Whistling Woods Bags Three Awards at the Pune International Film Festival
The 8th Pune International Film Festival (PIFF) 2010 was held from January 7th-14th, 2010 and displayed its cinematic universality with a host of film personalities, celebrities, press, technical delegates and movie buffs from across the world.
It’s the 3rd year of the “International Student Film Competition” at the PIFF, where more than 300 short film submissions were received from over 55 film & animation institutes in over 20 countries across the world. The student film competition is part of the PIFF initiative to reach out to students from all over the world and offers budding filmmakers a platform to showcase their work, judged by a panel of eminent international jury.
It was a great moment for the students of Whistling Woods International (WWI) as they won 3 awards at the International Student Short Film Competition. The students of WWI won the Best Screenplay Award-Live Action Film & US$ 1000, the ARRI student Cinematography Award 2010 for the film Mai and the Best Animated Film Award & US$ 500 for the film BeJinxed respectively.
The International Best Live Action Film Award & US$ 2000 was won by The Watch Clinic (Ghadyalancha Dawakana) by a student of FTII, Elisa Miller from Centro de Capacitación Cinematográfica (CCC), Mexico won the International Best Director-Live Action Films Award & US$ 1000 for her film Roma and the International Best Animated Film Award & US$ 500 was won by Inkä Bolä from Gobelins L'Ecole de L'Image, Paris.
Eminent film personalities like Konkona Sen, Rahul Bose, Jackie Shroff were present at the festival and Rajesh Khanna, Devanand and Pyarelal received Lifetime Achievement Awards at the opening of the festival. Subhash Ghai-Guest of Honour (PIFF), said “I am really pleased that the International Short Film competition has now become an integral part of PIFF and WWI is taking a keen initiative to promote this section. Some of the short films I saw were wonderful .”
Honourable Chief minister Mr. Ashok Chavan gave away the awards to the winners at the closing ceremony on the 14th of January 2010 and congratulated Mr. Suresh Kalmadi, Chairman-PIFF and Mr. Jabbar Patel, Director-PIFF for the splendid film festival held for 7 days in Pune. On this occasion, Mr. Chavan said, “Thanks to Subhashji and Whistling Woods for recognizing young talent from all over India & the world and promoting them, across all aspects of filmmaking. Maharashtra is proud to have WWIL in Mumbai to educate & promote young talent.”
Expressing his gratitude, Mr. Kalmadi said, “We really thank Whistling Woods for being an integral part of PIFF by organizing the Student Film competition and also for providing the Short film awards. I give full support to WWI because they are doing a lot to spread the movement of filmmaking throughout the country.”
It’s the 3rd year of the “International Student Film Competition” at the PIFF, where more than 300 short film submissions were received from over 55 film & animation institutes in over 20 countries across the world. The student film competition is part of the PIFF initiative to reach out to students from all over the world and offers budding filmmakers a platform to showcase their work, judged by a panel of eminent international jury.
It was a great moment for the students of Whistling Woods International (WWI) as they won 3 awards at the International Student Short Film Competition. The students of WWI won the Best Screenplay Award-Live Action Film & US$ 1000, the ARRI student Cinematography Award 2010 for the film Mai and the Best Animated Film Award & US$ 500 for the film BeJinxed respectively.
The International Best Live Action Film Award & US$ 2000 was won by The Watch Clinic (Ghadyalancha Dawakana) by a student of FTII, Elisa Miller from Centro de Capacitación Cinematográfica (CCC), Mexico won the International Best Director-Live Action Films Award & US$ 1000 for her film Roma and the International Best Animated Film Award & US$ 500 was won by Inkä Bolä from Gobelins L'Ecole de L'Image, Paris.
Eminent film personalities like Konkona Sen, Rahul Bose, Jackie Shroff were present at the festival and Rajesh Khanna, Devanand and Pyarelal received Lifetime Achievement Awards at the opening of the festival. Subhash Ghai-Guest of Honour (PIFF), said “I am really pleased that the International Short Film competition has now become an integral part of PIFF and WWI is taking a keen initiative to promote this section. Some of the short films I saw were wonderful .”
Honourable Chief minister Mr. Ashok Chavan gave away the awards to the winners at the closing ceremony on the 14th of January 2010 and congratulated Mr. Suresh Kalmadi, Chairman-PIFF and Mr. Jabbar Patel, Director-PIFF for the splendid film festival held for 7 days in Pune. On this occasion, Mr. Chavan said, “Thanks to Subhashji and Whistling Woods for recognizing young talent from all over India & the world and promoting them, across all aspects of filmmaking. Maharashtra is proud to have WWIL in Mumbai to educate & promote young talent.”
Expressing his gratitude, Mr. Kalmadi said, “We really thank Whistling Woods for being an integral part of PIFF by organizing the Student Film competition and also for providing the Short film awards. I give full support to WWI because they are doing a lot to spread the movement of filmmaking throughout the country.”