India International Film Festival of Tampa Bay

The India International Film Festival (IIFF) of Tampa Bay takes place annually in Tampa, Florida. IIFF's mission is to provide "a platform for increased awareness of Indian cinema and culture to the community by promoting films and industry professionals representing the diversity of India."[1][2] The films featured at the festival include feature films, short films, and documentaries that are produced by Indians, films with Indian actors or actresses, or films with Indian themes.[3] The festival takes place over the course of three days and includes a red carpet, Indian food, and various entertainment, including music and dance performances.[4][5]

The fourth annual festival took place February 15, 2013 to February 17, 2013.[6]

History

IIFF was founded by Francis Vayalumkal,[7] Rahul Korlipara, and Rachna Dinkar in February, 2010. It was originally sponsored by the Indo-US Chamber of Commerce.[8]

There were approximately 3,000 attendees in 2012,[9] 2,500 attendees in 2011,[10] and 1,000 attendees in 2010.[11]

2013 Film Screenings

TitleDirectorCast
Listen AmayaAvinash Kumar Singh
Yoga Is: A Transformational JourneySuzanne Bryant
IndeliblePavitra Chalam
Planes, Trains & AutorickshawsScott Sheppard
A Gran PlanSangeeta Nambiar
Jana Gana ManaVijay Das
ShayaAmir Noorani
Larry Brought LemonUjjwal Patel
EhsaasSunil Nair
DaadiDavid Stoler
Sidekick (3D Animation)Amrinder Jassar
GattuRajan Khosa
VishwaroopamKamal Haasan
Leaving HomeRobert Richter
SambhavnaJoseph Malone
Saari RaatParimal Aloke
PartySantosh Davakhar
Do PaharShazia Shrivastava & Sharifa Roy
Un.KahiSamrat DasGupta
Little TerrorsManinder Chana
HighwayDeepak Rauniyar
Paanch AdhyayPratim DasGupta
Valley of SaintsMusa Syeed

2012 Film Screenings

TitleDirectorCast
Love, Wrinkle - FreeSandeep MohanAsh Chandler, Shernaz Patel, Seema Rahmani, Sohrab Ardeshir, Ashwin Mushran, Arika Silaichia, Tensin Dasang
Adwait SangeetMakarand Brahme
Aadukalam (The Arena)VetrimaaranDhanush, Velraj Rajamani, Tapsee Pannu
The Great Indian Marriage BazaarRuchika Muchhala
Shuttlecock BoysHemant GabaAakar Kaushik, Manish Nawani, Alok Kumar, Vijay Prateek
Do Paise Ki Dhoop, Chaar Aane Ki BaarishDeepti NavalManisha Koirala, Rajit Kapur, Sanaj Naval
Love You to DeathRafeeq ElliasYuki Ellias, Carl Sequeria, Leonid Kudryavtsev, Sheeba Chaddha, Suhasini Mulay, Sohrab Ardeshir
Porn MasalaKen KwekVadi PVSS, Adrian Pang
The Myth of Buddha's BirthplaceJames Freeman
Paulwaat (The Pathway)Aditya IngaleSubodh Bhave, Jyoti Bhandekar
Patang (The Kite)Prashant BhargavaSeema Biswas, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Sugandha Garg
Love, Lies and SeetaChandra PemmarajuMelanie Kannokada, Arjun Gupta, Michael Derek, Lavrenti Lopes
A Little Revolution - A Story of Suicide & DreamsHarpreet Kaur
Your Own is Your OwnAnjay Nagpal
Fire in Our HeartsJayshree Janu Kharpade
Letters HomeNeilesh Verma
Have I Shared Too Much?Sameer Acharya
The 5Ravi Kapoor
According to Plan AAnuj Nijhawan
Set in StoneDivij Roopchand
Bureaucracy SonataVinay Shukla
Maaya Getting BornAnand Raghavan
Anoochcharito (Unuttered)Sourav Sarkar
Sati Shaves Her HeadTejal Shah
WindManik Andan
Always ThereJayesh Pillai
The Ballad of SandeepDerek FreyDeep Roy
Another Day Another LifeRohit GuptaBenjamin Jacobs, Amneek Sandhu
Nu Me (New Me)[12][13]Anjani K Pandey[14]John Von Trapp, Anjani K Pandey, Barbara Wilcox, Jay Cannon, Tamara Austin, Rebecca Ladd
UncoupledMonica Bassi
The CoffeeHemant Dinkar

