India’s Largest Film Festival Is Back In Mumbai

After travelling to 15 cities in 9 states, Jagran Film Festival celebrates its last leg in Mumbai ~

~ Ropes in Fun Cinemas as exclusive venue partner ~

~ Embellished with regional, Indian and world cinema as well as workshops, the festival spreads the ‘Happiness’ spirit ~

Mumbai, Sept, 2015: Touted to be India’s only travelling film festival, the 6th of Jagran Film Festival is back in Mumbai with a bang. With the aim to bring cinema closer to cinema lovers across the length and breadth of India, this year’s edition celebrates its last leg in Mumbai from 28^th Sept 2015 – 4^th Oct 2015 to be held at Fun Cinema. Centered on the ‘Happiness’ theme, this year’s festival reaches new horizons with its color, collection and cinematic delights as it traveled through 16 cities over the past 3 months making it India’s largest film festival by geographical reach.

 

The gala opening of the 7-day festival in Mumbai will bring a bouquet of films under competitive categories such as ’Indian Showcase’, ‘Jagran Shorts’ (an international competition for short films), ‘Cinema of the Sellers’ and ‘Debut Directors’.Besides offering a larger-than-life premiere platform for films in the ‘Jagran Premiere’category, the festival salutes the ‘old is gold’ under the ‘Retrospective’ section, and also pays homage to one-of-its kind Hindi classics in the ‘Homage’ category. In its quest to showcase, the best of international cinema, this edition presents a collection of 10 Best International Short films under a special section ‘Top Shorts’. 

The festival also features a rendezvous with some masters of the cinema world who engage, enlighten and educate on various topics in their workshops and master classes. Film enthusiasts at Mumbai can experience the first brush of this year’s creative workshops everyday from 29^th September – 4^th October from 11.00 a.m. onwards. The sessions range from Public Interviews, Master Classes to subjects like Casting in Cinema, Finding Money for films, Meet the Director, Making Advertising films, Selling films and many more.

Mr. Manoj Srivastava, Strategic Consultant for the 6^th Jagran Film Festivalshared, “With the 6^th edition of Jagran Film Festival, we have tried to exceed our own benchmarks while curating a film extravaganza that not only showcases some of the finest films from India and the world over, but also leaves indelible imprints on everyone who has an insatiable appetite for narrating and discovering stories. From exploring newer cultures, to learning some rare film skills, the Mumbai edition is packed with a whole bunch of out-of-the-world experiences for every curious and film-loving heart in India.”

The 6^th Jagran Film Festival has also engaged the American Center as the official country focus partner, where the best of the American Cinema will be screened at the American Center and Fun Republic, Andheri West, Mumbai to promote its culture through the voice of films.

In close collaboration with festival partners such as Whistling Woods International (WWI), Film Federation of India (FFI) and Motion Pictures Dist. Association (India) Pvt Ltd, the 2015 edition is all set to surpass its own last benchmarks of presenting over 25 workshops, 395 screenings in 15 cities.

·         Dates: Monday, 28^th Sept’ 2015 – Saturday, 4^th Oct’ 2015

·         Venue: Fun Cinemas and Prithvi Theatre

·         Time: 10.00 am onwards

·         Registrations: www.jff.co.in

I am the India Director for a UN campaign called The Global Goals campaign which aims to raise awareness of the new Global Goals for Sustainable Development being launched on 25th September by 193 world leaders. Our mission is to reach 7bn people in 7 days from the day the Goals are launched (26th Sept – 2nd Oct) using a number of ways to “tell everyone”.

One of the ways is through a crowd-soucred video which will be unveiled on the Google homepage on 25th Sept and launched at the Global Citizen Festival on 26th Sept in NY (this is the same event Prime Minister Narendra Modi attended last year).

Already participating in this video are  A R Rahman, Aamir Khan, Akshay Kumar and Hrithik Roshan who join the likes of Ashton Kutcher, Bill and Melinda Gates, Cate Blanchett, Daniel Craig, Jennifer Lawrence, Jennifer Lopez, Kate Winslet, Malala Yousafzai, One Direction, Her Majesty Queen Rania Al Abdullah of Jordan, to name but a few. The promo video is out and Hrithik Roshan is featured alongside Jennifer Lawrence, Meryl Streep, Malala amongst others http://wethepeople.globalgoals.org