IFP (Previously India Film Project) is a content festival held in Mumbai, India. The festival features a flagship 50 Hour Filmmaking Challenge, where participants are given 50 hours to make a film after which a panel of judges select award winners. The competition has run each September since 2011 and is deemed as largest creative collaborative activity. Competitors form teams and are given a common theme to which they then write a script and shoot the films. They have a free choice of locations, equipment and actors. The teams are also responsible for post-production including editing and audio.[1] In 2020, IFP introduced a 50 Hour Music Challenge, where participants produce tracks from scratch within 50 hours.[2]

IFP
GenreContent festival
Location(s)Mumbai, India
Years active13
Founded2011 (2011)
FounderRitam Bhatnagar
Next eventSeptember October 2023
Attendance
  • 2021: 86,116
Websiteifp.world

From 2016, the organizers added a two-day on-ground festival in Mumbai which talks about various aspects of creation across films, digital, literature and music with interesting conversations, workshops and performances. Over 20,000 content enthusiasts attend the festival every year making it one umbrella place for creators.

In 2017, IFP also added Writing Challenge, Storytelling Challenge and Design Challenge. In 2022, IFP also added Standup Challenge and Photography Challenge[3]

History

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IFP was started by Ritam Bhatnagar in 2011 as the Ahmedabad Film Project, a competition for local filmmakers. In 2013 it was renamed the India Film Project, admitting entrants from other countries from 2014. The eleventh edition held in September October 2021 received entries from over 400 cities and 41 countries. In 2022, the festival was renamed as 'IFP' owing to festival expanding horizons from films to other creative domains such as digital, literature & writing, OTT, storytelling, visual art, performing arts, audio and podcasting, photography, gaming, tech and culture.

Season 1

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The first Ahmedabad Film Project in 2011 received 86 entries from 18 cities. Filmmaker Sanjay Gadhvi was the jury member. More than 600 filmmakers participated in the event.[4] The theme for the filmmaking competition was 'Small things in life'.[5] As founder Ritam says, "The motive of beginning this festival was to attract people towards filmmaking, considered a niche hobby back then". "The festival was meant to be a one-time activity, but the response was too good to make it an annual happening" he adds.

Season 2

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IFP 2012 Jury Members Vikramaditya Motwane, Komal Nahta and Rajesh Mapuskar

The 2012 Edition saw more than 1200 filmmakers, 120 teams from 24 cities across India, competing against each other to win the title of Best Film. Well-known Filmmakers like Shoojit Sircar, Vikramaditya Motwane, Rajesh Mapuskar and Komal Nahta were part of the jury.[6] The theme 'Ingredients of Good Living' caught well with the filmmakers with some of the best films coming out of the competition.

Season 3

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The 2013 Edition of India Film Project saw as many as 4200+ filmmakers from 40 cities across India and neighbouring countries. The film project went online by allowing participants to shoot films from their own cities and uploading online. The project extended their filmmaking hours from 48 hours to 50 hours. The project kicked off on 20 September 2014. Versatile and award-winning filmmakers like Tigmanshu Dhulia, Nikhil Advani and Bejoy Nambiar served as the jury members. For the first time in India, an online film festival was a part of 2013 edition in association with NFDC, which allowed everyone to watch their favourite films online on their computer screen.[7] The winning films of 2013 edition received amazing response such that they were selected for Jaipur International Film Festival for special screening.[8]

Season 4

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IFP 2014 winner along with Jury Hansal Mehta and Omung Kumar

The 2014 edition of IFP was announced on 28 May. The festival claimed to reach out to filmmakers from smaller towns and other countries through previous year's winning film screenings. The official trailer of 2014 edition was revealed on 4 June, which featured a military theme. The trailer was shot with extensive use of VFX and sent out the message 'Shoot before you get shot'.[9]

The jury for 2014 edition was announced in First week of August. The jury consisted of one of the Indian cinema's most prolific name Shyam Benegal and much acclaimed filmmakers Hansal Mehta, Omung Kumar and Umesh Shukla.[10]

More than 8500 filmmakers participated in the edition from 85 cities across the world, mostly India, Singapore, Nepal, Pakistan, Indonesia, Dubai, USA and UK. Almost 500 films were made in the challenge over the 50 hours beginning on 12 September 2014.[11]

Axis Bank and Mountain Dew had extended support to 2014 edition so that more and more filmmakers can avail the benefit of this activity.[citation needed]

Season 5

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Audiences at the fifth edition of IFP

The 2015 edition of IFP took the wings off festival to make it truly international. More than 14000 filmmakers are said to participate in this edition from 18 countries. The fifth season was announced on 15 May 2015 and the trailer was released on 15 June. The 2015 trailer was shot using a technique called visual illusion and garnered huge popularity amongst participants.[12]

 
IFP 2015 Winner Vijay Velukutty receiving trophy from Jury Ketan Mehta, Guneet Monga and Raja Sen.

