ALPAVIRAMA 2011

Alpavirama is a film festival born out of a desire to celebrate South Asians looking at South Asia, to put forward the voice of the young, and to bring to limelight the short form of filmmaking. In this age of the DSLR – Laptop-YouTube kind of relatively inexpensive and democratic digital films, Alpavirama wants to stand in solidarity with the South Asian men and women under 30, who are redefining the content and form of moving image, looking at subject matter at once micro and macro, of relevance to the world and, more importantly, to their own countries, towns and neighborhoods.

Alpavirama 2011, FSA 2013 is being curated by Arun Gupta, NID.

Professor Arun Gupta is HOD and Senior Faculty in the Dept. of Film & Video at the National Institute of Design (NID), Ahmedabad, India. He has been teaching at NID for nearly 17 years and the courses he conducts include: script-writing, direction and film appreciation.

He organized the much-acclaimed Alpavirama South Asian Short and Documentary Film Festival in 2011, and is currently working on its next edition, to be held in September, 2014. He is also finishing writing a book on Bollywood Villains.

Before joining NID, Gupta worked in the Indian television industry for ten years, including in TV channels like Zee TV and Home TV.He has a B.A. in English Literature from the University of Delhi and a PG Diploma in Cinema (Direction) from the Film & Television Institute of India, Pune.

Alpavirama 2011 will be screened at 4 PM, 1 October (Tuesday), Yala Maya Kendra, Patan Dhoka.

Alpavirama 2011 will include the following films:

1. Missing Vultures

Country: Pakistan

Duration: 20′

Language: Punjabi, Urdu

Directed by: Muhammad Ali Ijaz

*Winner: Golden Comma (Documentary) @ Alpavirama 2011

2. The Boxing Ladies

Country: India

Duration: 26′

Language: Hindi

Directed by: Anusha Nandakumar

*Winner: Silver Comma (Documentary) @ Alpavirama 2011

3. Burning Paradise

Country: Pakistan

Duration: 22′

Language: Pashto, Urdu

Directed by: Nisar Ahmed

4. Purna Virama

Country: India

Duration: 12′

Directed by: Ujjwal Utkarsh

5. Saraai

Country: India

Duration: 18′

Language: English, Gujarati, Hindi

Directed by: Parchi Mokashi

6. Tran Eka Tran 

Country: India

Duration: 19′

Language: Gujarati

Directed by: Aastha Gohil