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"KING SHIVAJI" Maharaj (Creativity, Compassion, Courage) - The Great Warrior from the Planet Earth, who fought for the harmonious humanity...

"CHHATRAPATI SHIVAJI" International Film Festival's main objective is to provide the opportunity for filmmakers from all over the world to excel, and to have the best work selected and showcased in a celebration of cinema, as well as to give filmmakers a platform to network amongst fellow professionals and cinematic artists. CSIFF is looking forward to fostering these relationships and to helping extraordinary filmmakers get their projects seen by global audiences. CSIFF unites cinematic, cultural, educational more over Inspirational objectives by presenting its film discoveries.

About CHHATRAPATI SHIVAJI Maharaj - KING SHIVAJI Maharaj:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shivaji

The CSIFF is dedicated to showcasing new and innovative films while fostering the next generation of filmmakers. It is a strong advocate for social change, and encourages cultural diversity and understanding between nations. It strives to foster the movie art of all continents by stimulating the development of quality cinema and promoting meetings between cinema professionals from around the world.

The CHHATRAPATI SHIVAJI International Film Festival is dedicated to showcasing the spirit, passion, and skill of the best new filmmakers from around the world for audiences around the world.
We are also including and actively supporting not only the finest examples of classic movie-making, but works that are experimental, breaking ground in new non-narrative forms and crossing over into the video arts. All films will be reviewed as they are submitted, and the best in each category will be chosen to screen at the festival. A jury of industry professionals will then view the finalists and choose the winning selections.
Filmmakers planning on attending should notify the film festival as soon as possible, so their names may be listed in the scheduled program at the venue where their film will be shown.

Awards & Prizes

"KING SHIVAJI" Maharaj (Creativity, Compassion, Courage) - The Great Warrior from the Planet Earth, who fought for the harmonious humanity... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shivaji

AWARD WINNERS:
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ANIMATED SHORT FILM:

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EXPERIMENTAL SHORT FILM:
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BEST MUSIC VIDEO:
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- Special Jury Awards - for various categories (Many Awards*) -
Best Short Film,
Best Feature Film,
Best Documentary,
Best Director,
Best Debut Director,
Best Actor/Actress,
Best Editor,
Best Writer,
Best Cinematographer,
Best Picture,
Best Producer,
Best Sound,
Best Music,
Best Script,
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- King Shivaji Maharaj Global Leadership Prize -
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AWARD WINNER Certification of Excellence - To All Winners

Rules & Terms

"KING SHIVAJI" Maharaj (Creativity, Compassion, Courage) - The Great Warrior from the Planet Earth, who fought for the harmonious humanity... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shivaji

CSIFF - Chhatrapati Shivaji International Film Festival

To participate:

The Festival is open to filmmakers from all over the world.

The Film submitter should be an authorized person or an organization ; Film Director or Film Producer or Production Organization.

You can submit as many films as you wish. Once submission is done then there is no fees refund.

The short films must have been made from the 1st January 2010 till the deadline for registration, and it is not a problem if they have been previously screened, shown on the Internet or in other festivals.
The films may be in Marathi, Hindi, English, or in any other language with English subtitles. For the selection process are not necessary English subtitles but if your film is selected we will ask you English subtitles for the public screening.

The organization can use pieces from the selected films (10% maximum) to promote them and the festival.

Selected short films of Chhatrapati Shivaji International Film Festival will become part of "other film festivals organized by us".

Categories mentioned on FilmFreeway website with 'Non-Screening but in Award Competition' will not going to screen, as they are kind of award ceremony competition.

All content mentioned in categories' sub-section is the part of 'Rules and Terms' section.

Our jury's decision is the final decision about selection, there is zero scope of reconsideration or any argument. We share only digital laurels to official selections and certifications to winners through email. We are socially inclined festival so we always give support to many many filmmakers.

Competition Categories:
Short Films
Feature Films
Animated Short Films
Documentaries
Experimental Short Films
Music Videos
Animated Feature films
Ad Films
TV Series
Web Series
Smartphone Shorts
Screenplays
Trailers
& many others listed on our FilmFreeway profile.

Running time:
The short films upto 59 minutes,
The feature films should not be less than 1 hour and more than 4 hours

Format:
All of the submitted films can participate, no matter the format. The screening will be from a 1080p digital file (participants will be informed about the format needed for the screening with time enough).
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  • ZOLTAN BOROS

    What a beautiful experience! Professional platform for all filmmakers, actors, actresses, editors, directors, screenwriters, film music composers, producers, photographers, all art related departments.
    It was an honor to be a part of it, congratulations to all and thank you for the management. Highly recommended!

    May 2024
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  • Pat Mitchell

    Thank you for the distinction. Amazing fest.
    👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 Will submit again.

    May 2024
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  • omprakash dhoundiyal

    Thank you CSIFF for awarding our feature film Pravasi with Special Jury Award - Best Film. CISFF had informed about a wonderful venue I.e. Film Archives of India auditorium. Unfortunately they did not plan screening of the feature films during the event, otherwise I was keen to send many of my friends to the screening of our film.

    May 2024
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  • Bastian Lee Jones

    Wonderful for us with our production of the BASTIAN LEE JOENS MEDIAGROUP® - LebenslustTV® Ltd. & EARMErecords for our commercial/trailer/music video "STALLION KAMYAR® - of the stable BERLINER BUSINESS OWHNZIMEMR" having won BEST MUSIC. Thanks a lot. Lots of international success for the next years and thanks for the certificate! Best Bastian Lee Jones

    May 2024
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  • Sanjay Daiv

    CSIFF was fantastic. Our short film DESHKARI received two awards, 'Special Jury Award, BEST SHORT FILM and BEST SCREENPLAY. Awards are judged by jury who have seen the world, who have walked through many experience, they understand the craft of making films. To receive appreciation from them on a debut project is very encouraging. It only tells us that my teams work is in the right direction, this will motivate us to to even better work. Attention spans are getting smaller and it is challenging to tell effective stories in short time. I thank team CSIFF for appreciating our work. I wish them all the best.

    May 2024
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