Dear Friends, This is Benny from Trichur, Kerala. We are organizing the 2nf edition of ViBGYOR International Film Festival for Short & Documentaries, based on the theme `Celebrating identities and diversity'. The theme for the `Focus of the Year 2007' is `Earth'. We don't have a competition section this time. Next year on we hope to bring it back. Please do support our festival by sending your films(2005-2006) and also telling your freinds. Pass it on! Regards, Benny Benedict
ViBGYOR International Film Festival 2007 -Celebrating Identities and Diversity Thrissur, Kerala May 10-13 Dear Friends, ViBGYOR Film Festival celebrates the vagaries of identity and the richness of its embodied diversity in the festival of short and documentary films held every year in Thrissur, Kerala. The Second Edition of ViBGYOR will be held from 10th to 13th of May 2007. The four-day Film festival invests not just in the banquet of films of value and sense but strive to make the event a rich visual and intellectual experience in interfacing with filmmakers, activists, peoples' movement leaders and academicians from as divergent streams of life and activities. The marked difference from the last year is the absence of competition section. Instead, we are introducing the 'Festival to the People', creating an additional venue in a rural area next to Thrissur town, where screenings and interaction with the filmmakers will be interspersed. ViBGYOR Package will have seven themes like `Indigenous People', `Dalit Reality', `Gender & Sexuality', `Fundamentalism v/s Diversity', `Nation State', `Globalization' and Country/Region focus. Seven films each will be selected for each catagory. `Earth' will be the theme for the Focus of the Year 2007. The festival will start with a national conference on the same theme. Apart from the above two packages, there will be Short Fiction, Music Videos, Animations and Spots, a `Kerala Spectrum' and as usual the Retrospectives. The other features include Open Forum every day, a film market etc. We invite short and documentary films, music videos, animations and spots from around the world for screening at ViBGYOR 2007 in the categories mentioned above and works from Kerala for the `Kerala Spectrum'. There will be a selection process to include films in appropriate themes as per available screening time. Films made in 2005 and 2006 can participate. We also invite filmmakers, activists and film lovers from every corner of the world to participate in this celebration of ideas, art, struggles and dreams. ViBGYOR-2007 is organized by Chetana Media Institute (Thrissur) along with Nottam(Cochin), GAIA (Thrissur), Abhivyakti (Nasik), Visual search (Bangalore) and Marupakkam (Madurai), with the support of Governmental and Non-Governmental institutions. Contact us at [EMAIL PROTECTED] for further details. K.P. Sasi Fr. Benny Benedict K.C.Santhosh Kumar Festival Director Executive Director Joint Executive Director _________________________________________________________________ G P Ramachandran --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ greenyouth mailinglist is the activist support mailinglist for kerala run by Global Alternate Information Applications (GAIA) To post to this group, send email to [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
