Category: International Film Club

L to R :- Luv Chawla, Sandeep Marwah, Dharmesh Dharshan, Deepak Raj and Anoop Bhandari

Films

WHAT? ERR…: Director: Prashant Mathawan
Goodness is no more considered a virtue! It’s considered a weakness. The powerful and the mighty flaunt their might at the drop of a hat…However there will be true salts of earth who will rise from the speck of dust and prevent the world from collapsing. This is the story of such a taxi driver who rises up and shows his true grit against the lot who are connected to the power corridor.

THE PROMESSA , Director: Shubham Bhatnagarn
It is a poignant story of a girl who couldn’t bear the trauma of sudden death of her mother and gets mentally affected. Due to the shock her mental age remains that of a child even as she grows up. Her pain is felt by the audience through the beautiful portrayal of the character of a mentally retarded child.

AAKHRI CHORI, Director: Mohd Shahid
A small act of benevolence by the prospective victim melts down the hardcore criminal in this short film. It once again proves that goodness is more powerful than the evil!

HUM AAPKE HAIN KAUN?, Director: Rahul Verma
It’s a comedy film with a serious message at the end. God has created everyone. Good looking and so as the ugly ones. Even the not so good looking has a heart inside and is entitled to love and affection, which is not a crime after all.

THE CURSE, Director: Anup Kumar & H Narwal
Situated at cursed Bhangarh, it is a predictable ghost story which revolves around some supernatural spirits and its interaction with the ordinary mortals. The curse at Bhangarh looms large and it takes its toll…

THE DREAM, Director: Arnab Bhattacharya
AThe protagonist of the film is torn between reality and his dreams which do not meet at any point. The film shows his frustrations as he tries to conquer the realm of unknown hoping to shape his destiny. Eventually he decides to live in the real world rather than wade through the obscure dreams that seemed so distant…

WHOSOEVER UR, BE PURE!, Director: Gaurav Bhalla
There is always a flip side of every coin…that’s what the director tries to portray here in this film…Even a gambler has a golden heart!

Inauguration of 70th Festival of Short Digital Films

L to R : Sandeep Marwah, Malti Sahay & Lavlin Thandani

Films

Mr. Irresistable :- Director, Frode Schlichting
It is a comic situation depicting opposite attracts. Ceaseless effort by babulal rings a bell in the mind of the gorgeous Shagun who is a complete mismatch for the simpleton boy from the small town..comical formula to win the heart of a girl may not necessarily always be true. However a few good shots can be seen in this short film.

Freedom :- Director, Ugo Ben
This is the story of a desperate young man from africa who comes to India ro study and make a career. He is lonely and without money in an alien country. His compatriot friends residing in the city influence him and he gets in drug dealing. A local girl helps him come out of this vicious circle and helps him realize his dream.

Born To Die :- Director, Roshni Basu
This is a docu-Drama concerning the sordid state of our women in the Indian patriarchal society. The film makes an attempt to wake the sleeping consciousness of the society. The sheer ignorance and reluctance to change the age old tradition of brutally killing the girl child makes everyone feel guilty for the continuance of the diabolical practice in the patriarchal society we live in.

Playground :- Director, Mariam Abdalla
The irony of life is every child wants to grow up and the old people crave for the past and want to go back and become a child with no worries or responsible to share…

The way it was seen :- Director, Robin Chacko
Brian the protaonist of the film is a desperate loner and very introverted person. He desires to live a life full of zest but he lacks courage to reach out. In desperation he tries to end his life ut fails as he is scared to die. Caught in dilemma between life to live full zest and death he moves in desperation in search of freedom from this eternal web of confusion.

Mind Set :- Director, Moti P Sutar
A weird neurosurgeon sets on to conduct a bizarre experiment on two condemned prisoners and devices a more cruel method of executing the condemmed. Is the human right watching?

