Rocognized as the Destination for New Wave Cinema in India, festival to be attended by industry figureheads including Sudhir Mishra, Anurag Kashyap, Q (Qaushik Mukherjee – director of Gandu), Roysten Able, Vikram Bhatt renowned Hollywood producer Jason Kilot, amongst others
·Announces high profile jury including Kabir Khan, Vinay Pathak and Sudhir Mishra amongst other eminent names
·Last year 135 films from over 55 countries were screened at 0110 IDDF
Recognized as the destination for New Wave Cinema in India, the 0110 International Digital Film Festival 2013 (IDDF 2013) today announced that the Keanu Reeves produced and Christopher Kenneally directed globally acclaimed Documentary ‘Side By Side’ would be the opening film for the festival. In addition the organizers also announced a high profile jury including Kabir Khan, Vinay Pathak and Sudhir Mishraamongst other eminent names.
This year, like in the previous editions, the festival is slated to draw big names including industry figureheads such as Sudhir Mishra, Anurag Kashyap, Q (Qaushik Mukherjee – director of Gandu), Roysten Able, Vikram Bhatt and renowned Hollywood producer Jason Kilot, amongst others.
“The festival is not limited to competing and screening of cinema, it is a destination for genuine cinema centric education with interactive workshops and seminars headed by some of the most prominent names of the fraternity. “0110 IDFF’s core aim is to promote the all pervasive digital medium of cinema but more importantly to bridge the gap between indigenous and international cinema. Creating a common platform for liberal interactions and exchange, broadening the horizon of Indian cinema and film makers as a whole” says Madhureeta Anand, Festival Director, who is also responsible for the conceptualization of the festival. “The success of any endeavor lies in the amalgamation of the new and the old” she adds.
An annual event, 0110 IDFF is a platform which upholds the format of digital film making and acknowledges the fact that digital format has metamorphosed in to a well-accepted medium from a limited medium of filmmaking. It continues to be an exclusive medium of interaction between global filmmakers using the digital medium. Eminent film personas such as Tabu, Anurag Kashyap, Raima Sen, Vinay Pathak, Sudhir Misra and many more have associated with 0110 IDFF in the past.
The festival is categorized in such a way that that it touches all faculties of digital cinema which includes feature films, documentaries, films made by students, films shot on mobiles, digital art installations and animation and special effects.
The fifth edition of this festival will commence from 26th January 2013 to 1stFebruary 2013 at The India Habitat Centre, New Delhi where the focus would be more on movie screenings and then travel to Whistling Woods¸ Mumbai from the 2nd January 2013 till the 8th February 2013, where in addition to the screenings there would also be a weeklong itinerary of industry workshops and seminars in addition to the screenings.
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