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Call For Entries: Talent Campus India #5, New Delhi, India

Osian's-Cinefan is proud to announce the 5th edition of Talent Campus India organized in collaboration with the Berlin International Film Festival, the Berlinale Talent Campus and Max Mueller Bhawan, New Delhi. The 5th Talent Campus India will take place from July 13 - 18, 2008. It will run along side Osian's-Cinefan, 10th Festival of Asian and Arab Cinema (July 10 - 20, 2008).

Talent Campus is a 6-day workshop where up to 30 young aspiring filmmakers will be invited to New Delhi to interact with renowned filmmakers and film professionals from India and abroad.

The aim of the workshop is to provide Indian and South Asian youth a forum for learning and sharing the process of filmmaking. The application is open to India, its neighboring countries as well as Iran. Participants will benefit not only from the caliber and experience of the professionals involved, but also from the exchange of ideas among themselves. The focus of the festival is Literature and Cinema which would also be the major influence on discussions in talent campus along with sessions on Screenplay Writing, Cinematography and Direction and other key aspects of filmmaking like Casting and Production Design.

In addition to attending workshop sessions, the selected talents will have the opportunity to see the very best of Asian and Arab cinema being showcased during Osian's-Cinefan. We would be grateful if you would circulate this information among students and those who you feel may benefit from this initiative. The application can be downloaded from our website www.osians.com

Applying for Talent Campus India

Along with the application, applicants are required to submit one of the following
A one-minute film. This can also be a one-minute excerpt of a longer film. Any entry that is longer than 60 seconds will NOT be considered.

A five-minute film. This should be directed by the applicant especially for Talent Campus India specifically on the subject of EVERYDAY JOURNEYS. The film should be NO LONGER than five minutes. The best two of the selected five-minute films will be awarded a Certificate of Appreciation.

3500 - 4500 word film script. Make sure that it is a film script! The language of the script needs to be English. It can be a translation of a script written in any other language and the original can also be sent along with the English version. The script needs to be a typed printout and not handwritten.

Subject of the Five-minute film

EVERYDAY JOURNEYS - Do you often travel from one place to another, one stage to another or by one mode of transport or another? Do you trace imagined journeys of sorts through books, photographs, conversations, encountering and unraveling the complexities of interaction, engagement and discovery? Do you map a plan as to how to get from point A to point B in a city or how to catch the next bus, auto rickshaw or taxi? Or does your mind travel when you are waiting to take the train from the suburbs to the city?
In their growth Asian cities, suburbs and villages have carried forward histories, cultures, lifestyles and people with the kind of spatial and temporal simultaneity and existence that makes way for complex everyday negotiations. It is these everyday passages that we are interested in seeing represented in your films! A journey between your home and college or work can be just as intriguing as a journey across borders and dreaming in broad daylight is a journey as well that we have all indulged and found pleasure in. It is these everyday journeys that we want your film to explore, celebrate, question or ponder on. Your film can explore any genre - funny, sad, grim, ponderous. It can be fiction or documentary or even experimental.

You can send us the one-minute or five-minute film on a VHS, VCD or a DVD.

(We will not accept multi-media video formats like AVI, windows media format (WMF), mpeg, quick time, real video or shockwave (flash format).

An independently constituted Committee will select up to 30 Talents to attend the final workshop. We look forward to meeting these participants from around the country and from neighboring countries.

The deadline for applications is May 10, 2008.

For more information contact:

Pearl Sandhu
Coordinator, Talent Campus India
Osian’s-Cinefan festival of Asian and Arab Cinema
Tel: 91-11-41743157 / 58 / 66
pearl@osians.com