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Our 13 years of journey summed up!
From an auditorium full of 600 people in 2011 to over 65,000 participants and attendees in 2023, IFP has come a long way. The festival initially started as a 50 Hour Filmmaking Challenge, has now evolved to become one of the largest hotspots of everything creative and culture.
IFP each year produces over 13,000+ minutes of short films, 5,500+ minutes of music tracks and over 1,500+ scripts, stories and designs each.
From a dorm to the World’s Leading Festival for everything Creativity x Culture, the journey does look surreal!
Season 13
With its 13th season, IFP was a red carpet to all things creative, in 2023! We were super excited and highly pumped up to do this season even better than our previous ones. IFP in its 13th season saw participation with 53,000 creators from 38 countries and 565 cities in the 7 Challenges.
The festival at Mumbai saw 60+ sessions and 20+ workshops with 180 creators on stage. The 2 day festival was attended by over 15,600 creators.
50 Hour Filmmaking Challenge
Jury - Anvitaa Dutt, Gautham V Menon, Habib Faisal, Nandini Reddy, Rahul Dholakia
Participants - 25,478 filmmakers from 386 cities and 25 countries
Theme - Invest For Good (Professional), We Are Our Choices (Amateur), There Is Always A Plan B (Mobile)
50 Hour Music Challenge
Jury - Amit Kilam, KaamBhari, Rashmeet Kaur, SickFlip, Swanand Kirkire
Participants - 11,238 musicians from 289 cities and 10 countries
Theme - Create an Anthem of A City You Love
50 Hour Photography Challenge
Jury - Harpreet Bachher, Tarun Chouhan
Participants - 1,219 photographers from 161 cities and 11 countries
Theme - Joy Of Missing Out
7 Day Writing Challenge
Jury - Advaita Kala, Madhu Trehan, Tanushree Podder
Participants - 2,041 writers from 419 cities and 31 countries
Theme - White Lies (Scriptwriting), There Is Always A Way (Short Story), Conspiracy Theory (Think Piece)
7 Day Storytelling Challenge
Jury - Azhar Iqbal, Rakesh Tiwari, Swastika Rajput, Sonnet Monda
Participants - 1,011 storytellers from 171 cities and 8 countries
Theme - What If? Why Not? (Storytelling), Trip to the Moon (Poetry)
7 Day Design Challenge
Jury - D. Udaya Kumar, Gopi Prasannaa, Jayesh Joshi, Jayesh Sachdev, Rahul Saini
Participants - 2,278 designers from 337 cities and 19 countries
Theme - Convert a movie poster into a book cover or music album art (Poster & Cover Art), Re-create any iconic pop-culture moment in the last decade of your favourite public figure (Fan Art), Re-create your Happy Place with you in it (Digital Illustration), Create A Brand For Your Favourite Creators Clothing line (Brand Book), A disaster management app that helps you cope up with any ongoing disaster, based on your location it prepares you and gives you a checklist to do if you get stuck in a disaster (UI)
7 Day Standup Challenge
Jury - Appurv Gupta, Raunaq Rajani
Participants - 717 comics from 98 cities and 3 countries
Theme - Unpopular Opinion
Festival
Venue - Mehboob Studios, Mumbai
Attendees – 13,800 people from 103 cities and 6 countries
Season 12
Back on-ground after 2 years of virtual festival, we couldn't have been more excited for the energy to flow again. IFP in it's 12th season saw challenges participation with 52,000 creators from 38 countries and 533 cities.
The festival at Mumbai saw 60+ sessions and 20+ workshops with 171 creators on stage. The 2 day festival was attended by over 15,600 creators.
