World's Largest CHILDREN's Film Festival Films Catalogue R E B M E V O 2018 N Lxl.In/Ikff IKFF Details
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International Kids Film festival World's Largest CHILDREN's Film Festival Films Catalogue r e b m e v o 2018 N lxl.in/ikff IKFF details THE WORLD’S LARGEST CHILDREN’S FILM FESTIVAL HOSTED BY SCHOOLS ACROSS THE GLOBE 93 movies 4 Days 23 shows 2000+ Schools | 20 COUNTRIES | 2 million+ students Contents 04 Message from Festival Director Feature Films 10 05 Message from Festival Programmer jury members 06 Short Films 17 09 IKFF Team 59 schedule 65 partners lxl.in/ikff Message from Festival director Syed Sultan Ahmed MD & Chief Learner @LXL Ideas 6 National Awards Winner hildren love watching films, but the challenge is that good children's films are hard to come by. Film festivals are a great source of good films for Cchildren, but the reality is that film festivals happen in very few cities and few children get an access to the wonderful films featured in film festivals. We at LXL Ideas asked ourselves a question – If children do not go to film festivals, can we take the festival to the children? Our answer to this question was the birth of the International Kids Film Festival - IKFF. IKFF gives schools all over the world an opportunity to host a film festival in their premises. We have partnered with 7 of the best International Childrens Film Festivals from across the globe who have helped us curate almost 100 amazing films from 30 countries in 20 languages. IKFF is a great opportunity for children across the world to learn from the magic of cinema. This year IKFF also features Learn Cinema, an online film making class, exclusively designed for students to learn the art of film making. Students can also participate in the film making competition as part of IKFF this year and win exciting prizes of $10,000 and a chance to travel international film festivals. As far as we are concerned, IKFF is the future of learning, and for all of us at LXL Ideas, our dream is to take IKFF to children across the globe in the coming years! 4 Message from Festival programmer Neha Jain Head, LXL Films, LXL Ideas elcome to the second edition of the International Kids Film Festival! It’s been a hectic seven months of marathon film viewing sessions, debates and discussions and, finally, I’d Wlike to present to you the IKFF 2018 Catalogue: a diverse collection of 93 compelling films from 31 countries, selected with a lot of passion and conviction, only for you. Our main objective during the selection process has been to choose films that make you think and make you question the status quo. But I also know that these films will make you feel emotions you might not have experienced before. Some ideas might be unfamiliar to you, some stories might question your beliefs, all we ask of you is to look at each of these with an open mind. You may be surprised by what you learn - the places that you see, and the people that you meet. Besides my fantastic Films Programming team, I would also like to thank our Partners who helped us find these gems in children’s cinema - Children's Film Festival Seattle, Providence Children's Film Festival (USA), Giffoni International Film Festival (Italy), Boston International Kids Film Festival, Lucas International Festival for Young Film Lovers (Germany) and Rolan International Film Festival for Children and Youth (Armenia). The embassies of France and Australia were instrumental in getting us films from their countries. The best of the films at IKFF 2018 stand to win many awards. These will be chosen by our eight- member Jury comprising of eminent personalities from the film and animation industries in India, France and the United States. We also have a 20-member Children's Jury selected from schools across the world. We hope you enjoy watching these films. After all, what can be better than going to the movies with friends and, that too, in school itself! 5 lxl.in/ikff Jury members Ameeta Mulla Wattal Ameeta Mulla Wattal is the Principal, Springdales School Pusa Road and Kirti Nagar. She has worked in the sphere of education, creative arts, special needs education, communicative English, street theatre, women’s education, peace studies and curriculum development for over four decades. She is the recipient of the prestigious National Teachers Award from the President of India, the Endeavour Award from the Australian government for work in Asia Literacy. Emmanuele Petry-Sirvin Emmanuèle Pétry-Sirvin is an expert in developing children's animated projects for the international TV industry and foreign market. Emmanuele started the Nelvana Paris oce in 1990 and grew the oce to focus on development, co-production and worldwide distribution for a wide range of children's programming. During her 17 years at Nelvana, Emmanuèle worked on various aspects of over 30 series but some of the highlights include: The Adventures Of Tintin, Babar, Franklin The Turtle, Maurice Sendak's Little Bear and Bill Joyce’s Rolie Polie Olie which granted Emma with her first Emmy Award. She is now a producer with acclaimed French animation production and distribution house, Dandelooo and is the creator and producer of the Emmy award-winning