There’s joy in creation and more in sharing it with others. A talented group of young filmmakers, who were part of ‘ I am the change film project’ participated in various festivals with their remarkable film ‘Advitiya’. Here in their own words they share their experiences:
We (Aseem Latkar, Anish Dedhia, Ridhesh Sejpal, Astha Chopra, Neeti Govila and Priyanka Kulkarni) as a part of team ‘Advitya’ have been highly fortunate enough to showcase our talent at various venues across India. It all began with our desire and will to complete this one movie in 101 hours. We never knew these 101 hours would eventually have us globetrotting (to be precise INDIA trotting).
Team ‘Advitya’ got an excellent opportunity to display its work at the 39th International film Festival of India (IFFI) held at Goa. Our film was short listed for the Short Film Centre section of IFFI. Short film Centre was an exhibition of short films from all over the world. Along with ‘Advitya’ there were films from various countries, on sale. Short film centre was a hot spot for buyers and distributors to buy and sell films. We were lucky enough to impress a few. There were International channels at IFFI, who had come to buy films for their channel. One of the channels THE PROPELLOR from the UK had its representatives constantly looking out for some good work for their channel.
We were their sitting with some of the big names of the industry. Directors like Mr. Sudhir Mishra, Mr. Ketan Mehta and likes were only allowed entry into the short film centre. Our film being a part of it, we got access to many facilities enjoyed by top most people from the filmdom. We had never imagined we would be showing them our film and would be sitting alongside some of the stalwarts of this profession. We also saw world class movies and also attended various Indian movie premiers. Films which we saw at the IFFI not only broadened our perspective towards world cinema but it also taught us a lot about the art of film making.
We are thankful to everyone at MAM movies for giving us this opportunity and the NGO for cooperating with us in the very time of need.
Overall the Goa experience was enriching with all the learning clubbed with a little amount of fun. How can one not have fun when in Goa!
Advitiya was also screened at First Frame International Festival , New Delhi ( Nov 5th – 6th)