Inauguration of 69th Festival of Short Digital Films

L to R : Rohit Sardana, Sanjeev Sood, Sandeep Marwah, Amit Jani and Vivek Mittal

Curtain raiser function

The leading lady of the feature film Assma and successful actress of a large number of Hindi movies Hrishita Bhatt advised the aspiring actors to prepare themselves for giving a wide range of performance. Begin somewhere and keep learning and improving all the time she added. The young, beautiful and talented actress with great screen presence together with the Hero of the film Shubh were interacting with the students of Asian Academy of Film & Television, Asian School of Media Studies and Asian Business School at Noida Film City.Answering questions Shubh said that filmmakers indeed have a great opportunity to communicate with the masses and to convey message laced with entertainment. He was the view that each film could deal with at least one cause for the elimination of evils prevalent in the society and to make it a happy, healthy and balanced one. Asserting that by and large films are inspired by the life around us, Shubh said his first film Assma is a real life drama. The producer of the feature film Shakti Mukherjee said that talented and passionate film professionals could create their own space in the show world even without a god father. Addressing the large gathering on this occasion Atul Vyas of Indo-American Chamber of Commerce said that the initiative taken by Sandeep Marwah to promote cellphone cinema really ahead of time. Cellphone and the related technological developments have enabled every citizen of the world to make and watch movies anywhere and at anytime he added. Vidhant Kannoi of Bathbuzz.com, Harsh Narayan of Dragon.com and Shantanu of Gurujee.com also shared their views with the audience on the potential of cellphone cinema. Subhand Hrishita Bhatt were made the life members of the prestigious International Film & Television Club on this memorable occasion.

Seminar : 2nd International Cell Phone Cinema

President of Indian Motion Picture Producers Association and a well known educationist T P Agarwal said that lack of in-depth knowledge of film production on the part of multinational and their over enthusiasm to venture into it had generally been unhelpful to the industry. He further said that improper understanding of various aspects of film making has resulted in the production of largely unsuccessful films in the recent past. Unrealistic cost of production of the films financed by the multi nations has indeed set bad precedents in the industry,he added. President, IMPPA was participating in a seminar organized by President of Asian Academy of Film & TV, Asian School of Media Studies and Asian Business School Prof Sandeep Marwah on the occasion of 2nd International Festival of Cell phone Cinema at Noida, Film city. Voicing his concern over unusually large number of feature films awaiting their release, T P Agarwal advised the film producers to choose good subjects for screen presentation. He was of the view that attempt to exploit baser human instinct does not pay at thebox office and therefore depicting vulgarity in the films unnecessary. Answering a question put to him by the students T P Agarwal said that film making is not all that simple or fun and that it needs hard work on the part of a team of trained and experienced creative people. Well known film and television writer/directors A S Bedi and Prasan Sinha also shared their experience of and views on the film making and television production, with the students. President of Indian Motion Picture Producers Association accepted life membership of the prestigious International Film & Television Club on this memorable occasion.

Closing Ceremony

3 Cheers to 2nd International Festival of Cell Phone Cinema

Colourful flags ,posters ,hoarding, large gathering of young enterprising and energetic crowd in the campus of Asian Academy Of Film And Television at Marwah Studios Complex made the whole Noida Film City vibrant with the 2nd International Festival of Cellphone Cinema especially on this 7th and closing day of the festival. The international guest Kurt Inderbitzin ,renowned film producer from Hollywood,said,” I am proud to be associated with innovative people, you never know who may give one unique idea while making Mobile Cinema to the best producer of this industry.” Another International jury member Prof Karl Bardosh of Tisch School Of Arts, New York University, who was talking to the audience through internet expressed and explained the need for Mobile Cinema. “Have confidence and conviction people will understand you in no time” ,said Industry Pundit renowned film Writer and Director Rahul Rawail known for his films like Betab, Love Story, Arjun, Arjun Pandit ,Khuch Khati Kuch Mithi etc joined on the jury bench with another Industry Giant Pankaj Parashar, largely known for his films like Jalwa,ChalBazz, Aasman Se Gira ,Himalaya Putra, ect to assess more than 400 entries received from all over the World for 2nd International Festival of Cellphone Cinema.” I am not emphasizing on the techniques but I can say that these films are made by heart ,I can see emotions in all the films.”said Pankaj Parashar. .Rajjat Barjataya of Rajshri.com added the young spirit to the Jury. He replied to all the technical questions asked by the national press. “All entries will get participation certificates,15 top still shots and 11 short films are the recipient of consolation certification. US Dollar 2000 will be awarded to the winners.”said Sandeep Marwah International President of Asian Academy Of Film And Television during the function.”I am expecting 140 million people will be able to watch cinema on Mobile in next three years in India.”Marwah added. The function ended with special thanks to the partners The Film and TV Producers Guild of India, Batchbuzz.com, Dragon.com, Rajshri.com, Times Broad Band and, 1takemedia.com, Shivkala Motion Pictures, International Film And Television Club by Akshay Marwah director of the festival.

