WINNERS!!!!!

The DAM this year is finally done...


Here are the winners in all the three categories:

Fiction Category
A Muslim... But Not a Terrorist by Douglas D'Gama, Mumbai

Non Fiction Category
Jab Bhagwan Bheek Mangta Hai by Manish Saini, National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad

Animation and SFX Category
Arjun by Ajay Singh Supahiya, IIT, Mumbai


CONGRATULATIONS!!

International Presence in the DAM fest

Current tally of International films in the competitive section of the DigitAll Movement Film Fest.

Pakistan: 9 Films.

Los Angeles, USA: 2 Films.

New York, USA: 1 Film.

Hong Kong: 1 Premier film in Professional category.

Slovenia: 2 Films.

Iceland: 1 Film.

Netherlands: 1 Film.


... and counting.

Schedule for the Festival

Please click on these links to download the schedules*:


Daily Schedule of Events and Workshops

Competitive Screenings: 18th January

Competitive Screenings: 19th January

Competitive Screenings: 20th January


For queries, please contact Madhura Sukalikar: +91 9821185729 or email us at thedamfest@gmail.com

* The schedule is subject to change without prior notice under special circumstances.

A Voyeur's sneak peek

Sunday, January 13, 2008
0420 hrs

Half a kilometer away from the host venue, the DAM(ned) HQs - Maddy and Surbhi's house (which is our screening ground for shortlisting received films and now resembles a place which has shortly before been visited by a hurricane) - We are reminded of the screening discipline instilled in us by AS since semester 1, for the screening marathon we partake in to inch closer to DAM. Voyeur says that the entries show a lot of promise and the animation section is one to watch out for, with few but really solid, a**kicking entries! And is more than pleasantly surprised to see that documentaries can entertain too! Keep watching the space below for more gossip from the DAM and a voyeur's sneak peeks :)

The Happy Voyeur

Shortlisted Entries

Hi all,

These are the final short listed films so far.

1. Vrindavan - Aviral Raj Sharma
2. Elements - Tushar Paranjape
3. Within - Tushar Paranjape
4. Levis - Maleha Anees Barry
5. Happy Valentines - Maleha Anees Barry
6. Superwoman - Maleha Anees Barry
7. Rocker - Suraj Nair
8. When The Orphan Met The Friend - Ankush Seth
9. All The Small Things - Alok Naik
10. Art of War - Alok Naik
11. Too Close to Home - Khurram Mughal
12. Nirvana - Siba Najam
13. Javeda Zindagi - Benazir Shah
14. A Gift of Art - Arunjit Shah
15. Maya - Abhra Aich
16. Humse Poocho Ye Aawargi Hai Kya - Annie Napoleaon
17. A Muslim But Not A Terrorist - Dogulas D'Gama
18. Yours Affectionately, Subramania Siva - V.Rohin
19. Adharottar - Rukshana Tabassum
20. Pune-Traffic - Sudesh Parwar
21. Lips Jokes - Igor Krizamovskij
22. Tea Break - Srinivas Sunderrajan
23. Life in Sine - Salil Lal Ahamed
24. The Bus Stand - Ashwani Thakur
25. Pandhari Chi Vari - Sudesh Pawar
26. Suvvadugal - R. Sai. Gokul
27. Crying In The Dark - B. Prassanna
28. The Runnig Cicken - Ellen Baryshev
29. The Mudcake - Dr. gaurav Chhabra
30. The Last Pink Rabbit - Igor Krizamovskij
31. Dyalee-A Fading Glory - Ajay Saklani
32. With Love From Santa - Aamreeta Gautam
33. The Last Train - Amol Karnik
34. The Absolute Theory - Parth P Trivedi
35. Arjun - Ajay Singh Supahiya
36. Phir Azad - Gaurav Dave
37. Chasing Angelina Jolie - Saurav Dey
38. Dream On - Abhinav Tripathi
39. Jump - Abhinav Tripathi
40. Come Back - Abhinav Tripathi
41. Snapped - Prashant Narayan
42. Sans - Siddhartha Gautam Singh
43. Janani - Siddhartha Gautam Singh
44. JAF in RGB - Ankit Mehrotra
45. Austim and Me - Shweta Korde
46. Mere Paas Ma Hai - Ashwini Mishra
47. Montage My Love - R. Premnath
48. The Cradle - Aviral Raj Sharma
49. Ashtray - Aviral Raj Sharma
50. 14th Feb - Aviral Raj Sharma
51. Aimway - Debashish Bharadwaj
52. Ads on Poverty - Maleha Anees Barry
53. Child Prostitution - Benazir Shah
54. Roz-e-Mehshr - Syed Muhammad Kazim Abidi
55. Jab Bhagwan Bheek Mangta Hai - Manish Saini

Congratulations!!!

