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Organisers of the 11th Mumbai Film Festival have extended the deadline of receiving entries for Dimensions Mumbai, a short film competition for young filmmakers of the city till September 20.
Dimensions Mumbai is the discovery section of the 11th Mumbai Film Festival, organised by the Mumbai Academy of Moving Image (MAMI), which will be held here from October 29-November 5, a press release said.
In its second year, Dimensions Mumbai invited short films of maximum five minutes duration made after August 2008. The theme for the competition is Mumbai, The Metropolis. "The film should be on any aspect of life in the metropolis. Films made in any format, even a mobile phone camera, can participate in the competition," the release said.
Apart from short fiction, the competition is also open to films in documentary and animation formats. Media professionals and students, not older than 25 years, are eligible to send their entries in the prescribed form along with a preview VCD or DVD of the film.
The films selected for inclusion in the 'Dimensions Mumbai' Section would be adjudged by an eminent Jury and would be open to on-line voting on the MAMI website and the website of the Digital Partners of the Mumbai Film Festival. Best entry of 'Dimensions Mumbai' receives a cash award of Rs one Lakh, while the runner up gets Rs 50,000.
Dimensions Mumbai was started last year as part of the 10th International Film Festival of Mumbai (now renamed Mumbai Film Festival) by MAMI. The idea behind the competition is to identify and encourage new generation of filmmakers, the release said.
MAMI, a body comprising of Indian film industry stalwarts was started in 1997 by late filmmaker Shri Hrishikesh Mukherjee. Noted filmmaker Shri Shyam Benegal now heads the body.
