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  • ONLINE SHORT FILM FESTIVAL 2017
  • The aim of the festival is to eliminate myths and misconceptions that individuals have related to sex, sexuality, gender including sexual and reproductive health and rights and instead provide a scope for discussion and sharing of information in an entertaining manner while promoting and encouraging the audio-visual medium as a tool for change.

  • Congratulations to the all Winners

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Results

FPA India Award for Best Film (Fiction/Non-Fiction) Awarded By Jury

FICTION


RANGG

Prachiti Khavte

NON FICTION


UNMASKED

Ankita Sorot

Most Popular Narrative Film (Fiction) Awarded By Audience



BHAALU

Shubhanshi Mishra

Most Popular Documentary Film (Non-Fiction) awarded by audience



WOMEN HOLD THE FORT

Srinidhi Iyer

Best Director (Fiction/Non-Fiction) Awarded By Jury



BHAALU

Shubhanshi Mishra

FPA India Award for Expression (Best Content- Fiction/Non-Fiction) award



BHAALU

Shubhanshi Mishra

Jury Members





Dr. Sharada

Dr. Sharada is active in the developmental sector for the last 32 years as a teacher, researcher, trainer and programme manager. She is the Director of Population First for the last 15 years. She had the opportunity to work with international agencies like UNICEF, UNFPA and other Non-government organizations as a consultant. She was on the faculty of the Central University of Hyderabad and Indian Institute of Health Management Research, Jaipur. 
She was invited by the State Department of US to represent India under the International Visitors Leadership Programme (IVLP) on Role of NGOs in Global Gender Issues.  She is special invitee to State Supervisory Board on PCPNDT Act, and a member of the Committee constituted to suggest amendments to MTP Act.
She has been reviewing ads in Campaign India Magazine as Gender Expert for the last couple of years. She was on the jury of ABBY award for gender sensitivity and was a member of the Advisory Committee for the New Vision Fellowship for Script Writers. 


Mr. Naiyer Ghufran

Mr. Naiyer Ghufran has been working as a Director of Photography in the Indian Film Industry on various feature films, documentaries, commercials and music videos for over the past seven years. He is India's premier aerial cinematographer, having received his training from Pictorvision in the US, and rendering his skills on exclusive projects such as I For India and Everest. His credits range from documentaries on architecture (Charles Correa) and dance (Alarmel Valli) to second unit work on films such as Mohenjo-Daro. His Bengali feature Roktokorobi, directed by Amitava Bhattacharya, is currently running in theatres. 


Ms. Mitali Chowhan

Mitali Chowhan has over two decades of Marketing, Communications and Consumer Behaviour experience, working extensively in the Commercial Corporate sector in India and Europe. Her career spans grassroots' Social Research in rural India as well as leadership roles in MNCs headquartered in Europe.
In recent years, Mitali has been pursuing Indian Art History, and also Social Causes including Anti—Human trafficking.

Ms. Jameen

Jameen is a passionate human rights activist, who is a strong believer in working with the Arts as a vehicle to influence change. 
Jameen set- up and led the Reproductive Rights unit at the Human Rights Law Network which went onto achieve a ground-breaking judgement that for the first time in history held a government accountable for a preventable maternal death. 
Jameen has worked with Amnesty International  for 12 years+ in various roles  - includes:  Regional Campaign Director, South Asia and  Senior Campaign strategist on Amnesty's global priority campaign - My Body My Rights - which focused on greater implementation of reproductive rights for women and girls. 
Jameen holds a L.L.M. in International Human Rights Law from the Irish Centre for Human Rights, NUI Galway Ireland.


Ms. Vinitha Venkatraman

Vinitha Venkatraman brings together media, communication and the social perspective to create solutions for the development sector and corporate social responsibility. Having worked in leading positions with two leading organizations in their respective sector: Times of India (Media), National AIDS Control Organization (HIV AIDS-social sector), she has an understanding of media, corporate bodies, government, society and strategies to develop integrated solutions under CSR.
She founded VIVA Development Strategies in 2013 that has 12 clients in less than three years - 4 global organizations (World Health Organization, University of California & Los Angeles, Sonrisas De Bombay, Girl Rising), 3 corporate clients (Novartis, Bharat Petroleum, Sutherland), 5 development firms, NGOs and agencies (PATH, Global Health Strategies, Futures International, Karnataka State Promotion Trust, Family Planning Association of India). The projects are in the social space and display her expertise in strategic consulting, knowledge, partnerships, implementation, capacity building, communication, advocacy and reporting of CSR.


  • All young people should become empowered to make choices that lead to healthy, fulfilled lives.

  • Every young person is unique and diverse – Young people’s diversities may be enabling or limiting depending on the context in which they live. Youth services, programs and education should be designed and delivered in an equitable way that is responsive to their diversities

  • Sexuality is a central aspect of being human throughout life and encompasses sex, gender identities and roles, sexual orientation, eroticism, pleasure, intimacy and reproduction

  • A girl child who is even a little bit educated is more conscious of family planning, health care and, in turn, her children's own education.

    Azim Premji

  • You cannot have maternal health without reproductive health. And reproductive health includes contraception and family planning and access to legal, safe abortion.

