9th Madurai Film Festival 2007.

Shahjahan Siraj for Machizo October 24, 2007

It has been decided by the organising committee
consisting of 20 groups, institutions and
organisations that the 9th Madurai documentary and
short film festival 2007 will take place on 5-9 of
December 2007.

The inaugural function will take place on 5 December
2007 at Edward Victoria Hall at 6 p.m. senior writers,
activists and filmmakers will be invited to inaugurate
the festival.

The screenings will take place in the following
colleges in Madurai.
1)American College 2)Lady Doak College 3) Madura
College 4)Arul Anandhar College.

Few more colleges may join the list.

Besides screenings in the open field in the following
5 villages also have been planned in association with
voluntary organisations and groups.
1)Usilampatti (SIRD) 2)Thirupuvanam (SAND) 3)Perungudi
(KOODU)4)EKTA 5)PEAL

Main screenings will take place at Tamilnadu
Theological seminary and MUTA Hall during all the 5
days.

Our selection committee meeting is on during all the
week ends of October to select the films to be
screened at the festival. We have invited filmmakers,
writers, activists, artists, film society friends,
teachers and students from Madurai to form the
selection committee.

I would like to remind the filmmakers who have
forgotten to send their films to our festival. Also I
would like request them to send their latest films and
support the festival which has been consistently
taking films to the people for the past 8 years.

regards

amudhan rp

More on the festival:

Dear Friends

Greetings from Marupakkam, a media action group based
in Madurai involved in organising regular screenings,
video workshops and film festivals since 1996. We also
make documentaries.

We are happy to inform you that our 9th Madurai Film
Festival will be organised on 2-6 December 2007 in
Madurai.

The festival is jointly organised by 15 organisations
including educational institutions, voluntary
organisatons, media groups and film societies.

The festival will be a non-competitive one with no
entry fee. There is no limit for duration of the
films.

Short films and documentaries produced after January
2006 are eligible to take part in the festival.

The films in non-tamil, non-English language should
have subtitles in English.

Films will be screened under three sections: Tamil 2)
Rest of India 3) Foreign Films

We invite the film makers to send their entries on DVD
format with synopsis, filmography, stills, posters and
other publicity materials on or before 30 September
2007.

A Selection committee consisting of filmmakers,
writers, teachers, activists, artists and students
will select the best 80 films in total (including
Tamil, Rest of India and Foreign short films and
documentaries) to be screened in 10 venues.

The selection committee's recommendation will be
declared on 31 October 2007. Festival will not return
the dvd's as they will be used for further
non-commercial screenings in and around Madurai,
India.

We invite the filmmakers to send their entries to the
following address:

Marupakkam,
A 9/4 K.K.Nagar, Madurai 625 020, India
Ph: +91 9344479353; +91 9344156392; +91 452 2523992
Email: marupakkam@rediffmail.com