[Reader-list] Call for entry: SXSW Film Festival 2013, Texas / INVITE: screening of THE WATERFALL at TISS (Mumbai), Aug 6

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Filmmakers are invited to submit their new features, short films, music videos and title sequences to the SXSW Film Festival to be held in Austin, Texas from March 8 – 16, 2013.
SXSW Film accepts submissions in the following categories: Narrative Feature, Documentary Feature, Narrative Short, Documentary Short, Animated Short, Texas High School Short, Music Video, and Opening Title Sequence.
SXSW is an official qualifying festival for the Academy Awards Short Film competition. The Best Narrative Short and Best Animated Short winners become eligible for the Academy Awards. SXSW is also a BAFTA-recognized festival for 2012/2013 for the purposes of eligibility for the Short Film category at the Orange British Academy Film Awards.
Last year the Festival featured 132 features and 12 shorts programs, with 74 world premiere features, including The Cabin in the Woods, 21 Jump Street, HBO’s Girls,Gimme the Loot, Beware of Mr. Baker, Fat Kid Rules the World, Somebody Up There Likes Me, Citadel, Waiting for Lightning, and Sun Don’t Shine among others.
Submissions may only be entered via the official SXSW website, athttp://sxsw.com/film.
The Last Minute (and final) submission deadline to submit a film is Thursday, November 15, 2012.  Submission fees are at their lowest if filmmakers submit their films by the early deadline of Thursday, October 4, and are still discounted by the next deadline of Thursday, November 1, 2012. The deadlines are on a ‘Received By’ basis, and not based on postmark date.
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 INVITE: screening of THE WATERFALL at TISS (Mumbai), Aug 6

Dear Friends,

Adda – the weekly film club managed by the students of the School of Media and Cultural Studies screens a range of Indian and international documentaries and feature films. It is a forum for filmmakers to screen and discuss their work and share ideas with the student community and film lovers. Adda organises Vikalp at TISS and has collaborative screenings with other organisations .

Adda is organising a screening of The Waterfall by Parvez Imam this Monday.

You are cordially invited to attend.


PLEASE NOTE: This week's Adda screening will be on Monday, August 6 and NOT on Tuesday, August 7.

Date: August 6, 2012
Time: 6.15 pm
Venue: Room 4, Main Campus, TISS, Opp Deonar Bus Depot, Sion Trombay
Rd., Deonar, Mumbai 400088

The screening will be followed by a session with Parvez Imam.

The Waterfall
44 minutes; 2011; English


Synopsis
Five random travelers come together to trek to a waterfall in Hampi – a serene heartland in Southern India, famous for its ruins, temples and a river. They trudge across the surreal landscape, happily disconnected from their routine lives. To recharge their energies after walking for sometime they stop under a rock shelter. An innocuous discussion begins to change the trajectory of their thoughts.    Meanwhile, in yet another part of Hampi, an Israeli photographer is searching for peace through meditation when most other backpackers choose drugs. And, a young Palestinian doctor, travels half the globe to a small country in South America, hoping to make others understand the routine challenges of life in her homeland.


Everybody is searching for something. Can they find it?


'The Waterfall’ is a journey that brings together all these people, as they share their hopes and angst while searching for answers.



Director's Bio
Parvez Imam is an independent filmmaker, musician, writer, traveler who has worked on many films of human interest. He experiments with genres and styles to tell his stories with simplicity. His work spans from Documentaries to fiction and from 60 second spots to music videos and experimental films. A doctor by profession, he used to work in Psychiatry before he took to filmmaking in 1995. 


Looking forward to your participation,