PIFF launches Talent Spot Competition; asks students to make film ranging between one to 100 minutes on their mobile phone
Mukta Arts CEO Ravi Gupta
PIFF launches Talent Spot Competition; asks students to make film ranging between one to 100 minutes on their mobile phone
For the students of Film and Television Institute of India (FTII), it could their one minute to fame. The Pune International Film Festival (PIFF), has opened up opportunities for students to shoot a film (ranging from one to 100 minutes) on their mobile handset and participate in the Talent Spot Competition.
Being organised for the third successive year, the competition hopes to prepare young directors for Bollywood and other regional languages.
Tech advantage
The competition had been kicked off with mere mobile phone videos. After receiving a fairly good response last year, and the technology getting within easy reach of many today, students can use their creativity to their advantage by making worthwhile films to compete in the segment.
The process is easy. You shoot a film on your mobile and upload it on the website created specially for the competition. "Viewers from around the world will judge your talent," said Ravi Gupta, executive director of Whistling Woods International Limted and CEO of Mukta Arts, owned by noted producer and director Subhash Ghai. The idea had been successfully put to practice last year.
PIFF is focusing on young film enthusiasts in the city. Subhash Ghai, who is one of the patrons of PIFF, said, "We have been initiating a talent competition on film making for the last three years and the response has been phenomenal."
Ghai, himself a student of FTII, has openly declared that he is willing to promote this idea in a big way.
Numbers up
For the last two years 15 film schools all over the world had been participating, this year, the number has gone up to 30.
"Any student from anywhere can participate in the competition. This year, we have received entries from film schools like Griffith College (Australia), Seneca College (Canada), Branford College (UK), The Republic of Cape Town (South Africa) and Dankin College (Austrialia)," he said.
This year, two separate categories have been created, animation and non-animation.
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Good platform
"We were planning to kickstart the competition in our Mumbai school, but PIFF is the right platform for such activities as the viewers here are also young," Gupta added.
Three Marathi films
Subhash Ghai and Mukta Arts Ltd produced two Marathi films last year Valu and Sanai Chaughade and received a good response.
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This year, Ghai plans three more Marathi films. Two of the films are expected to be completed and released this year. All films will be made by young Maharashtrian directors.
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