New Delhi: The School of Media and Cultural Studies (SMCS), Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai is organising the 5th Cut.In Student Film Festival on Dec 15 and 16. Students from across India, including the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad; L V Prasad Film and TV Academy, Chennai; Jamia Millia Islamia and Sri Aurobindo Centre for Arts and Communication, New Delhi; Film and Television Institute of India, Pune; Sophia Polytechnic, Mumbai; and St Xavier's College, Ranchi, will be presenting their films at the festival. The jury members for this year are filmmakers Avijit Mukul Kishore, Anik Ghosh and Anjali Monteiro.
This year the SMCS, in collaboration with the Foundation for Ecological Security (FES), is introducing a special competitive category, the Cut.In-FES Gold and Silver Prize for the Best Film on the theme of 'Commons'. The objective of this video competition is to create awareness on the issue of 'Commons' and encourage citizens to take action to protect, preserve and manage their common cultural and natural resources.
The festival will also feature a series of films titled "Remembering 1992" which seeks to revisit the city of Mumbai, twenty years after the communal violence of 1992-93, considered an assault on the city's secular fabric. The trailers of these films could be seen here.
Noted filmmaker Jahnu Barua will inaugurate the festival on Dec 15. The festival will conclude with an awards ceremony on Dec 16, where actor and filmmaker Aamir Bashir will felicitate the award-winning filmmakers and share his experience of making films outside the mainstream conventions with the audience.
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