The India International Film Festival (IIFF) of Tampa Bay takes place annually in Tampa, Florida. IIFF's mission is to provide "a platform for increased awareness of Indian cinema and culture to the community by promoting films and industry professionals representing the diversity of India."[1][2] The films featured at the festival include feature films, short films, and documentaries that are produced by Indians, films with Indian actors or actresses, or films with Indian themes.[3] The festival takes place over the course of three days and includes a red carpet, Indian food, and various entertainment, including music and dance performances.[4][5]
The fourth annual festival took place February 15, 2013 to February 17, 2013.[6]
History
editIIFF was founded by Francis Vayalumkal,[7] Rahul Korlipara, and Rachna Dinkar in February, 2010. It was originally sponsored by the Indo-US Chamber of Commerce.[8]
There were approximately 3,000 attendees in 2012,[9] 2,500 attendees in 2011,[10] and 1,000 attendees in 2010.[11]
2013 Film Screenings
edit| Title | Director | Cast |
|---|---|---|
| Listen Amaya | Avinash Kumar Singh | |
| Yoga Is: A Transformational Journey | Suzanne Bryant | |
| Indelible | Pavitra Chalam | |
| Planes, Trains & Autorickshaws | Scott Sheppard | |
| A Gran Plan | Sangeeta Nambiar | |
| Jana Gana Mana | Vijay Das | |
| Shaya | Amir Noorani | |
| Larry Brought Lemon | Ujjwal Patel | |
| Ehsaas | Sunil Nair | |
| Daadi | David Stoler | |
| Sidekick (3D Animation) | Amrinder Jassar | |
| Gattu | Rajan Khosa | |
| Vishwaroopam | Kamal Haasan | |
| Leaving Home | Robert Richter | |
| Sambhavna | Joseph Malone | |
| Saari Raat | Parimal Aloke | |
| Party | Santosh Davakhar | |
| Do Pahar | Shazia Shrivastava & Sharifa Roy | |
| Un.Kahi | Samrat DasGupta | |
| Little Terrors | Maninder Chana | |
| Highway | Deepak Rauniyar | |
| Paanch Adhyay | Pratim DasGupta | |
| Valley of Saints | Musa Syeed |
2012 Film Screenings
edit| Title | Director | Cast |
|---|---|---|
| Love, Wrinkle - Free | Sandeep Mohan | Ash Chandler, Shernaz Patel, Seema Rahmani, Sohrab Ardeshir, Ashwin Mushran, Arika Silaichia, Tensin Dasang |
| Adwait Sangeet | Makarand Brahme | |
| Aadukalam (The Arena) | Vetrimaaran | Dhanush, Velraj Rajamani, Tapsee Pannu |
| The Great Indian Marriage Bazaar | Ruchika Muchhala | |
| Shuttlecock Boys | Hemant Gaba | Aakar Kaushik, Manish Nawani, Alok Kumar, Vijay Prateek |
| Do Paise Ki Dhoop, Chaar Aane Ki Baarish | Deepti Naval | Manisha Koirala, Rajit Kapur, Sanaj Naval |
| Love You to Death | Rafeeq Ellias | Yuki Ellias, Carl Sequeria, Leonid Kudryavtsev, Sheeba Chaddha, Suhasini Mulay, Sohrab Ardeshir |
| Porn Masala | Ken Kwek | Vadi PVSS, Adrian Pang |
| The Myth of Buddha's Birthplace | James Freeman | |
| Paulwaat (The Pathway) | Aditya Ingale | Subodh Bhave, Jyoti Bhandekar |
| Patang (The Kite) | Prashant Bhargava | Seema Biswas, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Sugandha Garg |