The festival lined up some very prominent faces of Bollywood who came forward as jury members. Two times National award winners Ketan Mehta and Onir along with film critic Raja Sen took up the mammoth task of judging 700+ films. The festival also saw its first female jury member Guneet Monga who was much appraised by the festival fans.[13]

The festival saw huge participation from south Indian states such as Telangana, AP, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu with huge filmmaking fans flocking to the event. Apart from India, participation was seen from USA, UK, Germany, Singapore, Dubai, Australia, Sri Lanka, Bhutan, Pakistan, Malaysia and other countries. The filmmaking hours started on 18 September and ended on 20 September. Considering the huge scale of festival, the award ceremony is expected to have more than 3000 people attend the gathering.[citation needed]

Season 6

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Kanan Gill engages with audience

IFP 2016 was the festival's first edition to be held outside Ahmedabad. The festival officially moved to Mumbai as its new home ground. The 50-hour filmmaking competition saw more than 23,600 filmmakers who took part and made 1,220 films over the weekend. The theme announced was 'Top of the World'. The jury for the festival was Madhur Bhandarkar, Nagesh Kukunoor, Sriram Raghavan and southern super director Vetrimaaran. A good number of teams also participated from China, Dubai, US, and 16 more countries.

 
More than 8,000 film enthusiasts at IFP 2016

The grand finale held on 1 October at Mumbai. Tanmay Bhat, Ashish Shakya and Gursimran Khamba from All India Bakchod were seen along with Vasan Bala conversing about how web content in India was catching up pace and becoming a new entertainment destination for millennials.

Kanan Gill lead a conversation on 'How not to make a film' where he took the audience view of content creation. East India Comedy was represented by Sorabh Pant, Angad Singh and Azeem Banatwala, seen conversing with Raja Sen about importance of giving offence. Nikhil Taneja from Y-Films along with Anupama Chopra, Nidhi Bisht and Sameer Saxena from The Viral Fever conversed about the anatomy of making and distributing a web-series, a rather new form of content for youngsters. Karan Talwar and Anisha Rickshawalli joined Raja Sen in discussing about Split Personality on screen. Apart from conversations, the day also included a workshop on short storytelling and short filmmaking conducted by Terribly Tiny Tales and a screening of popular web films by Pocket Films.

The evening also saw Sumeet Vyas, Nidhi Singh of Permanent Roommates fame, Naveen Kasturia, Maanvi Gagroo and Amol Parashar from The Viral Fever. The event was hosted by RJ Megha, Malishka RJ and Rishi Kapoor. The event was attended by over 8,000 film enthusiasts from around the country.

 
Neha Dhupia and Dia Mirza at IFP Season 7

Season 7

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The 2017 festival was held at Nehru Center in Mumbai on 30 September and 1 October. More than 29,000 filmmakers from 18 countries participated in the 50-hour challenge, creating over 1,503 films, each of them 4 to 6 minutes, on the theme 'Everything is connected' over a weekend. The jury for the seventh edition of the festival was Ram Madhvani, Aniruddha Roy Chowdhury and Vipul Amrutlal Shah.

The 'Best of Digital' awards for YouTube videos were introduced with 5,512 nominations in 7 categories. Two other challenges added to festival were a Short scriptwriting challenge that was executed in association with Terribly Tiny Tales and a Poster Design challenge in association with The Souled Store.

 
Ashutosh Gowariker in conversation with RJ Megha

The festival had 16,000 visitors attending conversations, workshops and screenings. The Viral Fever's new web-series called Inmates had its premiere at the festival, five days before its official launch.

The festival saw the likes of Ashutosh Gowariker, Devdutt Pattanaik, Nikkhil Advani, Irshad Kamil, Prajakta Koli, Nidhi Bisht, Neha Dhupia, Dia Mirza, Kunal Kapoor, Baradwaj Rangan, Kunal Kohli, Harsh Beniwal, Prahlad Kakkar, Siddharth Mahadevan, Vasan Bala and over 80 other speakers.

Cinthol, Maruti Suzuki, Hotstar, Nokia and Gujarat Tourism were the main sponsors of the event.

Season 8

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IFP Season 8 saw over 32,000 filmmakers participating and producing 1,550 short films in a duration of 50 hours. The eighth season saw participation from over 300 cities and 30 countries, with teams coming in from USA, UK, Ireland, Australia, Singapore, Dubai, Germany, China, France and more. This was the first time that IFP declared separate theme for each of its categories, namely Professional, Amateur and Mobile. The jury for the 50 Hour Filmmaking Challenge were Sudhir Mishra, Milan Luthria and RS Prasanna.

 
Ayushmann Khurrana at IFP Season 8

The two-day festival in Mumbai was spread across four stages, talking about creation, collaboration and celebration of content. Over 16,000 visitors attended the two-day festival, consisting of engaging conversations, screenings, workshops and Ask me Anythings. The festival saw presence of Alexander Payne, Ayushmann Khurana, Bhumi Pednekar, Kartik Aaryan, Vicky Kaushal, Ashwin Sanghi, Vidya Vox, Shankar Tucker, Bhuvan Bam, Prajakta Koli, Hansal Mehta, Ashwini Iyer Tiwary, Benny Dayal, Kunal Roy Kapoor, Anupama Chopra, Mithila Palkar, Dhruv Sehgal, Rajeev Masand, Vikramaditya Motwane, Bejoy Nambiar, Sona Mohapatra, Mallika Dua, Kaneez Surka, Ashish Chanchlani and over 70 more artists. The Viral Fever's upcoming series Hostel Daze and Dice Media's What the Folks Season 2 were premiered at the festival.

The festival also saw three challenges: Poster Design Challenge for designers, Short Scriptwriting Challenge for writers and Voice Your Words Challenge for Storytellers.

Datsun, Lifebuoy, IMDb, Johnnie Walker and Gujarat Tourism were the main sponsors of the season 8.