50 Hour Filmmaking Challenge
Jury - Alankrita Shrivastava, Jeo Baby, Rima Das, Selvaraghavan
Participants - 34,100 filmmakers from 341 cities and 21 countries
Theme - No Fear is Small (Professional), The Best Advice (Amateur), No Fear is Small (Mobile)
50 Hour Music Challenge
Jury - OAFF, Raja Kumari, Rajan Batra, Shalmali Kholgade, Sneha Khanwalkar
Participants - 10,104 musicians from 215 cities and 12 countries
Theme - Dreams that keep you awake
50 Hour Photography Challenge
Jury - Arjun Mark, Avani Rai, Radhakrishnan Chakyat
Participants - 1,118 photographers from 161 cities and 4 countries
Theme - Old Everything
7 Day Writing Challenge
Jury - Anuja Chauhan, Aleesha Matharu, Janice Pariat, Kanika Dhillon
Participants - 1,891 writers from 349 cities and 27 countries
Theme - From the Antagonist’s perspective (Scriptwriting), Hero with a Thousand Faces (Short Story), Conflict (Think Piece)
7 Day Storytelling Challenge
Jury - Arundhati Subramaniam, Mehak Mirza Prabhu, Nidhi Narwal
Participants - 1,141 storytellers from 159 cities and 7 countries
Theme - That Moment
7 Day Design Challenge
Jury - Mounica Tata, Prasad Bhat, Saptarshi Prakash, Srishti Gupta Roy
Participants - 1,816 designers from 271 cities and 8 countries
Theme - Create a spin-off movie/series/book poster of your favorite side character. Give it a title and a tagline (Poster & Cover Art), Time Travel - Re-imagine your favourite creators, artists, sports personalities, politicians and scientists from history in today's time (Fan Art), Imagine a New year party in 3000s (Digital Illustration), Doodle the spirit of your town, village or city (Digital Doodle), A Recipe App (UI/UX)
7 Day Standup Challenge
Jury - Aditi Mittal, Neeti Palta
Participants - 816 comics from 198 cities and 3 countries
Theme - Modern problems require modern solutions
Festival
Venue - Filmistan Studios, Mumbai
Attendees – 15,600 people from 81 cities and 4 countries
Season 11
We went ahead with another season virtually and it was no prize to miss the on-ground vibe and experience. IFP in it's 11th season saw challenges participation with 46,000 creators from 41 countries and 562 cities - that has been our highest so far.
Our brilliant programming team put together a festival that was highly interactive and saw 50+ sessions and 40+ workshops with 197 creators on stage. The 4 day virtual festival was attended by over 21,000 creators.
50 Hour Filmmaking Challenge
Jury - Leena Yadav, Navdeep Singh, Shakun Batra
Participants - 32,300 filmmakers from 347 cities and 18 countries
Theme - You are more than your name (Professional), How Money makes you Feel (Amateur), Language of Joy (Mobile)
50 Hour Music Challenge
Jury - Ashwin Gopakumar, Brodha V, Lifafa, Nirali Kartik, Nitin Malik
Participants - 11,622 musicians from 252 cities and 11 countries
Theme - A song about Little things in life that make you happy
7 Day Writing Challenge
Jury - Gazal Dhaliwal, Hardik Mehta, Mahesh Narayanan
Participants - 1,578 writers from 281 cities and 17 countries
Theme - Ticket to Anywhere
7 Day Storytelling Challenge
Jury - Akhil Katyal, Aranya Johar
Participants - 1,103 storytellers from 176 cities and 6 countries
Theme - They Say I'm Different
7 Day Design Challenge
Jury - Mehek Malhotra, Santanu Hazarika
Participants - 1,928 designers from 265 cities and 9 countries
Theme - Incorporate a relevant Brand in Movie Poster / Book Cover / Music Album Art(Poster Art category), What if your favourite Creators/Public figure/Sportsman had a Different Job/Profession (Fan Art category), Alternate History (Digital Illustration category), What's your Idea of India (Digital Collage)
Festival
Venue - IFP's Virtual Platform
Attendees – 21,000 people from 428 cities and 21 countries
Season X
In the times, when most festivals decided to call off, IFP went virtual with a never seen before participation from over 540 cities and 38 countries by over 65,000 creators. IFP introduced a 50 Hour Music Challenge, a unique platform that churned out more than 1,200 tracks over a weekend.
With 65+ sessions and 30+ workshops having over 180+ creators from 6 countries, IFP put a brilliant 4 day virtual festival. More than 5.6 lac messages were sent across the virtual platform, which talks about the sheer engagement it created.