| Love, Lies and Seeta | Chandra Pemmaraju | Melanie Kannokada, Arjun Gupta, Michael Derek, Lavrenti Lopes |
| A Little Revolution - A Story of Suicide & Dreams | Harpreet Kaur | |
| Your Own is Your Own | Anjay Nagpal | |
| Fire in Our Hearts | Jayshree Janu Kharpade | |
| Letters Home | Neilesh Verma | |
| Have I Shared Too Much? | Sameer Acharya | |
| The 5 | Ravi Kapoor | |
| According to Plan A | Anuj Nijhawan | |
| Set in Stone | Divij Roopchand | |
| Bureaucracy Sonata | Vinay Shukla | |
| Maaya Getting Born | Anand Raghavan | |
| Anoochcharito (Unuttered) | Sourav Sarkar | |
| Sati Shaves Her Head | Tejal Shah | |
| Wind | Manik Andan | |
| Always There | Jayesh Pillai | |
| The Ballad of Sandeep | Derek Frey | Deep Roy |
| Another Day Another Life | Rohit Gupta | Benjamin Jacobs, Amneek Sandhu |
| Nu Me (New Me)[12][13] | Anjani K Pandey[14] | John Von Trapp, Anjani K Pandey, Barbara Wilcox, Jay Cannon, Tamara Austin, Rebecca Ladd |
| Uncoupled | Monica Bassi | |
| The Coffee | Hemant Dinkar |
2011 Film Screenings
edit| Title | Director | Cast |
|---|---|---|
| Ashes | Ajay Naidu | Heather Burns, Ajay Naidu, Piper Perabo, Faran Tahir, Samrat Chakrabarti, Reena Shah |
| Huppa Huiyya | Anil Surve | Mohan Joshi, Ushna Nadkarni, Ganesh Yadav, Mangesh Desai, Maansi Mangikar, Vaibhav Mangale, Kushai Badrike, Nilesh Divekar, Poonam Jadhav |
| Prasthanam (The Rise and Fall of a Person) | Deva Katta | Sharwanand, Ruby Parihar, Sai Kumar, Vennela Kishore, Sundeep Kishan |
| I am... | Ramesh Devu | Scott Mccabe, Wendy Nguyen, Bert Van Aalsburg |
| Topi | Arjun Rihan | Sarah Zerina Usmen, Ludwig Goransson, Sunil Rihan, Mala Rihan, Gurushish Dhupar, Naila Azad, Subash Kundanmal |
| Fresh Arrangement | Monica Bassi | Monica Bassi, Amit Lamba, Jeremiah Jett, Sujatha Chetty |
| The Eclipse of Taregna | Rakesh Chaudhary | Surendra Rajan, Purav Bhandare, Geetika Tyagi, Saagar Kale, Ashutosh Warang, Jimmy Peters, Sachin Tawde |
| Fatakra | Soham Mehta | Samrat Chakrabarti, Meena Serendib, Ritik Goyal, Raj Vats |
| Shakti Pirakkudhu (Shakti Rising) | Usha Rajeswari | Devadarshini, Sashi, Sampatth, Vishalini, Soori, Manaswini, T.K. Kala, Malar, Satyasree, Dr. S. Raghuraman, Madurai Annakamatchi |
| I Met with an Accident | Trevord Ward | Benedict Das |
| Life! Camera Action... | Rohit Gupta | Dipti Mehta, Shaheed K. Woods, Noor Naghmi, John Crann, Subodh Batra, Swati Kapila, Jyothi Singh, Nina Mehta, Chelsi Stahr |
| Udaan | Vikramaditya Motwane | Anurag Kashyap, Ronnie Screwvala, Sanjay Singh |
| I am Kalam | Nila Madhab Panda | Harsh Mayar, Hussan Saad, Gulshan Grover, Beatrice Ordeix |
| Visible Bra Straps | Ajitesh Sharma | Petra Khruz, Reeth Mazumder |
| Dhobi Ghat | Kiran Rao | Aamir Khan, Prateik Babbar, Monica Dogra |
| A Journey in My Mother's Footsteps | Dina Rosenmeier | Dina Rosenmeier, Jessie Rosenmeier, Joern Rosenmeier, Mohinder Singh, Nergis Udwadia, Shaila Samuel, Viji Iyengar |
| Cocktail | Arun Kumar | Jayasurya, Anoop Menon, Samvrutha Sunil, Fahad Fazil, Innocent Mamukkoya |
