Short film competition to be held at a festival organised by the Film & Video Communication dept. at the National Institute of Design, Paldi, Ahmedabad, India between 18-20 February, 2011

Alpavirama 2011 has organized four different events as part of the festival:  Competition, Retrospective, Special Package and Seminar.

The Retrospective will showcase a selection of NID Film & Video student films from the last two decades. The Special Package will comprise of selected short films & documentaties from Hong Kong (China) and the Seminar will be on "Cinema for 'Other' Screens".

The Competition is open to short fiction and documentary films, not-less-than 3 minutes and not-more-than 30 minutes long.
 
The film(s) should have been produced after 1st January, 2009 and should have been directed by a young person (under 30 years, as on 1st January 2011), who is a citizen of & ordinarily resident in any of the SAARC countries (Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka).
 
The subject matter of the film should also broadly deal with South Asia, its people and their lives.

Films made in languages other than English should have subtitles in English. Animation films are not eligible for the competition. There is NO ENTRY FEE.

DEADLINE: Last date for receiving preview DVDs with duly filled in entry
forms: 4th October, 2010.
 

For more information, contact:

E-mail: alpavirama@nid.edu

Phone: +91 79 2662 3692
Fax: +91 79 2662 1167