Kruti gets its PAN CARD !

Its an important milestone for Kruti today. Kruti got its Pan card today !! :)Which also means , now we can apply for exemptions to the donations made to the trust !

Congratulations to each one of us !!

Rehearsal using a Handycam

--Yesterday we had a rehearsal using a Handy cam. So now , we know how each of the characters look in the camera - which angles look good, which dont.

Right now, it looks like each one of us individually seem to have the right expressions, but as a scene, there is something missing.

Need to work more on this.

--- Also need to work on the exact positions we need to be while shooting. With a DV Cam we will not have the flexibility we have in rehearsals.

--- Need to do some editing and have a rough version of the movie , shot in our Handy CAM.

Distribution in India

1. This time I spoke to a person called Rajan who guided me about the avenues for distribution in India. He mentioned that there is a film society called 'Konangal Film Society" which is a society to encourage Film making as an art. He said his friend is a president here.

This film society regularly screens movies of interest and gives its critical review on the same. They are also connected to the Film Festivals Worldwide.

Check out their blog at
http://konangalfilmsociety.blogspot.com/

2. He also mentioned the Chennai Film Chambers . He said this is another organization that screens films indian and foreign both. The are also connected to the Film Festivals worldwide.

3. As I was doing the research on the above two organisations, I found out about the Bangalore Film Society . Check their blog at

http://blogbfs.blogspot.com/
http://www.deepfocus.in/bfs/index.htm

Need to do some work on talking to these film societies and get clear on how they operate. And how we need to link up with them to distribute our movie.

More later ,

And oh yes ! All these places screen short films !!:)

Distribution !

As I doing this film right now, I am stuck at two places -

1. Budgeting for the railway station - this costs a whooping Rs. 75000 / day rent - either Central govt. or other wise ! Hmm.

Since we are not earning any income right now, need to look at sponsorships and / or earning the money thru distribution.

Need to touch base with Sunil and meet the central govt officials and see how they can help us with this.

2. Need to get a good distributer who can help us with distribution. I can see two options here :

a. One is get in touch with the distribution companies listed on internet.
A few of the distribution companies I liked
http://www.shortsinternational.com/
http://www.jaman.com/


b. Get in touch with the local distributers.

While I was looking for distributers, came across these group

http://www.filmcamp.tv/ - a group of independent film makers .
http://www.ufomoviez.com/profile.htm - a digital distribution channel.
http://www.iefilmi.com - A Indo European film initiative.

They sound interesting.. Should meet them.


Bye for now.

Renting a Railway Station

Ok. Now we are in the process of renting a railway station. And here are the updates for the same.

The rent for hiring a railway station in the central govt. is a whooping 5 lac deposit and Rs. 75000/- rent per day . Can you imagine about the amount of money the govt. makes from the films that are shot on the railway stations ! I cant imagine a single hindi film that doesnt have a railway platform or a train in it. ! No wonder the Bollywood film making budgets run in crores !

So somebody suggested , to look at the Ramoji Film City for doing the shooting there - http://www.ramojifilmcity.com/

I have sent a mail to the Ramoji Film City Marketing manager to find out the cost for shooting on the railway station there. Hope he gives us a good rate . Keeping my fingers crossed ... ! and waiting for his reply ..