After successful tie ups with Cortokino Short
Film Festival, Fundamental 2013, Imphal International Short Film Festival (IISFF)
and Darbhanga International Film Festival (DIFF), Lakecity International Short
Film Festival has now tied hands with Bengal Web Fair 2013. To be held on 8th June at Bharatiyam Cultural
Complex (EZCC) at Salt Lake, Kolkata, this web fair includes a Short Film & Documentary Festival combined with Photo Contest.
This event is organized by Desham and Asmania
who have been trying its best to hold up the talents of Bengali writers who do
not get opportunities to publish their writings, stories, poems, features, etc.
Asmania always tried to touch the hearts of all, through the web media. Last
year Asmania organized the Kolkata Web Utsav - a web fair that featured the
upcoming need and importance of online portals and magazines in the society.
Different web magazines throughout the city participated in it. Student’s
documentaries, short animated films, photography and feature writing
competition, tech quiz and seminars were also simultaneously held. It was most
probably the first fair of its kind to be held in India.
This year Asmania along with Desham is
organizing Bengal Web Fair, a wider scope for the web world. More number of web
magazines will be joining hands together this time. The event is going to take
place at Eastern Zonal Cultural Centre (EZCC), Salt Lake on 8th June, 11 am
onwards. Live Canvas Painting and Band Performances, Documentaries and Short
Films screening, Photography competition, etc. will be held together. In the
evening there will be special guest artist performances by Anjan Dutt & Neel Dutt and Parama Bandyopadhyay.
“Providing a forum and a place for promotion
of LISFF in Kolkata, this tie up will provide the platform to promote LISFF in
Kolkata - the cultural destination of India. Kolkata which has given us
stalwarts like Satyajit Ray, Mrinal Sen, Tapan Sinha and the like in the field of
cinema, is also a major hub of short film makers. It will indeed be a great
experience to interact and invite the short film makers to Bhopal and LISFF,”
says Mahua Mazumdar, Festival Co-ordinator.
Quoting on this tie up, Manas Banerjee from Bengal
Web Fair says, “It’s a great honour for us to go for a strategic tie up with LISFF
this year who will be using this platform to promote their festival here. We
are going to use this set-up for exchange of ideas and information amongst the
short film makers as well as help LISFF in gaining extra mileage through this
tie-up. The best part however is that the winning entry at our festival gets a direct
entry to LISFF as a wild card entry. This is going to be an extra bonus to our participants
and winners as well.”
According to Ankit Tandon, Festival
Programmer - LISSF 2013, “The LISFF 2013 to be held from August 29 to September
1st in Bhopal will be a happening ground to budding film makers who are
attending the Bengal Web Fair and reach out to a wider audience. The festival
has even received Oscar award winning film ‘Curfew’ by Shawn Christensen,
Cannes entry films including Ria by Abhishek Talukdar, Mombatti by Puneet
Prakash as well as short films that have Bollywood actors including Nawazuddin
Siddique, Manjot Singh, Zeenat Aman and others.”
Open to filmmakers of all ages, films of all
genres under 30 minutes in length are accepted as submissions at the LISFF
festival. They include action movies, animations, fantasy, drama, science
fiction, comedy, cartoons, documentaries and experimental movies. The festival
is organized by Eon Films in conjunction with O.M. Filmz and co-ordinated by
Aura Events.
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