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IFFI 52, 051: Towards better IFFIs
What makes a good international film festival?
Some criteria.
Good international films
Good Indian films
Good scheduling
Good international participation
Good fringe events
Good ‘festival’/festivities
Good venues, with good projection
Good budget
Good (long-term) independent directors and heads of departments
Good and early planning
Quality of films selected is a reflection of the ...
IFFI 52, 02: Entries close on 31 August
There is still time to enter your films for the 52nd International Film Festival of India, which will be held in a hybrid format during November 20-28, 2021, in Panaji, Goa, Western India.
The last date for submission of Online Application is 31st August, 2021.
International entries are accepted if they conform to the following rules:
NOTE: Classroom and advertising films are not eligible for participation in any section.
NOTE: Final screening ma...
IFFI 52, 01: It’s happening
The International Film Festival of India (IFFI) is one of Asia’s oldest and India’s biggest international film festivals. The 52nd edition of IFFI will be held during 20-28 November, in a hybrid format, considering the success of the 51st edition, in January 2021. The Festival is being organised by the Directorate of Film Festivals (DFF), Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Government of India in collaboration with the State Government of Go...
IFFI 50: Those were the days
International Film Festival of India (IFFI) at 50 is a shortened, dry and sanitised version of what it used to be, till about a decade ago. The powers that be realised those days that a film festival should not be a rushed affair as far as film viewings go, and a film festival is a festival too. Film personalities, who travel up to 20,000 kms, to be at the event, deserve to be entertained and looked after, in real Indian hospitality style. Festivities were not con...
IFFI 50: Media matters
In an event like the International Film Festival of India (IFFI), the media matters. The event is organised by the Directorate of Film Festivals, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Central Government of India, in partnership with the Entertainment Society of Goa (ESG), a Goa Government initiative, with the Chief Minister of Goa being the Chairman of the body. Together, they spent over Rs. 40 crore (400 million) on IFFI 50, Panaji, Goa, November 20-28, 2019. This ...
IFFI 2018, VII: What it was and what it could have been
In its 49th edition, the International Film Festival of India (IFFI) was a damp squib. It could have been a glorious run-up to the 50th edition celebrations next year; instead, we had many disgruntled delegates and media-persons and serious mismanagement. In fact, many regulars decided to give the fest a miss this year, making me wonder whether they had a premonition that it would be so dull.
Here are 25 observations that need to be loo...
IFFI Goa 2017, XV: UnSeen Durga and the Nude that nobody saw
Among the many controversies and shake-ups that IFFI Goa 2107, one concerns the exclusion of two Indian films from the Indian Panorama. S*** Durga (name altered under instructions from the Central Board of Film Certification) and Nude. Durga was made by a Keralite director in Kerala while Nude is a Marathi film. The former uses Durga only as an allegory and there is no reference to the deity, while the latter is a docu-feature on th...
IFFI Goa 2017, VIII: Message of Sunit Tandon, Festival Director
In the run-up to the International Film Festival of India, Panaji, Goa, November 20-28, I continue to monitor the news and developments.
Here’s one link I found: http://iffigoa.org/indian-cinema-catalogue-2017/
At the bottom is a button called Download. When you click on it, you get: Sorry!
Page not Found
Back To Home
However, on the second link, found right next to the above link,
http://iffigoa.org/international-cin...
IFFI Goa 2017, IV: No Director, no Jt. Director, but the Indian film lists are out
Press Information Bureau (PIB), Mumbai, is largely invested with managing the media at International Film Festival of India (IFFI). Their home page has the following address: http://pibmumbai.gov.in/#
On this home page, you are greeted with a pop up about the government’s cleanliness drive. Click on the cross at the top right hand corner there, and the pop-up closes.
Now you are led to a site whose addr...
IFFI Goa 2017, III: Three organisations, two lists and we are still clueless
Attempts at getting any current information about the organising or the content of the 48th International Film Festival of India (IFFI), 20-28 November, 2017, Panaji, Goa, have met with no success. In this context, the confirmation of my accreditation (and I hope that of many others qualifying journalists, critics and photographers who had applied) has been received by email, a month after applying. That said, here i...
IFFI Goa 2017, II: The Countdown has begun, but who is counting?
Hitherto, the International Film Festival of India (IFFI) was organised by the Directorate of Film Festivals (DFF), Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (MIB), Central Government of India (all in New Delhi), in collaboration with various other Ministry units. The media relations were handled solely by the Press Information Bureau (PIB). When the annual event moved to Goa and set base there, a special body was created by the ...
Siraj Syed’s IFFI 2016 diary, IX, Open Forum V: “We need more Amitabh Bachchans to help reduce global warming”
In its second Open Forum at the International Film Festival of India (IFFI) 2016, Indian Documentary Producers’ Association (IDPA) sounded an urgent warning about the spreading carbon footprint and discussed steps to curb/neutralise its deleterious effect, especially among the film fraternity. Mike Pandey, President of IDPA and world-renowned environment-aware...
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