Calcutta Shorts

Calcutta Shorts - Short Film Festival

Calcutta Shorts

Shortlist Declared

02-11-2022

The City of Joy, Kolkata which is also the most creatively active city in India is about to witness a Unique Short Film Festival on November 2nd, 2022 at the ICCR Auditorium, 9A, Ho Chi Minh Sarani Kolkata.

Short films are said to be the true mirror of the society and they provide the highest challenge of storytelling to the makers. Unfortunately, the number of openings and opportunities available to the Short Film industry is much less than that enjoyed by regular feature films. Keeping that in mind, Anthelion Technology Pvt Ltd, in a joint initiative with Take 5 Communications and in association with Online Magazine – The Creative Post, is presenting their first “Short Film Festival” – “Calcutta Shorts” on the 2nd of November 2022 in Kolkata.

Program Structure:

  • Program starts at – 4.00 pm with Welcome Note
  • Opening Ceremony – 4.00 pm to 4.30 pm
  • Screening Part 1 – 4.30 pm to 6.30 pm
  • Break – 6.30 pm to 7.00 pm
  • Screening Part 2 – 7.00 pm to 8.30 pm
  • Presentation of Certificates and Mementoes – 8.30 pm to 8.45 pm

Entries are invited in any language for short films under the following terms –

  1. Duration of the Short Film – Not more than 30 minutes.
  2. Language – Any. Subtitles in English must for languages other than English, Bengali and Hindi
  3. Entry Fees – Rs 515/-.
  4. Submission of films in HD quality mp4 files only

Please note that –

  1. The final selection of films to be screened at the Festival, on 2nd November 2022, would be done by the Selection Committee of the Festival. Applications that will not be shortlisted will NOT get any refund of registration fees.
  2. The same Shortlisted Films would be screened online on the Website / Facebook Page / YouTube channel of The Creative Post on 6th November 2022.
  3. The decision of the Selection Committee on shortlisting the final set of films to be screened shall be FINAL & ABIDING to all participants.
  4. All film makers of shortlisted films would be invited to present their respective films before screening.
  5. Participation Certificates and Mementoes would be awarded to all film makers whose films would be screened at the Festival.
  6. All participants may choose to share their films in the YouTube Channel of The Creative Post after the event. The Channel may sponsor more films than the screened ones. Any film shall be considered for YouTube posting only if the Film Maker agrees to that.

This event shall be covered by The Creative Post and shall be extensively digitally promoted to the global audience.

For any query before registration, please contact Mr. Dipayan Banerjee – 9733504525.

Registration Process:

So, if any short film maker is willing to participate in Calcutta Shorts, please first make the non-refundable payment of INR 515/- using any of the following two methods. Kindly note the transaction id for filling the form thereafter. Once payment is made, please return to this page again and fill the form with transaction id of the payment. Thereafter just send a WhatsApp message to 9733504525. We shall confirm your registration within 3 working days.

Important Dates:

  • Last Date of Registration is – 30th September 2022.
  • Last Date of submitting the Film in .mp4 format is –10th October 2022.
  • Declaration of shortlist for the screening is – 20th October 2022.
  • Physical Screening at ICCR – 2nd November 2022.
  • Global Online Screening – 6th November 2022.

Shortlist for Calcutta Shorts to be played on 2nd November at ICCR.

It is to be noted that all the films were extremely good but due to available time constraint we had to choose the following 11 films to be screened at ICCR. But in the online version of the Calcutta Shorts on November 6, 2022, we shall be playing all the 19 films.

Sl. No. Film Name Language Applicant’s Name Regn. No. Location Film Duration
3 Jonmodin (Birthday) Bengali Sudip Chatterjee TCP-CS22-003 Kolkata, India 08:38
4 Bhetki Bengali Dona Roy TCP-CS22-004 Kolkata, India 12:51
8 The Writer Bengali Amit Dutta TCP-CS22-008 Kolkata, India 18:30
10 Interview Hindi Santodeb Dutta TCP-CS22-010 Kolkata, India 18:00
11 Anuranan (Reasonance) Assamese Rupantar Borpatra Gohain TCP-CS22-011 Guwahati, Assam 14:09
12 Help! English Aishwarya Das TCP-CS22-012 Kolkata, India 02:27
13 I Love India Silent Partha Bhattacharjee TCP-CS22-013 Jamshedpur, Jharkhand 05:29
15 The Door Silent Faiz Alam Khan TCP-CS22-015 Kolkata, India 07:53
17 Juddha – The War Bengali Sourav Pal TCP-CS22-017 Kolkata, India 17:00
18 Bucket List Hindi Mini Pandey TCP-CS22-018 Mumbai, India 22:00
19 Forbidden Bengali Abhishek Ganguli TCP-CS22-019 Kolkata, India 22:00

 

It has been decided that in the digital version of Calcutta Shorts on 6th November all the 19 films that has registered shall be played. First the above shortlisted 11 will be played and then rest of the 8.

We look forward to a creative day with your creative best!!

THANK YOU