To be in­au­gu­rated to­mor­row by the fa­mous di­rec­tor Man­mo­han Singh Ji “Mann”, the 4th Lud­hi­ana Short Film Fes­ti­val will be­gin at the Ish­meet Singh Mu­sic In­sti­tute fea­tur­ing so­cially rel­e­vant films that will ex­cite view­ers and en­cour­age young and emerg­ing film­mak­ers. The af­ter­noon ses­sion will wit­ness the pres­ence of lead­ing en­vi­ron­men­tal­ist Baba Bal­bir Singh Seechewal. 

The Lud­hi­ana Film Fes­ti­val be­gan with the mo­tive of pro­vid­ing a com­mon plat­form for all stake­hold­ers in film mak­ing which was non-ex­is­tent prior to the first such film fes­ti­val in 2015 in this emerg­ing me­trop­o­lis, the key in­dus­trial cen­tre of Pun­jab.

Speak­ing about the ori­gin of the film fes­ti­val, Pardeep Singh told WSN that, “When I started mak­ing a short film in 2014, I ob­served that most cre­ative Pun­jabi youth were en­gaged in mak­ing song and dance se­quence and those too were in the arena of lech­er­ous­ness and very cheap hu­mour at the cost of Pun­jabis them­selves. With the spirit of pro­vid­ing best short film to re­con­nect youth with their roots, Pun­jabi cul­ture and lan­guage, this idea of a film fes­ti­val took shape amongst like minded young film­mak­ers.”

This de­sire ul­ti­mately re­sulted in the for­ma­tion of Our Space Cin­ema. Staged and man­aged by a non-profit or­gan­i­sa­tion Our­SpaceCin­ema, this body has had three suc­cess­ful film fes­ti­vals.

Speak­ing to World Sikh News, the or­gan­iser of the fes­ti­val, Pardeep Singh said that “In this year’s film fes­ti­val, we are likely to show­case 20 to 25 best short films over a pe­riod of two days -8-9 De­cem­ber 2018.”

A new cat­e­gory -Films made by Stu­dents, has been added and will be screened sep­a­rately to in­spire young stu­dents turn­ing to film­mak­ing as a ca­reer as well as those who see it as a tool for so­cial change.

​While the film fes­ti­val will pro­vide ac­cess to a di­verse au­di­ence from the city and be­yond, it will be a plat­form for net­work­ing among film­mak­ers, artists and pro­mot­ers of good cin­ema. 

The team of our­spacecin­ema.com com­prises Pardeep Singh, Pre­mjit So­hal, Man­mo­han Vinayak, Jas­bir Singh and Sunil Ku­mar.

A new vir­tual cin­ema world awaits keen film ac­tors, di­rec­tors, mu­si­cians, tech­ni­cians on the web­site of our­spacecin­ema.com in this world of fast chang­ing tech­nol­ogy where even a good smart­phone has the po­ten­tial to make good.

World Sikh News is happy to be as­so­ci­ated with as a me­dia part­ner. We hope that what started as a small step to­wards good cin­ema will be­come the har­bin­ger of change in the so­cial and po­lit­i­cal life of the peo­ple of Pun­jab through mean­ing­ful cin­ema.

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