About Siliguri International Short Film Festival
Physical film festival in West Bengal, India with submission categories including Short Film and Educational Documentary / Short Film/Documentary.
Making is an art and it needs more patience and determination to recreate your ideas to a motion picture. Films Festivals although are typically annual events, they acknowledge various genre of films, mostly from across the globe and encourage people engaged in cinema.
They also provide an opportunity for unknown filmmakers to get their movies in front of a real live audience and to have their films reviewed by professional critics. From time immemorial, films have played a very important part in bringing people of varying backgrounds together and entertaining them.
But, most of the times, the hard work behind making these fields go unnoticed and therefore film festivals started all over the world. Venice Film Festival is the oldest one in the world, there are two other prestigious Film Festivals of Cannes and Berlin.
Although the main crux came from international countries, India also has its very own set of Film Festivals in accordance to different states. Stating a few would be, Bangalore Film Festival 1996, Kolkata Film Festival 1995, Mumbai Film Festival 1990 and many more.
Siliguri is situated at the base of the Himalayan Mountains in the plains of Darjeeling District beside river Mahananda. It is the 2nd largest city in West Bengal and is also known as the Gateway to the North-East.
The strategic location of the place makes sure that travelers to North-East India have to pass through this city. Siliguri is not a very old city, but it ranks in the 19th number amongst 35 places to visit in West Bengal.
Being a cosmopolitan city, it shelters a wide number of people with varying cultures and languages, along with a few tribal populations. Although the common language spoken in Siliguri is Bengali; Hindi, English, Nepali, Marwari, Bhojpuri, Punjabi, Assamese, Rajbangshi, Tibetian and many more varieties of linguistic people reside together.
Not only these, but the entire region of Siliguri is also famous for 3 T‘s namely: Tea, Timber, and Tourism. There are 45 tea gardens to spread over the blocks of the sub-division.
