At MIFF2014 Gitanjali Rao’s “True Love Storyâ€& Dhavani Desai’s Chakravyuh got awards
The seven day international documentary film festival, MIFF 2014 concluded in Mumbai with the best of the work in documentary, animation and short films honored with awards, presented by film makers Adoor Gopalakrishnan and Shyam Benegal.
February 11th, 2014
The seven day international documentary film festival, MIFF 2014 concluded in Mumbai with the best of the work in documentary, animation and short films honored with awards, presented by film makers Adoor Gopalakrishnan and Shyam Benegal. The festival is conducted in cooperation with the Government of Maharashtra and the Indian Documentary Producers’ Association.
The Golden Conch Best Animation Film award goes to ‘True Love Story’ by Gitanjali Rao. It is a 19 minute animation; set in the streets of Mumbai explores what happens when the Bollywood fantasy is applied in reality. It gives a glance into the influence of Bollywood on real life in Mumbai, told through puppet animation. The award carries a Golden Conch and Rs 5, 00,000 cash prize.
For the first time, MIFF had introduced a new category of award ‘Most Popular Film of the Festival’, which was to be selected thru voting by festival delegates. Dhvani Desai’s short film ‘Chakravyuh’, through the struggles of four characters from distinct areas of India, throws light on how the Right to Information Act can be used to fight corruption. The film, produced by Films Division 'Chakravyuh' was released on the eighth anniversary of the RTI in Mumbai.
For this win, Gitanjali aims at taking the short to more festivals, travel some interesting places with it, meet filmmakers, and find avenues for her next whereas Dhvani’s center is on International screenings for her short.
Behind the scenes of Aardaman Animation Studios - The Pirates!
Find some amazing sets for the upcoming 3-D stop-motion animated film The Pirates! Band of Misfits (aka The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists), featuring an all-star voice cast that includes Hugh Grant, David Tennan, Imelda Staunton, Martin Freeman, Salma Hayek, Brendan Gleeson and Jeremy Piven.
Phenakistoscope (1831) A phenakistoscope disc by Eadweard Muybridge (1893).The phenakistoscope was an early animation device. It was invented in 1831 simultaneously by the Belgian Joseph Plateau and the Austrian Simon von Stampfer. It consists of a disk with a series of images, drawn on radii evenly spaced around the center of the disk. Slots are cut out of the disk on the same radii as the drawings, but at a different distance from the center. The device would be placed in front of a mirror and spun. As the phenakistoscope is spun, a viewer would look through the slots at the reflection of the drawings which would only become visible when a slot passes by the viewer's eye. This created the illusion of animation.
