Calcutta Shorts- A One-Day Short Film Festival Organized

Calcutta Shorts- A One-Day Short Film Festival Organized

Calcutta Shorts- A One-Day Short Film Festival Organized

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Short films are now extremely popular. Audiences now have short attention spans and hence short films are a great way of reaching out to them. This has led to the gradual rise in short films all over the world. Being able to narrate a story in a limited time and keep the audience engaged is a great thing indeed.

Understanding the popularity of the short films, a short film festival was organized in Kolkata at Satyajit Ray Auditorium of ICCR.

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It was a one-day short film festival titled Calcutta Shorts. This was organized in collaboration with Take 5 Communications and Anthelion School of Art.

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Kapilananda Mondal—a renowned visionary and social worker was the chief guest at the event. Biswajit Matilal, corporate communications vice president, Sujoy Biswas, CEO of Techno India Group, Mallar Ghosh, a well-known musician, and Sumit Roy, a veteran singer were the other dignitaries who graced the event.

A total of eleven short films by renowned and amateur filmmakers were screened at the inaugural edition of the short film festival.

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The films which were screened at Calcutta Shorts were:

BUCKET LIST (Hindi): Director Mini Pandey, 22 min.

ANURANAN (Assamese): Director Rupantar Borpatra Gohain, 14 min.

JUDDHA – THE WAR (Bengali): Director Sourav Pal, 17 min.

BHETKI (Bengali): Director Dona Roy, 13 min.

FORBIDDEN (Bengali /English): Director Abhishek Ganguli, 22 min.

HELP (English): Director Aishwarya Das, 3 min.

I LOVE INDIA (Silent): Director Partha Bhattacharjee, 6 min.

THE DOOR (Silent): Director Faiz Alam Khan, 8 min.

JONMODIN (Bengali): Director Sudip Chatterjee, 9 min.

THE WRITER (Bengali): Director Amit Dutta, 18 min.

INTERVIEW (Hindi): Director Santodeb Dutta, 18 m

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In addition to the screening of short films, creative entrepreneurs Dipayan Banerjee of THE CREATIVE POST and Senior Film Director Tathagata Bhattacherjee of TAKE 5 COMMUNICATIONS announced that CALCUTTA SHORTS would now be an annual event for cine lovers and the next editions will be for one or two days.

Priyanka Dutta

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