Season 9

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Naseeruddin Shah at IFP Season 9

IFP Season 9, held in September–October timelines, saw over 36,000 filmmakers participating and producing 1,710 short films in a duration of 50 hours. The participation came from 320 cities and 18 countries, with teams from USA, UK, Australia, Turkey, Dubai, Singapore and many more. The jury for the Challenge were Abhishek Chaubey, Anjani Menon, Pan Nalin and Pradeep Sarkar.

The two-day festival was moved to Mehboob Studios at Bandra, Mumbai at a fairly large venue to accommodate the growing community. Over 17,000 creators from 58 cities travelled down to attend the festival, which was spread across 4 stages, with interesting conversations, workshops and screenings. The festival saw presence of Naseeruddin Shah, Javed Akhtar, Manoj Bajpayee, Rajkummar Rao, Divya Dutta, Swara Bhaskar, Ishaan Khatter, Radhika Madan, Jim Sarbh, Devdutt Pattanaik, Vikramaditya Motwane, Prajakta Koli, Zakir Khan, Abish Mathew, Ashish Shakya, Aparshakti Khurrana, Gulshan Devaiah, Anupama Chopra, Anand Gandhi, Kusha Kapila, Jordindian, Be Younick, Beer Biceps, Gaurav Taneja, Kaneez Surka, Gaurav Gera, Ritviz, Naezy Mikey McCleary, Ahsaas Channa, Anand Tiwari, Yahya Bootwala, Amandeep Singh, Kubbra Sait and over 80 more artists. The workshops on post-production, cinematic lighting, pitching, visual effects, use of gimbal, creativity, visual storytelling, self care and many other sessions were introduced to reach out to relevant audiences. The poster of Divya Dutta and Swara Bhaskar's upcoming film Sheer Qorma was launched at the festival amidst much fanfare. Mikhil Musale's upcoming film Made in China starring Rajkumar Rao also launched its teaser at the festival.

The festival also saw huge participation across Scriptwriting Challenge, Storytelling Challenge and Design Challenge. The winning stories from Storytelling Challenge were later converted in to audiobooks. The winning posters from the Design Challenge are being merchandised and sold to larger audiences across India.

Signature, Myntra, Exide, Adobe, Nikon, DJI, Kingston and Gujarat Tourism were the principal sponsors of the season 9.

Season 10

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IFP Season 10 saw over 53,000 unique creators participate across challenges and over 27,000 creators attend the 4 day virtual festival.[14] Festival Director Ritam Bhatnagar quoted "Season 10 was nothing short of a miracle. To pull off a festival with over 65,000 unique creators in challenges and virtual festival amidst times when most festivals were getting cancelled has been our feat in itself[15]". The participation came from 343 cities and 23 countries.

The 50 Hour Filmmaking saw approximately 38,000 filmmakers participate and create 1804 short films over a weekend. The festival also introduced a 50 Hour Music Challenge, one of its kind which saw 1,200 original tracks made by 11,000 participating musicians from across 7 countries. The festival saw surge in participation across Scriptwriting, Storytelling and Design Challenge.

The organisers announced a 4-day virtual festival that saw over 27,000 attendees across 3 stages.[16] Some of the people on IFP's stage in 2020 were Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Maiteryi Ramakrishnan, Bhumi Pednekar, Mira Nair, Shabana Azmi, Pankaj Tripathi, Adil Hussain, Kirti Kulhari, Gajraj Rao, Shweta Tripathi, Vikrant Massey, Resul Pookutty, Mumbiker Nikhil, Beyounick, Rasika Dugal, Ratna Pathak Shah, Kabir Akhtar, Karthik Subbaraj, David Jones, Guneet Monga,[17] Madhu Trehan, Kusha Kapila, Mohd. Zeeshan Ayyub, Dolly Singh, Sumeet Vyas, Amol Parashar, Maanvi Gagroo, Jaideep Ahlawat, Jim Sarbh, Pulkit Samrat, Kriti Kharbanda, Priya Malik and over 140 artists on the stage. The festival also saw workshops on cinematography, pre-production, music production, illustrations, doodling, sound design and many more by GoPro, Sennheiser, Spotify, Celtx, XP Pen, etc.

OnePlus, Bumble, Tata Sky, Acer, Fujifilm, MUBI were the main sponsors for the season 10.

Season 11

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Amidst the covid chaos, the organisers decided to continue season 11 as a virtual festival. The season saw over 65,000 unique creators participate across the 5 creative challenges and over 29,000 creators attend the 4 day virtual festival, held from 21 to 24 October 2021. The festival saw participation from over 417 cities and 31 unique countries, making it one of the most widely spread participation.

Flagship 50 Hour Filmmaking Challenge saw 32,300 filmmakers creating 1,527 short films from 24 to 26 Sep 2021. The 50 Hour Music Challenge in its second edition saw over 11,600 musicians from over 11 countries creating 1,087 tracks across Pop, Hip Hop, Folk Fusion, Electronic and Rock genres.

The 7 Day Storytelling, Writing and Design challenges were further bifurcated to include poetry, short stories, digital illustrations and digital collages respectively.

