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Change in Festival Dates - Added 2nd March
Revised dates for the Pumelo, Enoma and Yensa International Film Festivals are June 28th to 30th. The festival dates have been changed to accomodate more films.
Final Submission Dates - Added 16th January
Final submission dates for the Pumelo, Enoma and Yensa International Film Festivals have been extended to 20th February. The festival dates are from 14th to 16th March of 2008 in Mumbai, India. Hope you can be there too.
Final Submission Dates - Added 29th October
Final submission dates for the Pumelo, Enoma and Yensa International Film Festivals have been extended to 30th January. The festival dates are from 14th to 16th March of 2008 in Mumbai, India. Hope you can be there too or atleast submit your films.
Help Us with Your Expertise - Added 29th August
We would like to chat with top indie film makers on Yahoo Messenger for the benefit of young students of mass communication and film making at SDiMS. Kindly let us know if you are interested in chatting with us for an hour telling us about your life as a film maker and the techniques & approaches of film making that you use. Questions will be asked to you by our students and you need to only answer them in your own words. You will need a webcam & microphone with attached speakers to chat with us so we can broadcast your interview live to our students in our classroom in Mumbai, India. If you fit the bill kindly email us on our email given above.
Entries open for all our film festivals - Added 29th August
Entries are open for all 3 film festivals we organise. Entries are free and gives all indie film makers an opportunity to be showcased in India. Yensa Short Film Festival will be held on 24 & 25th February, Pumelo International Film Festival from 26th to 29th February & the Enoma International Film Festival will be from February 24th to 29th of 2008.
Yensa & Pumelo Festivals merge with Enoma Festival - Added 22nd May
In an effort to recieve the best of independent cinema and to keep our film festivals free we have decided to merge all 3 of our international film festivals under the Pumelo International Film Festival running from March 17th to 20th. Yensa Short Film Festival will be held on 17 & 18th March, Pumelo International Film Festival from 17th to 20th March & the Enoma International Film Festival will be from March 18th to 20th of 2008.
This merger will help attract more film festival fans, get more quality films and most importantly give the fans a dedicated week of quality cinema from around the world. It also gives us more time to promote the festivals as well as attract well known directors from the indie film circuit.
As a film maker whose film is playing at our film festivals, you can expect more exposure for your films, more fans viewing them & also enhance your chances of winning more awards.
All film makers travelling to India for the film festivals will recieve special passes for our opening & closing night parties.
To conclude, we are happy to be showcasing award winning films at the Pumelo International Film Festival. Keep your entries coming in.....
Delay of Pumelo Awards for some Film Makers - Added 22nd May
Some of the film makers who won a Pumelo Award will be getting your laminated certificate soon which states that you have won a Pumelo Award with the award title mentioned in bold letters. Sorry for the delay!
Yensa Going Crazy - Added 17th April
Thanks to the terrific response you have been giving for Yensa Short Film Festival. We have been getting excellent short films and can now proudly say that we are amongst the top indie short film festivals not just in Asia but the world.
Enoma 2007 will Rock - Added 12th April
With over 40 world class & award winning films expected at Enoma 2007 there is absolutely no doubt that Enoma 2007 will rock this year. We would like to invite all the indie film makers from all over the world who have supported us so far to be here for Enoma 2007. We hope you can make it to beautiful, wonderful Mumbai. We promise you a great time at the film festival and a big party to end it all on December 21st. Do email me if you will be there so we can arrange your complimentary hotel stay. Thanks!
Enoma & Yensa Update - Added 10th April
The response to Enoma 2007 has been pretty good so far. We would like more participation from the south east asian countries as well as the east european countries. We have been getting a terrific response to Yensa 2007 thanks mainly to the film makers on MySpace.com, the best site for indie film makers to submit to film festivals.
Help Us with Your Expertise - Added 31st March
We would like to chat with top indie film makers on Yahoo Messenger for the benefit of young students of mass communication. Kindly let us know if you are interested in chatting with us for an hour telling us about your life as a film maker and the techniques & approaches of film making that you use.
Yensa Update - Added 28th March
We have already recieved dozens of quality short films for Yensa 2007. We are expecting to screen more than 150 films over 2 days with over 15 different awards being given out. The expected audience is 900 delegates. Kindly submit your films quickly through Yensa.com to be part of the first selection list announced on May 1st. Yensa Festival is ranked the best indie short film festival in Mumbai.
