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Woodpecker International Film Festival (WIFF) is India's premier competitive film festival focusing on issue-based cinema. The first edition of the festival was organised in 2013 at India Habitat Centre, New Delhi. Launched in the backdrop of the completion of 100 years of Indian Cinema, the festival was a tribute to the Indian cinema for its ability to nurture diverse genres of films and filmmaking traditions in the country.
Today, Cinema is at an important crossroad. While the distinction between mainstream and parallel cinema is almost getting blurred, a new breed of alternative filmmakers, successfully blending entertainment and meaningful cinema, is taking ground. Woodpecker International Film Festival (WIFF) aims to showcase this rich mélange of visual creativity to promote films and filmmakers focusing on socially pertinent themes.
WHY THIS FESTIVAL & FORUM?
The last one decade in India has seen tremendous changes particularly on communication and technological fronts. With easy accessibility to new technology and availability of new communication channels, reach and impact of visual messages has grown significantly, both in rural and urban areas. Be it short films, documentaries or social advertisements, they have now become an immensely powerful tool of communications aimed towards bringing desired social change. WFF thus would like to comprehensively cover the wide spectrum of issues that have caught the attention of new breed of filmmakers in the recent past, be it gender, public health or environment. A major attraction of the film festival would be forum activities. Seminars, conferences, workshops and master classes to help filmmakers and film enthusiasts explore contemporary issues, network with professional associates, hone their filmmaking skills and share the power of storytelling through cinema.
ORGANISER
The festival and forum is part of the 'Cinema for Change' initiative of CMSR Foundation, a not-for-profit organisation based in New Delhi. The Foundation, a registered body under the Indian Trust Act, has been established to harness the power of information, education and communications to bring positive social change. To know more about CMSR Foundation log on to www.cmsrfoundation.org
Festival Still Active please see current filmfestivals.com listing.this is 20th edition 2011
An eight day Festival of Independent Film held each year on Cape Cod, Massachusetts from the last Saturday of July through the first Saturday of August.
Archived festival (terminated)
The Woodstock Film Festival has established itself as one of the best independent film events in the country by premiering exceptional films by established and developing filmmakers. The fest also present A-list concerts, parties, panels, and creates innovative and stimulating programming including Focus on Music, Exposure and Youth Initiative.
The festival has drawn rave reviews nationwide from filmmakers, industry members, film lovers and the media alike. WFF was named by indieWIRE magazine as one of the top 50 film festivals in the world in 2010.
Cash, prizes and/or services are given out in each category including: Best Narrative Feature, Best Documentary, Best Short (Narrative, Student, Animation and Documentary), Best Cinematography and Best Editing. Recent sponsors have included Toyota, Lowel-Light, Markertek, Ketel One, Hudson Whiskey, Hendricks Gin, Blue Sky Studios, Gigantic Pictures, BCDF Pictures, Panavision, TIME magazine, BMI and others.
Industry participants have included Keanu Reeves, Adrian Griener, Jonathan Demme, Mark Ruffalo, Vera Farmiga, Nat Wolff, Timothy Hutton, Michael Imperioli, Ellen Barkin, Ang Lee, Kevin Smith, Tim Robbins, Marcia Gay Harden, Ethan Hawke, Matt Dillon, Rosie Perez, Lucy Liu, Uma Thurman, Steve Buscemi, Bruce Beresford, Jonathan Sehring (IFC), Bob Berney, Robin Bronk, Eamonn Bowles (Magnolia Pictures), Bingham Ray, James Schamus (Focus Features), Fisher Stevens (Greenstreet Productions), John Sloss (Cinetic Media), Ron Mann (Films We Like), Christine Vachon (Killer Films), Mira Nair, Todd Haynes, Woody Harrelson, Lili Taylor, Albert Maysles, Barbara Kopple, Leon Gast, Tim Blake Nelson, Richard Linklater, Robert Downey, Zachary Sklar, Kevin Bacon and many others.
Archived festival (terminated)
A gathering of warmth and genuineness. The unanimous sentiment, expressed by filmmakers and participants alike is that it`s magical. Currently accepting submissions online: http://woodstockfilmfestival.com
Working Title Film Festival was born in Vicenza (Italy) in 2016 to give space to the best of the independent audiovisual production showing the world of work and the several topics connected to it, through original points of view and languages. The purpose is to offer visibility to not-mainstream audiovisual works and to emerging cinema, building a network between independent filmmakers and audience. The festival wants to bring a contemporary point of view on the new job’s models and conditions, highlighting not only the negative aspects, bond to precariousness, fragmentation and rights’ decrease, but also the creative opportunities.
http://www.workingtitlefilmfestival.it/
Workshop for young filmmakers.
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