MIFF 2018 to screen over 430 documentary and short films

• Oscar nominee documentary 'I Am Not Your Negro' is the opening film
• Golden Conch Award cash prize doubled.

 Mumbai International Film Festival for Documentary, Short and Animation Films ( MIFF ) is being organized by the Films Division, Ministry of Information & Broadcasting, Government of India. will be inaugurated on 28 January, 2018 at  NCPA Mumbai.   The seven day  long festival will showcase nearly 430 documentary, short and animation films from over 40 countries.  

Golden Conch Award cash prize doubled.

Giving a major boost to the documentary movement, the Ministry of Information & Broadcasting has approved doubling of prize money for the Golden Conch Award winning Best Documentary Film in the International Competition to Rs 1 million (Rs 10 lakhs) from the earlier Rs 500,000 (Rs 5 lakhs). 

Golden Conch, Silver Conch and trophies with handsome cash awards are part of the competition in categories like Best Documentary, Best Short Fiction and Best Animation film.  Besides, technical awards will be given for Best Cinematography, Editing and Sound Design.  Other highlights are the Pramod Pati Special Jury award, Best Student Film and Best Debut film award all of which carry trophy and cash awards.  Indian Documentary Producers’ Association (IDPA) and the Government of Maharashtra, through Dadasaheb Phalke Chitranagari join hands with Films Division in instituting awards.

Films packages

Besides the contemporary films vying for top honours in the International and National Competition,  MIFF will showcase best documentary short and animation films produced in India and abroad under special packages including Jury retrospectives and Best of Fests.  

The Animation Package includes films of Ivan Maximov of Russia, Baret Ilk of Turkey and Lea Zagury of Brazil.  A special package of French Shorts and Experimental films curated by Gabriele Brennen of the 3iS International Institute for Image and Sound, Paris will be screened on 29th.  The Best of the Fests package includes films sourced from top documentary film festivals like Berlinale, HotDocs, Canada,  Melbourne Documentary Festival and Guanajuato Film Festival, Mexico.  A retrospective of veteran Iranian film maker - Rakshan Benietemad, will include 3 documentaries from 3 decades.  Other retrospectives will cover works of French film maker Dominic Dubosc, Mudhushree Dutta and noted animator Bhimsain Khurana.  There are also special film packages from the North East and Jammu & Kashmir.

To add flavour and substance to the festival, workshops, master classes, lecture-demonstrations and panel discussions on topics of interest will take place during MIFF 2018. Nandan Saxena will be conducting a 4 day workshop on 'Non-fiction cinematography'

Another important feature of MIFF 2018 is students' participation. Student films of FTII, Satyajit Ray Film & TV Institute, Whistling Woods, MGR Film & TV Institute, Prayasam, State University of Rohtak, National Institute of Design will be screened during the festival.

The Opening Film

'I Am Not Your Negro', the 2017 Oscar nominated documentary on American Civil Rights Movement, that has won top awards in Toronto, Chicago, Los Angeles, Philadelphia and 8 other international festivals, will be the opening film of MIFF 2018.  The 93 minute documentary written by James Baldwin and directed by Raoul Peck connects the past of the Civil Rights movement to the present.

V Shantaram Lifetime Achievement Award

The coveted V Shantaram lifetime Achievement Award for promotion of documentary movement in India will be conferred upon an eminent documentary film maker chosen by an independent jury. The Award money for the Lifetime Achievement award has also been doubled from Rs 500,000 (Rs 5 lakhs) to Rs 1 million (Rs 10 lakhs).  All together cash awards of Rs 5.8 million (Rs 58 lakhs) will be given away during MIFF 2018.

While feature films generally address the entertainment needs of people, documentaries fill up the information needs of people.  In a bid to make MIFF a people’s festival, the delegate fee has been kept at a modest Rs 300 while there will be no fee for film studies and mass communication student delegates.

The screenings will be held in the theatres in Films Division complex, 24-Pedder Road, Mumbai and nearby Russian Culture Centre from January 29, 2017. Come to Mumbai and celebrate the documentary movement.  For media / delegate registrations visit www.miff.in

MIFF 2018 - SPECIAL PACKAGES

Special Packages	Curator
Special package of SAARC docs & shorts (30 films) )	Reena Mohan
Homage to Murray Lerner, USA  (3 films)	Premraj (Films Division)
Brazilian Animation Films special package  (29 films)	Dhvani Desai
Turkish Animation special package  (23 films)	Berat Ilk | Dhvani Desai
Documentaries by women filmmakers of The Philippines (6 documentaries)	Reena Mohan
French Shorts & Experimental Films  (22 films)	Gabriele Brennen
Special package of Cuban Films  (14 films) (directed by veteran documentary maker Santiago Alvarez)	P N Ramachandra

JURY FOR MIFF 2018

Dominique Dubosc,  veteran film maker from France

Elisa Paloschi, award winning documentary film maker from Canada.

