The film and video festival called Alpavirama 2011 will accept entries from South Asia. Around 30 short films with a running time of more than 3 minutes and less than 30 minutes will be selected for the competition.
The National Institute of Design (NID) will organise its first International Film Festival in February 2011 with an aim to foster the Sino-Indian relationship and bring a better understanding between the neighbouring countries.
The film and video festival called Alpavirama 2011 will accept entries from South Asia. Around 30 short films with a running time of more than 3 minutes and less than 30 minutes will be selected for the competition.
The selected films will be screened at the festival. The participants need to be less than 30-years old. Talking about Alpavirama 2011, faculty and coordinator of Film and Video Communication at NID Arun Gupta said, "China and India are going to be the most important countries of the world in the near future.
Keeping this in view, we are taking the opportunity of the first film festival of NID to take a step towards improving the relationship between the two countries."
He said the festival will enable us to understand better the neighbouring countries and their film making. A section of the film festival called 'Special Package' will present around 15 to 20 short films from Hong Kong. "We have chosen Hong Kong because it is a part of China which has a very interesting culture. The fast pace of China's growth in recent years have left several old international hegemonies panting behind," Gupta said.
He said Hong Kong, as China's symbolic entranceway, is a city undergoing intricate and provocative change, with its mixture of communism and capitalism, vertical and horizontal, expatriate and local, Cantonese and Mandarin.
"It would thus be very interesting to understand how the young Hong Kong filmmakers, living amid these complex shifts, record and interpret life around them," he said.
The festival will also invite some of the young filmmakers from Hong Kong, whose works feature in the package. Apart from the short film and video competition and the special package of short films from Hong Kong, Alpavirama 2011 will also showcase selected short films by the students and alumnus of the department of Film and Video Communication of the institute.
"These will include selected short fiction and documentary films that were made by our students as part of their regular course structure during the last 20 years since the department was set up.
A DVD of the selection will also be simultaneously released," he said. " Alumni whose works feature in the retrospective will be encouraged to be present during the festival, to lead the pre and post-screening dialogue," he said.
The festival will also hold seminars that will discuss various topics of short film and video including the changing pattern of filmmaking with the emergence of cheaper technologies like mobile phones, new applications of films like using film as art installations etc.
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