We hope to meet you all during the fetival.

Please confirm your bookings for accommodation at thedamfest@gmail.com asap.

For more datials conatct Surbhi Goel - +91 9960280006

Till Then Keep DAMing!!!

Special Attractions

Special Attractions at DigitAll Movement Film Festival:

- Screening of “Let’s Talk” – first feature film shot digitally. Director: Ram Madhwani.

- Screening of “Dharm”, a film on religious and social issues by Ms. Bhavna Talwar.

- Premiere Show in India: "Sparkling Red Star", an animated festure film directed by Charlie Wong, a 2007 release in Hong Kong.

- Screening of "Aabra Ka Daabra" , first 3-D film made in India, produced by Mr. Ramesh Meer, The FX Factory.

- Open air screenings at night in the amphitheatre.

Delegate Registration Procedure

Hi all,

The DAM Fest is open for delegate entry registration. Please follow this simple procedure for entring the festival.

- Mail us at thedamfest@gmail.com or log on to http://www.thedamfest.com/ for downloading the delegate entry form.

- Each member should send us the form (duly authorized by your institute/organization/association) with full particulars and two passport sized recent photographs as early as possible.

- The delegate pass is meant for attending the screenings and other events. Entry fee is Rs.150 for Pune based delegates and Rs. 700 for outstation delegates. This amount includes travel and accommodation within the city for outstation students. No entry fee has to be paid by delelgates who has sent a film as an entry in the competetive category for DAM Fest.

- This amount has to be paid either by cash or demand draft in favor of Symbiosis Institute of Media and Communication, payable at Pune. The passes would be issued only after the receipt of this amount.

- All the things have to be couriered to:

The DAM Fest,

Symbiosis Institute of Media and Communication,

Survey No - 231

Vimaan Nagar,

Pune,

Maharashtra - 411014

Till then keep DAMing!!!

Delegate Entry Fee

Hi all,

This is to address a common query regarding the delegate entry to the festival.
The delegate entry fee would depend differ accordingly

1. If the interested participant sends a film as an entry in the competetive category. Then there is NO delegate entry FEE for the PRODUCER & DIRECTOR of the film.
2. A delegate entry fee of Rs 150 for three days for students studying in Pune.
3. A delegate entry fee of Rs 700 for three days for students outside Pune. This amount INCLUDES accommodation and travel within the city.

For further information please feel free to mail us or call us. Don't forget to visit our website - www.thedamfest.com

Till then keep DAMing!!!

The Website is Functional Again

Hi all,
We have sorted the problem with the website and finally its functional again.
So, to know more about the festival and to get latest updates log on to www.thedamfest.com

Till then keep DAMing

Speakers

LATEST UPDATES on the confirmed speakers list!


18th January 2008: Fiction Day

- Mrs. Bhavna Talwar, Director of Dharm.
- Ms. Tanuja Chandra, Director of Sur and Zindagi Rocks. Recently has made a digital film called Hope and a Little Sugar.
- Mr. Pushpendra Mishra, Veteran Adfilmmaker.


19th January 2008: Non- Fiction Day

- Mr. R. V. Ramani, senior documentary filmmaker.
- Ms. Amardeep Galsin , Documentary and corporate film maker.


20th January 2008: Animation and Special FX Day

- Mr. Rahul Bakshi, Co-producer of animated feature film Dashavtar.
- Mr. Mohan Krishnan, EFX Prasad Labs, Chennai.
- Mr. Ramesh Meer, managing director, The FX Factory.


Here is your chance to interact with these speakers and more at the DigitALL Movement Film Festival at SIMC, Pune.

Download Forms

Till we get our website issues sorted out, here is where you can download the form. It is crude, but it works.

Download Info Document
Download Competition Entry Form
Download Rules and Guidelines

Cheers

Formats and Enclosures

There has been some confusion as to the format in which the entries are to be sent.

- The entries have to be sent in TWO copies. Preferabably in separate fomats. E.g.: One vDVD and one VCD. This is so that even if one disk does not work then, hopefully, the other will. If it is in the same format, e.g. both are vDVDs, then try and burn them on separate machines so that the risk factor is minimised.

- DO NOT send data disks with .avi, .mpeg, or .mov files. ONLY send disks that can be played in any common PAL DVD player.


