India International Film Festival of Tampa Bay

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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]

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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 Amaya Avinash Kumar Singh
Yoga Is: A Transformational JourneySuzanne Bryant
IndeliblePavitra Chalam
Planes, Trains & AutorickshawsScott Sheppard
A Gran Plan Sangeeta Nambiar
Jana Gana ManaVijay Das
ShayaAmir Noorani
Larry Brought LemonUjjwal Patel
EhsaasSunil Nair
DaadiDavid Stoler
Sidekick (3D Animation)Amrinder Jassar
Gattu Rajan Khosa
Vishwaroopam Kamal Haasan
Leaving HomeRobert Richter
SambhavnaJoseph Malone
Saari RaatParimal Aloke
PartySantosh Davakhar
Do PaharShazia Shrivastava & Sharifa Roy
Un.KahiSamrat DasGupta
Little Terrors Maninder Chana
Highway Deepak Rauniyar
Paanch Adhyay Pratim DasGupta
Valley of Saints Musa Syeed

2012 Film Screenings

TitleDirectorCast
Love, Wrinkle - FreeSandeep Mohan Ash Chandler, Shernaz Patel, Seema Rahmani, Sohrab Ardeshir, Ashwin Mushran, Arika Silaichia, Tensin Dasang
Adwait SangeetMakarand Brahme
Aadukalam (The Arena) Vetrimaaran Dhanush, Velraj Rajamani, Tapsee Pannu
The Great Indian Marriage BazaarRuchika Muchhala
Shuttlecock Boys Hemant GabaAakar Kaushik, Manish Nawani, Alok Kumar, Vijay Prateek
Do Paise Ki Dhoop, Chaar Aane Ki Baarish Deepti Naval Manisha Koirala, Rajit Kapur, Sanaj Naval
Love You to Death Rafeeq 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 Bhargava Seema Biswas, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Sugandha Garg
Love, Lies and Seeta Chandra Pemmaraju Melanie 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 5 Ravi Kapoor
According to Plan AAnuj Nijhawan
Set in StoneDivij Roopchand
Bureaucracy SonataVinay Shukla
Maaya Getting BornAnand Raghavan
Anoochcharito (Unuttered)Sourav Sarkar
Sati Shaves Her Head Tejal Shah
WindManik Andan
Always ThereJayesh Pillai
The Ballad of Sandeep Derek Frey Deep Roy
Another Day Another Life Rohit Gupta Benjamin 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
Ashes Ajay Naidu Heather 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 Katta Sharwanand, 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 Mehta Samrat Chakrabarti, Meena Serendib, Ritik Goyal, Raj Vats
Shakti Pirakkudhu (Shakti Rising)Usha Rajeswari Devadarshini, 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 Gupta Dipti Mehta, Shaheed K. Woods, Noor Naghmi, John Crann, Subodh Batra, Swati Kapila, Jyothi Singh, Nina Mehta, Chelsi Stahr
Udaan Vikramaditya Motwane Anurag 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 Ghat Kiran Rao Aamir 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
Cocktail Arun Kumar Jayasurya, Anoop Menon, Samvrutha Sunil, Fahad Fazil, Innocent Mamukkoya
Dams: The Lethal Water Bombs Sohan Roy Vijo Alex, Tony Kurian, Vipin Viswan, Saj Matthews, Rajesh Nair
Still VoicesTamal Sen Gaurav 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
Esha Reza Dahya Albina 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 Pandey Mithun 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 On Sangeeta Datta Sharmila 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
Amal Richie Mehta Rupinder Nagra, Naseeruddin Shah, Seema Biswas, Koel Purie, Roshan Seth, Vik Sahay
Bombay SummerJoseph Matthew Varghese Tannishtha Chatterjee, Jatin Goswami, Samrat Chakrabarti, Gaurav Dwivedi
Little Zizou Sooni Taraporevala Boman Irani, Sohrab Ardeshir, Zenobia Shroff, Shernaz Patel, Imaad Shah, John Abraham
Tahaan Santosh Sivan Purav Bhandare, Anupam Kher, Sarika, Rahul Bose, Victor Banerjee, Rahul Kanna Rahul Khanna
Gulabi Talkies Girish Kasaravalli Umashree, K.G. Krishna Murthy, M.D. Pallavi, Poornima Mohan a/k/a Poornima Indrajith, Ashok Sandip
Gabhricha Paus (The Damned Rain)Satish Manwar Girish Kulkarni, Sonali Kulkarni, Jyoti Subhash, Veena Jamkar, Ammanul Attar
Kanchivaram Priyadarshan Prakash Raj, Shriya Reddy Sriya Reddy, Shammu, Geetha Vijayan
Pazhassi Raja Hariharan Mammootty, 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 Walls Hyder Bilgrami & Tirthankar DasSanjay Malhotra, Llyakat Khan, Charu Gupta, Sarah Tyler, Shayna Glassman
Wake Up Sid Ayan Mukerji Ranbir Kapoor, Konkona Sen Sharma, Namit Das, Rahul Khanna, Anupam Kher, Kainaz Motivala, Supriya Pathak, Kashmera Shah
Kissing Miss JonesChandra Pemmaraju Lavrenti 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. <https://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. <>.
  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. 1 2 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". IMDb .
  15. "India International Film Festival of Tampa Bay." Filmmakers, Withoutabox.