Berat Ilk, animation film maker and academic from Turkey

Baby Ruth Villarama, leading documentary film maker of South East Asian Region

Pierre Assouline, writer, author and an Indo-phile from France. (producer of Vanaprastham (1999)

Haobam Paban Kumar, National Film Award winning film maker from Manipur

P Sukumaran Nair, writer, director and film maker in Malayalam, Trivandrum

Arun Chaddha,  Award winning documentary film maker,  Delhi NCR

Maithili Rao, veteran film critic and columnist,  Mysore

Ashish Kulkarni, FICCI Entertainment Division (Animation),  Mumbai

MIFF-2018 - List of Awards

INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION

Best Documentary Film   (Top Award of the Festival | Any duration)	Golden Conch + Rs.10,00,000
Best Short Fiction Film (up to 45 minutes)	Silver Conch    + Rs.5,00,000
Best Animation Film	Silver Conch    + Rs.5,00,000
Pramod Pati Special Jury Award (1)	Trophy           +  Rs 1,00,000

NATIONAL COMPETITION

Best Documentary Film (above 60 minutes) (2)	Silver Conch + Rs.5,00,000
Best Documentary film (below 60 minutes)  (2)	Silver conch + Rs.5,00,000
Best Short Fiction (upto 45 minutes)	Silver conch + Rs.3,00,000
Best Animation Film	Silver conch + Rs.3,00,000
Dadasaheb Phalke Chitranagari Award for Best Debut Film of a Director (Govt of Maharashtra)	Trophy + Rs.1,00,000
Films Division – IDPA Vijaya Mulay Tropy for the  Best Student Film	Trophy + Rs.1,00,000

* Prize money of Golden Conch and Silver Conch awards to be shared equally between Director and Producer wherever applicable

TECHNICAL AWARDS (Common to International/National Categories)

Best Cinematography	Rs.3,00,000
Best Editing	Rs.3,00,000
Best Sound Design	Rs.3,00,000

V SHANTARAM LIFE TIME ACHIEVMENT AWARD

for Contribution to Documentary Movement in India  (to be given at the Inaugural function)

Lifetime Achievement Award

Trophy, Shawl, Citation + Rs.10,00,000

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Oscar Nominations for 90th Annual Awards 2018 were announced

Oscar nominations for the 90th annual awards were announced on Tuesday morning from the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills, California. Actress-comedian Tiffany Haddish and actor-director Andy Serkis, joined by Academy President John Bailey announced the Academy Awards nominations in twenty four categories.

Guillermo del Toro’s “The Shape of Water” received with 13 nominations. “Dunkirk” followed  with eight and Martin McDonagh’s “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri”with seven. All three films earned best picture nominations. The rest of the category was rounded out by “Call Me By Your Name,” “Darkest Hour,” “Get Out,” “Phantom Thread,” “Lady Bird,” and “The Post.”

The Academy Awards will be announced on March 4

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LIST OF OSCAR NOMINATIONS 2018 

Best Picture:

“Call Me by Your Name”

“Darkest Hour”

“Dunkirk”

“Get Out”

“Lady Bird”

“Phantom Thread”

“The Post”

“The Shape of Water”

“Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri”

Lead Actor:

Timothée Chalamet, “Call Me by Your Name”

Daniel Day-Lewis, “Phantom Thread”

Daniel Kaluuya, “Get Out”

Gary Oldman, “Darkest Hour”

Denzel Washington, “Roman J. Israel, Esq.”