| Dams: The Lethal Water Bombs | Sohan Roy | Vijo Alex, Tony Kurian, Vipin Viswan, Saj Matthews, Rajesh Nair |
| Still Voices | Tamal Sen | Gaurav Dwivedi, Paru Gambhir, Kaushik Ghosh, Shahidur Rahaman, Prasenjit Ghosh, Sudipto Shankar Roy |
| You Can't Curry Love | Reid Waterer | Ashwin Gore, Russell Reynolds, Rajan Velu, Rakshak Sahni, Upasana Beharee, William Vega, Frederic Chaignat |
| Nerd of the Ring | Gowtham Bachina | Charles Marina, Michael Kuya, Zuri Bella, John Phillips, Saladin Florence, Corey Richards, Madaline Berube, Tilly, Trevor Teichmann, Aaron Phillips, Kole |
| Soy Milk | Veeran Naran | Djon Alexander, Mark Silveira, Lisa Emmanuel, Stefan Duscio, Nathalie Resciniti, Michael Latham, Juliet Hill, David Balaban |
| Esha | Reza Dahya | Albina Nahar, Adam Sidawi, Ashton Bishop, Chantal Hazineh, Christopher Lee Grant, Adam Crosby |
| A Girl Like You with a Boy Like Me | Ruben Amar | James Rana, Frank X, Allison Carter Thomas, Joan Chemia, Rick Adamson, Ryan Samuel, Jennifer Lilly |
| Shukno Lanka (Dry Red Chillies) | Gaurav Pandey | Mithun Chakraborty, Debashree Roy, Sabyasachi Chakraborty Sabyasachi Chakrabarty, Emma Brown Garett, Angana Bose, Saheb Chatterjee, Nandinil Chaterjee, Arindam Sil, Chattrapati Dutta, Suman De, Late Kunal Mitra |
| Blood & Curry | Atul Sharma | Atul Sharma, Angie Light, Raghu Bhagat, Dhara Mehta, Sathya Jesudason, Abhi Trivedi, Fagun Thakrar, Ilona Maitra, Nicole Layson, Parminder Sidhu, Robbie Rosario, Robert P. Campbell |
| Life Goes On | Sangeeta Datta | Sharmila Tagore, Girish Karnad, Om Puri, Soha Ali Khan, Rez Kempton, Neerja Naik, Christopher Hatherall, Mukulika Banerjee, Misha Crosby, Tom Reed |
2010 Film Screenings
edit| Title | Director | Cast |
|---|---|---|
| 7 Days in Slow Motion | Umakanth Thumrugotl | Teja, Kunai Sharma, Shiva Varma, Rajeshwari Sachdev, Ayesha Jaleel |
| Amal | Richie Mehta | Rupinder Nagra, Naseeruddin Shah, Seema Biswas, Koel Purie, Roshan Seth, Vik Sahay |
| Bombay Summer | Joseph Matthew Varghese | Tannishtha Chatterjee, Jatin Goswami, Samrat Chakrabarti, Gaurav Dwivedi |
| Little Zizou | Sooni Taraporevala | Boman Irani, Sohrab Ardeshir, Zenobia Shroff, Shernaz Patel, Imaad Shah, John Abraham |
| Tahaan | Santosh Sivan | Purav Bhandare, Anupam Kher, Sarika, Rahul Bose, Victor Banerjee, Rahul Kanna Rahul Khanna |
| Gulabi Talkies | Girish Kasaravalli | Umashree, K.G. Krishna Murthy, M.D. Pallavi, Poornima Mohan a/k/a Poornima Indrajith, Ashok Sandip |
| Gabhricha Paus (The Damned Rain) | Satish Manwar | Girish Kulkarni, Sonali Kulkarni, Jyoti Subhash, Veena Jamkar, Ammanul Attar |
| Kanchivaram | Priyadarshan | Prakash Raj, Shriya Reddy Sriya Reddy, Shammu, Geetha Vijayan |
| Pazhassi Raja | Hariharan | Mammootty, Sarath Kumar R. Sarathkumar, Thilakan, Suresh Krishna, Manoj K. Jayan, Kaniha a/k/a Kanika, Padmapriya a/k/a Padmapriya Janakiraman |
| The Salt Stories | Lalit Vachani | Mrinal Desal, Anita Kushwaha, Lalit Vachani, Menno Boerema |
