India Film Project, Asia's Largest content creation platform is Ritam’s brainchild which got acclaimed nationally with 25000+ participants till now, making more than 2400 films in last 5 years, proving it to be the largest film making competitions of Asia. The festival, unlike others, is largely digital focused highlighting more on content creation than content consumption.
Last year around 30000 people participated in the festival. This year, in its seventh edition, it will now be held for two days and more than 50,000 people are expected to attend. It will be held on September 30th - 1st October 2017 at Nehru Centre, Worli. It has built a Community of over 6.5 Lac content creators from 266+ plus cities across India.
- India Film Project is a brainchild of Mr. Ritam Bhatnagar is a young entrepreneur and he founded Freeway Entertainment Company in March 2011 which is an integrated film entertainment company.
- Ritam has set a benchmark for releasing Urban Gujarati films in multiplexes, thereby opening a gateway for the entire industry for years to come. He has been part of many urban films since the inception.
- Ritam's ventures as serial entrepreneur have taken a new shape when his idea was recently selected amongst top ten business ideas of country and incubated at CIIE, IIM Ahmedabad's incubation centre.
- His second startup, working in disrupting location space, recently raised its seed fund of 1.2 Crores from investors across Silicon Valley and Singapore.
- He is also a visiting faculty at many B-Schools, teaching marketing research and entrepreneurship. He has also been mentoring couple of startups across Gujarat and organizes entrepreneurship talks often, a recent one by Ronnie Screwvala.
He is a staunch believer of videos changing the future. According to Ritam," Video is the most immersive form of communication in the human history & we wont have any other medium of communication so powerful as well as vast & those which would be, a mere extension of the same concept." He has also been a part of a TedX talk on how videos are going to change the future.
I am writing to you to understand should there be a possibility to profile Mr Ritam Bhatnagar, Founder, India Film Project or if we can write about the following topics or contribute to any other story that you're writing on :
- Videos changing the future
- Video Content and Content at Large
- Why digital content should be considered mainstream
- Why the thought behind making movie in 50 hours
- IFP giving a platform to recognize not on films but also content curated on lifestyle sectors like food, travel etc.
- Digital content being the way forward
- For the first time IFP rewards Youtube videos across genres
Link to Ritam's TedX talk: https://www.youtube.com
Here are the social media links:
- Facebook Link: http://ift.tt/g8FRpY
/IndiaFilmProject - Twitter: http://ift.tt/2wIzKma;