KL Report
SRINAGAR
Experimental Moving Images and Theater Association (XMITA) is inviting entries for the fourth edition of International film festival of Kashmir (IFFK-2014) on eve of its ten years of establishment since 1994.
The film festival is scheduled to be held in the month of June this year and is expected to be the biggest event of XMITA so far with participation of films and filmmakers from all over the world.
Spokesperson XMITA told CNS that the interested filmmakers, media students and amateurs can visit IFFK blog to send their entries.
The films shall be accepted in five (5) languages (Kashmiri, Dogri, English, Hindi and Urdu) along with other language films subtitled in English.
“IFFK-2014 will be a competitive film festival and with many changes in the screening pattern of the films this year.
XMITA also intend to invite filmmakers, organize a master-class and include a student section as well as TV-(Cultural) section. At present we are inviting films for pre-selection stage after which the panelists at the films division of XMITA will shortlist films for screening from amongst the received films. The shortlisted films will be then screened during the International Film Festival of Kashmir 2014 in which the entry is free,” the spokesperson said.
He said that Filmmakers of J&K can send more than one entry while for non-J&K filmmakers number of films per Director/Producer at the pre-selection stage is strictly one. Retrospective section of the International Film festival of Kashmir this year is open for the filmmakers of J&K only, to apply for the retrospective section filmmaker needs to submit seven films (not less than 4 fiction films) which might include not more than one TV/Cultural or government funded film.