Also with every entry we require the following enclosures:

1. Two Passport sized photographs of yourself.
2. The filled form.
3. Two screencaps or hi resolution photographs of the film: you can either send hard copy or email the pics to thedamfest@gmail.com in .jpg, or .tif format. DO NOT send the pictures in .gif or .png format.

We have to have all these materials because they will be printed in the catalogue. Please make sure that you include them with the film entry.

Extension of last Date

Hi All,

Good News.

The last date to enter your films in in the competitive category for all the days has been extended to the 10th of January 2008. So feel free to send in your entries by then.

The DigitAll Movement Film Festival will be held on:

18th January 2008: Fiction Day
19th January 2008: Non- Fiction Day
20th January 2008: Animation and Special FX Day

The entries should be addressed to:

DigitAll Movement
Symbiosis Insitute of Media & Communication
S. No: 231, Vimaan Nagar Pune - 411014

Ph: 91 20 2663 4511/12/13
Mob: +91 9821185729, +91 9960280006

Cheers
Madhura

Poster

Posters are up now. Click to download...

Wallpapers

Here are some more goodies from the DigitAll Movement creatives. Here, you'll find some wallpapers. Both for widescreen and fullscreen format. Click to download!!

Screencapping

A few days back an interested participant asked me this question...

Q. Is it compulsory to submit the stills from the film? Will my film be disqualified if I don't submit them?

A. Well, no. the film will not be disqualified, I said. But there is a possibility that selection committee might not give preference to a film without an accompanying picture. The committee will be given a catalogue with the pictures that will aid them to decide upon the final selection. So, yes, it will be profitable for all participants to submit pictures from their film.

I then went on to tell him that all he had to do was send us some high quality screencaps and the problem will be solved.

Q. But what IS a screen cap?

A. A screen shot (sometimes called a screen capture) is a copy of the screen's contents that can be saved as a graphics file or copied into a document or graphics editor. Various programs are available for creating screen shots, but it is easy to do without any special program.

To take a screen shot on a Windows platform, you press the Print Screen button (usually on the top row of the keyboard) to get a shot of the entire screen. To get a shot of the active window only, you press the Alt key and the Print Screen key at the same time. The screen shot is copied to the clipboard (the memory area that temporarily stores information to be copied to another location ) and can then be pasted into a document in a word processing program such as Word or WordPerfect, or into an image editor, such as Adobe Photo Shop, Paint Shop Pro, or Microsoft Paint if you want to alter the image.

On a Macintosh platform, you press the Command, Shift, and 3 keys to create an image file (called a PICT file). If you press 4 instead of 3, the cursor changes to allow you to select an area of the screen to save. Command, Shift, and 4 with the Caps Lock pressed allows you to create a circular image. Any of the commands with the Control key pressed copies the image to the clipboard.

On a Unix platform, there are different methods for the various interfaces. A common one is the command xwd -out filename.xwd, which allows you to click a screen to make an image file.


Try these links for more info about how to make screen caps:

http://irreproachable.livejournal.com/738.html
http://www.any-capture.com/
http://www.killermovies.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-14607-dvd-screencaps-how-do-you-make-them.html
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/vine/showthread.php?t=464148


For the purposes of the Festival, we request the participants to send a soft copy as well as a hard copy of the screen caps.
1. A generation of quality will not be lost if you send soft copies and not printouts of the pics.
2. It's obviously easier to get soft copies printed.
3. A hardcopy along with your entry will ensure there is no mix up and confusion regarding the pictures.


Cheers
Madhura

Announcing...!

bsiteI suppose there is some relief in being able to say that we are finally open.

Announcing the birth of the DigitAll Movement...


Symbiosis Institute of Media and Communication is organising a South East Asian Digital Film Festival called the ‘DAM fest or the DigitALL Movement Festival’ from the 18th of January 2008 to 20th of January 2008.

This is an exclusively digital film festival. This means that only films that have been made digitally (digital video and animation) would be screened and highlighted on this forum. The Festival would include both screenings and workshops/seminars conducted by experts in this field. Some of the experts we are in contact are: Mr. Ram Madhwani, Mr. Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra, Mr. Anand Patwardhan, Mr. Mike Pandey, Mr. Govind Nihalani and the likes.

The films showcased in the festival are divided in two categories:

Competitive: The category would be open to all amateur and professional film makers. The films would be categorized on the basis of their duration.
Non Competitive: Films made by guest filmmakers and other major films being made in the digital medium would be included here.

These would be further divided as :

• Fiction
• Non Fiction
• Animation and Special Effects

The seminars being organized would thus help amateur and student filmmakers to understand the medium and how to go about making digital films. So everyone's invited to participate fully and whole heartedly and hence strengthen the ‘DigitALL Movement’.

