Browsing Tag: Film Festival

[VIDEO] Vote for your favorite film festival comedy. What comedies would you like to see this year? Watch these films and leave your comments.

[VIDEO] A short narrative funded by Film Independent and PBS, My Dear Americans is about a Sikh woman’s defiant spirit. A recent immigrant to the U.S, Tejpreet is reluctant to embrace her new American identity. In contrast, her husband celebrates everything that mildly reeks of America.

"I love the unique intimacy filmmaking shares with storytelling. It helps one realize that some of the most effective ways of communication lie within personal experiences and our ability as people to connect with those stories."

Oscar winners and acclaimed actors come together to make a full production film on Guru Nanak through the life of Mardana ji. The film, tentitively named 'Nanak Shah Fakir' will come out this year and no doubt the Sikh community will anticipate it's release.

This year the theme is: Uncommon Courage. In this video we tried to explain that we want stories about: Unsung heros, Ordinary people... doing extraordinary things. Make us laugh Make us cry. Make us think. Make your film!

Satdeep Singh always loved the Sikh stories (Sakhis) as a child. Later in life the SNYOFF gave him an opportunity to try out his dream of being a director. He won the 1st place prize in this festival 3 years in a row, and has become professional director. Hear him tell his story in this video.

Satdeep Singh always loved the Sikh stories (Sakhis) as a child. Later in life the SNYOFF gave him an opportunity to try out his dream of being a director. He won the 1st place prize in this festival 3 years in a row, and has become professional director. Hear him tell his story in this video.

Sitting in Guruka Singh's house last week, watching video after video, all of us felt deeply moved and also quite stunned. Stunned at the number of entries. Stunned at the quality of the work. Stunned at how much time, care, effort, thought and energy it took to make each one of these films.

Harpreet encourages us to make films for this years SikhNet online Film Festival.

WHO? WHO CAN EMBODY YOUR SARDARNI SAROOP? WHO CAN LISTEN TO THE NAAD WITHIN THE MIND? WHO CAN LEAVE HER BREATH IN EVERY HOLLOWNESS?

Human rights activist, Mallika Kaur, calls for a revolution after the onKAUR film festival

SikhNet wants to get the word out about the SikhNet Youth Online FiLM FESTiVAL... So we're giving away an iPad.

Our challenge to young filmmakers this year is: Let's see what you can do in 5 minutes or less that moves people deeply, makes them laugh out loud or hits them right between the eyes!

Congratulations to the 2011 SikhNet Online Youth Film Festival prize winners in all three categories, Junior, Intermediate and Senior! This year's winning films show more mastery than any previous year.

This year marks the 6th annual SikhNet Youth Online Film Festival which started in 2006 with a simple goal to engage the Sikh Youth to get creative with communicating through media.

Bring your ideas to life, and make a video for the SikhNet Youth Film Festival!

Get it together and make a film for the SikhNet Youth Online Film Festival!

Are you one of those amazing individuals who organize and run summer youth gurmat camps somewhere in the diaspora? If so, then I must ask you to consider having a workshop around an award-winning documentary, Roots & Wings.

Although not all of them were prize winners this year, some films stood out in my mind for very particular reasons

Although there was often a clear first place winner in a category, the race between the second and third place films was often very close and the judges enthusiastically discussed the merits of the films in contention for those awards.

Turbanology, a film highlighting west's reaction to the Sikh turban and the plight of the community of the 9/11 terror attacks, drew a lot of attention at the two-day Sikh International Film Festiva

A documentary film by the Teen Sikh filmmaker, Angad Singh will screen as one of the top family oriented films from around the world, selected for the International Family Film Festival (IFFF), to be held in Hollywood, California, this weekend.

I spent the past weekend surrounded by Sikh Art and Film at the annual Spinning Wheel Film Festival in Hollywood. I usually attend these events with high expectations, hoping to be inspired and moved...

The festivities begin on Friday, November 14 with a red carpet gala.

Ocean of Pearls is featured at NYC Sikh Film Festival.

The competition part for prizes is only there to help motivate youth to take the time to produce something of quality. Plus, it can be fun to compete and have a chance to win cash prizes!

Most of us have heard about the various Sikh Film Festival which are held every year in select cities. Well, now is your chance to host your own little "SikhNet Youth Film Festival" right in your, home, community or Gurdwara...

To promote Sikh history and culture, the first-ever Sikh film festival in India will be organised at Amritsar in the beginning of 2009...