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Jaipur International Film Festival
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PLEDGE FOR JIFF
This year’s national level life time achievement award will be given to the legendry actor who is
also famous as a Tragedy King Mr. Dilip Kumar.
“A Few Cubic Meters of love” from Afghanistan will be the opening film of this year’s festival
Rolf De Heer directed Charlie’s Country from Australia has been selected as the Closing film
159 films have been selected in the competition categories for JIFF 2015
Screening of the 159 films, 13 Workshops and Seminars, 4 Special Meets, 4 Master Classes will
be organized by the JIFF during the festival.
In all 34 awards would be given to the films selected by Jury members
From 7th edition of JIFF, best media reporting in both print and electronic category will also be
awarded in the festival
The guest of honor for the inaugural session will be Mr Shaji N.Karun an international film maker
Jaipur 4th January: Jaipur International Film Festival (JIFF) is always a talking point in world film
fraternity because of it’s genuine and fair process of film selection, very high involvement of
international filmmakers and variety of programmes . JIFF is one of the top film festivals not only
in Asia but in the whole world. The highlights of the 7 th edition of the JIFF have been announced
by the organizers in a press conference at hotel Royal Orchid, Jaipur.
Founder and Visionary of JIFF Hanu Roj said, JIFF is a kind of festival which has been designed only
for the film makers, film lovers and students. The motive behind this year festival’s planning is to
introduce world cinema under one roof for every single person who wishes to feel the cinema.
Members of the organizing committee said, from this year JIFF will honor two people with life time
achievement award, one of national level and another from international level. This year’s
national level life time achievement award will be given to the legendary actor who is also famous
as a Tragedy King Mr. Dilip Kumar. Dilip Kumar started his career to work in Bombay talkies movie
“Jwar Bhata “. With his tremendous acting he rules on the heart of fans almost for 6 decades and
more than 60 films. Jaipur International film festival feels proud in honoring this great actor.
JIFF film Market Director Nand Kishore Jalani said that the international level life time
achievement award will be given to a film maker from West Asian film fraternity, but this
information is yet to be confirmed. The official announcement is likely to be done on 30 th January.
“A Few Cubic Meters of love” 90 minutes Persian language feature film of Jamshid Mahmoudi
from Afghanistan will be the opening film of this year’s festival. A romance blooms between a
young Iranian working in a Teheran factory and the daughter of an Afghan worker.
Rolf De Heer directed Charlie’s Country from Australia has been selected as the Closing film of the
festival. it’s a drama feature film of 108 minutes in English language. Blackfella Charlie is out of
sorts. The intervention is making life more difficult on his remote community, what with the
proper policing of whitefella laws now. So Charlie takes off, to live the old way, but in so doing sets
off a chain of events in his life that has him return to his community chastened, and somewhat the
wiser.
From this year festival has separate category of Documentary Feature films. World’s top 7
documentary feature films have been nominated this year for screening. List includes Heritage
from Switzerland, The Mount Of Faith and Bhagya from India, Brave Miss World from USA, Jalanan
from Indonesia, African Pride from Ireland and On Any Sunday-The Next Chapter from USA.
This year there have been more than 1807 entries (from 100+ Countries) out of which 159 films
have been selected in the competition for JIFF 2015. Almost 91 movies from all over the world and
68 from India have nominated. All these films will be screening between 1 – 5 February at Golcha
Cinema and Chamber Bhawan from 1st February to 5th February, 2015.
The list includes as much as 12 films form Rajasthan including Jeevati Re Beti.
Disclosing the number of movie selected in each category he further added that 33 in feature film
category, 7 in Documentary feature category, 86 in short fiction film, 17 in short documentary film
and 16 in Animation film category.
Last year in JIFF 2014 by this time almost 1587 films had already been submitted, out of which 156
films have been included in the final list of nominated films.
Selection committee member V P Dhar Said, the selected films includes the films based mainly on
the issues of Human Rights, Women centric issues, International issues, Love, Relationships, War
and Peace, Literature, Environment, Youth, Lagging behind of third world, our past and the
present, art and democracy and the present political scenario.
Please find the attached full list of nominated films (with day by day screening schedule).
In the 7th edition of JIFF has films from Iran, USA, England, Russia, Spain, Nepal, Bhutan, Croatia,
South Africa, Bahrain, Puerto Rico, Switzerland and many more countries with these international
involvement various Indian state also increase the charm of festival with their films from West
Bengal, Maharashtra, Kerala, Tamil Nadu and many more. Representation of the international
cinema in JIFF continuously increases year by year.
Tendency of the film maker from all over the world towards for Film Market, Co-Production
Market and Script Writing competition is also on the high note.
Screening of the 159 films, 13 Workshops and Seminars, 4 Special Meets, 4 Master Classes will be
organized by the JIFF during the festival. In all these events, participants can interact with huge
number of world filmmakers. A special seminar will be organized on the improvement and the
condition of cinema from Kashmir to Kanyakumari and Bengal to Rajasthan. Besides, there would
be different topics for the discussion like future of Film Festivals, Government Participations and
policies, Film Tourism and Women, Social and today Cinema.
In all 34 awards would be given to the films selected by Jury members, in the festival. It is
noteworthy that out of these, as many as 7 awards have been started from this year only for
Documentary films Category. Similarly, 6 awards for International screenplay and 8 awards for
supporting activities have also been started from this year.
From 7th edition of JIFF, best media reporting in both print and electronic category will also be
awarded in the festival.
The guest of honor for the inaugural session will be Mr Shaji N.Karun an international film maker.
Pledge for JIFF
From the last 6 years continuously smoothly organized the festival and achieved new milestones
every year at all over the world, it’s a incredible thing in itself, but one threat always o looms on
my mind that JIFF might face the financial crisis, like the one in the history Cannes Film Festival
and Festival organizes in Goa by Indian Government has faced, and we all saw in last year the
struggling condition of festival like MAMI. This time period is very important for JIFF future, hence
we humbly request you that you come forward with at least one delegate to support JIFF, as JIFF
has become one of the fastest rising festivals of the world only because of your continuous
support, and it is our duty to take this festival on world top position. Come and join us to save a
new stage of the film world and be a part of its growing journey.
Online delegates registration is open on the JIFF website, the registration charge for all the 159
films are Rs 300 for the students and Rs 400 for the delegates. (Fee in Indian rupees)
For more details please visit festival website www.jifindia.org
The sponsors for the JIFF 2015 are Manipal University-Jaipur, Mahindra Rise, Fortis Hospital, Ask
Me, Rajasthan Chamber Of Commerce and industries, Radio Mirchi and Trivigo.
Yours
(Hanu Roj)
Founder Director-JIFF
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