The English Association, Madras Christian College,
&
Prakriti Foundation, Chennai, in collaboration with the Goethe Institue Max Mueller Bhavan
proudly present
THE ZEBRA POETRY FILM FESTIVAL at Madras Christian College
which will be held in
Martin Hall Auditorium
on 15 December 2010 at 11:45 am
Film and poetry are like the white and black stripes of a zebra: they fit together beautifully. Every two years since 2002 the ZEBRA Poetry Film Festival is organised by the LIteraturwerkstatt Berlin and shows the current state of a dynamic, young short film genre which lies somewhere between poetry, film and new media. It has developed into the biggest platform for short films that are based on a poem.
Entries come from all over the world: In 2010 more than 900 short films have been sent from 71 countries. The programme committee has selected 26 of them for the competition. The winners are being selected by an international jury. Apart from the competition, the festival offers various focus topics: Programmes on different themes, a programme for children, retrospectives, colloquia, talks and this year for the first time a German-Israeli Film workshop.
The festival offers both makers of poetry films and poets themselves from around the world a forum for fixing positions as well as exchanging ideas and experience - an ever growing group of fans of a genre which has won over even the most suspicious and sceptical in the audience.
The programme presented in MCC, Chennai in the Poetry Prakriti Festival in collaboration with the Geothe Institut Max Mueller Bhavan shows a best of the last five ZEBRA Poetry Film Festivals, award winning movies and a selection of some of the most interesting poery films of the last years. The programme will be hosted by Christiane Lange, Vice-director of the Literaturwerkstatt Berlin.
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