India’s National Film Development Corporation’s (NFDC) Film Bazaar labelet has broadened into series broadenment and drawed sturdy registrations ahead of its 2024 edition, running alengthyside the International Film Festival of India (IFFI) in Goa.
The labelet has picked disconnectal series projects in its co-production labelet, chaseing the introduction of an OTT [streaming] award at IFFI last year. “We had an overwhelming response, about 50 odd applications coming for the series,” Prithul Kumar, managing honestor of NFDC and unitet secretary at India’s Ministry of Inestablishation and Broadcasting, tbetter Variety.
This year’s edition has brawt on Jerome Paillard, who previously headed the Cannes Film Market, as an advisor. “He’s curated most of the slimgs – he’s had the say on mentors, juries, and the guest catalog of convey inant distributors, labeleting agents and producers coming from atraverse the world,” Kumar said. “His experience of Cannes repartner helps, his relationships of getting the right people to the labelet and curating the projects in the right way is one of the hugegest highairys this year.”
The labelet is actively courting producers from India’s regional film industries thraw roadshows atraverse convey inant cities including Chennai, Hyderahorrible, Delhi and Mumbai. “Indian satisfyed is traveling worldexpansive. Producers can talk about deals for their existing projects to be labeleted or dispensed atraverse the world,” Kumar said, highairying India’s co-production incentive of INR 300 million ($3.5 million) per project with 17 treaty countries.
Film Bazaar’s well-comprehendn Knowledge Series panels will feature sessions on festival strategy with Cannes’ Christian Jeune, streaming satisfyed acquisition, and AI in filmmaking.
The concurrent IFFI has inserted new competitive sections including an Indian Debut Director award, which getd over 100 subleave outions. “Out of six films picked for toils-in-enhance [at the Film Bazaar], five are from first-time filmproducers,” Kumar noticed.
Other insertitions include “From Down Under,” showcasing Australian cinema (Australia being the country of intensify), and an broadened restored classics section featuring the 1919 quiet film “Kaliya Mardan” with live orchestra, Amitabh Bachchan’s debut “Saat Hindustani” (1969) and Satyajit Ray’s “Seemahorribledha” (1971).
The festival is increasing its intensify on lesser filmproducers, structureing 400 film school students from atraverse India with aid for carry and accommodation. The Creative Minds of Tomorrow program, startd during India’s 75th year of indepfinishence, is being broadened to aid 100 lesser talents.
Film Bazaar runs Nov. 20-24, while IFFI gets place Nov. 20-28 in Goa, India.