50 Hour Filmmaking Challenge
Jury - Ashwiny Iyer Tiwary, Raj Nidimoru and Krishna DK, Subhashish Bhutiani
Participants - 38,000 filmmakers from 332 cities and 19 countries
Theme - Brave New World (Professional), Almost Famous (Amateur), Stop at Nothing (Mobile)
50 Hour Music Challenge
Jury - Lisa Mishra, Raman Negi, Dualist Inquiry, Naezy, Vasu Dixit
Participants - 11,000 musicians from 181 cities and 7 countries
Theme - A song about Growing Up and How Things Change
7 Day Writing Challenge
Jury - Atika Chohan, Gaurav Solanki, Hitesh Kewalya, Niren Bhatt
Participants - 1,341 writers from 276 cities and 11 countries
Theme - Whatever it Take
7 Day Storytelling Challenge
Jury - Priya Malik, Hussain Haidry
Participants - 1,526 storytellers from 256 cities and 4 countries
Theme - What's Your Utopia
7 Day Design Challenge
Jury - Aaron Pinto, Raj Khatri, Vimal Chandran
Participants - 2,236 designers from 304 cities and 13 countries
Theme - Crossover Poster (Poster Art category) and Rebel (Fan Art category)
Festival
Venue - IFP's Virtual Platform
Attendees – 32,000 people from 538 cities and 26 countries
Season 9
IFP9 grew leaps and bounds to an amazing participation from filmmakers, writers storytellers and designers. The festival’s programming team put together 80+ sessions across Films, Digital, Literature and Music and over 20+ never-heard-before workshops with national and international speakers on the stage.
50 Hour Filmmaking Challenge
Jury - Abhishek Chaubey, Anjali Menon, Pan Nalin, Pradeep Sarkar
Participants - 36,000 filmmakers from 320 cities and 18 countries
Theme - A Tale of Passion (Professional), Reason to Road (Amateur), What's Stopping you? (Mobile)
Short Scriptwriting Challenge
Jury - Apurva Asrani, Bhavani Iyer, Saiwyn Quadras
Participants - 1,100 writers from 131 cities and 7 countries
Theme - Old school love in time of technology
Storytelling Challenge
Jury - Amandeep Singh, Jidnya Sujata, Yahya Bootwala
Participants - 680 storytellers from 72 cities and 3 countries
Theme - Not a Superhero
Design Challenge
Jury - Raj Khatri
Participants - 830 designers from 189 cities and 5 countries
Theme - Contemporary Modern day poster of old film (1970-1999)
Festival
Venue - Mehboob Studios, Bandra, Mumbai
Attendees – 17,000 people from 56 cities and 3 countries
Season 8
The festival introduced storytelling challenge with a vision to appeal to newer form of creators who use spoken words as a format to create great content. The festival re-aligned it’s programming to Create – Collaborate – Celebrate, putting together 80+ sessions across Films, Digital, Literature and Music – a single umbrella roof for creators!
50 Hour Filmmaking Challenge
Jury - Sudhir Mishra, Milan Luthria, RS Prasanna
Participants - 32,000 filmmakers from 300 cities and 30 countries
Theme - A Story of Change (Professional), Experience Change (Amateur), Precaution is better than cure (Mobile)
Short Scriptwriting Challenge
Participants - 740 writers from 91 cities and 3 countries
Theme - Modern Day Love
Storytelling Challenge
Participants - 310 storytellers from 51 cities and 2 countries
Theme - Not a Superhero
Design Challenge
Participants - 680 designers from 141 cities and 7 countries
Theme - Minimal Poster
Festival
Venue - Nehru Centre, Worli, Mumbai
Attendees – 14,000 people from 47 cities and 2 countries
Season 7
The festival introduced scriptwriting and design challenge to appeal to the new age creators. The festival moved to a new venue and attracted attendees from over 22 cities who flew down to attend 60+ conversations curated around films, digital and literature. IFP also held 'Best of Digital' awards, an industry first to celebrate digital content across 7 formats.
