14th
May 2014: Hardly had Jagran Film
Festival opened its call for entries, it ended up receiving hundreds
of entries in the first phase itself. The Festival to open
on 10
July 2014 in New Delhi is
on with its pre selection process. The last date forreceiving
entries is 15 May 2014.
Of
all the entries received, the Indian regional cinema has participated
in a good measure. Films made in languages Malayalam, Tamil, Kannada,
Telugu, Marathi, Bengali, even Khasi and Bhojpuri have been entered
for the Indian Competition, wherein 21awards are to be presented at a
gala in Mumbai during the final leg of the festival.The awards are
for the Best International Film, Best Indian Feature Film, Best Debut
Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Music, Best Singer, Male and
Female, Best Cinematography, Best Editing, Best Sound, Best Short
Film and so on. Another award added this year onwards is the award
for Best Film Critic and Best Writing on Cinema.
The
Jagran Film Festival is unique in its way of organization. The
festival begins in New Delhi and then travels to 14 other cities of
India before reaching Mumbai, where the grand finale takes place with
almost a week of screenings of all the sections and the awards
ceremony. It’s the longest running film festival of the country,
covering almost three months and crisscrossing across seven states of
India. The festival in its span covers all formats of film
making, involving short and feature film makers and also
professionals engaged in the business of cinema through a variety of
business discussions. During the festival in al the 16 cities
wherever it is organized. Jagran Film Festival doesn’t charge any
submission of participation fee either from the film makers or the
delegates.
Last
year the closing ceremony of the festival had stars like Manoj Kumar,
Kamal Hassan, Akshay Kumar, Prem Chopra, Chandrashekhar, Ranvir
Singh, Sonakshi Sinha, , Tushar Kapoor, Kangana Ranaut, Divya Dutta,
Hezel Keech, Huma Qureshi, Kunal Kapoor, Sudhir Mishra, Nimrat Kaur
and many others were seen rubbing shoulders with international film
makers.
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