Chandigarh : The initially version of the Cinevesture Intercontinental Film Competition (CIFF) to be held in Chandigarh from March 27 to 31 will boast of a host of masterclasses and panel conversations, together with a person with filmmaker Karan Johar, which film critic Namrata Joshi will reasonable.
The 20 masterclasses and panel discussions to be held at Taj Chandigarh will attribute Shekhar Kapur, Jaideep Ahlawat, Tahira Kashyap, Richa Chadha, Ali Fazal, Roshan Mathew, Abhay Deol, Sudhir Mishra, ‘Kohrra’ star Suvinder Vicky, Boman Irani, Rasika Dugal, Rajshri Deshpande, Ajitpal Singh, Anurag Singh, Sudhir Mishra and Saugata Mukherjee, Head of Content material, SonyLiv, Sony Pics Community India, and so forth.
The opening film of the festival is the Cannes award-winning French film ‘The Flavor of Things’ starring Juliette Binoche while the closing one is South Korea’s highest-grossing movie of 2024 till date — the horror-secret-thriller ‘Exhuma’ (‘Pamyo’), which premiered at the 2024 Berlinale.
The competition advisory board involves Rana Daggubati, former Head of Cannes Movie Market Jerome Paillard, former Co-Director of Sundance Film Festival Nicole Guillemet, filmmaker Ajitpal Singh, Bangladeshi filmmaker and screenwriter Nuhash Humayun and the co-proprietor of the Blake Friedmann Literary Agency Julian Friedmann.
Nina Lath, Founder & CEO of Cinevesture, states, “CIFF needs to bring the finest minds jointly as a result of our precisely curated masterclasses to even further the discussion on the innovative as properly as the business areas of the industry and how to build upon it.”
Introducing that masterclasses are an outstanding way to have engaging discussions, CIFF Director V.S. Kundu suggests, “These courses are intended to contact each factor of filmmaking and we are only hoping the very best to come out of these panel conversations.”