India Film Project – Season 7

The 2017 festival was held at Nehru Center in Mumbai on September 30 and October 1. More than 29,000 filmmakers from 18 countries participated in the 50-hour challenge, creating over 1,503 films, each of them 4 to 6 minutes, on the theme ‘Everything is connected’ over a weekend. The jury for the seventh edition of the festival was Ram Madhvani, Aniruddha Roy Chowdhury and Vipul Amrutlal Shah.

The ‘Best of Digital’ awards for YouTube videos were introduced with 5,512 nominations in 7 categories. Two other challenges added to festival were a Short scriptwriting challenge that was executed in association with Terribly Tiny Tales and a Poster Design challenge in association with The Souled Store.

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10:00 am - 11:00 am Stage 1

How To Pitch Your Film

Kunal Kapoor, Sagar Ballary in conversation with Chhitra Subramaniam

10:00 am - 11:00 am Stage 2

Taking my Kitchen to Web

Pankaj Bhadouria, Pooja Dhingra, Saransh Goila and Kelvin Cheung in conversation with Rakhee Vaswani

10:00 am - 11:00 am Stage 3

Masterclass on Acting

Actors Prepare

11:00 am - 12:00 am Stage 1

Changing Dynamics of Bollywood

Neha Dhupia, Shashank Khaitan, Dia Mirza in conversation with Ankur Pathak

11:00 am - 12:00 pm Stage 2

Everyone Struggles: A Conversation on Creative Block

Devdutt Patnail in conversation with Mayur Puri

Mayur Puri

11:00 am - 12:00 pm Stage 3

Masterclass on Acting

Actors Prepare

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm Stage 1

Going Mono

Harsh Beniwal, Karan Talwar in conversation with Sucharita Tyagi

Sucharita Tyagi

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm Stage 2

The New Indian Audience

Karan Singh (CEO, Sunburn), Tarsame Mittal (TM Talent Management), Sattvik Mishra (CEO, Scoopwhoop) in conversation with Vineet Kanabar (TVF)

Sattvik Mishra

Vineet Kanabar

Tarsame Mittal

Karan Singh

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm Stage 3

Crowdfunding for Digital Content - Workshop

Kunal Kapoor

1:00 pm - 2:00 pm Stage 1

No One is Writing

Irshad Kamil, Apurva Asrani, Hardik Mehta in conversation with Anjum Rajabali

Anjum Rajabali

Hardik Mehta

Apurva Asrani

Irshad Kamil

1:00 pm - 2:00 pm Stage 2

Filtercopy and Dice Media: Creating Digital Entertainment Brands

Anirudh Pandita, Dhruv Sehgal, Kartik Krishnan in conversation with Nikhil Taneja

Kartik Krishnan

Anirudh Pandita

Dhruv Sehgal

1:00 pm - 2:00 pm Stage 3

1 Like = 1 Salute, 1 Share = 10 Prayers - Workshop

Devaiah Bopanna (All India Bakchod)

2:00 pm - 3:00 pm Stage 1

Journey of an Insignificant Man

Khushboo Ranka, Vinay Shukla in conversation with Parvin Dabas

Vinay Shukla

2:00 pm - 3:00 pm Stage 2

The Modern Day Storytelling

Nikhil Taneja

2:00 pm - 3:00 pm Stage 3

Best of Hotstar Original - Screening

3:00 pm - 4:00 pm Stage 1

Television 3.0

Sidharth Jain, JD Majethia, Spandan Mishra in conversation with Ankur Pathak

JD Majethia

3:00 pm - 4:00 pm Stage 2

Brands Infatuated to Web

Tarun Tripathi (OML), Ambi Parmeswaran in conversation with Karthik Nagarajan (GroupM)

