Finally First Frame Fever!!!

I so wanted to write this post maybe couple of days ago but it is delayed and highly delayed by me. One thing that I hate the most is "mood swings".I am a way too moody, maybe ainwayi!! Finally after writing this blog, I will be relieved from inner self and hence it will make me feel lighter. Well, films became an integral part of me all of a sudden. I started with them just as in for entertainment but since an year or two, I feel highly attracted to the films and more of a film-making in general. It became my dream and passion to achieve.And being in a media college, I get an edge over achieving it. Since the day I heard my college planning to host a film festival, I literally went crazy over the news. It is been titled as "First Frame Students International Film Festival".

And not to miss the fact, it is the first ever Student's International Film Festival that India witnessed back in 2003. Well, it was something that made me feel proud of MBICEM. And finally this year 2013, it was 5th edition in kitty of First Frame legacy. Mid-Jan this mission actually started till the 3rd of April. It was a combined effort of hundreds of people who worked on the screen and off the screen. By this, I mean 57 film makers who submitted their entries and the whole of the First Frame team and the College in total.

Why I am writing this post? Because we on the whole suffered from "First Frame Film Festival Fever".(Not to miss the alliteration :P ) and now when its over, we all look back at it and give a hefty smile to the magnificient team work and co-ordination. It was the biggest event indeed in my life being as a student. I still remember the online promotion that I did. Yesterday only I was checking my twitter profile that got revived due to first frame, I literally dedicated numerous around 70 tweets to it. We guys so wanted to make it trend #firstframe and #filmdreamers that everytime we used to login, we used to tweet about it.Or be it the first frame news that we used to make viral on the web with sharing and sharing. Even I was checking back my Fb profile while changing the cover photo of the first frame(I still didn't want to change it though) the profile was occupied with posts regarding happy news of sponsorships and many other info related to it.And being a volunteer, I just can't miss the proud feeling of wearing First Frame T-Shirt for those two days while doing the duties.

Well now talking about the event, it was fantastic one bigger and huge than we expected. In 2 days of event, our 3 months of craziness did wonder. 31 fantastic films by talented film makers from prestigious institutes like MBICEM, FTII, NID, AJK-MCRC and The London Film School and many were screened at the festival along with 71 photographs for F8 Photography Competition. Even for the participants, On-the-spot mobile film making was on the platter. Extremely talented panelists & guests of honor were the other big thing for the event. And two more things, Meeting with "The Placebo" team and performance of Kingdom of Dreams acted as  cherries on the First Frame Cake :P Placebo is a different and the best genre of cinema that I witnessed and Abhay Kumar and Archana Phadke were the two people who deserved a 'hats off' for their work! Placebo must happen and it will surely happen...
Coming back to the topic, after the huge First Frame 2013, I suddenly found enough of vela time for myself as if more than 24 hours! So I got hooked up to "The Kite Runner-movie,novel and many other things. Maybe not IPL this time! not yet, its been a week and I haven't seen even a single match. Wonder is it the boredom or the First Frame effect.

Lastly, First Frame 2013 just gone by, could First Frame 2014 be far behind?? :D
Nahh! First Frame 2014 would be on its wayy...