My CinemaHall App Launches Bengali Short Film Festival
New Delhi: Pay-per-view app My CinemaHall is establishing My SHORTS, a Bengali brief movie competition which can display decided on motion pictures all through Durga Puja and the income generated from every movie shall be shared with the filmmaker. Introduced in April, My CinemaHall is a startup which used to be advanced in Kolkata and has accomplished greater than 12,000 downloads in a span of 4 months, screening over 100 function movies, brief movies and performs.
At a time when cinema halls around the nation stay closed amid the coronavirus pandemic, this app-based OTT platform supplies filmmakers an area to exhibit their paintings to the audience. In step with Kalyanmoy Chatterjee, managing director of My CinemaHall, the competition opens up alternatives for budding filmmakers to exhibit their ability. “We’ve got already witnessed massive enthusiasm amongst filmmakers in relation to participation,” he mentioned in a observation.
The platform already caters to English, Hindi, Assamese, Odiya and Kannada language movies, and Chatterjee mentioned they have got plans to roll out such brief movie gala’s in “different regional languages quickly”. Yaatrik Chakraborty, one of the crucial founder contributors of My CinemaHall who additionally conceptualised the competition, mentioned My SHORTS has a “clear means of variety”.
“There are lots of short-film-festivals that you simply see within the social media. I believe they’re neither certified nor have a clear means of variety. The contributors don’t even know if their movie will ever be screened. “In My SHORTS, we’ve got a clear means of variety, the credentials of the judges are unquestionable, and we’re giving the filmmakers a chance to earn cash from the screening,” added Chakraborty. The competition’s jury panel has director-actor Aparna Sen as chairperson and editor Arghyakamal Mitra, director Anik Datta, cinematographer Avik Mukhopadhyay and actor-theatre character Sohag Sen as contributors.