Ambi Parameswaran

Karthik Nagarajan

Tarun Tripathi

3:00 pm - 4:00 pm Stage 3

Casting for Web - Workshops

Mukesh Chhabra

4:00 pm - 5:00 pm Stage 1

Premiere of TVF Inmates

with TVF team

4:00 pm - 5:00 pm Stage 3

When Brands Tell The Story - Screening

Nikhil Taneja

10:00 am - 11:00 am Stage 1

Storytelling in Virtual Reality

Zain Memon in conversation with Ishita Gandhi

10:00 am - 11:00 am Stage 2

Driving the Cash - Wedding Videos

Anand Rathi, Harpreet Bachher

Harpreet Baccher

Anand Rathi

10:00 am - 11:00 am Stage 3

Short Scriptwriting Compete Narrations

Terribly Tiny Tales

11:00 am - 12:00 pm Stage 1

The Power Of Flash Fame

CarryMinati, Prajakta Koli

Prajakta Koli

CarryMinati

11:00 am - 12:00 pm Stage 2

Juggling Hats - Good, Bad or Ugly?

Kunal Kohli, Makarand Deshpande and Sameer Saxena in conversation with Abhilash Thapiyal

Abhilash Thapliyal

Sameer Saxena

Makarand Deshpande

Kunal Kohli

11:00 am - 12:00 pm Stage 3

Murphy Rocks - Workshop

Pratish Nair (Founder - Prahlad Kakkar School of Branding and Entrepreneurship)

Pratish Nair

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm Stage 1

Humor: Have we Taken It Too Far?

Anand Tiwari and Amol Parashar in conversation with Raja Sen

Amol Parashar

Anand Tiwari

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm Stage 2

Content Starvation

Sameer Pitawalla (CEO, Culture Machine), Saameer Mody (Pocket Films) in conversation with Chaitanya Chinchilikar

Sameer Pitalwalla

Saameer Mody

Chaitanya Chinchilikar

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm Stage 3

Branding & Grammar of AD Film Making! - Workshop

Prahlad Kakkar

1:00 pm - 2:00 pm Stage 1

Blurring Lines between Commercial and Parallel Cinema

Nikkhil Advani, Somnath Sen in conversation with Raja Sen

1:00 pm - 2:00 pm Stage 2

Building a digital Community - Journey of Film Companion

Anupama Chopra in conversation with Bikas Mishra

Anupama Chopra

1:00 pm - 2:00 pm Stage 3

Masterclass - Post Production

Neil Sadwelkar

2:00 pm - 3:00 pm Stage 1

Only Much Lovable - The OML Story

Vijay Nair in conversation with Tanmay Bhat

Tanmay Bhat

2:00 pm - 3:00 pm Stage 2

Millenials on Driver's Sear

Baradwaj Rangan, Nidhi Bisht in conversation with Sandeep Modi

Sandeep Modi

Nidhi Bisht

Baradwaj Rangan

2:00 pm - 3:00 pm Stage 3

Materclass - Post Production

Neil Sadwelkar

3:00 pm - 4:00 pm Stage 1

The Long and Short of Making a Talkie

Vasan Bala, Kanu Behl, Navjot Gulati and Sanam Nair powered by Terribly Tiny Tales

Navjot Gulati

3:00 pm - 4:00 pm Stage 2

Writing for Web

Shruti Madan (Girlyapa), Anand Tiwari, Amritpal Singh Bindra

Shruti Madan

Amritpal Singh Bindra

Anand Tiwari

3:00 pm - 4:00 pm Stage 3

Best of Pocket Films - Screening

4:00 pm - 5:00 pm Stage 1

Talk Shop

Ashutosh Gowariker in conversation with RJ Megha

Ashutosh Gowariker

4:00 pm - 5:00 pm Stage 2

Music Takes the Traffic

Siddharth Mahadevan, Shalmali kholgade and Sachin-Jigar in conversation with Nirali Kartik (Maati Baani)

Nirali Kartik

Sachin Jigar

Shalmali Kholgade

Siddharth Mahadevan

4:00 pm - 5:00 pm Stage 3

Long Story Short - Screening

Rahul Desai