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A new icon among world cinema-JIFF 2013

JIFF 2013 will start from 30^th Jan at 5.00 at Golcha Cinema

Sharmila Tagore will be honoured by JIFF lifetime achievement award-2013

Jaipur, 29 January. Ranked as one of the prestigious film festival among the other Asian film festivals, JIFF -2013 will start from 30^th Jan in Golcha Cinema at 5pm at Golcha Cinema. Famous Bollywood actress Sharmila Tagore will be honoured by JIFF lifetime achievement award-2013 on 30^th Jan at 5.00 (Venue Golche Cinema during the opening ceremony).  217 films will be screened in 11 screens at 8 different places of the city during the five day film festival. There are 28 awards in different categories. Oscar winning director Marc Baschet is the chairperson of international jury of 14 members.  LIFE GOES ON is selected as the opening film of JIFF. Om Puri and Sharmila Tagore are in lead roles followed by Soha Ali khan and Girish Karnad. Film is directed by London based Sangeeta Dutta.

Keeping in view the worldwide fame of JIFF, the organizers have arranged 16 workshops and seminars on various cinema related subjects. The cine personalities, going to participate in these seminars are Jaiprakash Chowksey, Komal Nahta, Arun Dutt, B.B Nagpal, Prasoon Sinha, and Santosh Jain. One of the major attractions of JIFF will be “Best world cinema”, screening of films which have already been awarded in festivals such as Oscar, Berlin, Canes, Bafta etc. Modest Reception (Greece), one thousand gram (Germany), the etic (Greece),Mumbai (India) some of them. Following the 100 hundred years’ celebration of Indian Cinema, there is also screening of 7 classic movies including Dada Saheb Falke’s harishchandra chi factory, daag by Yash Chopra, Gurudatt’s kaagaz ke phool, K.Asif’s mughl-e-azam, Mahesh Bhatt’s saaransh, and Vishal Bhardwaj’s makbool.

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Press Release
Actress Sharmila Tagore to be given “Life Time Achievement Award”
Spain is the Guest Country of this year’s JIFF
More than one thousand award winning Film Celebrities are
attending the Festival
Best films of the world, Producers, Directors, Actors, Story writers and new comers. You’ll
find all of them under one roof in the 5th Jaipur International Film Festival, soon to be held in
the pink City of Jaipur. The festival which has made an identity of itself in the country as well
as abroad is being organized in Jaipur from 30th January to 03rd February, 2013.
Life Time Achievement Award
Actress Sharmila Tagore, who has created an honourable space for herself through her extra
ordinary acting talent, is being honoured this year with JIFF’s Third Life Time Achievement
Award. Her best films would also be screened during the Festival. Previously Actress Asha
Parekh and Actress Jaya Bachchan have been honoured with JIFF’s Life time Achievement
Awards.
Several noted film personalities from India like actress SharmilaTagore, Actor Prem Chopra,
Director Gautam Ghose, Actress Dia Mirza, Documentary film maker Anand Patwardhan and
several others from abroad will be in Jaipur to participate in the Festival.
SPAIN is the Guest Country
Continuing its tradition of nominating one country as its Guest country, JIFF has declared
SPAIN as the guest country for the year 2013. Hence, 10 films from SPAIN have been
selected for special screening in the Festival. Announcing this, the Director of JIFF Hanu Roj
said that this is the second highest number of films to be screened from any country.
Highest number of films has been selected from India. In the previous years, France and Iran
had been declared the guest countries of the festival.
100 year of Cinema
JIFF will celebrate completion of 100 years of Indian Cinema. For this purpose, classics from
Indian cinema would be specially screened on the Chandramahal screen of Golcha Cinema.
These films include Guru Dutt’s Kagaz Ke Phool, K. Asif’s Mughal-e-Azam, Satyajit Ray’s
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Pather Panchali, Mahesh Bhatt’s Saaransh and Yash Chopara’s Daag, besides many other
films. Mr Arun Dutt, son of illustrious Guru Dutt will specially be with us to discuss the
eternal classic Kagaz Ke Phool. Needless to say, it would be a rare and memorable occasion
to know about the creative process of great Guru Dutt through the words of his son.
Speaking Alam Ara
On the completion of 100 years of Indian Cinema, JIFF is organizing a special session on the
first ‘talking’ film of India, Alam Ara. Mr Shivanand Kamade, who is the Professor of
Chattisgarh Film Archives and the founder of the society, would discuss the film.
Workshops, Seminars and Face to Face sessions
Movies serve the dual purpose of entertainment as well as learning. Keeping this in mind,
JIFF is organizing various workshops, seminars etc also besides screening the films.
“Changing Face of Indian Cinema’ and “100 years of Indian Cinema” would be the topics of
discussion. Experts from all over the country, and even from abroad would discuss these
topics. Moreover, after screening of the films in the Festival, personalities related with those
films would also interact with the audience.
Film Market
From this year, Film Market is being launched in JIFF on global level. Renowned big
distribution houses like Eros International and Central Circuit Cine Association are
participating in the Festival. Film Market is being organized at the Chamber Bhawan from
31st January 2013 to 02nd February, 2013. Films from all over the world would be marketed
here. Besides screening of films, some workshops and seminars are also being organized
here. During the Film Market, Producer’s Meet, Distributor’s Meet, Digital Film Distribution,
Short and Documentary Film Maker’s Meet, discussion on Shooting locations in Jaipur and
Rajasthan etc would also be organized.
The Film Market of JIFF would provide a forum to the film makers of Rajasthan and India.
During the market, Central Circuit Cine Association would come forward to help young film
makers in releasing their yet un released films, for what so ever reasons.
Cinema of Rajasthan
Besides concentrating on International and National Cinema, the Jaipur International Film
Festival would try to effectively promote the cinema of Rajasthan also. For this, from the
films selected under UTR Rajasthan Category, three best film from Rajasthan would be given
cash awards. This year, JIFF received 30 films from Rajasthan. Out of these, 22 films have
been selected for screening. 15 of these films would be screened in the theatres and rest 7
films would be screened on the desktop.
Best World Cinema Category
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It has been noted with great satisfaction that the participation of International Cinema in
JIFF is increasing every year. This year there are 12 films from 11countries. During the Best
World Cinema section, as many as ten best films selected from Oscar, Cannes, BAFFTA, and
Busan Film Festivals would be screened, and one of these films would be given a suitable
award also.
The films of Best World Cinema Category would be screened at the 3-D auditorium of Space
cinema.
11 Screens at 9 venues
This year JIFF has spread the screening of its films throughout the city. Three screens of
Golcha, two screens of Golcha Trade Centre, one screen each of Chamber Bhawan, Funstar
at Vidyadhar Nagar, Space Cinema, Pearl Fashion Institute, Kukas, MGD School and
Maharani College would be used for the screening of Festival films.
Mr Hanu Roj, the director of JIFF has said that like previous years, we have tried to give
importance to various things. A separate Media center is also being set up for the exclusive
use of media persons, from where they would be able to get useful information about the
festival as well as have a look at the Festival films also.
Mr Hanu Roj also says that for viewing the Festival films, one would have to register
himself/herself in the Festival by paying a nominal fee of Rs 200/- (students) or Rs 300/- (all
others) for the entire Festival (only for film shows).
Hanu Roj
Founder Director
Jaipur International Film Festival
Jaipur.
Office: 0141-6500601
www.jiffindia.org