Treehouse Stories series. Eric Bilodeau Eric Bilodeau has served as Director of Programming for the Providence Children’s Film Festival (Rhode Island, USA). For him, programming films for young minds has been the most demanding programming he has ever done in his 30+ years of programming, but also the most rewarding. Alongside his work with the Providence Children’s Film Festival, he is also the Children’s Film Programmer for the Martha’s Vineyard Film Festival (Massachusetts, USA). He is also the founder and current operator of the Cricket Cinema, a portable, pop-up movie cinema business. Jabeen Merchant Jabeen Merchant is a film editor trained at the Film and Television Institute of India, with a wide and varied experience within the mainstream film industry as well as the independent filmmaking community. She has edited a range of fiction feature films, including the critically acclaimed Anaarkali of Aarah; commercially successful thrillers like NH10 and Manorama Six Feet Under; the off-beat comedy The President Is Coming; art-house films such as Kadvi Hawa and The Sweet Requiem; and the National Award winning children’s film Chhutkan Ki Mahabharat. 6 Laura Azevedo Laura Azevedo is Co-Creator and Director of the Boston International Kids Film Festival. She has over twenty years experience as a production manager and supervising producer, with credits on National Public Television series such as NOVA, American Experience and FETCH! with Ruff Ruffman. Having joined Filmmakers Collaborative in 2011, she now manages all strategic planning for the Collaborative and is interested in implementing further networking and educational opportunities for the independent media-making community world-wide. Shweta Tripathi Shweta Tripathi is an actor who has starred in several Bollywood films and is best known for her critically acclaimed performance in Masaan (2015). She has been the face of several advertising campaigns for leading brands such as Cadbury, Tata Sky and Amazon. She was seen in Haramkhor (2017) opposite Nawazuddin Siddique. She has appeared in the web series The Trip (2016) with Lisa Haydon, Mallika Dua and Sapna Pabbi, and is shooting for its 2nd season. Her upcoming web series, Mirzapur, is slated for release in November 2018. Vikramaditya Motwane Vikramaitya Motwane is an award-winning Indian film director, producer and screenwriter, known for films like Dev.D (2009) and Dhan Dhana Dhan Goal (2007). His directorial debut Udaan (2010) was selected to compete in the 'Un Certain Regard’ category at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival and also won seven Filmfare awards. Uma da Cunha Uma da Cunha’s work in cinema spans programming, writing and casting. Her career started in 1974. She has assisted major festivals such as those at Cannes, Berlin and Venice and more recently, Toronto and Busan. She has also been Founder-Advisor to several Indian film festivals held abroad. Uma has also held Indian film sessions at New York's Museum of Modern Art, the Lincoln Center and the Museum of Modern Image. In 1966 she edited Montage - A Monograph on Satyajit Ray. In 2009, she served on the International jury for Cannes's Un Certain Regard. She has been programming a section, now called 'Discovering India', at the Jio MAMI Mumbai Film Festival with Star ever since its inception. 7 lxl.in/ikff Jury members 11-13 YEARS Akshaya Tripathi Anagha Anand Ananya Sahay Age:12 Age:12 Age:12 City: Raipur, India City: Kochi , India City: Hyderabad, India Calista Leroux Ranveer Behl Zene Zoe Warsi Age:12 Age:13 Age:11 City: United States City: Mumbai , India City: Mumbai , India 14+ YEARS Aakanksha Jain Athul Vinu Carla Cassese Age:17 Age:16 Age:16 City: Bhiwani, India City: Bangalore, City: Baronissi , Italy India Deepali Jethwani Dimitri Ortiz Gerardo Gambone Age:15 Age:14 Age:16 City: Jaipur, India City: Providence, City: Salerno, Italy United States Joshua Relyea Oriana Senatore Reka Moscarelli Age:17 Age:15 Age:15 City: Warwick, City: San Cipriano City: Providence, United States Picentino , Italy United States Sara Dell'Acqua Surya Teja Teresa Basso Age:14 Age:16 Age:17 City: Salerno , Italy City: Hyderabad , India City: Pontecagnano Faiano , Italy Vasu Jain Zeke Zidaan Warsi Age:15 Age:14 City: Chandigarh , City: Mumbai , India India lxl.in/ikff IKFF TEAM FESTIVAL DIRECTORS FILM CURATION TEAM Syed Sultan Ahmed Ruchi Sawardekar MD & Chief Learner @LXL Ideas Aayushi Bengani Neha Jain Anne Doshi Head Films @LXL Ideas ADVISORS EXECUTION TEAM Elizabeth Shephard Khalid Ahmed, Rakesh Festival Director, Children's Film Festival Seattle Ramachandra, Yamini Gowda, Eric Bilodeau Lubna Mulla, Raghunandan & Director of Programming, Providence Children's Film Festival Mohit Khan Uma da Cunha Film Festival Curator FESTIVAL COORDINATORS CONTENT & CREATIVE TEAM Antra Chandna – INDIA Preethi Mahtani Jenny – KAZAKHSTAN & KYRGYZSTAN Sushma Venktesh Without Borders – SRI LANKA Uday S Saida Ibrahimova – RUSSIA Kawther Ben Mabrouk – TUNISIA Talha Owais – SAUDI ARABIA DIGITAL TEAM TECH & DELIVERY Archana Muralidhar, Amith Nagender, Manjunath Dixit Sahana Govindaraju & Kasturi Ranga Praveen U M ORGANISER LXL Ideas makes lessons of life through films, events, publishing and training.