50 Hour Filmmaking Challenge
Jury - Ram Madhvani, Aniruddha Roy Chowdhury, Vipul Shah
Participants - 29,000 filmmakers from 262 cities and 18 countries
Theme - Everything is Connected
Short Scriptwriting Challenge
Participants - 430 writers from 49 cities and 3 countries
Theme - Over the Edge
Design Challenge
Participants - 350 designers from 68 cities and 4 countries
Theme - Minimal Poster
Festival
Venue - Nehru Centre, Worli, Mumbai
Attendees – 11,000 people from 22 cities and 2 countries
Season 6
The festival moved from Ahmedabad to Mumbai, a much central and easily accessible city for creators from around the country. The move saw lot of love from the film and creator community. Apart from the 50 Hour Filmmaking Challenge, for the first time an on-ground festival was added that featured creators from digital and films.
50 Hour Filmmaking Challenge
Jury - Madhur Bhandarkar, Sriram Raghavan, Nagesh Kukunoor and Vetrimaaran
Participants - 23,600 filmmakers from 242 cities and 20 countries
Theme - Top of the World
Festival
Venue - Bombay Exhibition Centre, Mumbai
Attendees – 8,000 people from 11 cities
Season 5
To a larger venue and an evening full of music, IFP in 2015 saw thousands of participants travel down to Ahmedabad for the awards fiesta. IFP introduced professional, amateur and mobile categories in the filmmaking challenge.
50 Hour Filmmaking Challenge
Jury - Ketan Mehta, Onir, Guneet Monga and Raja Sen
Participants - 14,400 filmmakers from 184 cities and 18 countries
Theme - There is a twist in the end
Festival
Venue - GMDC, Ahmedabad
Attendees – 3,500 people from 8 cities
Season 4
IFP's 4th season was the first time when participation was opened up for filmmakers from across the globe.
50 Hour Filmmaking Challenge
Jury - Shyam Benegal, Hansal Mehta, Omung Kumar, Umesh Shukla
Participants - 10,600 filmmakers from 122 cities and 11 countries
Theme - Progress has many meanings
Festival
Venue - Prakash School, Ahmedabad
Attendees – 1,100 people from 5 cities
Season 3
In it's third edition, IFP went completely digital with people able to participate through online mediums without the need of travelling to Ahmedabad.
50 Hour Filmmaking Challenge
Jury - Nikkhil Advani, Bejoy Nambiar and Tigmanshu Dhulia
Participants - 4,270 filmmakers from 42 cities and 3 countries
Theme - India can Change
Festival
Venue - Prakash School, Ahmedabad
Attendees – 1,000 people from 5 cities
Season 2
IFP's 2nd season saw a lineup of jury from Indian film industry. This year was game changer since a lot of IFP's initial direction came from the 2012 edition. Founder Ritam Bhatnagar says "The first season was an one time activity. One day a phone call on our office number inquiring about the 2nd edition triggered the idea to make this an annual activity. If that phone call wasn't picked up, it would have been just an one time thing".
50 Hour Filmmaking Challenge
Jury - Shoojit Sircar, Vikramaditya Motwane, Rajesh Mapuskar, Komal Nahata
Participants - 1,510 filmmakers from 22 cities
Theme - Ingredients of Good Living
Festival
Venue - Prakash School, Ahmedabad
Attendees – 1,000 people from 5 cities
The beginning in 2011
Started from a dorm idea of providing a platform to aspiring filmmakers, the first season of IFP brought out the confidence that there is a huge requirement for creators to network and collaborate. With almost no sponsorship but a willingness to create a platform, the first IFP was an instant success in Ahmedabad and got people from 14 cities to travel down to make their film.
50 Hour Filmmaking Challenge
Jury - Sanjay Gadhvi, Ashish Kakkad, Sanjeev Shah, Jay Thakkar
Participants - 620 filmmakers from 14 cities
Theme - Small Things in Life
Festival
Venue - AMA, Ahmedabad
Attendees – 630 people from 5 cities