nayan Prasad, eminent film editor
Kaju, film critic Chandan Sharma and acclaimed director Bidyut
Chakravarty.
The films in competition are:
Savages (Tarunabh Dutta), Serendipity (Suraj Duwarah), Dwita
(Dipankar Das), Windows 4:3 (Angshuman Barkakoty), I Am a Poet
(Shashanka Das & Deep Choudhury), Lemon Brothers Fall (Utpal
Choudhury), The Silent Darkness (Jhulan Krishna Mahanta), IF (Khanjan
Kishore Nath), Being Jobless (Shrutismita Changkakoti), 19/87 (Wanphrang
K Diengdoh & Dondor E Lyngdoh), Bond (Anubhav Mahanta) and The 4th
Law of Motion (Deepkamal Gogoi) .
The festival will have a special tribute to young filmmaker Anghsuman
Borkotoky by screening his film “Doctor, Nurse & Patient”, while
another film by him Windows 4:3 will be in competition.
The prizes that will be given away in the competition section are for
the Best Film, Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Editing and Best
Cinematography. The winners will be awarded with Golden and Silver Rhino
along with certificates.
"The GISFF is an important initiative to create a platform to
discuss, disseminate and in future market short fiction films, a genre
that is finding more and more popularity all over the world in recent
times. Young Assamese film entrepreneur Prithish Chakraborty of
Creovaent Productions has developed the concept of the festival and I am
sure in the coming years it will emerge as an important and exciting
event in the film festival calendar of India," GISFF director and
National Award-winning film critic Utpal Borpujari said.
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