The 4 day virtual festival diversified to also include conversations about game development, photography, technology, advertising and performing arts. Spread across 4 stages, festival saw some of the culture shaping artists on stage including Taapsee Pannu, Vicky Kaushal, Emraan Hashmi, R Madhavan, Vir Das, Shoojit Sircar, Vikram Motwane, Prateek Kuhad, Ritviz, Bhuvan Bam, Anuja Chauhan, Amish Tripathi, Emma Donoghue, Tom Perrotta, Asif Kapadia, Ranveer Allahbadia, Saloni Gaur, Sayani Gupta, Ankur Tewari, Anuv Jain, Ayush Mehra, Brodha V, Dar Gai, Guneet Monga, Hanif Kureshi, Kausar Munir, Shalmali Kholgade, Swanand Kirkire, Lifafa, MC Altaf, Prateek vats, Seema Pahwa and over 150 others.

The festival was sponsored by Vivo, Signature, DSP Mutual Fund, Fujifilm, Intel, DishTV, Sennheiser, MUBI and Punjab Tourism and saw support from partners like Ableton, Audient, First Draft, FL Studio, Pantone, Filmfare, TVF and many more.

Season 12

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Rohit Saraf & Prajakta Koli at IFP Season 12

The festival came back with its on-ground run after two years virtually. The season saw over 56,500 creators participate across 7 creative challenges, with two additional challenges being introduced - the 50 Hour Photography Challenge and 7 Day Standup Challenge. The 2 day festival was attended by over 16,750 creators at Mumbai, held on October 7 and 8, 2022. The participation came from 378 cities and 39 countries.

The 2 day festival expanded to culture space with inclusion of politics and gaming, and saw people like Tom Schulman, Shashi Tharoor, Javed Akhtar, Vijay Varma, Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari, Rohit Saraf, R Balki, Gauri Shinde, Prajakta Koli, Ankur Warikoo, Dr. Siddharth Warrier, Anand Gandhi, Kabir Khan, Makarand Deshpande, Leeza Mangaldas, Sonam Nair, Yashraj Mukhate, Richie Mehta, Raj Shamani and over 150 others.

The festival was sponsored by Mountain Dew, DSP Mutual Fund, Intel, Boat, QuillBot, Sennheiser, Croma & MP Tourism.

Labs

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Web Writers' Lab

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In 2018, IFP started an exclusive lab for writers in web domain along with Pocket Aces. The lab saw over 1200 applications and 10 selected writers underwent a seven-day residential program at Mumbai. The lab was mentored by leading writers from Indian web content ecosystem including Dhruv Sehgal.[18]

In 2020, the second season of lab took place in middle of pandemic, receiving more than 2000 applications for a 5-day virtual residency program.

Podcast Lab

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In 2021, IFP partnered with Spotify and Anchor to create India's first lab for podcasters, a 25 week long program to mentor and handhold aspiring podcasters for producing their first season. The lab saw over 1200 applicants and 200 podcasters from 63 cities were selected as a part of first batch after a thorough interview process. The lab included mentors like Anupama Chopra, Varun Duggirala, Mantra, Chhavi Sachdev, Kedar Nimkar, Mayank Shekhar, Joshua Thomas and many more.

IPs & Brand Campaigns

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Since 2020, IFP as a community of 8.5 Lakh creators, has ventured into creating & executing campaigns, IPs & communities for brands. A separate team was setup that works in agency model that works with brands such as Spotify, Vivo, Croma, Wipro, Budweiser, Cultfit, Diageo, ITC, Meesho, Dolby and many other brands in delivering award winning output. Some of the known IPs are Signature Masterclass, Spotify Podcast Lab, Budweiser Rule The New, Croma Creators' Studio, Vivo City Xcapes and many others.

Timebound Challenges

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50 Hour Filmmaking Challenge

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Started in 2011, 50 Hour Filmmaking Challenge is IFP's flagship challenge that has seen over 1.85 Lakh filmmakers participate in last 11 years. The challenge is one of the largest filmmaking challenge in the world, with participation from all 5 continents. Participants can choose to participate across Professional, Amateur or Mobile category depending on their experience and equipment usage. In 2015, the challenge was made open to films made in all languages. The winning films from the challenge were broadcast on MTV India in IFP's official show called IFP Shorts.[19]

Theme Films Participants Cities Countries Jury
2011 Small things in life 86 620 14 1 Sanjay Gadhvi, Ashish Kakkad
2012 Ingredients of good living 121 1,510 22 1 Shoojit Sircar, Vikramaditya Motwane, Komal Nahta, Rajesh Mapuskar
2013 India can change 322 4,270 44 3 Tigmanshu Dhulia, Nikhil Advani, Bejoy Nambiar
2014 Progress has many meanings 619 10,600 122 11 Shyam Benegal, Hansal Mehta, Omung Kumar, Umesh Shukla
2015 There is a twist in the end 700+ 14,400 184 18 Ketan Mehta, Onir, Raja Sen, Guneet Monga
2016 Top of the world 1,220 23,600 242 20 Madhur Bhandarkar, Sriram Raghavan, Nagesh Kukunoor, Vetrimaaran
2017 Everything is connected 1,503 29,000 262 18 Ram Madhvani, Aniruddha Roy Chowdhury, Vipul Amrutlal Shah
2018 Professional Category - A story of Change

Amateur Category - Experience Change

Mobile Category - Precaution is better than Cure

1,550 32,000 300 30 Sudhir Mishra, Milan Luthria, RS Prasanna
2019 Professional Category - A Tale of Passion

Amateur Category - Your Reason to Road

Mobile Category - What's Stopping You?

