Bring Your Own Film Festival (BYOFF) is an annual event held during February every year on Puri beach. To call it just a film
festival is to limit its unique magical quality. It’s a festival without hierarchy, competition, juries and awards where not only filmmakers but also artists from other fields like music, theatre, painting, sculpture, dance, literature and photography are encouraged to participate and show their work.
In short, BYOFF can be best described as an informal and intimate gathering of artists with films in the backdrop where screenings go on early into the morning hours- first, inside makeshift tents and then in the open air after sun down.
For filmmakers, it has been an alternative platform ever since its first edition in the year 2004. The idea is to have a festival away from the oppressive atmosphere of bureaucratic control of big cities and where just about anybody – with or without films – could participate.
The participants of BYOFF themselves are the volunteers and the organizers of its future editions. And the mood of the festival is that of a no holds barred carnival where the sea and its sand provide the right ambience to lift the spirits of every one present. Yeah, for five days and five nights.
WHERE
The venue is ‘Pink House Hotel & Restaurant’ off Chakrateerth
Road in Puri, in ORISSA, housed in an old bungalow
constructed way back in 1937 with a fenced off private stretch of beach. One can watch films or just relax in one of the shacks to contemplate the blue waters of the sea. For the sea is never as bluer as it is in February.
No wonder, the Lonely Planet guide describes it as the ‘beachiest of them all…’
The address of the venue is
Pink House Hotel & Restaurant, Chakrateerth Road, Puri.
TEL. 91- 6752 – 222253
Details regarding the festival & participation can be had from the site:
http://www.byofilmfestival.com/
- MANASI PANDYA - 2007
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