India International Film Festival of Tampa Bay

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]

The fourth annual festival took place February 15, 2013 to February 17, 2013.[6]

History

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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

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Title Director Cast
Listen Amaya Avinash Kumar Singh
Yoga Is: A Transformational Journey Suzanne Bryant
Indelible Pavitra Chalam
Planes, Trains & Autorickshaws Scott Sheppard
A Gran Plan Sangeeta Nambiar
Jana Gana Mana Vijay Das
Shaya Amir Noorani
Larry Brought Lemon Ujjwal Patel
Ehsaas Sunil Nair
Daadi David Stoler
Sidekick (3D Animation) Amrinder Jassar
Gattu Rajan Khosa
Vishwaroopam Kamal Haasan
Leaving Home Robert Richter
Sambhavna Joseph Malone
Saari Raat Parimal Aloke
Party Santosh Davakhar
Do Pahar Shazia Shrivastava & Sharifa Roy
Un.Kahi Samrat DasGupta
Little Terrors Maninder Chana
Highway Deepak Rauniyar
Paanch Adhyay Pratim DasGupta
Valley of Saints Musa Syeed

2012 Film Screenings

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Title Director Cast
Love, Wrinkle - Free Sandeep Mohan Ash Chandler, Shernaz Patel, Seema Rahmani, Sohrab Ardeshir, Ashwin Mushran, Arika Silaichia, Tensin Dasang
Adwait Sangeet Makarand Brahme
Aadukalam (The Arena) Vetrimaaran Dhanush, Velraj Rajamani, Tapsee Pannu
The Great Indian Marriage Bazaar Ruchika Muchhala
Shuttlecock Boys Hemant Gaba Aakar 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 Ellias Yuki Ellias, Carl Sequeria, Leonid Kudryavtsev, Sheeba Chaddha, Suhasini Mulay, Sohrab Ardeshir
Porn Masala Ken Kwek Vadi PVSS, Adrian Pang
The Myth of Buddha's Birthplace James Freeman
Paulwaat (The Pathway) Aditya Ingale Subodh 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 & Dreams Harpreet Kaur
Your Own is Your Own Anjay Nagpal
Fire in Our Hearts Jayshree Janu Kharpade
Letters Home Neilesh Verma
Have I Shared Too Much? Sameer Acharya
The 5 Ravi Kapoor
According to Plan A Anuj Nijhawan
Set in Stone Divij Roopchand
Bureaucracy Sonata Vinay Shukla
Maaya Getting Born Anand Raghavan
Anoochcharito (Unuttered) Sourav Sarkar
Sati Shaves Her Head Tejal Shah
Wind Manik Andan
Always There Jayesh 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
Uncoupled Monica Bassi
The Coffee Hemant Dinkar

2011 Film Screenings

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Title Director Cast
Ashes Ajay Naidu Heather Burns, Ajay Naidu, Piper Perabo, Faran Tahir, Samrat Chakrabarti, Reena Shah
Huppa Huiyya Anil Surve Mohan 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 Devu Scott Mccabe, Wendy Nguyen, Bert Van Aalsburg
Topi Arjun Rihan Sarah Zerina Usmen, Ludwig Goransson, Sunil Rihan, Mala Rihan, Gurushish Dhupar, Naila Azad, Subash Kundanmal
Fresh Arrangement Monica Bassi Monica Bassi, Amit Lamba, Jeremiah Jett, Sujatha Chetty
The Eclipse of Taregna Rakesh Chaudhary Surendra Rajan, Purav Bhandare, Geetika Tyagi, Saagar Kale, Ashutosh Warang, Jimmy Peters, Sachin Tawde
Fatakra Soham 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 Accident Trevord Ward Benedict 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 Kalam Nila Madhab Panda Harsh Mayar, Hussan Saad, Gulshan Grover, Beatrice Ordeix
Visible Bra Straps Ajitesh Sharma Petra Khruz, Reeth Mazumder
Dhobi Ghat Kiran Rao Aamir Khan, Prateik Babbar, Monica Dogra
A Journey in My Mother's Footsteps Dina Rosenmeier Dina 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 Voices Tamal Sen Gaurav Dwivedi, Paru Gambhir, Kaushik Ghosh, Shahidur Rahaman, Prasenjit Ghosh, Sudipto Shankar Roy
You Can't Curry Love Reid Waterer Ashwin Gore, Russell Reynolds, Rajan Velu, Rakshak Sahni, Upasana Beharee, William Vega, Frederic Chaignat
Nerd of the Ring Gowtham Bachina Charles Marina, Michael Kuya, Zuri Bella, John Phillips, Saladin Florence, Corey Richards, Madaline Berube, Tilly, Trevor Teichmann, Aaron Phillips, Kole
Soy Milk Veeran Naran Djon 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 Me Ruben Amar James 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 & Curry Atul Sharma Atul 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

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Title Director Cast
7 Days in Slow Motion Umakanth Thumrugotl Teja, Kunai Sharma, Shiva Varma, Rajeshwari Sachdev, Ayesha Jaleel
Amal Richie Mehta Rupinder Nagra, Naseeruddin Shah, Seema Biswas, Koel Purie, Roshan Seth, Vik Sahay
Bombay Summer Joseph 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 Stories Lalit Vachani Mrinal Desal, Anita Kushwaha, Lalit Vachani, Menno Boerema
Anything for You Anand Alagappan Sam Ghosh, Julie Fine, Pooja Kumar, Aaron Mathias
Chath: A Roof Without Walls Hyder Bilgrami & Tirthankar Das Sanjay 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 Jones Chandra Pemmaraju Lavrenti Lopes, Khushboo Shah, Christopher Peuler, Meredith Dillard, Julie Donahue, Kyle Donahue, Collin James, Aaron Katter, Nadia Rahman, Aditi P. Solanki
Sukrit's Sundays Vasant Nath
Ismael Ambarish Manepalli
Kavi Gregg Helvey Sagar Salunke, Ulhas Tayade, Rajesh Kumar, Madhavi Juvekar, Debu Bhattacharya, Rishi Raj Singh, Mukesh Barahti

Film School

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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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  1. ^ "About IIFF." India International Film Festival of Tampa Bay. 2010. Web. <http://iifftampa.com/2010/aboutiiff.html>.
  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. <[1]>.
  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. ^ a b 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".
  15. ^ "India International Film Festival of Tampa Bay." Filmmakers, Withoutabox.
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