    Hillary Clinton

  • Sexual rights embrace human rights. They include the right of all persons, free of coercion, discrimination and violence

  • Every individual, regardless of age, has the right to enjoy the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health and well-being, including sexual and reproductive health

About Film Festival Director

Abhishek Bandekar is a writer-filmmaker in his early 30s. He began as a film-critic, writing frequent reviews for an Australian website (eFilmCritic) covering Hollywood films and later had a weekly cinema column in an English language daily published out of Pune (Sakaal Times). He forayed into filmmaking a few years later, working on several projects, varying from documentaries to feature films (Indian and Internantional) and commercials, in a wide range of capacities as co-writer, chief assistant director, production executive and associate director. He also holds the distinction of having been a part of the only aerial filmmaking project in India thus far, Adlabs Imagica's I For India, wherein more than a 100 locations were shot aerially from a helicopter across a period of 3 years. He turned independent director soon after, directing AVs, documentaries and a commercial or two. He has been a partner of a production house (Zeitgeist Films AFD) for the past 5 years, line-producing local as well as foreign projects. He is presently working on a feature film script that he intends to direct at the earliest.

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Rules & Regulations  

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Films can be submitted in two categories viz.--%> <%--01) Fiction i.e. Narrative Short 02) Non-Fiction i.e. Documentary Short Films submitted in either category cannot be longer than 20 minutes in duration. Films submitted can be shot on negative, digital film cameras, camcorders, mobile phones, etc. and can also be in animated or stop-motion photography formats so long as they meet the thematic scope of the festival. Promotional films and/or brand advertising films will be deemed ineligible for entry.
Applicants must have full rights to the films submitted, including consent of the people appearing in it and licenses to the use of images and musical compositions therein. By submitting a film, the filmmaker confirms that s/he has the necessary permits with regards to the submission and exhibition of the film. A filmmaker can submit no more than 2 films in each category i.e. no more than 4 films in all.
Films submitted should be in the digital formats of avi, mkv, mp4, mov or 3gp. Films not in the English language must have English subtitles. Films made on or before the 31st of December, 2015 are ineligible for entry. Submitted films need not have a censor certificate as the viewers voluntarily choose to view the films on the festival website; however screening of submitted film on the film festival website does not qualify it for any future exhibition without a censor certificate.
Applicants must submit their films after carefully reading the rules and regulations. Only films that meet the necessary guidelines and basic cinematic standards will be screened in the festival. Entry forms must be submitted along with the film. Any person directly or indirectly on the payroll of Family Planning Association of India and/or any member of the film festival cannot submit a film to the festival.
The revised window for the submission of films shall remain open till 2359 hours on the 30th of April, 2017. Films received after this deadline will be summarily rejected. It is advised that films be submitted at the earliest so that if they do not meet any guidelines like a proper credit list, etc. the same can be intimated to the filmmaker and s/he can make the necessary changes and resubmit the film while the window is still open.
Submission of film to the festival does not guarantee screening of it. Only films deemed eligible for being included in the film festival shall be screened on the festival website. The films submitted will be selected by a duly appointed member, and those films selected to be screened will be informed of their selection.
Films once submitted cannot be withdrawn. Films not selected may or may not be informed, and the festival is not obliged to provide reasons for their non-selection. The festival will not entertain any correspondence with regards to the decision of a film not being selected.
The age group for submitting films has been revised after deliberations. The festival is now divided into two groups- one bracket that is open to any Indian national between the ages of 15-29, and a second open category for those not in the previous age bracket. By submitting their films, those under the age of 18 confirm that they have the necessary parental and/or guardian consent. Submitted films must have a title, a credit list and a one-line or a short paragraph summary that must be attached while submitting the film.
Films must not negatively portray FPA India, any Government or Government agency, civil society organization and/or any individual. The Festival reserves the right to reject any film on any grounds such as the likelihood of offending any religious or cultural sentiments. Moreover, the film should not violate any laws of the land including indecent representation of women and others.
By submitting a film, the applicant enters into an unwritten contract with FPA India allowing them to host the film on their website for perpetuity and giving them non-exclusive international rights to screen and disseminate the film at other events and venues. Commercial exploitation of the film shall not be done by FPA India.
Once submitted, selected films will be screened on the festival website from 0000 hours on the 01st of May, 2017 for voluntary viewing by audiences, jury and sponsors alike. Online audience voting window will open simultaneously and remain open for a limited duration.
A jury comprising of a minimum of 5 members will be appointed to evaluate and adjudicate the selected films. The jury shall comprise and reflect a cross-selection of individuals from the world of films, journalism and activism. The decision of the jury will be arrived at by secret individual ballots, and should there be no universal and/or majority agreement, the jury will deliberate in consultation with each other and arrive at a winner. The members of the jury must not have participated in the making of the film in any way, and any such entry found to have a link will be deemed ineligible for any award recognition. The decision of the jury will be final and binding. The jury will evaluate films on their own individual benchmarks and also basic requirements of content, ability to tell a story, technical proficiency and overall finesse.
Films may be awarded in the categories of : • FPA India Award for Best Film (Fiction/Non-Fiction) awarded by Jury • Most Popular Narrative Film (Fiction) awarded by audience • Most Popular Documentary Film (Non-Fiction) awarded by audience • Best Director (Fiction/Non-Fiction) awarded by Jury • IPPF Award for Expression (Best Content- Fiction/Non-Fiction) award by Donor
The winners will be notified and an awards distribution ceremony may or may not be held to honour the winners. The beneficiary accepts that in such a scenario, s/he will bear the travel costs and/or the taxes.
By submitting a film, an applicant agrees to all these rules and regulations. All disputes in respect of any matter relating to film festival shall be subjected to the exclusive jurisdiction of the competent courts and forums in Mumbai. All communication and enquiries may be directed to- URL and contact details
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