2011 Film Screenings

TitleDirectorCast
AshesAjay NaiduHeather Burns, Ajay Naidu, Piper Perabo, Faran Tahir, Samrat Chakrabarti, Reena Shah
Huppa HuiyyaAnil SurveMohan Joshi, Ushna Nadkarni, Ganesh Yadav, Mangesh Desai, Maansi Mangikar, Vaibhav Mangale, Kushai Badrike, Nilesh Divekar, Poonam Jadhav
Prasthanam (The Rise and Fall of a Person)Deva KattaSharwanand, Ruby Parihar, Sai Kumar, Vennela Kishore, Sundeep Kishan
I am...Ramesh DevuScott Mccabe, Wendy Nguyen, Bert Van Aalsburg
TopiArjun RihanSarah Zerina Usmen, Ludwig Goransson, Sunil Rihan, Mala Rihan, Gurushish Dhupar, Naila Azad, Subash Kundanmal
Fresh ArrangementMonica BassiMonica Bassi, Amit Lamba, Jeremiah Jett, Sujatha Chetty
The Eclipse of TaregnaRakesh ChaudharySurendra Rajan, Purav Bhandare, Geetika Tyagi, Saagar Kale, Ashutosh Warang, Jimmy Peters, Sachin Tawde
FatakraSoham MehtaSamrat Chakrabarti, Meena Serendib, Ritik Goyal, Raj Vats
Shakti Pirakkudhu (Shakti Rising)Usha RajeswariDevadarshini, Sashi, Sampatth, Vishalini, Soori, Manaswini, T.K. Kala, Malar, Satyasree, Dr. S. Raghuraman, Madurai Annakamatchi
I Met with an AccidentTrevord WardBenedict Das
Life! Camera Action...Rohit GuptaDipti Mehta, Shaheed K. Woods, Noor Naghmi, John Crann, Subodh Batra, Swati Kapila, Jyothi Singh, Nina Mehta, Chelsi Stahr
UdaanVikramaditya MotwaneAnurag Kashyap, Ronnie Screwvala, Sanjay Singh
I am KalamNila Madhab PandaHarsh Mayar, Hussan Saad, Gulshan Grover, Beatrice Ordeix
Visible Bra StrapsAjitesh SharmaPetra Khruz, Reeth Mazumder
Dhobi GhatKiran RaoAamir Khan, Prateik Babbar, Monica Dogra
A Journey in My Mother's FootstepsDina RosenmeierDina Rosenmeier, Jessie Rosenmeier, Joern Rosenmeier, Mohinder Singh, Nergis Udwadia, Shaila Samuel, Viji Iyengar
CocktailArun KumarJayasurya, Anoop Menon, Samvrutha Sunil, Fahad Fazil, Innocent Mamukkoya
Dams: The Lethal Water BombsSohan RoyVijo Alex, Tony Kurian, Vipin Viswan, Saj Matthews, Rajesh Nair
Still VoicesTamal SenGaurav Dwivedi, Paru Gambhir, Kaushik Ghosh, Shahidur Rahaman, Prasenjit Ghosh, Sudipto Shankar Roy
You Can't Curry LoveReid WatererAshwin Gore, Russell Reynolds, Rajan Velu, Rakshak Sahni, Upasana Beharee, William Vega, Frederic Chaignat
Nerd of the RingGowtham BachinaCharles Marina, Michael Kuya, Zuri Bella, John Phillips, Saladin Florence, Corey Richards, Madaline Berube, Tilly, Trevor Teichmann, Aaron Phillips, Kole
Soy MilkVeeran NaranDjon Alexander, Mark Silveira, Lisa Emmanuel, Stefan Duscio, Nathalie Resciniti, Michael Latham, Juliet Hill, David Balaban
EshaReza DahyaAlbina Nahar, Adam Sidawi, Ashton Bishop, Chantal Hazineh, Christopher Lee Grant, Adam Crosby
A Girl Like You with a Boy Like MeRuben AmarJames Rana, Frank X, Allison Carter Thomas, Joan Chemia, Rick Adamson, Ryan Samuel, Jennifer Lilly
Shukno Lanka (Dry Red Chillies)Gaurav PandeyMithun Chakraborty, Debashree Roy, Sabyasachi Chakraborty Sabyasachi Chakrabarty, Emma Brown Garett, Angana Bose, Saheb Chatterjee, Nandinil Chaterjee, Arindam Sil, Chattrapati Dutta, Suman De, Late Kunal Mitra
Blood & CurryAtul SharmaAtul Sharma, Angie Light, Raghu Bhagat, Dhara Mehta, Sathya Jesudason, Abhi Trivedi, Fagun Thakrar, Ilona Maitra, Nicole Layson, Parminder Sidhu, Robbie Rosario, Robert P. Campbell
Life Goes OnSangeeta DattaSharmila Tagore, Girish Karnad, Om Puri, Soha Ali Khan, Rez Kempton, Neerja Naik, Christopher Hatherall, Mukulika Banerjee, Misha Crosby, Tom Reed

