In the course of time : Film-making
1:12 PMIndia Film Project
James lee Burke once said : “There is no higher form of artistic expression then film”
The future of Indian cinema, is very much in the hands of short films. Since many years, short films having been bench-marked across the globe and have made a greater and deeper impact in the hearts.
Directors like Anurag Kashyap, Farhan Akhtar, Prakash Jha some up coming promising short-film/ documentary filmmakers like Shivendra Singh Dungarpur whose Celluloid Man was much acclaimed by receiving a P.K. Nair recognition and was screened in film festivals abroad. Nishtha Jain's documentary Gulabi Gang, Supermen of Malegaon by Fiazad Ahmad Khan et cetera. These kind of films, are moving the film fraternity in a huge sense.
All the short film-makers today are having big footsteps in the industry and are getting all the lime-lights they deserve. Their being successful here is the mindset and psychology of audience that works wonders. In today's times the audiences like short and simple, on-the-face story's and morals that can easily be replicated. This is the thing that works and the other is of course the budget. The economy is already perishing high time, yet short films succeed in these times due to its less demanding currencies needed to wrap up the film.
Seeing all the enthusiasm in the youth of today, about raising their voices through the medium of short films, there had to be a platform like INDIA FILM PROJECT, much to the help of young blood and to rescue their thoughts. Though some films win, but the impact made by all the films is of very high quality to be rewarded.
Thus there is no wrong in the third eye prediction that resides in every short filmmaker that; "Short films will change the Indian cinema from top to the bottom"
- Tithi Soni
