SILPIX CHILDRENS FILM FESTIVAL | March in Chicago

by Venky Munivenkata
(Chicago, IL, USA)

SILPIX, taking place on March 26th & 27th 2011, in Chicago, is embarking on an adventure to bring together the cultures of India and America through films. SILPIX is hosting its first Children’s Film festival of India in Chicago in the month of March 2011 in association with Children’s India. During the festival, there will be other activities like the workshops, movie making, introductory classes and other such activities introduced.

SILPIX Children's Film festival is first of its kind in the US - 1st Indian Children’s Film Festival in America and SILPIX has plans to conduct this annually. This year's festival will be held at Visual Performance Arts Center, Elgin Community College, 1700 Spartan Drive, Elgin, IL 60123 and the festival is an all-day event on Saturday, March 26th and Sunday, March 27th, 2011

The film festival will showcase more than 26 award winning children movies from India in various Indian languages. In addition, we plan to screen other documentary and feature films from US. All the foreign language movies will have English subtitles.

SILPIX is also conducting a Talent Hunt in movie making as a part of this film festival.
· The deadline for submitting short films is March 15th.
· The winner(s) of the talent hunt will be considered for future SILPIX movie productions.
· More information about talent hunt is available at http://www.silpix.com/index.php/film-festival/talent-hunt.

Please review the posters shown above for further information. Thank you for visiting us on the web. Please don't forget to visit us on march 26th and 27th at the film festival. We will be looking forward to meet you, your family and your friends.