1,710 36,000 320 18 Abhishek Chaubey, Anjali Menon, Pan Nalin, Pradeep Sarkar
2020 Professional Category - Brave New World

Amateur Category - Almost Famous

Mobile Category - Stop at Nothing

1,804 38,000 334 22 Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari, Raj Nidimoru and Krishna DK, Subhashish Bhutiani
2021 Professional Category - You are more than your Name

Amateur Category - How Money makes you Feel

Mobile Category - Language of Joy

1,527 32,300 347 18 Navdeep Singh, Leena Yadav, Shakun Batra
2022 Professional Category - No Fear is Small

Amateur Category - The Best Advice Mobile Category - No Fear is Small

1,715 34,100 341 21 Alankrita Shrivastava, Jeo Baby, Rima Das, Selvaraghavan

50 Hour Music Challenge

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Added in 2020, the concept according to organisers was derived from already existing rule of creating original music in the 50 Hour Filmmaking Challenge.[20] The challenge has 5 genres that participants can choose from, namely Pop, Rock, Hip Hip, Folk Fusion and Electronic. The musicians are required to create original piece of music in just 50 hours on a given theme, which is later judged by pre-jury and jury.

Year Theme Tracks Participants Cities Countries Jury
2020 A song about growing up and how things change 1208 11,341 204 7 Dualist Inquiry, Lisa Mishra, Naezy, Raman Negi, Vasu Dixit
2021 Write a Song about little things in life that make you happy 1087 11,622 252 11 Ashwin Gopakumar, Brodha V, Lifafa, Nirali Kartik, Nitin Malik
2022 Dreams that keep you awake 1,212 10,104 215 12 OAFF, Raja Kumari, Rajan Batra, Shalmali Kholgade, Sneha Khanwalkar

7 Day Design Challenge

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Running since 2017, the challenge was initially launched as a poster design challenge, inviting designers to recreate movie posters on a given theme. In 2020, an additional category of Fan Art was added to the challenge. Owing to huge participation in 2020 and continuous demand for adding even more categories, Digital Illustrations and Digital Collage were additionally added in 2021. In 2022, a UI/UX category was also added on popular demand.

Year Theme Participants Jury
2017 Minimal Poster 628 Raj Khatri
2018 Minimal Poster 871 Raj Khatri
2019 Contemporary Modern Day poster for Old Films made between 1970 and 1999 1286 Raj Khatri
2020 Fan Art - Rebel (Choose a respectful and recognizable or fictional Rebellious figure)

Poster Art - Crossover Poster between any two movies, two shows, two books or two music album.

1871 Aaron Pinto, Raj Khatri, Vimal Chandran
2021 Poster and Cover Art - Incorporate a relevant Brand in Movie Poster / Book Cover / Music Album Art

Fan Art - What if your favourite Creators/Public figure/Sportsman had a Different Job/Profession

Digital Illustration - Alternate History

Digital Collage - What’s your Idea of India

1928 Mehek Malhotra, Santanu Hazarika
2022 Poster & Cover Art - Create a spin-off movie/series/book poster of your favorite side character. Give it a title and a tagline

Fan Art - Time Travel - Re-imagine your favourite creators, artists, sports personalities, politicians and scientists from history in today's time. Digital Illustration - Imagine a New year party in 3000s Digital Doodle - Doodle the spirit of your town, village or city UI/UX - A Recipe App

1816 Mounica Tata, Prasad Bhat, Saptarshi Prakash, Srishti Gupta Roy

7 Day Writing Challenge

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Introduced in 2017, the challenge has been participated by over 11,000 writers in last 6 years. Initially, the challenge saw only short scriptwriting as an accepted format. However, owing to challenge's popularity amongst writers across the world, a short story category was later added in 2021 and Think Piece category in 2022. The participation has come from over 482 cities and 34 countries.

Year Theme Participants Jury
2017 Over the Edge 971 NA
2018 Modern Day Love 1219 NA
2019 Old School Love in time of Technology 1483 Apurva Asrani, Bhavani Iyer, Saiwyn Quadras
2020 Whatever it takes 1961 Atika Chohan, Hitesh Kewalya, Niren Bhatt
2021 Ticket to Anywhere 1578 Gazal Dhaliwal, Hardik Mehta, Mahesh Narayanan
2022 Scriptwriting - From the Antagonist’s perspective

Short Story - Hero with a Thousand Faces Think Piece - Conflict

1891 Anuja Chauhan, Aleesha Matharu, Janice Pariat, Kanika Dhillon

7 Day Storytelling Challenge

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Storytelling challenge was brought to light in 2018 with spoken word as its only category. In 2021, poetry was added since organisers felt both were active form of performing arts expressions. In last 5 years, over 7,100 performers have participated actively from over 19 countries with major participation coming in English and Hindi languages.

Year Theme Participants Jury
2018 A short film called my life 628 NA
2019 Not So Superhero 867 Jidnya Sujata, Yahya Bootwala, Amandeep Singh
2020 What's your Utopia 1038 Hussain Haidry, Priya Malik
2021 They Say I'm Different 1103 Akhil Katyal, Aranya Johar
2022 That Moment 1141 Arundhati Subramaniam, Mehak Mirza Prabhu, Nidhi Narwal

50 Hour Photography Challenge

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This challenge was introduced in 2022, to enable photographers to participate in a time-bound manner. The debut challenge year saw over 1,000+ participating photographers from 4 countries.

Year Theme Participants Jury
2022 Old Everything 1118 Arjun Mark, Avani Rai, Radhakrishnan Chakyat

7 Day Standup Challenge

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Seeing the national standup scene grown exponentially, and yet lack of platforms for comics that could catapult them nationally, the challenge was introduced as a community voted initiative. The debut challenge year saw over 800 comics from 14 year olds to 62 years olds, participate.

