The curtains will come down on the sixth International Documentary and Short Film Festival of Kerala (IDSFFK) on Tuesday. Chief Minister Oommen Chandy will inaugurate the closing ceremony at 6.30 pm at Kairali and the function will be presided over by Minister for Cultural Affairs KC Joseph.
The Chief Minister will distribute the awards for the winning documentaries and short films under various categories. After the ceremony, the award-winning works will be screened at the same venue.
Panchayat and Social Welfare Minister Dr M K Muneer, KSCA chairman Priyadarshan, vice-chairman Gandhimathi Balan, secretary Manoj Kumar and Festival artistic director Beena Paul will also attend the ceremony.
A total of 34 screenings will take place on the final day, among which the documentaries ‘Fabricated’ by K P Sasi, and ‘Kanayiyude Kala’ by Nemom Pushparaj will be the highlights. There will also be the special screening of ‘To Let the World In’ by Avijit Mukul Kishore.
On the penultimate day of the Festival, veteran film director and Chalachitra Academy chairman Priyadarshan inaugurated the website of ‘Good Pitch’, an initiative to create a platform for marketing documentaries worldwide.
Good Pitch will arrange a platform for documentary distribution on February 23, 2014 at Mumbai International Film Festival. Sophie Sivaraman, co-founder of IDF, detailed the purpose and functioning of this initiative.
Good Pitch is the inspiration of the British Project by Channel 4 and Britdoc of the same name. Sivaraman said that the applications for Good Pitch are open and the documentary makers can apply online at ‘www.goodpitch.org’. She added that Good Pitch is not for monetary benefit but helps documentarians to market their products efficiently.
Beena Paul explained about the success of ‘Trigger Pitch’, an ongoing project to promote the documentaries in India only. She said that this project can bring previously untapped investment to documentary film-making.