Lead Actress:

Sally Hawkins, “The Shape of Water”

Frances McDormand, “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri”

Margot Robbie, “I, Tonya”

Saoirse Ronan, “Lady Bird”

Meryl Streep, “The Post”

Supporting Actor:

Willem Dafoe, “The Florida Project”

Woody Harrelson, “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri”

Richard Jenkins, “The Shape of Water”

Christopher Plummer, “All the Money in the World”

Sam Rockwell, “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri”

Supporting Actress:

Mary J. Blige, “Mudbound”

Allison Janney, “I, Tonya”

Lesley Manville, “Phantom Thread”

Laurie Metcalf, “Lady Bird”

Octavia Spencer, “The Shape of Water”

Director:

“Dunkirk,” Christopher Nolan

“Get Out,” Jordan Peele

“Lady Bird,” Greta Gerwig

“Phantom Thread,” Paul Thomas Anderson

“The Shape of Water,” Guillermo del Toro

Animated Feature:

“The Boss Baby,” Tom McGrath, Ramsey Ann Naito

“The Breadwinner,” Nora Twomey, Anthony Leo

“Coco,” Lee Unkrich, Darla K. Anderson

“Ferdinand,” Carlos Saldanha

“Loving Vincent,” Dorota Kobiela, Hugh Welchman, Sean Bobbitt, Ivan Mactaggart, Hugh Welchman

Animated Short:

“Dear Basketball,” Glen Keane, Kobe Bryant

“Garden Party,” Victor Caire, Gabriel Grapperon

“Lou,” Dave Mullins, Dana Murray

“Negative Space,” Max Porter, Ru Kuwahata

“Revolting Rhymes,” Jakob Schuh, Jan Lachauer

Adapted Screenplay:

“Call Me by Your Name,” James Ivory

“The Disaster Artist,” Scott Neustadter & Michael H. Weber

“Logan,” Scott Frank & James Mangold and Michael Green

“Molly’s Game,” Aaron Sorkin

“Mudbound,” Virgil Williams and Dee Rees

Original Screenplay:

“The Big Sick,” Emily V. Gordon & Kumail Nanjiani

“Get Out,” Jordan Peele

“Lady Bird,” Greta Gerwig

“The Shape of Water,” Guillermo del Toro, Vanessa Taylor

“Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri,” Martin McDonagh

Cinematography:

“Blade Runner 2049,” Roger Deakins

“Darkest Hour,” Bruno Delbonnel

“Dunkirk,” Hoyte van Hoytema

“Mudbound,” Rachel Morrison

“The Shape of Water,” Dan Laustsen

Best Documentary Feature:

“Abacus: Small Enough to Jail,” Steve James, Mark Mitten, Julie Goldman

“Faces Places,” JR, Agnès Varda, Rosalie Varda

“Icarus,” Bryan Fogel, Dan Cogan

“Last Men in Aleppo,” Feras Fayyad, Kareem Abeed, Soren Steen Jepersen

“Strong Island,” Yance Ford, Joslyn Barnes

Best Documentary Short Subject:

“Edith+Eddie,” Laura Checkoway, Thomas Lee Wright

“Heaven is a Traffic Jam on the 405,” Frank Stiefel

“Heroin(e),” Elaine McMillion Sheldon, Kerrin Sheldon

“Knife Skills,” Thomas Lennon

“Traffic Stop,” Kate Davis, David Heilbroner

Best Live Action Short Film:

“DeKalb Elementary,” Reed Van Dyk

“The Eleven O’Clock,” Derin Seale, Josh Lawson

“My Nephew Emmett,” Kevin Wilson, Jr.

“The Silent Child,” Chris Overton, Rachel Shenton

“Watu Wote/All of Us,” Katja Benrath, Tobias Rosen

Best Foreign Language Film:

“A Fantastic Woman” (Chile)

“The Insult” (Lebanon)

“Loveless” (Russia)

“On Body and Soul (Hungary)

“The Square” (Sweden)

Film Editing:

“Baby Driver,” Jonathan Amos, Paul Machliss

“Dunkirk,” Lee Smith

“I, Tonya,” Tatiana S. Riegel

“The Shape of Water,” Sidney Wolinsky

“Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri,” Jon Gregory

Sound Editing:

“Baby Driver,” Julian Slater

“Blade Runner 2049,” Mark Mangini, Theo Green

“Dunkirk,” Alex Gibson, Richard King

“The Shape of Water,” Nathan Robitaille, Nelson Ferreira

“Star Wars: The Last Jedi,” Ren Klyce, Matthew Wood

Sound Mixing:

“Baby Driver,” Mary H. Ellis, Julian Slater, Tim Cavagin

“Blade Runner 2049,” Mac Ruth, Ron Bartlett, Doug Hephill

“Dunkirk,” Mark Weingarten, Gregg Landaker, Gary A. Rizzo

“The Shape of Water,” Glen Gauthier, Christian Cooke, Brad Zoern

“Star Wars: The Last Jedi,” Stuart Wilson, Ren Klyce, David Parker, Michael Semanick

