FILMBOOTH - EMERGING SHORT FILM FESTIVAL
Friday, December 19, 2008 at 6:45 PM - Sunday, December 21, 2008 at 9:15 PM (GMT+0530)
New Delhi, India
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FILMBOOTH - Emerging Short Films Festival – Concludes
A unique festival of short films, Filmbooth 2008, took place in Delhi on December 19-21. This three-day festival screened 50 short films from competition, cinematic and Bollywood section. It was organized by ForumForFilms, a community for short filmmakers, at the India Habitat Centre in association with Tehelka, Swatch, I Congo, Dishoooom, and Buzzintown.
Planned on the lines of LA Shortfests, The Manhattan Shorts, NY Shorts, the event aims at bringing together short films from across the country, providing a common platform to filmmakers to showcase their talent. The festival ran a competition for all budding filmmakers for up to one minute and up to 20 minutes films in the fictional/ non-documentary in style and character.The jury included Santosh Desai, Santosh Padhi,Lushin Dubey; Vanita Kohli Khandekar; Saloni Puri; Amit Pasricha, Meenu Chopra and Sandeep Marwah.
The best Short film one minute award was won by Abhinav Tripathi the creative supervisor at Ogilvy & Mather who makes shorts in his free time for "Jump" that follows a man who has jumped to his death but changes his mind mid-way. Best Short film 20 minute category was won by Arunima Sharma a director from FTII for the Film – "IN TRANSIT". This experimental film explores the idea of man within the context of evolution, using inventive juxtaposition of sounds and images of contemporary urban India. The best story was won by Abhijit Sudhakar from Bangalore for his film "The Scholar" for showing the dilemmas of a school boy to score highest in the examination. The team also gave a special mention to the film "The Story of My library".
Filmbooth played host to a new form of creative expression and film-making eco-system.
DAY 1 Budding Filmakers
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FILM NAME/Runtime (rounded off in Min) |
Director |
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AARZOO (4) |
Mohit Chhabra |
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AGLI RED LIGHT SE LEFT (9) |
Vishesh Azaad |
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TOMMOROW 5:33 PM(4) |
Ankur kapoor |
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TIME TIME KI BAAT HAIN (4) |
Ankur kapoor |
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FOUR WOMEN AND A HOLE(12) |
Aakriti Kohli , Charu Minocha , Diksha Sahni, Gauri Kalra, Heena Kohli, Snigdha Kapoor |
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COMERCIAL BREAK (5) |
Ashish Bhatia |
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SMOKE ON ITS WAY (4) |
Souveek Bhattacharya |
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“I AM THE CHANGE 2008” |
MAM Movies |
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JUMP (1) |
Abhinav Tripathi |
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1 MIN CRASH COURSE ON SEDUCTION (1) |
Sreedeep |
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WHEN ON THE ROAD (1) |
Ankur kapoor |
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ROOH AFZA(1) |
Rohit Dhuliya |
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WE THE PEOPLE(1) |
Sukriti, Naina, Subhashini.
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TUNNEL(4) |
Soumendroo |
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LOST AND FOUND (6) |
Shrenik Jain |
DAY 2 Budding Filmakers
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Name of the film/ Runtime (Approx min) |
Director |
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WHAT IF (11) |
Amit Tandel |
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CHILDS PLAY (3) |
Ankur kapoor |
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HALF THE TRUTH (4) |
Ankur kapoor |
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NEON RAIN(11) |
Arunima Sharma |
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SAMY THE FOOL(3) |
Kapil Varshney |
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BOOT POLISH (14) |
Tanmay Kant |
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DIARY OF A WOMAN (6) |
Charnita Arora |
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MY FUNKY DATE (10) |
Irengbam Debashish Singh |
DAY 3 Budding Filmakers
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Name of the film Runtime (Approx min) |
Director |
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MR. PENNE PASTA (1) |
Mohit Chhabra |
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KOGA CANT SAVE YOU ALWAYS (1) |
Himanshu Bhatnagar |
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HUMANITY AT ITS BEST (1) |
Kunal Kumar |
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VERSUS (1) |
Ambar Prakash |
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THE SOFFIT (1) |
Abhishek Juneja |
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KLPD (1) |
Puneet Kumar Gupta |
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THE CHOICE (5) |
Abhinav Tripathi |
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THE CAMERA THE BOX AND THE POCKET (10) |
Mustaqeem Khan |
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NO BED SPACE FOR LONG LINES (13) |
Sreedeep |
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IN TRANSIT (13) |
Arunima Sharma |
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THE SCHOLAR (8) |
Abhijit Sudhakar |
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WATER BOTTLE (2) |
Kunal Kumar |
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The Story of My Library (18) |
K.Rajkumar |
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Edge (4) |
Ankur kapoor |
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Fair Weather (5) |
Keku Writer |
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Lets play it by ear (5) |
Keku Writer |
When
Friday, December 19, 2008 at 6:45 PM
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Sunday, December 21, 2008 at 9:15 PM (GMT+0530)
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FORUMFORFILMS
ForumForFilms (FFF) is a community for all those who share a passion for watching, creating and knowing about short films. FFF wants to synergize with the new media and internet technology, the focus being the emerging landscape of short films, to provide a platform for upcoming students and filmmakers to showcase creativity and talent
Mission
“Promote short films as the new medium and provide a platform to all filmmakers and audience to come at this forum and share and appreciate cinema”
ForumForFilms will have its annual film festival – ‘FILMBOOTH’ as the first major event. Also it will create a platform on the web to screen short films and launch the emerging filmmakers to the world.
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