Dear Friends, I'm Benny writing from Trichur, Kerala. Our organization, Chetana Media Institute, is organizing the `VIBGYOR Short & Documentary Film Festival' at Trichur from February23-26, 2006. We have included a Competition section also. Consider the following text as an invitation and preliminary level informattion. You will get more info from our website, www.vibgyorfilmfest.com Thanks, Benny
Chetana Media Institute, Thrissur, Kerala, India VIBGYOR Film Festival Celebrating Identities and Diversity Chetana stands to create free and fearless expressions of the human spirit in life and art, through media instruction, production and interaction. We team up with like-minded groups and organizations to facilitate effective interventions in favor of peace, justice and harmony. VIBGYOR, the latest move of Chetana into the territory of film festivals gets set to celebrate this time the vagaries of identity and the richness of its embodied diversity in the festival of short and documentary films to be held from February 23-26, 2006 at Thrissur, Kerala. We endeavor to celebrate and interface our belief in existence where its preferences and forms of expressions are neither implicated by the other nor hindered by any industrial interests; a fair juxtaposing of identities is all that VIBGYOR intents. Starting with the festival Small Films in a Smaller World of February 2004 to Gargi Women Film Festival of May 2005, it is unstoppable as we advance with our supporters and sympathizers to refigure identity and redraw the extents of diversity with VIBGYOR. Drawing on the past experiences, the intent is to make the event a national festival of shorts and documentaries broadly mapping identity politics and its scope. The Festival sections include Competition, Non-Competitive, Retrospective and Focus of the Year. The competition is open to short fiction and documentaries produced in India, between 1st December 2003 and 30th November, 2005. The theme for Documentaries is 'Women Frames' (time limit 1hr.). There is no specific theme for Fiction (time limit 1hr). Entry fee for Competition section for both documentaries and shorts is Rs. 500/- per film. The winning entries shall be awarded Cash Prize and a Citation. Non-competitive section includes national and international short fiction, documentaries, music videos, animations and spots and these should be based on the theme `Identities and Diversity'. In the Non-Competitive section, 'TV Features Made by Women' and 'Campus Films' are included and in this category only entries from Kerala state are invited. Focus of the Year 2006 section shall have 'Water' as its theme. Register your entries in any of the above sections by downloading the entry form from www.vibgyorfilmfest.com. Fill it, sign it and post it to us with your VCD/ VHS/DVD (Region 2 or All Region) with a synopsis in less than 65 words and a good still of the film along with a DD for Rs. 500/- (applicable only to Competition Entries only) drawn in favor of 'Chetana Media Institute' payable at Trichur. Last date for receipt of your entries in the Competition section is 20th December,2005. Entries in the Non-Competitive and Focus of the Year sections should reach the office before 31st December, 2005. There will be pre-selection round in all the categories. For details, contact: VIBGYOR Film Festival Office Chetana Media Institute Kalliath Sq., Palace Road Trichur 680 020, Kerala, INDIA Tel: 91+ 487-2330830/2323590 www.vibgyorfilmfest.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------- Anivar Aravind GAIA, Thrissur -- Knowledge is power... share it equitably! http://www.gnu.org