Year Theme Participants Jury
2022 Modern problems require modern solutions 816 Aditi Mittal, Neeti Palta

Previous Winners

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2021 - 50 Hour Filmmaking Challenge
Award Film Team Leader Team
Platinum Film of the Year - Professional Chai Vivek Jaiswal Daydreamer Film Company, Noida
Gold Film of the Year - Professional Stand Out Priyansh Lamba The Urban Desi, New Delhi
Silver Film of the Year - Professional The Language of dots Rohan Pendurkar JunkieLabs, Mumbai
Bronze Film of the Year - Professional Shilpi Suvajit Kar Acto Facto Films, Naihati
#5 Film of the Year - Professional Chotu Sir Rohit Mandal Dharakala Productions, Lucknow
Platinum Film of the Year - Amateur Kas Ke Pakad Ria Nalavade Filmwreckers, Mumbai
Gold Film of the Year - Amateur Off The Record Karan Soochak CineMaaKasam, Rajkot
Silver Film of the Year - Amateur Zero Hareesh Khandhar G Crescent Team Dramatix, Chennai
Bronze Film of the Year - Amateur :) Soumesh Pandey Camerawalebhaiya and A frame in motion, Delhi
#5 Film of the Year - Amateur The Golden Millionaire Anant Tyagi Purple People Labs, Ghaziabad
Platinum Film of the Year - Mobile The Last Call Mohit Sharma Digital Dumroo, Jaipur
Gold Film of the Year - Mobile Dohra Chirag Yaji The Hatke House, Margao
Silver Film of the Year - Mobile The Cup Santanu Sarkar Siliguri Ensemble, Siliguri
Bronze Film of the Year - Mobile POV Anooj Jangid Fart Films Production, Pune
#5 Film of the Year - Mobile Chapha Arundhati Agashe Square One Productions, Pune
2021 - 50 Hour Music Challenge
Award Genre Track Team Leader Team
Platinum Track of the Year Pop Tell the World Mr Kev Stanly's Angels, Chennai
Gold Track of the Year Pop Home Feelin' Toufeeq Hamsa Toufeeq Hamsa & Yadav Jyothi, Ernakulam
Silver Track of the Year Pop Bahaane Tanmoy Guha Dhi Harmony, Ranaghat
Platinum Track of the Year Electronic Music Choti Khushiya Prem Praneet Arigela Praneet & Farhat, Vishakhapatnam
Gold Track of the Year Electronic Music Kisse Advait Mahesh Koshishein, Mumbai
Silver Track of the Year Electronic Music Just Right Farvez Afridi Faizur Rahman SViM, United Arab Emirates
Platinum Track of the Year Rock Mann ki baat Galvin Mendonca Monkey Baat, Mumbai
Gold Track of the Year Rock Aawara Zayn Raza SAZA The Band, Patna
Silver Track of the Year Rock Chaar Biscuit Do Chai Abhishek Sharma Men Are Rarely Sober (M.A.R.S), Noida
Platinum Track of the Year Folk Fusion Chhoti Chhoti Khushiyan Devrath Nadaar Suron Ki Banni, Mumbai
Gold Track of the Year Folk Fusion Re Mast Malang Gopal Thakare The Seven Winds, Mumbai
Silver Track of the Year Folk Fusion Choti Choti Khushi Zubin Macwan Backpack Lights, Vadodara
Platinum Track of the Year Hip Hop Dil Chahta Hai Aniesh Rana Rana The Rapper, Nagpur
Gold Track of the Year Hip Hop Hassi Rehyan Nautiyal Barood, Gurgaon
Silver Track of the Year Hip Hop Little Things Karna Gajab Kognitive, San Jose
2020 - 50 Hour Filmmaking Challenge
Award Film Team Leader Team
Platinum Film of the Year - Professional Seven Feet Arjun Suri Zagnaut Studios, Mumbai
Gold Film of the Year - Professional Offline Kushal Verma VermmasillyFIlms, Mumbai
Silver Film of the Year - Professional Chalte Rahiye Janaab Priyansh Lamba The Urban Desi, Delhi
Bronze Film of the Year - Professional The Code Tushar Gupta Pichchar Films, Dehradun
#5 Film of the Year - Professional Meraki Tushar Mahajan Khwaabeeda Films, Delhi
Platinum Film of the Year - Amateur Dr. Pashupal (BAMS) Jithin M Moopans Films, Kannur
Gold Film of the Year - Amateur Woh Ajinkya Patil Intensive Cinema Unit, Kalyan
Silver Film of the Year - Amateur Zipped Divesh Kudvalkar Pickle Jar, Mumbai
Bronze Film of the Year - Amateur Ramesh Sudhansu Shripat Superflops, Jaisalmer
#5 Film of the Year - Amateur Bhavai Karan Soochak Ellipsis Motion Co., Rajkot
Platinum Film of the Year - Mobile One and A Half Foot Man Anurag Tiwari Hello Desi, Lucknow
Gold Film of the Year - Mobile Road To Thumba Gayathri Shankar Chennai
Silver Film of the Year - Mobile The Audition Anush S Kumar AGAMI, Bangalore
Bronze Film of the Year - Mobile Picture Abhi Baaki Hai Deepak Kattar Standalone Productions, Delhi
#5 Film of the Year - Mobile Anjali's Kitchen Tanmay Luthia Black Canvas Productions, Mumbai
