The eighth edition of the Dhaka International Mobile Film Festival (DIMFF) is going to open its door to film enthusiasts Saturday.
The four-day festival will showcase 26 films – selected from 153 entries – from 31 countries, under three categories.
The Inauguration ceremony will be held at the university at 11am the day after tomorrow and the closing ceremony on March 1 at Star Cineplex, Dhanmondi.
DIMFF 2022 called for submission in three categories – “independent” without any duration or a time limit, “competition” for the university students under the time limit of 10 minutes and “1-minute” for the young filmmakers from grades one to 12.
The jury members of the independent category are Sara Afreen, Zahidur Rahim Anjan and Jai Sharma (India).
Mahde Hasan, Sally-Ann Dunn (UK) and Elizabeth D Costa are the jury members of the competition and 1-minute categories.
The festival will present the “DIMFF Best Film Award” under the independent category, and the “Cinemascope Best Film Award” under the competition category.
Also, the “ULAB Young Film Maker Award” will be presented to student filmmakers.
As per tradition, DIMFF is arranging a masterclass this year by collaborating with East London-based digital creator, documentary filmmaker and YouTuber Andy Burgess, known for hosting the YouTube show “Red Bull Origins.”
This master class will be held on February 28 via Zoom at 4pm to discuss “Documentary Storytelling for Online Platforms.”
Festival director Zerin Tasnim Tahsin Probha, coordinator Md Sambitul Islam, supervisor Hasmi Jahan Shetu and public relations and media manager Shamsul Islam Shuvo briefed the journalists about the festival Thursday.
DIMFF advisor Abdul Kabil Khan, associate professor of the University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh’s (ULAB) media studies and journalism department, was also present.
The film submission period for DIMFF opened on April 3 last year and concluded on October 28.
With the tradition of focusing on a particular cultural heritage element as its festival theme, DIMFF has chosen “Nokshi Pakha” as this year’s theme.
A flagship event of ULAB’s media studies and journalism department, the festival earned the university 28th position in the entrepreneurial spirit category in the World’s Universities with Real Impact Ranking 2021.
Also, DIMFF has collaborated with Initiative für Neue Bildung as a “partner for change” and provides an online mobile filmmaking course to the ten participants from Barishal’s Nook, a self-designed learning centre that enables marginalised community members to pursue their own education.
Recently, it arranged the ‘Community Digital Story Telling” filmmaking training for the Munda community in Koyra upazila of Khulna and Shyamnagar upazila of Shatkhira.
Source: United News of Bangladesh