By Western standards, India is a collectivist culture.  American film buffs admire the output volume of Bollywood, yet dismiss its idiosyncratic visual language as thematic homogeneity and creative narrowness.  It may surprise some to discover there’s a bigger creative picture there, especially if they judge this book by just its big-screen cover.  All over the world, the advent of Youtube has had a liberating effect on the expression of culture through video.  In India, the short film genre has inspired millions of independent film producers, who may have Bollywood-scale aspirations, but lack the resources or connections necessary to pull-off a film in Mumbai.  The result is a thriving community of filmmakers and short-format visual storytellers whose stylistic diversity challenges our preconceptions of Indian cinema.  Filmbooth is their film festival. In their own words: “Filmbooth is a new film festival focused on short films. The festival will feature, among other things, a competition section for budding film-makers where the best films will be showcased at the India Habitat Center, New Delhi between 19, 20 & 21 December 2008. The film-makers will not only benefit from screening of their films, they will also benefit by winning exciting prizes and interacting with experts from the films, media and entertainment space. Their films will be screened alongside short films made by renowned film-makers, including those made on AIDS by four top bollywood directors – Mira Nair, Farhan Akhtar, Santosh Sivan and Vishal Bharadwaj. The Competition has two categories – up to one-minute films and up to twenty-minute films. The Filmbooth Team encourages the filmmakers to send in films which are fictional/non documentary in style and character.”

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