Shot on OnePlus Masterji Armaan Mishra Bonfire, Sagar
2020 - 50 Hour Music Challenge
Award Track Team Leader Team
Platinum Track - Electronic Music Genre Time-travelling Soul Belinda Mendes Merak, Mapusa
Gold Track - Electronic Music Genre Changez Ranjani Ramadoss ranj x clifr, Chennai
Silver Track - Electronic Music Genre Nayee Subah Celjo John The Sherlock Brothers, Noida
Platinum Track - Pop Genre Dil'on Ke Mausam Tanmoy Guha Dhi Harmony, Nilesh Bhattacharya, Kolkata
Gold Track - Pop Genre Changing Niank Sharma Broken Echoes, Mumbai
Silver Track - Pop Genre Kyun? Saahil Karmally Team Mellted, Bangalore
Platinum Track - Folk Fusion Genre Ek tootata hua tara Gopal Thakare The seven winds, Mumbai
Gold Track - Folk Fusion Genre SWINGS Jathin Darshan G The Juke Radio, Bengaluru
Silver Track - Folk Fusion Genre Mann Challeya Anurag Singh Sargam, Lucknow
Platinum Track - Rock Genre Kaabil Hogya Mai Harpreet Singh Musicians At Work, Chandigarh
Gold Track - Rock Genre Kho Gayi Doleshwar Atrangi Funkaar, Jaipur
Silver Track - Rock Genre A Thousand Splendid Suns Vidit Tanwar Collision Theory, Mumbai
Platinum Track - Hip Hop Genre Cyanide Nio Endo Nio Endo, Hyderabad
Gold Track - Hip Hop Genre Aaina Harshit Joshi BrahMean, Faridabad
Silver Track - Hip Hop Genre Rangbhumi Aniesh R Rana Rana the Rapper, Nagpur
2019 - 50 Hour Filmmaking Challenge
Award Film Team Leader Team
Platinum Film of the Year - Professional Paul Rishab Joshi @not.just.a.dentist, Nagpur
Gold Film of the Year - Professional Gaura Nikhil Arora Word of Mouth Media, Dehradun
Silver Film of the Year - Professional Perfect Gods Prashanth M Candor Bros Entertainment, Chennai
Bronze Film of the Year - Professional Inside Pranshu shrivastava Brand Icon Studio, Indore
#5 Film of the Year - Professional Tales of Passion - A biopic of an environmentalist Satyarth Singh Lights On Films, Mumbai
My Signature Award - Professional Mere Papa Google Par Jomin Varghese EBC Originals, Mumbai
Platinum Film of the Year - Amateur Janu Rajkumar A Vilvanaram, Chennai
Gold Film of the Year - Amateur Thanthooni Thuruthu Abed Paul 22nd Society, Kochi
Silver Film of the Year - Amateur Mehsoos Chand Mohammad 90's Kids, Mumbai
Bronze Film of the Year - Amateur Anjaan Tushar Gupta Pichchar, Dehradun
#5 Film of the Year - Amateur Bandish Netra Murbadkar Nature Surferers, Mumbai
Platinum Film of the Year - Mobile Kheer Ujan Gangopadhyay UA Productions, Kolkata
Gold Film of the Year - Mobile Itwar Pururava Rao BistroBethak, Mumbai
Silver Film of the Year - Mobile Flawed Ravi Rocker EkJagaah, Mumbai
Bronze Film of the Year - Mobile Shot Down Soham Pujara Mumbai
#5 Film of the Year - Mobile The Dream Project Abhraneel Malakar Abhraneel & Bros., Kolkata
2018 - 50 Hour Filmmaking Challenge
Award Film Team Leader Team
Platinum Film of the Year - Professional The First Drag Harshad Mahadeshwar Dil Ki Baat, Houston, USA
Gold Film of the Year - Professional Dabba Gul Kushal Verma MissMalini Productions, Mumbai
Silver Film of the Year - Professional The Event Aditya Sharma The Visual Architects, Ahmedabad
Bronze Film of the Year - Professional Kaali Peeli Ride Sayan Dasgupta Think BIG, Kolkata
Best Film #5 of the Year - Professional Metronome Akash Singh Kreativ Street, Gurugram
Platinum Film of the Year - Amateur Sveekar Sayandip Sikder Red Matrix Productions, Kolkata
Gold Film of the Year - Amateur Digikal Sunil Negi Liberal Arts Production, Dehradun
Silver Film of the Year - Amateur Netru Indru Nalaai Madan M Frames and Frequencies, Chennai
Bronze Film of the Year - Amateur Maggi Readdyyyeeaah? Dhananjay Gandotra Parichay Originals, Faridabad
Best Film #5 of the Year - Amateur Wake Up! Rishab Joshi Not Just A Dentist Films, Nagpur
Datsun Change Film of the Year - Amateur Bungee Jumping Aditya Chandrashekar Teacup Films, Bangalore
Platinum Film of the Year - Mobile Shit Happens Gayathrie Watchers of the Sea, Chennai
Gold Film of the Year - Mobile Checklist Sailesh Kolanu Divergent Shorts, New South Wales, Australia
Silver Film of the Year - Mobile [?v=C_cu8CmMBCQ Run of Freedom Sheshank Mishra Switch Hit, New Delhi
Bronze Film of the Year - Mobile Dhong Janam Shah Picworx, Mumbai
Best Film #5 of the Year - Mobile Main Aur Raja Mariipeddi Vinay Viveka Vardhan Rama Reels, Hyderabad