2010 Film Screenings

TitleDirectorCast
7 Days in Slow MotionUmakanth ThumrugotlTeja, Kunai Sharma, Shiva Varma, Rajeshwari Sachdev, Ayesha Jaleel
AmalRichie MehtaRupinder Nagra, Naseeruddin Shah, Seema Biswas, Koel Purie, Roshan Seth, Vik Sahay
Bombay SummerJoseph Matthew VargheseTannishtha Chatterjee, Jatin Goswami, Samrat Chakrabarti, Gaurav Dwivedi
Little ZizouSooni TaraporevalaBoman Irani, Sohrab Ardeshir, Zenobia Shroff, Shernaz Patel, Imaad Shah, John Abraham
TahaanSantosh SivanPurav Bhandare, Anupam Kher, Sarika, Rahul Bose, Victor Banerjee, Rahul Kanna Rahul Khanna
Gulabi TalkiesGirish KasaravalliUmashree, K.G. Krishna Murthy, M.D. Pallavi, Poornima Mohan a/k/a Poornima Indrajith, Ashok Sandip
Gabhricha Paus (The Damned Rain)Satish ManwarGirish Kulkarni, Sonali Kulkarni, Jyoti Subhash, Veena Jamkar, Ammanul Attar
KanchivaramPriyadarshanPrakash Raj, Shriya Reddy Sriya Reddy, Shammu, Geetha Vijayan
Pazhassi RajaHariharanMammootty, Sarath Kumar R. Sarathkumar, Thilakan, Suresh Krishna, Manoj K. Jayan, Kaniha a/k/a Kanika, Padmapriya a/k/a Padmapriya Janakiraman
The Salt StoriesLalit VachaniMrinal Desal, Anita Kushwaha, Lalit Vachani, Menno Boerema
Anything for YouAnand AlagappanSam Ghosh, Julie Fine, Pooja Kumar, Aaron Mathias
Chath: A Roof Without WallsHyder Bilgrami & Tirthankar DasSanjay Malhotra, Llyakat Khan, Charu Gupta, Sarah Tyler, Shayna Glassman
Wake Up SidAyan MukerjiRanbir Kapoor, Konkona Sen Sharma, Namit Das, Rahul Khanna, Anupam Kher, Kainaz Motivala, Supriya Pathak, Kashmera Shah
Kissing Miss JonesChandra PemmarajuLavrenti Lopes, Khushboo Shah, Christopher Peuler, Meredith Dillard, Julie Donahue, Kyle Donahue, Collin James, Aaron Katter, Nadia Rahman, Aditi P. Solanki
Sukrit's SundaysVasant Nath
IsmaelAmbarish Manepalli
KaviGregg HelveySagar Salunke, Ulhas Tayade, Rajesh Kumar, Madhavi Juvekar, Debu Bhattacharya, Rishi Raj Singh, Mukesh Barahti

Film School

IIFF was the first South Asian Film Festival in the United States to hold an independent film school for aspiring filmmakers. It was started in 2012.[10][15]

References

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  2. "India International Film Festival of Tampa Bay." Filmmakers, Withoutabox. Web. 3 January 2013. <https://www.withoutabox.com/03film/03t_fin/03t_fin_fest_01over.php?festival_id=8604>.
  3. "About IIFF," 2010.
  4. George, Justin. "India International Film Festival Opens Feb. 17 in Tampa and Points to Growth of the South Asian Community. " Tampa Bay Times. 17 February 2012. Web. 2 January 2013. <http://www.tampabay.com/features/humaninterest/india-international-film-festival-opens-feb-17-in-tampa-and-points-to/1215569>.
  5. Priyanka, Vidisha. "Indian Film Fest Celebrates Human Spirit, Grit." TBO Extra. 16 February 2011. Web. 2 January 2013. <http://www2.tboextra.com/entertainment/tboextra-movies/2011/feb/16/indian-film-fest-celebrates-human-spirit-grit-ar-268237/>.
  6. "India International Film Festival of Tampa Bay." Filmmakers, Withoutabox.
  7. Guzzo, Paul, and the Center for Understanding Modern Indian American Culture (CUMIAC). From Indians to Indian Americans: How Tampa Bay's Indian Community Was Built. Bloomington, IN: AuthorHouse, 2012. 79-84. Print.
  8. Hutcheson, Nicole. "Tampa Bay Festivals, Theaters and Temples Indicate How Indian Community Has Grown and Flourished. " Tampa Bay Times. 21 February 2010. Web. 2 January 2013. <http://www.tampabay.com/news/humaninterest/article1074821.ece>.
  9. Cashill, Margaret. "India International Film Festival Develops Following." Tampa Bay Business Journal. 27 February 2012. Web. 3 January 2013. <http://www.bizjournals.com/tampabay/blog/morning-edition/2012/02/india-international-film-festival.html>.
  10. George, 2012.
  11. Hutcheson, 2010.
  12. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOaxJil7Y7k | Watch "Nu Me"
  13. http://www.nukkad-usa.org | Nukkad-USA Productions
  14. "Anjani Pandey".
  15. "India International Film Festival of Tampa Bay." Filmmakers, Withoutabox.
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