Production Design:

“Beauty and the Beast,” Sarah Greenwood; Katie Spencer

“Blade Runner 2049,” Dennis Gassner, Alessandra Querzola

“Darkest Hour,” Sarah Greenwood, Katie Spencer

“Dunkirk,” Nathan Crowley, Gary Fettis

“The Shape of Water,” Paul D. Austerberry, Jeffrey A. Melvin, Shane Vieau

Original Score:

“Dunkirk,” Hans Zimmer

“Phantom Thread,” Jonny Greenwood

“The Shape of Water,” Alexandre Desplat

“Star Wars: The Last Jedi,” John Williams

“Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri,” Carter Burwell

Original Song:

“Mighty River” from “Mudbound,” Mary J. Blige

“Mystery of Love” from “Call Me by Your Name,” Sufjan Stevens

“Remember Me” from “Coco,” Kristen Anderson-Lopez, Robert Lopez

“Stand Up for Something” from “Marshall,” Diane Warren, Common

“This Is Me” from “The Greatest Showman,” Benj Pasek, Justin Paul

Makeup and Hair:

“Darkest Hour,” Kazuhiro Tsuji, David Malinowski, Lucy Sibbick

“Victoria and Abdul,” Daniel Phillips and Lou Sheppard

“Wonder,” Arjen Tuiten

Costume Design:

“Beauty and the Beast,” Jacqueline Durran

“Darkest Hour,” Jacqueline Durran

“Phantom Thread,” Mark Bridges

“The Shape of Water,” Luis Sequeira

“Victoria and Abdul,” Consolata Boyle

Visual Effects:

“Blade Runner 2049,” John Nelson, Paul Lambert, Richard R. Hoover, Gerd Nefzer

“Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2,” Christopher Townsend, Guy Williams, Jonathan Fawkner, Dan Sudick

“Kong: Skull Island,” Stephen Rosenbaum, Jeff White, Scott Benza, Mike Meinardus

“Star Wars: The Last Jedi,”  Ben Morris, Mike Mulholland, Chris Corbould, Neal Scanlan

“War for the Planet of the Apes,” Joe Letteri, Dan Lemmon, Daniel Barrett, Joel Whist

120th birthday of Sergei Eisenstein

Today is the 120th birthday of Sergei Eisenstein known as the father of montage technique in filmmaking.

Google celebrated the 120th birth anniversary of this great filmmaker with a doodle. 

Montage is a technique in editing in which a series of short shots are edited into a sequence to condense space, time, and information. Eisenstein’s films had political themes and Google Doodle in its website added that “his films were also revolutionary in another sense, as he often depicted the struggle of downtrodden workers against the ruling class”.

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15th MIFF 2018-Mumbai International Film Festival - Films in Prism -International Section

 

Prism – International

LIST OF FILM SELECTED FOR INTERNATIONAL PRISM SECTION IN MIFF-2018
Sr No.	Title In English	Country	Duration in mins	Category	Director
1	The Fish curry	India	12	Animation Film	Abhishek Verma
2	09 09 F	India	5	Animation Film	Avinash Medhe
3	The Saints of Sin	India	81 (85)	Documentary Film (Any Duration)	Amiruddha Sen
4	Pushkar Myths	India	100	Documentary Film (Any Duration)	Kamal Swaroop
5	THE EXILE	India	19 (18)	Documentary Film (Any Duration)	Harsh Virag
6	Perween Rahman: The Rebel Optimist	Pakistan	66	Documentary Film (Any Duration)	Mahera Omar
7	And the alley she whitewashed in light blue	Israel	72	Documentary Film (Any Duration)	Nili Portugali
8	#Uploading_holocaust	Israel	75	Documentary Film (Any Duration)	Sagi Bornstein & Udi Nir
9	Zen and Bones	Japan	126	Documentary Film (Any Duration)	Nakamura Takayuki
10	My Grandmother	India	19	Documentary Film (Any Duration)	Madhavi Wageshwari
11	Iyakunar Sigaram K. Balachander	India	103 (98)	Documentary Film (Any Duration)	Manohar Singh Bisht
12	BORN BEHIND BARS	India	52	Documentary Film (Any Duration)	Malati Rao
13	Adnyat	India	15	Short Fiction Film (upto 45 mints.)	Santosh Davakhar
14	The School Bag	India	15	Short Fiction Film (upto 45 mints.)	Dheeraj Jindal
15	A Moment	India	40	Short Fiction Film (upto 45 mints.)	Rohit James
16	Zia	India	12	Short Fiction Film (upto 45 mints.	Jineesh
17	Afternoon Clouds	India	13	Short Fiction Film (upto 45 mints.)	Payal Kapadia
18	Tremors	India	14	Short Fiction Film (upto 45 mints.)	Shivangi Mittal
19	KODESIAN	India	14	Short Fiction Film (upto 45 mints.)	Pradeep Nair
20	Crazy Moon	India/UK	10	Short Fiction Film (upto 45 mints.)	Meneka Das

