12th INTERNATIONAL HALF FESTIVAL 2022 (Haiku Amateur Little Film Festival)

The word HALF stood for Haiku Amateur Little Film. ‘Haiku’ is a very short form of Japanese poetry, used to mean any short form of aesthetic creativity. ‘Amateur’ denoted a creation by a creator whose chief intention in the creation was not financial gain. The meaning of ‘amateur’ implying something that lacks professional quality did not apply here. ‘Little’ stood for shortness of duration of the film, which was specified as ‘no longer than 5 minutes of total screening time including front and back credits’. ‘Film’ stood for cinematic creation in the digital video format.  ‘HALF’ also stood for the stipulated duration of the film which was 5 minutes or ‘half’ the time of a traditional film reel which is 10 minutes.  

There is no official consensus on the duration of ‘short film’. Traditionally American film industry defined it as ‘shorter than two reels’ which means shorter than 20 minutes, as the traditional film reel is 10 minutes long. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences defines a short film as “an original motion picture that has a running time of 40 minutes or less, including all credits”. The Internet Movie Database draws the line at 45 minutes. Insight decided to encourage very short films and decided that a ‘very short film’ should be less than 5 minutes long. 

The Jury of HALF Festival consists of eminent film personalities from the film field. During the festival, jury members, film-makers and the audience interact.  The winner of the Golden Screen Award in HALF Festival gets Rs.50, 000/- in cash, a specially designed memento and a certificate.  Five runners up receive Rs. 5000/- each and certificates.  All the shortlisted films are screened and receive participation certificates.  The entry fee is Rs. 1000/- for entries from India and $ 30/- for entries from abroad. 

The experience gained from the successfully conducted ten International Haiku Amateur Little Film Festivals from 2011 to 2020 has proved that the decision taken a decade ago was right. In fact, several organizations who scoffed at the idea at that time have been adapting the rules of Insight’s festival, including the duration of entries, for their festivals, with very little changes here and there.

Event Date: September 10 & 11, 2022

Last Date of Registration: July 31, 2022

Registration Fee: INR 1000 (For HAIKU), INR 500 (For MYNOOTE)

MODE OF REGISTARTION FEE PAYMENT:

1. Transfer credited to INSIGHT the creative group, Current A/c Number: 34233290588 (IFSC Code : SBIN0000893 / MICR Code : SBIN0000893 / Branch Code : 893) English Church Road, Palakkad Branch of STATE BANK OF INDIA

2. Sent by Crossed DD (drawn in the name of INSIGHT payable at Palakkad) or

3. Sent through Paypal (palakkadinsight@gmail.com).