Winner Of Cell Phone Cinema

1st “All Elements of Hand – EK KAVITA” by Sachin Sreshta & Mukti Krishnan wins USD 1000″

2nd “Rainwaters” by Sachit Sadanandan wins USD 500 ”

Top Still Picture

” Dead Carrier can Die too ” BY Kamal Mahrishi – WIN 500 USD

Still Picture Nominees

Aatif Khan
Happy – Happy Independence day

Siddharth Trivedi
Clouds on fire – A Bare tree in front of a sunset

Dinesh Raj Methuku
Sunset – Amazing sunset at my town, the timely capture of the fisherman rafting through the dusky sun rays, shot by my Nokia N93

Kamal Mahrshi
Death Carrier can die too – this was a sight to watch, this van must have carried a lot of dead bodies and now see its dead itself.

Krishnan Vasant
Concrete mundane existence, travel monotonous, the journey pre-defined, cast in concrete

Nelu Sherpa
Expression – This was taken in a local school in a small village at the feet of Mt.Everest. Regardless of what is happening around them they show happiness in their own innocent way.

Parmita Borah
Catch a flight

Prince shadwal
Health on finger – An apple handheld

Radha Varanasi
Beautiful day Shot at necklace road, Hyderabad…in the morning….with my cell phone NOKIA

Ritika Negi
Rainy Showers – It was raining on June 5, 2007 at 4.00 p.m. when I was in Ranikhet. Suddenly, I saw towards north. I was dumb bound to see the beautiful scene of rain showers falling from the clouds. I immediately captured this scene in my

Smile for me
Nature

Srijit Roy
Desolation – the isolation of human existence

Viji Joy
No parking

Vikram Prabhu
Frosted – From the car early at 5 in hill station

Vipul Arora
Roots – Indian Flag describes prosperity, peace, culture so does this photograph in which you can see a flag. The train for motion as keep walking towards its aim, white clothes for peace and last but not the least cow dung cakes on the wall which tells us earthiness.

Video Nominess

Jacqueline Segal
Change Grows on Tress – Motorbikes pollution carbon offsetting

Mukti krishan
Ek Kavita – Animated poetryek kavitahands

Nilu Sherpa
Just an ordinary dog – Fiction

Marcio Soares
Cell Phone Memories – cell phone cinema new media

Dhairya arora
Spiritual controversies – compeled to commit suicide

Ranjan Shetty
Solitude Dreams – Ranjan Shetty Georges Belinga Wendy Ann Mansilla

Ajay Rationalist
Lost and Found

Sachit Sadanandan
Rain Water

Gaurav Sharma
Our trip to Bheemeshwari – zindagi farhan akhtar music video hit the road boyz boys Bheemeshwari Karnataka India Darshan short film experimental bike bikes fun musical mountain mountains rockon rock on

Moving Beyond Words – The film Moving beyond words is as audio-visual exploration into the mental state of a war photojournalist who has been haunted with his war assignments, the images of destruction, killings, terror.

2nd Day Function

Inauguration of Festival

Screening of Cell Phone Films

Cultural Program

Prize Distrubution to Wining Films

2nd Day Function