15th MIFF 2018-Mumbai International Film Festival -Films in Prism -National section

 

Prism – National



LIST OF FILMS SELECTED FOR NATIONAL-PRISM SECTION IN MIFF-2018
Sr. No.	Title In English	Duration in minutes	Category	Director
1	Tales from our Childhood	69	Documentary Film (above 60 minutes)	Mukul Haloi
2	Breaking All The Way	88	Documentary Film (above 60 minutes)	Sunita Malpani
3	A Ballad of Maladies	84	Documentary Film (above 60 minutes)	Tushar Madhav & Sarvnik Kaur
4	THE PIONEERING DUO – KRISHNAN PANJU	92	Documentary Film (above 60 minutes)	G. Dhananjayan
5	The Tribal Scoop	60	Documentary Film (above 60 minutes)	Beeswaranjan Pradhan
6	Nakusa ‘Unwanted’ is My Name	21	Documentary film (upto 60 minutes)	Shijith V.P.
7	Prabhakar Pendharkar – A Midas Touch	52	Documentary film (upto 60 minutes)	Yashaswini Godse
8	Mrityubhoj – The Death Feast	52	Documentary film (upto 60 minutes)	Akanksha Sood Singh
9	Makaan (A temporary shelter)	36	Documentary film (upto 60 minutes)	Salik Ansari
10	SAKHARAM	18	Documentary film (upto 60 minutes)	SARTHAK BHASIN
11	The Jowar Ballad	30	Documentary film (upto 60 minutes)	Laxminarayan Devda
12	Mother	30	Short Fiction Film (upto 45 mins.)	Tarun Jain
13	Broken Flowers	35	Short Fiction Film (upto 45 mins.)	Tushnik Chaudhuri
14	Starling’s Nest	17	Short Fiction Film (upto 45 mins.)	Shreyas Dasharathe
15	Jyoti and Joymoti	27	Short Fiction Film (upto 45 mins.)	Syed Mehdi Jahan
16	Sex with a monk and other stories	31	Short Fiction Film (upto 45 mins.)	Sounak Kar
17	The Germ	8	Short Fiction Film (upto 45 mins.)	Jayeshlal K, Linda Susan Mathew & Nazeer M Sab
18	THE WAVE	19	Short Fiction Film (upto 45 mins.)	AJAY SHAJI
19	Uncalled	21	Short Fiction Film (upto 45 mins.)	Umesh Mohan Bagade
20	The Market	10	Short Fiction Film (upto 45 mins.)	Yashowardhan Mishra
21	4 Tamarinds and Toffees	13	Short Fiction Film (upto 45 mins.)	Pranjali D. Upadhye
22	SILENT LANGUAGE	6	Short Fiction Film (upto 45 mins.)	S Raja
23	Medium	24	Short Fiction Film (upto 45 mins.)	Vicky Barmecha
24	Vacuum	13	Short Fiction Film (upto 45 mins.)	Ashok Moorthy

10th BIFFES- Bengaluru International Film Festival- February 22 – March 01, 2018.

10th edition of BIFFES, the Bengaluru International Film Festival to be held during February 22 – March 01, 2018.

The 10th  edition of BIFFES being organized by the Karnataka Chalanachitra (Film) Academy for Government of Karnataka at Bengaluru, will be held from February 22 – to March 01, 2018 will have different sections viz:

1. Cinema of the World
2. Asian Cinema
3. Chitrabharati (Indian Cinema)
4. Kannada cinema
5. Retrospectives
6. Country Focus
7. Grand Classics
8. Homages
9. FIPRESCI (International Federation of Film Critics) award winners
10. Network for promotion of Asian Cinema (NETPAC) award winners
11. Bio-Pics

The festival will also host various forums for academic interactions like seminars, Workshops, Master classes etc., for the benefit of film professionals, discerning audiences and students on different aspects of cinema.

The last date for submitting films has been extended to 6th Januaru.2017