[Reader-list] [Announcements] One-minute-film festival

[Monica Narula]

Orange County, CA – August 5, 2008 – PassionForCinema.com, a leading
independent voice on the Internet for filmfanatics and filmmakers from
around the world, has announced its Call for Entries for the second  
annual
PFCOne FilmFestival, a pioneering online festival featuring one-minute
movies.The entry period for PFCOne runs from August 5, 2008 through  
October
31, 2008, and all films submitted will screen onthe PassionForCinema.com
Website between December 1 and December 5, 2008.

PFCOne is a juried festival with prizes including film and screenwriting
internships with prominent directors and writersworking on the  
forefront of
Indian cinema.The mission of PassionForCinema.com is to encourage  
anyone who
has ever dreamed of making a film to do so, and tosubmit that film to  
the
PFCOne festival to share with other film lovers. PassionForCinema.com
invites everyone to createa one-minute movie shot with a mobile phone,
camcorder, digital or movie camera, or any other device which can
capturemotion pictures.

Animated, digital, and other alternative-format films are also  
encouraged.

Confirmed jurors for 2008 include:Shashank Ghosh (director Waisa Bhi  
Hota
Hain Part II, Quick Gun Murugan, Mumbai Cutting)Amol Gupte (writer Taare
Zameen Par)Nishikant Kamat (director Mumbai Meri Jaan, Dombivili Fast) 
Anurag
Kashyap (director No Smoking, Black Friday, Paanch)Christina Marouda
(President - The Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles)Hansal Mehta  
(director
Woodstock Villa, Jayate, Dil Pe Mat Le Yaar, Chhal)Shridhar Raghavan  
(writer
Khakee, Bluffmaster, Chandni Chowk to China)Sriram Raghavan (writer/ 
director
Ek Hasina Thi, Johnny Gaddaar)Revathy (actress and director Mumbai  
Cutting,
Phir Milenge, Mitr My Friend)Navdeep Singh (director Manorama Six Feet
Under)Suparn Verma (director Acid Factory, Ek Khiladi Ek Haseena, writer
Chhal)

Many of the jurors will offer internships and other hands-on  
opportunities
as prizes to this year's participants. The 2008 PFCOne Film Festival  
also
inaugurates The Kieslowski Award, sponsored by Hansal Mehta. Hansal  
Mehta
will personally select one filmmaker and offer production and financial
assistance to remake his or her entire one minute movie in Super 16  
or HD
format. Mr Mehta will produce the film, and PassionForCinema.com will  
work
with the filmmaker to submit and present the film to various world-wide
festivals. To see the complete list of jurors, awards, and details on
PFCOne, visit: http://passionforcinema.com/pfcone2008/– more –


PassionForCinema.com went online in September 2006 as a community  
website
designed to bring together cinema lovers to review and discuss  
movies, movie
related events, movie personalities, personal opinions, and to share
personalknowledge on technical aspects of the medium. It has since  
grown to
become an influential voice for leading edge filmmakers and directors in
Indian cinema, as well as an important source of news, editorial  
content,
and movie reviews related to Indian and world cinema.For more  
information on
the PFCOne Film Festival and PassionForCinema.com, please visit us on  
the
Internet athttp://PassionForCinema.com.


Monica Narula
Raqs
Sarai-CSDS
29 Rajpur Road
Delhi 110 054
www.raqsmediacollective.net
www.sarai.net


_______________________________________________
announcements mailing list
announcements at sarai.net
https://mail.sarai.net/mailman/listinfo/announcements