SIFFCY 2024
A SMILE FOUNDATION
INITIATIVE
Smile foundation in partnership with the European Union successfully hosted the 10th edition of the Smile International film festival for children and youthfrom 9thApr to 15thApr 2024 in New Delhi and 100+ other different locations across India simultaneously.
The week-long film festival reached out to more than 5,00,000 young audiences across India with over 150films from 50 countries and 50 different workshops, masterclasses, panel discussions and more. More than 50 national and international industry professionals, jurors, filmmakers and guests from 12 different countries participated in person and 100 young Jurors from 10 countries participated virtually during these 7 days. The national media has recognised the 10th edition of SIFFCY as the largest film festival in the country this year !
Major activities along with the opening and award ceremony were held in New Delhi during the week. Simultaneously multiple screenings and related activities were scheduled in different schools and communities in various locations across India. Selected program were also available on the specially designed, secured, dedicated streaming platform of the festival throughout the week.
The films program included 150+ films from different genre including feature films, short films, documentaries and animations made by both professionals and children, from above 50 different countries have been selected for various sections of the official program of the festival this year. Along with film screenings, multiple capacity building workshops, panel discussions and interactive masterclasses were hosted during the week-long festival.
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BACKGROUND:
SIFFCY is a flagship initiative of India’s leading development organization Smile Foundation to engage, educate and empower young minds through Good Cinema and Cinema related capacity building workshops, interactivepanels, masterclasses and related activities. The annual festival attracts thousands of filmmakers, industry professionals and Cinephile from across the world and more than 50000 young spectators take part in the week-long film festival every year. We hope to reach out to a larger audience and expect virtual participation of more than one million Online visitors all together.
(You may find more information on www.smilefoundationindia.org | www.siffcy.org )
FCCI AWARD
Tanushree Ghosh has written film reviews, film interviews, essays and articles on culture and cinema — on the intersection of movies, society, politics, history — in Indian news publications, including BS Weekend, Mint Lounge, The Indian Express (Eye), Moneycontrol, among others. Her writing spans Indian independent films, regional and documentary cinema, South Asian, southeast Asian and World cinema. She has written about films at global festivals and award ceremonies. She has also curated/organised monthly film screenings and a festival in Delhi in the 2000s.
Deepa Gahlot is a National Award winning film critic, theatre critic, book author, and scriptwriter. She has written several books on cinema, including the biographies of Shammi Kapoor and Shah Rukh Khan; translated plays (by Manav Kaul and Paresh Mokashi) into English; and adapted Paulo Coelho’s novel The Alchemist for the stage. Additionally, she has written-directed a few documentary films and radio shows, and has edited the journals of NFDC and WICA. She is also a former head of programming (theatre & film) at the National Center for the Performing Arts (NCPA). Presently, she reviews for Rediff.
Joshy Joseph has, as a maker of unique documentaries, consistently extended and blurred the boundaries that separate factual record from creative filmmaking, until these demarcations no longer serve any useful purpose. Joseph is concerned with the unfixed nature of our globalised world, but his approach isn’t thematic.
He had won six National Awards for making films and one National Award for writing on Cinema from the President of India.He is an author of three books in Malayalam. Had associated with poet Dunya Mikhail for a film with her autobiographical poems. Worked with famed filmmaker Adoor Gopalakrishnan. Participated in a script writing workshop by Jean Claude Carrier at French Embassy. Officially associated while shooting ‘Life of Pi’ with Hollywood Director Ang Lee.