Light, camera, action!
Bengaluru embraced science, technology and cosmopolitanism much before its Indian peers, and serves as a convergence point for people from different parts of the country.
The DH Weekend Film Challenge invites you to explore all that can happen in a Bengaluru minute, to borrow an oft-used phrase for New York.
Since our inception, Bengaluru has been home to the Deccan Herald, and now in our 76th year, we invite you to turn the lens on the city we love.
Now in its third year, the DH Flash Film Challenge gave participants 50 hours to script, shoot, edit and upload their films!
Themes:
1. Kitchen Conversations - You are more than what you eat
2. Gridlocked - A lot can happen over a weekend jam
Mandatory prop: The Deccan Herald (Physical or online presence) without the news content, on paper or online, distorted in any way.
Meet the judges
SHASHANK SOGHAL
Shashank Soghal started making short films in 2012 while he was working in Tata Consultancy Services as a Software Engineer. His fourth short film Patinga (2015) became one of the most popular Kannada short films.
It won a jury special mention award in BISFF 2015 and Best Actor in SIIMA short film awards 2017. Later, he worked in Viacom18 Network as a Creative Producer for 3 years. In 2020, he founded Cinemamara, a film production house.
Daredevil Musthafa is his debut directional feature film. The movie released on May 19 2023, garnered positive reviews and responses from the critics and audience.
SANDHYA KUMAR
Sandhya Kumar's films are rooted in non-fiction and inspired by the desire to make visible the poetry of everyday life. She has been making documentary films and experimental shorts since 2007. Sandhya has received grants from India Foundation for the Arts (IFA), Public Service Broadcasting Trust (PSBT) and has been an ATSA fellow at ARThink South Asia.
Her 2012 documentary, O Friend, This Waiting! won the Indian National Film Award for Best Arts/Cultural Film, for its unconventional exploration of the Devadasi tradition in South India through the medium of love-poetry.
She works in Bangalore, India, and is a trustee of Vikalp Bengaluru, a filmmakers' collective.
KARM CHAWLA
Karm Chawla is an up-and-coming cinematographer best known for his work in Special 26, Ulidavaru Kandanthe and The Dirty Picture.
He was nominated in 2015 under the Best Cinematographer category at SIIMA Kannada awards for his work in Ulidavaru Kandanthe.
His upcoming features involve the film Richard Anthony, directed by Rakshith Shetty.