Thank You - Added 25th March
Pumelo 2007 ended well this week and we were extremely happy with the results. In this journey of organising Pumelo 2007 we witnessed a wide range of spectacles along the way including the praisers and the critics talking about us and our film festivals on some websites and forums. Ultimately, we have proven that hard work pays off and we are currently listed as one of the best independent film festivals in the world by a wide array of reliable web sources.
We would like to thank the 400 delegates that participated in Pumelo 2007, the 60 film makers whose films were screened and also the critics for publicising us so much all over the internet. Thanks to this incredible effort we have managed to reach heights we never imagined and in record time.
Finally, a great congratulatory note to all the award winning films and film makers at Pumelo 2007. We promise you and everyone else that Pumelo 2008 will be much, much bigger and better. And, we do hope you continue supporting us through your websites, profiles on film sites and links on blogs, etc. We are currently accepting entries for our other film festivals and in the process of building a website that will list all the film festivals on earth without any regional bias or prejudice.
Fest Europa - Added 24th March
Things are going great and we are considering organising a European Film Festival in Mumbai, India this August. Kindly let us know if you are aware of websites like withoutabox.com, myspace.com, filmz.net, ifilm.com, fest21.com, etc. which have listings of short & feature films so we can reach more film makers with our festivals & help them promote their films in the largest film production market on earth - India.
Pumelo Awards - Added 23rd March
Best Film = Winter's End (Ireland)
Best Short = Saying Freedom (Italy)
Best Director = Josh Whitall "Gutter Diaries"
Best Actor = Michael Crowley "Winter's End"
Best Actress = Hermelina DSilva "Old & Lonely"
Best Script Short = Dammi Il La (Italy)
Best Script Feature = Madmen (Poland)
Best Documentary = Katrina Diary (USA)
Best Cinematography = Raw Footage (USA)
Best Editing = Saying Freedom (Italy)
Best Music = It Happened to Me (India)
Best Production Value = Life Goes On (USA)
Best Entertainment Value = Karma Cafe (USA)
Best Experimental = Fairy Tale Romance (USA)
Audience Choice Short = Karma Cafe (USA)
Audience Choice Feature = Madmen (Poland)
Jury Choice Award = Winter's End (Ireland)
Pumelo 2008 - Added 23rd March
Pumelo International Film Festival is from February 25th to 29th 2008 in Mumbai, India. Pumelo has a competition for best film based on audience choice & awards prizes for best director, best cinematography, best music, best short, best script, best actor, best actress, best documentary, etc. The films screened at Pumelo International Film Festivals in Asia are selected by a jury and entries are now open on Pumelo.com. All prize winners are sent a Pumelo Award.
Pumelo is a Non-Profit festival funded by SDiMS. Pumelo is growing and requires all the support from the best indie film makers in the world with their presence, films & mentions on their profiles, websites & DVD covers. We expect more film makers coming to India for our film festivals in the coming years. Thank you for your time & effort. It goes a long way towards ensuring we keep our festival free for the public so that more fans can view the films & enjoy the best of world cinema.
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Pumelo Festival Update - Added 22nd March
We are pleased with the results of Pumelo 2007 and have already started to prepare for Pumelo 2008. Results of the festival will be online on Monday morning on Pumelo.com for everyone.
We urge all interested film makers to bookmark this page so you are always updated on all SDiMS events & festivals throughout the year.
There are select screenings of certain feature films which are being repeated on 22nd and 23rd March at SDiMS due to popular demand and their content. The list of films are....
Friday 23rd March
10am to 11.40pm - This is a Door
11.50am to 1pm - Broken Flowers
2pm to 3.35pm - Beat the Air
4pm to 5.35pm - Rendezvous
5.50pm to 7.20pm - Consequences
Saturday 24th March
10am to 11.40pm - Point of Fear
12pm to 1.30pm - Fairy Tale Romance
2.30pm to 4pm - Happily
4.15pm to 6pm - Winter's End
Yensa Short Film Festival Entries Open - Added 22nd March
Entries for the Yensa International Short Film Festival have started through the festival site Yensa.com only. Kindly enter and submit your quality short films quickly to be part of our early bird screenings list.
You will be glad to know that the Yensa Short Film Festival has just turned 'International' and will be featuring over 150 short films from over 30 countries over 2 days and at 2 venues. It comes as no surprise that Yensa is ranked in the top 5 "international short film festivals in Asia" by Google.
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