2017 - 50 Hour Filmmaking Challenge
Award Film Team Leader Team
Platinum Film of the Year - Professional Parallax Aditya Sharma The Visual Architects, Ahmedabad
Gold Film of the Year - Professional Faulen Kundan Sad CreatEwitty Media Notions, Nagpur
Silver Film of the Year - Professional Ranga Deva Harikanth Gunamagari Kala Media, Hyderabad
Bronze Film of the Year - Professional Dispatched Pranav Chimulkar denture Capital, Bangalore
Best Film #5 - Professional The Audition Nikhil Mehta NJM Productions, Bangalore
Platinum Film of the Year - Amateur Karma Srinivasan Aravind Radiant Studios, Vellore
Gold Film of the Year - Amateur Memento Mori Amogh Kanaskar Broken Tripod Films, Pune
Silver Film of the Year - Amateur Lifeline Rinkle Pagariya Pocket Production, Thane
Bronze Film of the Year - Amateur For The Joy Of It Arjun Suri Blink Arts, Mumbai
Platinum Film of the Year - Mobile Footsteps Kundan Sad CreatEwitty Media Notions, Nagpur
Gold Film of the Year - Mobile Bas Paanch Minute Sagar Kalaria Fikar Not Films, Rajkot
Silver Film of the Year - Mobile Tanabata Suyash Kamat Plot Point Films, Pune
Bronze Film of the Year - Mobile Reminiscence Alok Sinha Pixel Garden, Mumbai
2016 - 50 Hour Filmmaking Challenge
Award Film Team Leader Team
Platinum Film of the Year - Professional Troll Life Rahul Riji Nair First Print Studios, Thirumullavaram
Gold Film of the Year - Professional Gone with the Wind Sagar Kalaria Fikar Not Films, Rajkot
Silver Film of the Year - Professional Binoculars Sayan Dasgupta Think BIG, Kolkata
Bronze Film of the Year - Professional Jamoon Nitesh Nanjudharadhya ByTwo Films, Bengaluru
Best Film #5 - Professional Vertigo Dharma Teja A story by Dharma Teja, Hyderabad
Platinum Film of the Year - Amateur Nagraj in Mumbai Ashish Madurwar WildFlower Pictures, Mumbai
Gold Film of the Year - Amateur Acme Kundan Sad Creat-E-Witty Media Notions, Nagpur
Silver Film of the Year - Amateur Kshuda Dhananjay Kode Parshion, Nagpur
Bronze Film of the Year - Amateur The Bridge Chandrashekhar Mantha Flowing River Productions, Mumbai
Platinum Film of the Year - Mobile Fibonacci Alok Sinha Pixel Garden, Mumbai
Gold Film of the Year - Mobile Black and White Saiprasad S Broken Puppets, Vellore
Silver Film of the Year - Mobile Nithirai Aswin Kandasamy Layman Frames, Chennai
2015 - 50 Hour Filmmaking Challenge
Award Film Team Leader Team
Platinum Film of the Year Koothu Vijay Velukutty Madras Motion Pictures, Chennai
Gold Film of the Year Iris Sai Prasad S Sastra Fotohub, Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu
Silver Film of the Year Kahaaniyan Aditya Sharma The Visual Architects, Pune
Bronze Film of the Year Blank Aman Khan Blank, Mumbai
Best Film #5 Photo Mohan Sarath Chan Blurr India, Trichy, Tamil Nadu
Best Film #6 Passion Aneesh George Team Zero, Kannur, Kerala
Best Film #7 2+1=2 Chetan Krishna Jingchak, Bengaluru
Best Film #8 Next Today GS Redsquad, Hyderabad
Best Film #9 MJ Rahul Riji Nair First Print Studios, Kollam, Kerala
Best Film #10 Khairat Girish Atuvalaipil Project Mayhem, Bangalore
Himalayan Mineral Water Challenge Winner Winner Viraj More Timelight, Pune
Himalayan Mineral Water Challenge Runner Up Runner up Alok Sinha Pixel Garden, Mumbai
2014 - 50 Hour Filmmaking Challenge
Award Film Team Leader Team
Platinum Film of the Year Audition Vignash Studio Untitled, Chennai
Gold Film of the Year Axe Tree Me Piyusha Khadakkar Capricorn Graphix, Ahmedabad
Silver Film of the year And then he thought Ashish LMB Productions, Pune
Bronze Film of the year Laal Amit Shetty Power Drift, Mumbai
Best Film #5 I am Bhushan Nonidh Yadav MVTV Productions, Dubai
Best Film #6 Cycle Nainesh Butti Surat
Best Film #7 Graffiti Santosh Think Cinema, Bengaluru
Best Film #8 I am too Pranav Borse Pixcreed, Pune
Best Film #9 Extra Mile Kishan Chauhan Area 55, Ahmedabad
Best Film #10 Brotherhood Abhishek Thakur The Yellow Bulb, New Delhi
Recommendation Award Lost and Found Sagar Kalaria Fikar Not Films, Rajkot
Mountain Dew Challenge Winner Winner Alok Sinha Pixel Garden, Mumbai
Mountain Dew Challenge Runner Up First Runner Up Aditya Sharma The Visual Architects, Ahmedabad
Mountain Dew Challenge Runner Up Second Runner Up Nainesh Butti Fun Motion Pictures, Surat

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