This short film made under just Rs 200 is stealing the show

Short films have become an important part of the film industry and have been taking the industry with a boom. Certain platforms have come up that conduct short film competition so as to bring out the talent in people. One such platform, Media Konnect, recently conducted a maiden short film competition on a national scale.

There were 6 entries that were short listed and were exclusively screened by an eminent jury panel of prominent industry names such as Viveck Vaswani, Ananth Mahadevan, and Milap Zaveri.

The criteria for judging were originality of content, creativity and technique. ‘Time in a Box’ and ‘Inertia’ were adjudged the winners of the competition; ‘Time In A Box’ was, surprisingly, made on a meager budget of less than Rs. 200. The short film was made by Christine Jose Sales, a first year communications student from the Symbiosis Institute of Media & Communications (SIMC), Pune. The movie is inspired by the works of Christopher Nolan.

The winning filmmakers will get a chance to shoot their next film at the Ramoji Krian Virtual Reality Floor in Hyderabad as well as a mentorship from industry experts.

Being a judge at the Media Konnect short film competition, Ananth Mahadevan, said, “ to see content these young filmmakers have created is truly inspirational, and it was great to see the variety of technique, creativity and content on display. To think that a film could be made in Rs. 180 and win a competition, it is definitely something our entire industry can learn from.”

Media Konnect is keen to open a Film Club, which will allow budding filmmakers to screen their creations at their proprietary set up.