But what IS Digital Filmmaking

Ah, here's something for those a little green about the knowledge of making films digitally:

Digital film making is the process of capturing motion pictures as digital images, rather than on film. Digital capture may occur on tape, hard disks, flash memory, or other media which can record digital data.
Digital film making captures motion pictures digitally, in a process analogous to digital photography. While there is no clear technical distinction that separates the images captured in digital cinematography from video, the term "digital cinematography" is usually applied only in cases where digital acquisition is substituting for film acquisition, such as when shooting a feature film. The term is not generally applied when digital acquisition is substituting for analog video acquisition, as with live broadcast television programs.

Digital vs. Film

1.When shooting on film, response to light is determined by what film stock is chosen. A cinematographer can choose a film stock he or she is familiar with, and expose film on set with a high degree of confidence about how it will turn out. Because the film stock is the main determining factor, results will be substantially similar regardless of what camera model is being used.In contrast, when shooting digitally, response to light is determined by the CMOS or CCD sensor(s) in the camera, and every camera is different. A cinematographer shooting digitally can at once measure and monitor the final result and outcome, without waiting for the result from the developed film.

2.Although very compact and inexpensive digital cameras are becoming more widely available, the image quality is not yet up to the level normally desired for theatrical release. High-end digital cinema cameras tend to be quite large, and some models require bulky external recording mechanisms (though in some cases only a small strand of optical fiber is necessary to connect the camera and the recording mechanism).
In contrast, there are compact 35mm film cameras that produce the full 35mm film resolution and accept standard 35mm lenses

3.Digital acquisition typically offers better performance than film in low-light conditions, allowing less lighting and in some cases completely natural or practical lighting to be used for shooting, even indoors. This low-light sensitivity also tends to bring out shadow detail. Some directors have tried a "best for the job" approach, using digital acquisition for indoor or night shoots, and traditional film for daylight exteriors.

4.Films are traditionally shot with dual-system recording, where picture is recorded on camera, and sync sound is recorded to a separate sound recoding device. In post-production, picture and sound are synced up.
Many cameras used for digital cinematography can record sound internally, already in sync with picture. This eliminates the need for syncing in post, which can lead to faster workflows.

Today, digital acquisition accounts for the vast majority of moving image acquisition, as most content for broadcast is shot on digital formats. Most movies destined for theatrical release are still shot on film, however, as are many dramatic TV series and some high-budget commercials. High-end digital cinematography cameras suitable for acquiring footage intended for theatrical release are on the market since 1999/2000, and have meanwhile gained widespread adoption.

Some notable high-profile directors that have shot with digital equipment include

Sidney Lumet - Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
Andy Wachowski and Larry Wachowski - Speed Racer
Bryan Singer - Superman Returns
Mel Gibson - Apocalypto
David Fincher - Zodiac
Michael Mann - Miami Vice, Collateral
Steven Soderbergh - Guerrilla
Francis Ford Coppola - Youth Without Youth
George Lucas - Star Wars Episode II and III,
Robert Altman - A Prairie Home Companion
Anthony Hopkins - Slipstream
Robert Rodriguez - Sin City, Grindhouse
Lars von Trier - Dogville, Manderlay
David Zucker - Scary Movie 4
Michael Moore - Bowling for Columbine
Sylvester Stallone - Rocky Balboa
Peter Jackson - Crossing the line
David Lynch - Inland Empire
Lee Tamahori - Next
James Cameron - Ghosts of the Abyss, Aliens of the Deep
Tony Scott - Déjà Vu
Jean-Jacques Annaud - Two Brothers
Tim Burton - Corpse Bride

Some of these directors are strong supporters of the change from film to digital, some of them declare that it depends on the particular movie.

Entry Form and Festival Info

Now you can directly download the festival entry form and detailed proposal for the DigitAll Movement from these links...

[EDIT] Apparently the download links are not working. A new link will be up soon please be patient.[/EDIT]

[EDIT2]Please reply to this post with your email id or email at thedamfest@gmail.com for these documents.

Peace All[/EDIT2]

Participate!

Participation in the festival is open to everyone!

Yes, whether you are a student, an amateur or a professional filmmaker, you can showcase your film at the film festival.

Our website is not up as of yet. When it does you can download the entry forms from there. For the time being, send an email to thedamfest@gmail.com and an entry form with more details about the DigitAll Movement will be sent to you.

Otherwise, just comment on this post and I'll email it to you directly.

Cheers!