Indywood Film Carnival is the ultimate film carnival in the world which would celebrate the very best that cinema has to offer. Scheduled at the world’s largest integrated film studio – Ramoji Film City, Hyderabad; Under the Patronage of the honorable chief minister of Telangana, Shri. K. Chandrasekhar Rao, the film carnival is expected to attract over 2000 delegates and 20,000 footfalls from over 100 countries. Delegates will include film industry professionals, business heads, entrepreneurs, film journalists, media experts, industry aspirants and thousands of film enthusiasts from all corners of the world.
The 4 day film carnival would encompass 15 major segments including All Lights India International Film Festival, Indywood Film Market, Golden Frame Awards, International Film Business Awards, Panel Discussions, Seminars, Workshops and Interactive Sessions, Red Carpet, Talent Hunt & Talent Shows, Musical Nites, Master Classes, Theme Park, Oscar movie screenings, Product Launches & Brand Shows, General Body Meets of Associations, Celebrity Business Meets, Film Museum, Student Nite, Investor’s meet, Celebrity and Director’s Meets, Cinematographers & Editors Day, Festival Directors Meets, networking sessions, entrepreneur’s meet and much more.
Since the announcement of the second edition of the Indywood Film Carnival, many industry dignitaries voiced their support to the carnival. Shri Ravi Kisan (renowned Bhojpuri actor), Prosenjit Chatterjee (a well accomplished Bengali actor) and Shri Subodh Bhave (an extraordinarily talented Marathi actor) have joined in the carnival as Brand Ambassadors of Bhojpuri, Bengali and Marathi industry respectively. Some of the other big names who have joined in include Shyam Benegal (Film Director), Anupama Chopra (Film Critic), Sukankan Roy (National award winner, Director of Sound of Joy), Senthil Kumar (Cinematographer of Baahubali), Kaushik Moitra (Partner of TMT law practice), Satish Kataria (Managing Director, Katapoolt), Pete Draper (Chief Technical Director at Makuta VFX), Peter Hein (Stunt Coordinator), Rupa Dash (CEO – Word Women Foundation), Sudhir Mishra (Film Director) and Vivek Agnihotri (Film Director), Honeymoon M. Al-Jabir (Film Director – Tanzania), Uday Sigh (Managing Director – Motion Pictures Distributors Association), Nitin Chandrakant Desai (Producer / Art Director), Natasha Nischal (Make-Up Expert / Creative Consultant – Lakme), Vishal Kumar Maheshwari (Country Manager India – Vuclip), Anant Mahadevan (Screenwriter), K.K. Senthil Kumar (Film Cinematographer), Mayank Shekhar (Journalist), Ameet Naik (Managing Partner, Naik & Co.), Pankaj Pachauri (Managaing Director, NDTV), Agbor Gilbert Ebot (CEO & Founder) and Asambom Nyingchuo (Secretary General, Cameroon Film Festival, Cameroon), Ed Umoja (Festival Director, Piton Film Festival, NY, United States of America) Hanu Roj (Festival Director, Jaipur Film Festival, India), Hope Opara (Festival Director, EKO International Film Festival, Nigeria), Basir Seerat (Afghan Documentary Film festival, Afghanistan), Raja Deka (Representative – Depth of Field International Film Festival, USA), Jarrod A Knowles (Director of Marketing, Wide Screen Film Festival, USA), Scott Hillier and Giedrė Bumbulytė (Director, The European Independent Film Festival, France).
The two major flag off events of Indywood Film Carnival are:
ALL LIGHTS INDIA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL (ALIIFF)
ALIIFF aims at providing a unique platform for global film industry to portray excellence in film making, aids to inspire, nurture and integrate the Indian Cinema industry thereby facilitating congregation of people and nations. The festival provides a premier showcase for all aspects of filmmaking: the art, the filmmaker, talented directors and actors, and the film lover in all of us. ALIIFF aims at educating the community & festival attendees through the art and science of film, promoting cross-cultural awareness, the exchange of ideas, and social understanding. ALIIFF takes a new approach of Cinema as Knowledge as theoretical construct, national culture, material object, artistic work, technical, technological up gradation and social practice. The festival will have different episodes starting from an opening ceremony and then includes various sessions like World Premier, Oscar Contented Movie Screenings, Indywood Panorama, Master Classes, Retrospective and Tributes, Closing Nights, Country Focus Screenings, World Cinema Screenings etc. A Micro, Short and Documentary festival which is exclusively designed to promote talented short film crew and a Campus based Students to identify the budding talents from campus are also planned with the main international feature film festival.
INDYWOOD FILM MARKET (IFM)
Indywood Film Market (IFM) is a premier trade market for the film industry professionals facilitating sales and promotion of International cinemas to Indian market and the sales of Indian Cinema to International arena. Organised with All Lights India International Film Festival, the market is an array of activities where delegates buy, sell, exhibit and pitch their content. Indywood Film Market is set to showcase films, film products, cinematic expertise and much more to the global audience .The main sessions of Indywood Film Market will be the Market Screenings, Viewing Rooms, Film Conferences, Script Writing Labs, Producers Network, Film Finance Forum, Panel Discussions, Seminars etc. Since, a major part of film business include location hunts, tax benefits and incentive programs, there will also be a special exhibiting section for Tourism Departments of various countries and also Tourism Department of various states in India. The market will serve as the converging point for all global buyers and sellers, established personalities / companies to the fresh and upcoming ones meet and connect at the film market.
Besides the Film Market and Film festival, the carnival would encompass:
Indywood Interactions: A platform to bring together prominent film industry professionals to discuss not just film business but also includes interactive gatherings from the global film industry
International Film Business Awards: Initiated in association with Indywood Film Market (IFM), International Film Business Awards (IFBA) is organised to honor the commitment, passion and excellence of distinct film personalities, including film marketers, producers, distributors, production houses, exhibitors who play a significant part in the success of a film.
Short Film Corner: a creative global platform for enthusiastic filmmakers to support their creative urges and out of the box artistic experiments.
Indywood Tourism: Offers unique and exclusive tourism packages for the film enthusiasts to go through the inspiring history of 100 years of Indian cinema. Studios, archives, museums, exhibitions, locations and film cities of historical importance can be visited. We have packages for taking the tourists to the various exotic locations like the Tajmahal, the eternal symbol of love, the golden beaches of Goa, and the dream house boat ride through the back waters of Kerala.
Indywood Talent Hunt: Next generation film industry talents will be searched at international students level, found and awarded at the Indywood Film Carnival. Talent hunt also aims to launch international co-production projects from India using Indian Talents.
This year’s carnival would also explore regional cinema industry, with a special focus on North East. Indywood Film Carnival shall bring together the state’s cultural and diverse forms of aesthetic contents all under one roof. Though, Indywood Film Carnival, they would be able to promote their industry and exhibit their works on a global front.
Cinema has and shall always remain a ‘Culture’ in our country that breaks all traditional barriers of cast, creed, religion and language and Indywood Film Carnival aims to brings the best of cinema world together. As we are spreading our wings of liberation to set rolling a series of transformations to rejuvenate the cultural phenomena we fondly call ‘Cinema’, we invite the entire industry to be a part of this carnival and make this journey eventful.