| Anything for You | Anand Alagappan | Sam Ghosh, Julie Fine, Pooja Kumar, Aaron Mathias |
| Chath: A Roof Without Walls | Hyder Bilgrami & Tirthankar Das | Sanjay Malhotra, Llyakat Khan, Charu Gupta, Sarah Tyler, Shayna Glassman |
| Wake Up Sid | Ayan Mukerji | Ranbir Kapoor, Konkona Sen Sharma, Namit Das, Rahul Khanna, Anupam Kher, Kainaz Motivala, Supriya Pathak, Kashmera Shah |
| Kissing Miss Jones | Chandra Pemmaraju | Lavrenti Lopes, Khushboo Shah, Christopher Peuler, Meredith Dillard, Julie Donahue, Kyle Donahue, Collin James, Aaron Katter, Nadia Rahman, Aditi P. Solanki |
| Sukrit's Sundays | Vasant Nath | |
| Ismael | Ambarish Manepalli | |
| Kavi | Gregg Helvey | Sagar Salunke, Ulhas Tayade, Rajesh Kumar, Madhavi Juvekar, Debu Bhattacharya, Rishi Raj Singh, Mukesh Barahti |
Film School
editIIFF was the first South Asian Film Festival in the United States to hold an independent film school for aspiring filmmakers. It was started in 2012.[10][15]
References
edit- ^ "About IIFF." India International Film Festival of Tampa Bay. 2010. Web. <http://iifftampa.com/2010/aboutiiff.html>.
- ^ "India International Film Festival of Tampa Bay." Filmmakers, Withoutabox. Web. 3 January 2013. <https://www.withoutabox.com/03film/03t_fin/03t_fin_fest_01over.php?festival_id=8604>.
- ^ "About IIFF," 2010.
- ^ George, Justin. "India International Film Festival Opens Feb. 17 in Tampa and Points to Growth of the South Asian Community. " Tampa Bay Times. 17 February 2012. Web. 2 January 2013. <https://www.tampabay.com/features/humaninterest/india-international-film-festival-opens-feb-17-in-tampa-and-points-to/1215569/>.
- ^ Priyanka, Vidisha. "Indian Film Fest Celebrates Human Spirit, Grit." TBO Extra. 16 February 2011. Web. 2 January 2013. <http://www2.tboextra.com/entertainment/tboextra-movies/2011/feb/16/indian-film-fest-celebrates-human-spirit-grit-ar-268237/>.
- ^ "India International Film Festival of Tampa Bay." Filmmakers, Withoutabox.
- ^ Guzzo, Paul, and the Center for Understanding Modern Indian American Culture (CUMIAC). From Indians to Indian Americans: How Tampa Bay's Indian Community Was Built. Bloomington, IN: AuthorHouse, 2012. 79-84. Print.
- ^ Hutcheson, Nicole. "Tampa Bay Festivals, Theaters and Temples Indicate How Indian Community Has Grown and Flourished. " Tampa Bay Times. 21 February 2010. Web. 2 January 2013. <[1]>.
- ^ Cashill, Margaret. "India International Film Festival Develops Following." Tampa Bay Business Journal. 27 February 2012. Web. 3 January 2013. <http://www.bizjournals.com/tampabay/blog/morning-edition/2012/02/india-international-film-festival.html>.
- ^ a b George, 2012.
- ^ Hutcheson, 2010.
- ^ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOaxJil7Y7k | Watch "Nu Me"
- ^ http://www.nukkad-usa.org | Nukkad-USA Productions
- ^ "Anjani Pandey".
- ^ "India International Film Festival of Tampa Bay." Filmmakers, Withoutabox.
External links
edit- India International Film Festival http://iifftampa.com
- Indo-US Chamber of Commerce http://www.indo-us.org