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Kautik International Student Film Festival
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[[File:Kautik Student Film Festival 2017 - 003.jpg|thumb|248x248px|Artistic director Shalini Shah with ministers, university councillors, et al.]]
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'''Kautik International Student Film Festival''' is a 10-day competitive international student film festival,<ref> </ref><ref> </ref><ref> </ref><ref> </ref>organised by by CEFM-the Hermitage, [[Kumaun University]], Nainital, Uttarakhand, in association with HIMACEEF. Veteran Hindi film cinematographer Rajesh Shah is the festival director. The artistic director is [[National Award]] winning docu filmmaker [[Shalini Shah]]. The duo are film faculty members at the University. In addition to students and film buffs from all over India, the festival is attended by the who's who of this scenic hill station: theatre artistes, cinematographers, filmmakers, and state and union ministers.
==Advisory Board==
*[[Sudeep Chatterjee]]
*[[Virendra Saini]]
*[[CK Muralidharan]]
*[[Amole Gupte]]
*[[Tigmanshu Dhulia]]
*Kamaljeet Negi
*[[Sriram Raghavan]]
*[[Amit Khanna]]
*[[Dalton L]]
==History of the Festival==
Kamaun University in the year 2016 initiates a few unconventional courses; filmmaking is one among them. The film faculty comprises Rajesh Shah, a Mumbai-based cinematographer who has returned to his home in the hills to dedicate his time to teaching, along with his wife, National Film Award-winning docu filmmaker Shalini Shah. Before the end of the year, the duo along with their first batch of 14 students decide to host a tiny student film festival. It is organised by CEFM–The Hermitage, Kumaun University, in association with HIMACEEF.
The inaugural edition is such a rousing success that the second edition,<ref> </ref><ref> </ref><ref> </ref><ref> </ref> <ref> </ref><ref> </ref><ref></ref><ref> </ref><ref> </ref>this year, is immensely scaled up: it runs for 10 days in all, includes a 5-day [[FTII]] film appreciation camp<ref> </ref><ref> </ref><ref> </ref><ref> </ref>, is international and competitive, and features a [[Film Critics Circle of India]] citation.
Expanding further, the next edition is planned to be in association with major Indian short & docu film festivals, and film societies; and to include Audience Choice Awards, a hands-on film workshop, and a Docu & Short Fiction Film Market. Speaking on the occasion, Ministers pledged to urge the government to fund future editions of the festival.<ref> </ref><ref>
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== Aimed at Creating a Film Culture ==
At the first edition, in April 2017,<ref name="Uttaranchal Today"></ref><ref name="News Raftaar"></ref><ref name="Jagran"></ref><ref name="News Today Network"> </ref> in addition to the film screenings, open forum sessions and informal masterclasses were conducted by film industry members, including cinematographer Kamaljeet Negi; actor [[Lalit Mohan Tiwari]]; Rajeev Katiyar, director of [[Films Division]]; film critic/essayist Dalton L, representing the Film Critics Circle of India; and [[Bhupendra Kainthola]], director of FTII-Pune.
At the second edition, in April 2018, FTII conducted a 5-day film appreciation camp that was attended by 91 participants—ranging in age from 15-year-old school students to a 72-year-old retired professor—from all parts of the country. FTII officially announced that it plans to commence short-term film courses at Kumaun University.<ref> </ref><ref> </ref><ref> </ref>
== References ==
==External links==
*[http://kautik.net/ Kautik website]
[[Category:Short film festivals]]
[[Category:Student film festivals]]
[[Category:International film festivals]]
April 28, 2018 at 07:46AM
