Film Makers! If you wish to test your funny side, then here’s an interesting competition for you! FilmBooth has announced their fresh, International short film competition titled ‘SpoofhMania’.
A dedicated group of short film lovers, FilmBooth keeps a keen eye on encouraging film makers to deliver interesting short films by providing timely competitions.
Founded by Gaurav Raturi, Mohak Mathur, Sumit Nanda and Nagendra Singh and located in Delhi, FilmBooth has been on its toes since 2008 by organizing competitions to appreciate and give recognition to all kinds of short films.
With the tagline ‘The World is coming to an End… Let’s Spoof it while we can’, this competition invites entries based on the themes Cinema and Life. Any medium of film making, including Animation can be brought into action for this competition.
Concepts filled with crazy and creative humor, appealing gags will probably make for winners.
Short films in this competition can be submitted into two categories with one being XTRAXTRA Large category accepting short films of less than 5 minutes and another one is the XTRA LARGE category, which accepts movies between 5 and 30 minutes duration.
If you are in a fix on the subjects to choose for spoofing, then here goes the list of the popular subjects you can look out for: Cult Films / Superstars / Iconic scenes / Hot Gossips
Hollywood/Bollywood/ Tollywood /Jolly-Good!
Sports, other than cricket & soccer
Pop-culture / Famous Bands / Songs
Politics / Bureaucracy / News-makers
Sitcoms / TV shows / Anchors / Breaking News
Fashion / Brands / Taglines
Advertisements / Print-ads / Tvc’s
Office Office: Corporate life / Office jargon’s
Popular Novels / Plays / Idioms / Phrases
Comics / Superheroes / Cartoons
Speaking to Animationxpress.com’s Zeenia Boatwala about SpoofhMania, Gaurav Raturi, Co-Founder of FilmBooth, shared, “FilmBooth has launched SpoofhMania to mark the 100 glorious years of Indian Cinema.
With SpoofhMania, we are encouraging all kinds of filmmakers by bringing them on a common platform. Also we would be getting into distribution of films after the festival, which would also mean exploring monetization for all winning filmmakers. I feel the themes and genre given for this competition quite new and unique and it will allow one to be extremely creative.
Animation allows us to be more creative and develop scenarios and plots that are not achievable in other mediums of filmmaking. We are open to all kinds of animation and VFX, but the idea of spoofing should be the base for building it further through animation.”
Last Date for short film submission is 15 October 2012 and the entry fee is Rs 500. The jury for this competition has renowned filmmakers, comedians, some of the finest names from advertising industry.
When we asked Gaurav about his favorite subject of spoofing and the criteria of winning this competition, he replied by saying, “Well, I really love the Mahabharata spoof scene from the movie ‘Jaane Bhi Do Yaaron’ and I wish to create something on the same front. I believe, the power to Spoof a subject in the most intelligent manner, picking a subject which is universal yet not been spoofed till now will win.”
This competition format does not support Spoofs/parodies targeting any religion, culture, castes and also usage of names of real persons, organizations must be restricted.
Good things don’t come without any reward and the same is with this competition too!! Winners of SpoofhMania will bag various prizes of more than Rs 1, 00,000 and also selected films will makeir way to multiple cities and screenings apart from the Festival, which will be at a premium venue in Delhi and Mumbai this November. The best 25 Films will be felicitated with certificates
SpoofhMania Festival will take place in November this year and to know more about the date and venue of the festival, you can log on to www.filmbooth.in
Highlighting more on the future plans of FilmBooth, Gaurav, stated, “We are getting into distribution of films and providing multiple platforms to the filmmakers through Festivals, Competitions, Premiers at First Cut, and a Film club to regularly watch short cinema. We are also coming up with a TV show on Short Films but that will be taking another 6 months to launch.”