Country’s 1st Online International Kids Film Festival of India (IKFFI) curated by LXL Ideas concludes on a successful high!

 Received registrations from 500+ schools from 80+ cities across 10+ countries thus reaching more than 7 lakh students!

 Launches ‘Make Cinema’ – a film making competition for students below the age of 21 years!

Mumbai, 20^th November: International Kids Film Festival of India (IKFFI), the first ever online kids film festival curated by LXL Ideas in association with the French Embassy, Culture House of Iran and Children’s Film Festival, Seattle powered by YouTube Kids, concluded in a grand ceremony held in Shree Chandulal Nanavati Vinay Mandir, Mumbai today. The closing ceremony was attended by various celebrities and renowned dignitaries from the industry including Varun Tandon (Filmmaker), Pooja Das Sarkar (Filmmaker), Kate Chaillat (Filmmaker), Hitesh Chaurasia (Filmmaker), Hetvi Bhanushali (Actor and IKFFI Co-Anchor), Syed Sultan Ahmed (MD, LXL Ideas), Radhika Srinivasan (Principal, Shree Chandulal Nanavati Vinay Mandir), Neha Jain (Festival Programmer, IKFFI) Akshata Udiaver (Manager for Content Partnership, YouTube).

Six-day-long online film festival, IKFFI, was hosted by 500+ schools across the globe. This unique format film festival that was spread out to 80+ cities across 10+ countries reaching 7 lakh+ students. The film festival also received entries of exclusive films from more than 500 filmmakers from 30+ countries across the world. Some of the most eminent directors of short films, animated films, documentary films, live action films and feature films like, Majid Majidi, Neha Sharma, Lipika Singh Darai, Mikey Hall, Galvin Scott Davis, Mirjam Marks, Paul Szynol, Bhargav Saikia, Gautam Vaze were part of this mega kids’ festival that screened in Varied languages like English, Spanish, French etc.

Talking about the success of the 1^st edition of IKFFI, Syed Sultan Ahmed, MD-LXL Ideas and Festival Director- IKFFI shared, “I always wanted to create a Film Festival that is democratic and accessible to children across India, even in the remotest parts. Through IKFFI we have effectively managed to engage young audiences in the art of storytelling, critical thinking, entertainment and involving emotions through an audio-visual medium in schools from Jammu Kashmir to Nagaland. At LXL Ideas we strongly believe that kids should watch films with meaningful and thought-provoking content that help them to develop a positive outlook in life. Exposure to an activity like a film festival helps our children build empathy, apart from seeing what’s happening in various parts of the world. He further added, “IKFFI by going online made the film festival more democratic, allowing every section of the young audience to engage, especially in the smaller cities and towns in India.”

The film festival has been successful in not just in entertaining, but also evoking emotions, inspiring, educating our future citizens and provoking discussions that need to be raised. It also helped to promote the art of motion pictures by live screening the best of children movies from all over the world.

LXL Ideas is also hosting a filmmaking competition for Students as part of the International Kids Film Festival, as the organization would like to encourage young filmmakers to translate their dreams and stories into films by participating in Make Cinema. Students below the age of 21 can participate in the competition and their film submissions must be made before December 31, 2017. The winners of the competition will be announced on January 26, 2017.

About LXL Ideas: LXL Ideas, formerly EduMedia, makes lessons of life for students, parents and educators. For over two decades, LXL Ideas has brought about innovative methodologies to make lessons of life through its brands School Cinema, Krayon, Mentor, Teach and Expressions Society. Spreading lessons of life through unconventional pedagogy, the organization prepares kids to face the world; head on. LXL Ideas, have won many accolades and praises on its endeavor for a better tomorrow, some of which include the National awards, EEMAX award, Best Publication in education and Training awards.