INDO CINE APPRECIATION FOUNDATION

E Block, , Second Floor, Room No.4, Gemini Parsn Apartments, Cathedral Garden Road, Chennai 600 006

Tel: 2821 2652 / 6516 3866 Mobile : 98401 5l956 / 97910 77106

Website : www.chennaifilmfest.org E-mail : “thangaraj_icaf@hotmail.com

APPEAL TO ALL OUR HONOURABLE MEMBERS

As you are all aware that with the enthusiastic support given by all of you and our well-wishers, our mega event CHENNAI INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL (CIFF) during the last 5 years proved a GRAND SUCCESS. All the festivals drew lot of accolades and appreciation not only from film buffs of Chennai but also from film lovers from other parts of India and abroad. CIFF has now come to be looked upon as THE EVENT in December every year in Chennai.

Inspired by this success we are endeavoring to conduct our 6^th CIFF from 17^th to 26^th Dec 2008. There will be 2 venues (3 Theatres) viz., WOODLANDS THEATRE COMPLEX (WOODLANDS and WOODLANDS SYMPHONY) and the South Indian Film Chamber Theatre. We are receiving films from Algeria, Australia, Balkan, Brazil, Canada, China, Croatia, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, Iran, Israel, Italy, Japan, Macedonia, Malaysia, Norway, Philippines, Serbia,Sri Lanka, USA etc., in all 35 countries apart from India.

We are pleased to inform that the salient features of the festival are:

1. TRIBUTE TO : Mr. Keisuke Kinoshite, well known Japanese Director

2. COUNTRY FOCUS: Russian, Switzerland

3. RETROSPECTIVE :

   1. Korea – Kim Ki Duk

   2. France – Alain Resnais

   3. Finland – Aki Kaurusmaki

4. THEME ON WARSAW : - A package of three films from Poland

5. WORLD CINEMA

6. LIFE TIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD - for 2 or 3 veteran erstwhile Directors / Actors / Actress from Tamil Film Industry CHENNAI TALENT CAMPUS – for young film Directors of Documentary and short films

1. Press Meet on almost all days of the festival in the afternoon for Interaction with the Director and the film buffs after screening ofthe film.

1. A delegation of four film personalities from Russia is likely to participate in the festival.

As you would appreciate, conducting such a mega event is financially a tough proposition, particularly for a Film Society. Yet, we are confident, all of you, like in the previous years, will rise to the occasion to give us a helping hand to make our 6^th edition of CIFF a GRAND SUCCESS.

The Executive Committee has decided to collect Rs.600/-, in view of the high cost involved in getting good films, escalation in the theatre rentals and bigger scale planned (a festival for 10 days this year and a minimum of 100 films from over 35 countries) towards registration charges as Delegate and cost for the . ..

printing the festival souvenir . However for our members the registration fee is only Rs.300/-. We are sure that the members will not mind meeting this small commitment and request all of you to get yourself registered as a Delegate.

We also appeal to each member to contribute liberally even as a donation which is exempted from tax under section 80G of the Income-tax Act. The registration for Delegates has commenced. A passport size/stamp size photo is to be given by each member for issue of individual Delegate Card.

Registration for Delegates will commence from 01/11/2008.

Further, on this occasion, we also solicit support from members who are so inclined to come forward :

1. to serve as volunteers for various assignments being planned for the festival

2. to arrange contribution to the advertisement in the Festival Souvenir and

3. to contribute Donations (Donations exceeding Rs.1000/- will be acknowledged in the Souvenir).

We are confident of your continued valuable support to make our 6^th CIFF a GRAND SUCCESS this year too.

With Warm Greetings,

Yours sincerely,

E. Thangaraj

Gen Secretary