handmade AVFF soundscape
Last week-end nine people from Auroville participated to an original workshop in CRIPA. They call it handmade radio art. This workshop has been proposed by three sound artists from France (Elisabeth Gilly, Hélène Coeur and Chloé Sanchez) who monthly produce this kind of radio program on Radio Campus Paris (France) and call it: La radio...
live music program
More programs are coming out. Here is the schedule for all live music performances happening during the festival, all around Town Hall. Find more information about the performing musicians below. Some of the musicians at the shamiana: Anna Taj & Rolf Anna Taj lives in Auroville and is the singer in her own...
Festival Program 2013
It’s out! This is always one of the big challenges of a festival: The scheduling. How to make 125 films fit smartly into 5 screening days. Well it’s done and it’s done well. Here we go, the festival program for September 17th – 22nd, 2013: download pdf black/white download pdf colour-codeded
53+10+27+33=123
The numbers are out and the result is actually 123! One-hundred-twenty-three films we are going to screen in our festival. In particular 53 films made by Aurovilians, bioregion residents or guests of Auroville, 10 films about Auroville, 27 films made by students of Auroville and 33 films that develop the theme of Human Unity. See...
outdoor screening test
We tested our outdoor screening venue on Sunday. It worked and it looked good, just one question remained unanswered: How many hundreds of people will come for the opening in two weeks and how to seat them… We’ll figure out and assure you an extraordinary festival experience in the City of Dawn, especially at night!
Priceless Treasure
A metal detecting enthusiast discovers more than gold and silver… Here is the latest promo trailer done by our festival team. Feel free to donate some of the gold that we missed out… Our PT #: 251551 or check out other ways to support us.
submissions closed!
Sri Aurobindo‘s 141st birthday, India’s Independence Day and the final day of submission for our festival – All on the same day, namely yesterday. Phuh. With 18 last minute online entries made only yesterday, that was for sure the peak in our submission diagram. Now there are things to do… Christine, Gopika, Krishna, Marco, Michael,...
new supporters at last
Today is the last day of submitting films to our festival, we can see loads of last minute entries flooding in right now. Plus we are very happy to announce and welcome our new supoorters: The Cultural Section of the Consulate of the Federal Republic of Germany, Chennai. In addition, our long-time support SAIIER granted...
film poster gallery 2013
Thanks to our volunteer Miguel, the first film posters for films made by Aurovilians and guests are coming in. Miguel had this brilliant idea to develop a layout and let the filmmakers create and print their own poster (since we are still struggling with our festival budget…). All posters will be exhibited during the festival...
Opening Ceremony September 17th
Latest news: The opening ceremony of our 3rd biennial Auroville Film Festival will be on Tuesday, September 17th, 2013 at 5 p.m. at Town Hall with a lot of tamtam and tralala. Later after sunset we will inaugurate our outdoor screening venue with the opening film t.b.a.
installations
Thanks to Ok, Renu and Marc for their creative installation ideas for the film festival. We welcome all inputs and invite you to install artworks at the Town Hall for the duration of the festival. Contact us to participate with creations made of organic material or waste material.
support more (than) popcorn
The message is clear: We need more than popcorn to make a succesful film festival! Watch and share our new animation clip by Tom and support us in our ambition to make this year’s film festival a festive festival.